DNA base editing in nuclear and organellar genomes

J Tan, J Forner, D Karcher, R Bock - Trends in Genetics, 2022 - cell.com
Genome editing continues to revolutionize biological research. Due to its simplicity and
flexibility, CRISPR/Cas-based editing has become the preferred technology in most systems …

Engineering a precise adenine base editor with minimal bystander editing

L Chen, S Zhang, N Xue, M Hong, X Zhang… - Nature Chemical …, 2023 - nature.com
Adenine base editors (ABEs) catalyze A-to-G transitions showing broad applications, but
their bystander mutations and off-target editing effects raise safety concerns. Through …

CRISPR technologies for genome, epigenome and transcriptome editing

L Villiger, J Joung, L Koblan, J Weissman… - … Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Our ability to edit genomes lags behind our capacity to sequence them, but the growing
understanding of CRISPR biology and its application to genome, epigenome and …

Systematic optimization of Cas12a base editors in wheat and maize using the ITER platform

C Gaillochet, A Peña Fernández, V Goossens… - Genome biology, 2023 - Springer
Background Testing an ever-increasing number of CRISPR components is challenging
when developing new genome engineering tools. Plant biotechnology has few high …

Genome-and transcriptome-wide off-target analyses of a high-efficiency adenine base editor in tomato

S Sretenovic, Y Green, Y Wu, Y Cheng… - Plant …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Adenine base editors (ABEs) are valuable, precise genome editing tools in plants. In recent
years, the highly promising ADENINE BASE EDITOR8e (ABE8e) was reported for efficient A …

Split complementation of base editors to minimize off-target edits

X Xiong, K Liu, Z Li, FN Xia, XM Ruan, X He, JF Li - Nature Plants, 2023 - nature.com
Base editors (BEs) empower the efficient installation of beneficial or corrective point
mutations in crop and human genomes. However, conventional BEs can induce …

Directed evolution rice genes with randomly multiplexed sgRNAs assembly of base editors

A Zhang, T Shan, Y Sun, Z Chen, J Hu… - Plant Biotechnology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
CRISPR‐based directed evolution is an effective breeding biotechnology to improve
agronomic traits in plants. However, its gene diversification is still limited using individual …

Advances in cis-element- and natural variation-mediated transcriptional regulation and applications in gene editing of major crops

Y Cui, Q Cao, Y Li, M He, X Liu - Journal of Experimental Botany, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Transcriptional regulation is crucial to control of gene expression. Both spatio-temporal
expression patterns and expression levels of genes are determined by the interaction …

T-LOC: a comprehensive tool to localize and characterize T-DNA integration sites

S Li, C Wang, C You, X Zhou, H Zhou - Plant Physiology, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Scientists have developed many approaches based on PCR or next-generation sequencing
to localize and characterize integrated T-DNAs in transgenic plants generated by …

Precise fine-turning of GhTFL1 by base editing tools defines ideal cotton plant architecture

G Wang, F Wang, Z Xu, Y Wang, C Zhang, Y Zhou… - Genome Biology, 2024 - Springer
Background CRISPR/Cas-derived base editor enables precise editing of target sites and
has been widely used for basic research and crop genetic improvement. However, the …