Hypercompact adenine base editors based on a Cas12f variant guided by engineered RNA

DY Kim, Y Chung, Y Lee, D Jeong, KH Park… - Nature chemical …, 2022 - nature.com
Cas12f is a hypercompact type V, Cas12 family member. Previously, we reported a set of
engineered guide RNAs supporting high indel efficiency for Cas12f1 in human cells. Here …

Engineering domain-inlaid SaCas9 adenine base editors with reduced RNA off-targets and increased on-target DNA editing

MT Nguyen Tran, MKN Mohd Khalid, Q Wang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Precision genome engineering has dramatically advanced with the development of
CRISPR/Cas base editing systems that include cytosine base editors and adenine base …

Develop a compact RNA base editor by fusing ADAR with engineered EcCas6e

X Wang, R Zhang, D Yang, G Li, Z Fan, H Du… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Catalytically inactive CRISPR‐Cas13 (dCas13)‐based base editors can achieve
the conversion of adenine‐to‐inosine (A‐to‐I) or cytidine‐to‐uridine (C‐to‐U) at the RNA …

TadA reprogramming to generate potent miniature base editors with high precision

S Zhang, L Song, B Yuan, C Zhang, J Cao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Although miniature CRISPR-Cas12f systems were recently developed, the editing efficacy
and targeting range of derived miniature cytosine and adenine base editors (miniCBEs and …

Phage-assisted evolution of an adenine base editor with improved Cas domain compatibility and activity

MF Richter, KT Zhao, E Eton, A Lapinaite… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Applications of adenine base editors (ABEs) have been constrained by the limited
compatibility of the deoxyadenosine deaminase component with Cas homologs other than …

Versatile and efficient in vivo genome editing with compact Streptococcus pasteurianus Cas9

Z Liu, S Chen, W Xie, Y Song, J Li, L Lai, Z Li - Molecular Therapy, 2022 - cell.com
Compact CRISPR-Cas9 systems that can be packaged into an adeno-associated virus
(AAV) show promise for gene therapy. However, the requirement of protospacer adjacent …

Re-engineering the adenine deaminase TadA-8e for efficient and specific CRISPR-based cytosine base editing

L Chen, B Zhu, G Ru, H Meng, Y Yan, M Hong… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cytosine base editors (CBEs) efficiently generate precise C· G-to-T· A base conversions, but
the activation-induced cytidine deaminase/apolipoprotein B mRNA-editing enzyme catalytic …

Construction of non-canonical PAM-targeting adenosine base editors by restriction enzyme-free DNA cloning using CRISPR-Cas9

YK Jeong, J Yu, S Bae - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Molecular cloning is an essential technique in molecular biology and biochemistry, but it is
frequently laborious when adequate restriction enzyme recognition sites are absent. Cas9 …

A dual-deaminase CRISPR base editor enables concurrent adenine and cytosine editing

J Grünewald, R Zhou, CA Lareau, SP Garcia… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Existing adenine and cytosine base editors induce only a single type of modification, limiting
the range of DNA alterations that can be created. Here we describe a CRISPR–Cas9-based …

Development of miniature base editors using engineered IscB nickase

D Han, Q Xiao, Y Wang, H Zhang, X Dong, G Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
As a miniature RNA-guided endonuclease, IscB is presumed to be the ancestor of Cas9 and
to share similar functions. IscB is less than half the size of Cas9 and thus more suitable for in …