Programmable deaminase-free base editors for G-to-Y conversion by engineered glycosylase

H Tong, N Liu, Y Wei, Y Zhou, Y Li, D Wu… - National Science …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Current DNA base editors contain nuclease and DNA deaminase that enables deamination
of cytosine (C) or adenine (A), but no method for guanine (G) or thymine (T) editing is …

Glycosylase-based base editors for efficient T-to-G and C-to-G editing in mammalian cells

L Ye, D Zhao, J Li, Y Wang, B Li, Y Yang, X Hou… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Base editors show promise for treating human genetic diseases, but most current systems
use deaminases, which cause off-target effects and are limited in editing type. In this study …

Efficient C-to-G base editing with improved target compatibility using engineered deaminase–nCas9 fusions

S Chen, Z Liu, L Lai, Z Li - The CRISPR Journal, 2022 - liebertpub.com
CRISPR-guided DNA base editors (BEs) are potent genome editing tools in biotechnology
and medicine. However, conventional cytosine and adenine BEs can only induce base …

AGBE: a dual deaminase-mediated base editor by fusing CGBE with ABE for creating a saturated mutant population with multiple editing patterns

Y Liang, J Xie, Q Zhang, X Wang, S Gou… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Establishing saturated mutagenesis in a specific gene through gene editing is an efficient
approach for identifying the relationships between mutations and the corresponding …

[HTML][HTML] Reconstructed glycosylase base editors GBE2. 0 with enhanced C-to-G base editing efficiency and purity

N Sun, D Zhao, S Li, Z Zhang, C Bi, X Zhang - Molecular Therapy, 2022 - cell.com
Base editing techniques were developed for precise base conversion on cellular genomic
DNA, which has great potential for the treatment of human genetic diseases. The …

Improved base excision repair inhibition and bacteriophage Mu Gam protein yields C: G-to-T: A base editors with higher efficiency and product purity

AC Komor, KT Zhao, MS Packer, NM Gaudelli… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
We recently developed base editing, the programmable conversion of target C: G base pairs
to T: A without inducing double-stranded DNA breaks (DSBs) or requiring homology …

Adenine transversion editors enable precise, efficient A• T-to-C• G base editing in mammalian cells and embryos

L Chen, M Hong, C Luan, H Gao, G Ru, X Guo… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Base editors have substantial promise in basic research and as therapeutic agents for the
correction of pathogenic mutations. The development of adenine transversion editors has …

Dual base editor catalyzes both cytosine and adenine base conversions in human cells

X Zhang, B Zhu, L Chen, L Xie, W Yu, Y Wang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Although base editors are useful tools for precise genome editing, current base editors can
only convert either adenines or cytosines. We developed a dual adenine and cytosine base …

Adenine base editing in mouse embryos and an adult mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy

SM Ryu, T Koo, K Kim, K Lim, G Baek, ST Kim… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Adenine base editors (ABEs) composed of an engineered adenine deaminase and the
Streptococcus pyogenes Cas9 nickase enable adenine-to-guanine (A-to-G) single …

[HTML][HTML] Human cell based directed evolution of adenine base editors with improved efficiency

J Fu, Q Li, X Liu, T Tu, X Lv, X Yin, J Lv, Z Song… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Adenine base editors (ABE) are genome-editing tools that have been harnessed to
introduce precise A• T to G• C conversion. However, the low activity of ABE at certain sites …