Next-generation CRISPR-based diagnostic tools for human diseases

T Wang, Z Wang, L Bai, X Zhang, J Feng, C Qian… - TrAC Trends in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Accurate diagnosis of human diseases is crucial for effective prevention, clinical treatment,
and prognosis. The World Health Organization (WHO) has provided guidelines for molecular …

CRISPR genetic toolkits of classical food microorganisms: Current state and future prospects

X Lv, Y Li, X Xiu, C Liao, Y Xu, Y Liu, J Li, G Du… - Biotechnology …, 2023 - Elsevier
Production of food-related products using microorganisms in an environmentally friendly
manner is a crucial solution to global food safety and environmental pollution issues …

Optimization of base editors for the functional correction of SMN2 as a treatment for spinal muscular atrophy

CRR Alves, LL Ha, R Yaworski, ER Sutton… - Nature biomedical …, 2024 - nature.com
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is caused by mutations in SMN1. SMN2 is a paralogous
gene with a C• G-to-T• A transition in exon 7, which causes this exon to be skipped in most …

PAM-flexible Engineered FnCas9 variants for robust and ultra-precise genome editing and diagnostics

S Acharya, AH Ansari, P Kumar Das, S Hirano… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The clinical success of CRISPR therapies hinges on the safety and efficacy of Cas proteins.
The Cas9 from Francisella novicida (FnCas9) is highly precise, with a negligible affinity for …

Harnessing non-Watson–Crick's base pairing to enhance CRISPR effectors cleavage activities and enable gene editing in mammalian cells

S Gao, H Guan, H Bloomer, D Wich… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Genomic DNA of the cyanophage S-2L virus is composed of 2-aminoadenine (Z), thymine
(T), guanine (G), and cytosine (C), forming the genetic alphabet ZTGC, which violates …

High-fidelity PAMless base editing of hematopoietic stem cells to treat chronic granulomatous disease

V Bzhilyanskaya, L Ma, S Liu, LR Fox… - Science Translational …, 2024 - science.org
X-linked chronic granulomatous disease (X-CGD) is an inborn error of immunity (IEI)
resulting from genetic mutations in the cytochrome b-245 beta chain (CYBB) gene. The …

Ultra‐Fast Single‐Nucleotide‐Variation Detection Enabled by Argonaute‐Mediated Transistor Platform

D Kong, S Zhang, M Guo, S Li, Q Wang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract “Test‐and‐go” single‐nucleotide variation (SNV) detection within several minutes
remains challenging, especially in low‐abundance samples, since existing methods face a …

[HTML][HTML] Base editing as a genetic treatment for spinal muscular atrophy

CRR Alves, LL Ha, R Yaworski, CR Lazzarotto… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a devastating neuromuscular disease caused by
mutations in the SMN1 gene. Despite the development of various therapies, outcomes can …

Unraveling the mechanisms of PAMless DNA interrogation by SpRY-Cas9

GN Hibshman, JPK Bravo, MM Hooper… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful tool for genome editing, but the strict requirement for an NGG
protospacer-adjacent motif (PAM) sequence immediately next to the DNA target limits the …

CRISPR-Cas-based engineering of probiotics

L Liu, SE Helal, N Peng - BioDesign Research, 2023 - spj.science.org
Probiotics are the treasure of the microbiology fields. They have been widely used in the
food industry, clinical treatment, and other fields. The equivocal health-promoting effects and …