Engineering the next generation of cell-based therapeutics

CJ Bashor, IB Hilton, H Bandukwala… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Cell-based therapeutics are an emerging modality with the potential to treat many currently
intractable diseases through uniquely powerful modes of action. Despite notable recent …

Assessing and advancing the safety of CRISPR-Cas tools: from DNA to RNA editing

J Tao, DE Bauer, R Chiarle - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
CRISPR-Cas gene editing has revolutionized experimental molecular biology over the past
decade and holds great promise for the treatment of human genetic diseases. Here we …

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 …

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 …

Various defects in graphene: a review

MD Bhatt, H Kim, G Kim - RSC advances, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Pristine graphene has been considered one of the most promising materials because of its
excellent physical and chemical properties. However, various defects in graphene produced …

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 …

CRISPR/Cas9: principle, applications, and delivery through extracellular vesicles

K Horodecka, M Düchler - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
The establishment of CRISPR/Cas9 (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic
repeats/CRISPR-associated protein 9) technology for eukaryotic gene editing opened up …

Improved plant cytosine base editors with high editing activity, purity, and specificity

Q Ren, S Sretenovic, G Liu, Z Zhong… - Plant Biotechnology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Cytosine base editors (CBEs) are great additions to the expanding genome editing toolbox.
To improve C‐to‐T base editing in plants, we first compared seven cytidine deaminases in …

Base editor screens for in situ mutational scanning at scale

NZ Lue, BB Liau - Molecular Cell, 2023 - cell.com
A fundamental challenge in biology is understanding the molecular details of protein
function. How mutations alter protein activity, regulation, and response to drugs is of critical …

Comprehensive analysis of prime editing outcomes in human embryonic stem cells

O Habib, G Habib, GH Hwang, S Bae - Nucleic acids research, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Prime editing is a versatile and precise genome editing technique that can directly copy
desired genetic modifications into target DNA sites without the need for donor DNA. This …