Genome editing with CRISPR–Cas nucleases, base editors, transposases and prime editors

AV Anzalone, LW Koblan, DR Liu - Nature biotechnology, 2020 - nature.com
The development of new CRISPR–Cas genome editing tools continues to drive major
advances in the life sciences. Four classes of CRISPR–Cas-derived genome editing agents …

[HTML][HTML] Latest developed strategies to minimize the off-target effects in CRISPR-Cas-mediated genome editing

M Naeem, S Majeed, MZ Hoque, I Ahmad - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
Gene editing that makes target gene modification in the genome by deletion or addition has
revolutionized the era of biomedicine. Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic …

A bacterial cytidine deaminase toxin enables CRISPR-free mitochondrial base editing

BY Mok, MH de Moraes, J Zeng, DE Bosch, AV Kotrys… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Bacterial toxins represent a vast reservoir of biochemical diversity that can be repurposed for
biomedical applications. Such proteins include a group of predicted interbacterial toxins of …

Chromothripsis as an on-target consequence of CRISPR–Cas9 genome editing

ML Leibowitz, S Papathanasiou, PA Doerfler… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Genome editing has therapeutic potential for treating genetic diseases and cancer.
However, the currently most practicable approaches rely on the generation of DNA double …

Genetically modified crops: current status and future prospects

K Kumar, G Gambhir, A Dass, AK Tripathi, A Singh… - Planta, 2020 - Springer
Main conclusion While transgenic technology has heralded a new era in crop improvement,
several concerns have precluded their widespread acceptance. Alternative technologies …

Repair of double-strand breaks induced by CRISPR–Cas9 leads to large deletions and complex rearrangements

M Kosicki, K Tomberg, A Bradley - Nature biotechnology, 2018 - nature.com
CRISPR–Cas9 is poised to become the gene editing tool of choice in clinical contexts. Thus
far, exploration of Cas9-induced genetic alterations has been limited to the immediate …

[HTML][HTML] Multiplexed CRISPR technologies for gene editing and transcriptional regulation

NS McCarty, AE Graham, L Studená… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Multiplexed CRISPR technologies, in which numerous gRNAs or Cas enzymes are
expressed at once, have facilitated powerful biological engineering applications, vastly …

[HTML][HTML] The CRISPR tool kit for genome editing and beyond

M Adli - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
CRISPR is becoming an indispensable tool in biological research. Once known as the
bacterial immune system against invading viruses, the programmable capacity of the Cas9 …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering crops of the future: CRISPR approaches to develop climate-resilient and disease-resistant plants

SSA Zaidi, A Mahas, H Vanderschuren, MM Mahfouz - Genome biology, 2020 - Springer
To meet increasing global food demand, breeders and scientists aim to improve the yield
and quality of major food crops. Plant diseases threaten food security and are expected to …

[HTML][HTML] CRISPR for crop improvement: an update review

D Jaganathan, K Ramasamy, G Sellamuthu… - Frontiers in plant …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The availability of genome sequences for several crops and advances in genome editing
approaches has opened up possibilities to breed for almost any given desirable trait …