Precise plant genome editing using base editors and prime editors

KA Molla, S Sretenovic, KC Bansal, Y Qi - Nature Plants, 2021 - nature.com
The development of CRISPR–Cas systems has sparked a genome editing revolution in
plant genetics and breeding. These sequence-specific RNA-guided nucleases can induce …

[HTML][HTML] Strategies to overcome the main challenges of the use of CRISPR/Cas9 as a replacement for cancer therapy

MF Rasul, BM Hussen, A Salihi, BS Ismael, PJ Jalal… - Molecular Cancer, 2022 - Springer
CRISPR/Cas9 (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats-associated protein
9) shows the opportunity to treat a diverse array of untreated various genetic and …

[HTML][HTML] Fanzor is a eukaryotic programmable RNA-guided endonuclease

M Saito, P Xu, G Faure, S Maguire, S Kannan… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
RNA-guided systems, which use complementarity between a guide RNA and target nucleic
acid sequences for recognition of genetic elements, have a central role in biological …

[HTML][HTML] Efficient in vivo genome editing prevents hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in mice

D Reichart, GA Newby, H Wakimoto, M Lun… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Dominant missense pathogenic variants in cardiac myosin heavy chain cause hypertrophic
cardiomyopathy (HCM), a currently incurable disorder that increases risk for stroke, heart …

Programmable deletion, replacement, integration and inversion of large DNA sequences with twin prime editing

AV Anzalone, XD Gao, CJ Podracky, AT Nelson… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The targeted deletion, replacement, integration or inversion of genomic sequences could be
used to study or treat human genetic diseases, but existing methods typically require double …

[HTML][HTML] Engineered virus-like particles for efficient in vivo delivery of therapeutic proteins

S Banskota, A Raguram, S Suh, SW Du, JR Davis… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Methods to deliver gene editing agents in vivo as ribonucleoproteins could offer safety
advantages over nucleic acid delivery approaches. We report the development and …

Engineered pegRNAs improve prime editing efficiency

JW Nelson, PB Randolph, SP Shen, KA Everette… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Prime editing enables the installation of virtually any combination of point mutations, small
insertions or small deletions in the DNA of living cells. A prime editing guide RNA (pegRNA) …

[HTML][HTML] Enhanced prime editing systems by manipulating cellular determinants of editing outcomes

PJ Chen, JA Hussmann, J Yan, F Knipping… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
While prime editing enables precise sequence changes in DNA, cellular determinants of
prime editing remain poorly understood. Using pooled CRISPRi screens, we discovered that …

[HTML][HTML] Evolution of an adenine base editor into a small, efficient cytosine base editor with low off-target activity

ME Neugebauer, A Hsu, M Arbab, NA Krasnow… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cytosine base editors (CBEs) are larger and can suffer from higher off-target activity or lower
on-target editing efficiency than current adenine base editors (ABEs). To develop a CBE that …

Base editing correction of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in human cardiomyocytes and humanized mice

AC Chai, M Cui, F Chemello, H Li, K Chen, W Tan… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
The most common form of genetic heart disease is hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM),
which is caused by variants in cardiac sarcomeric genes and leads to abnormal heart …