The potential of gene editing for Huntington's disease

W Duan, E Urani, MP Mattson - Trends in neurosciences, 2023 - cell.com
Huntington's disease (HD) is a dominantly inherited neurodegenerative disorder caused by
a trinucleotide repeat expansion in the huntingtin gene resulting in long stretches of …

Prediction of on-target and off-target activity of CRISPR–Cas13d guide RNAs using deep learning

HH Wessels, A Stirn, A Méndez-Mancilla, EJ Kim… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Transcriptome engineering applications in living cells with RNA-targeting CRISPR effectors
depend on accurate prediction of on-target activity and off-target avoidance. Here we design …

The current role and evolution of X-ray crystallography in drug discovery and development

V Bijak, M Szczygiel, J Lenkiewicz… - Expert Opinion on …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Macromolecular X-ray crystallography and cryo-EM are currently the primary
techniques used to determine the three-dimensional structures of proteins, nucleic acids …

Mitigating a TDP-43 proteinopathy by targeting ataxin-2 using RNA-targeting CRISPR effector proteins

MA Zeballos C, HJ Moore, TJ Smith, JE Powell… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The TDP-43 proteinopathies, which include amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal
dementia, are a devastating group of neurodegenerative disorders that are characterized by …

Treatment of autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa caused by RHO-P23H mutation with high-fidelity Cas13X in mice

Z Yan, Y Yao, L Li, L Cai, H Zhang, S Zhang… - … Therapy-Nucleic Acids, 2023 - cell.com
Mutations in Rhodopsin (RHO) gene commonly cause autosomal dominant retinitis
pigmentosa (adRP) without effective therapeutic treatment so far. Compared with genomic …

Massively parallel profiling of RNA-targeting CRISPR-Cas13d

HC Kuo, J Prupes, CW Chou, IJ Finkelstein - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
CRISPR-Cas13d cleaves RNA and is used in vivo and for diagnostics. However, a
systematic understanding of its RNA binding and cleavage specificity is lacking. Here, we …

HD and SCA1: Tales from two 30-year journeys since gene discovery

LM Thompson, HT Orr - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
One of the more transformative findings in human genetics was the discovery that the
expansion of unstable nucleotide repeats underlies a group of inherited neurological …

Huntington's disease: complex pathogenesis and therapeutic strategies

H Tong, T Yang, S Xu, X Li, L Liu, G Zhou… - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Huntington's disease (HD) arises from the abnormal expansion of CAG repeats in the
huntingtin gene (HTT), resulting in the production of the mutant huntingtin protein (mHTT) …

Targeted Macrophage CRISPR‐Cas13 Mrna Editing in Immunotherapy for Tendon Injury

S Wang, Y Xiao, J Tian, B Dai, Z Tao, J Liu… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
CRISPR‐Cas13 holds substantial promise for tissue repair through its RNA editing
capabilities and swift catabolism. However, conventional delivery methods fall short in …

Manipulating and studying gene function in human pluripotent stem cell models

E Balmas, F Sozza, S Bottini, ML Ratto, G Savorè… - FEBS …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) are uniquely suited to study human development and
disease and promise to revolutionize regenerative medicine. These applications rely on …