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 …

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 …

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 …

High-fidelity Cas13 variants for targeted RNA degradation with minimal collateral effects

H Tong, J Huang, Q Xiao, B He, X Dong, Y Liu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
CRISPR–Cas13 systems have recently been used for targeted RNA degradation in various
organisms. However, collateral degradation of bystander RNAs has limited their in vivo …

The collateral activity of RfxCas13d can induce lethality in a RfxCas13d knock-in mouse model

Y Li, J Xu, X Guo, Z Li, L Cao, S Liu, Y Guo, G Wang… - Genome biology, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Background The CRISPR-Cas13 system is an RNA-guided RNA-targeting system
and has been widely used in transcriptome engineering with potentially important clinical …

[HTML][HTML] The double life of CRISPR–Cas13

JF Bot, J van der Oost, N Geijsen - Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•CRISPR–Cas13 is potentially capable of collateral RNA cleavage in eukaryotic
cells.•Target RNA levels, cell size, and cell-type-specific properties may influence the …

Intrinsic targeting of host RNA by Cas13 constrains its utility

Z Li, Z Li, X Cheng, S Wang, X Wang, S Ma… - Nature biomedical …, 2024 - nature.com
Cas13 can be used for the knockdown, editing, imaging or detection of RNA and for RNA-
based gene therapy. Here by using RNA immunoprecipitation sequencing, transcriptome …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Cas13d: a new molecular scissor for transcriptome engineering

R Gupta, A Ghosh, R Chakravarti, R Singh… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The discovery of Clustered Regularly Interspaced Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) and its
associated Cas endonucleases in bacterial and archaeal species allowed scientists to …

AAV-CRISPR-Cas13 eliminates human enterovirus and prevents death of infected mice

CT Keng, T Yogarajah, RCH Lee, IBH Muhammad… - …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background RNA viruses account for many human diseases and pandemic events but are
often not targetable by traditional therapeutics modalities. Here, we demonstrate that adeno …