The promise and challenge of therapeutic genome editing

JA Doudna - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Genome editing, which involves the precise manipulation of cellular DNA sequences to alter
cell fates and organism traits, has the potential to both improve our understanding of human …

Applications of genome editing technology in the targeted therapy of human diseases: mechanisms, advances and prospects

H Li, Y Yang, W Hong, M Huang, M Wu… - Signal transduction and …, 2020 - nature.com
Based on engineered or bacterial nucleases, the development of genome editing
technologies has opened up the possibility of directly targeting and modifying genomic …

Base editing of haematopoietic stem cells rescues sickle cell disease in mice

GA Newby, JS Yen, KJ Woodard, T Mayuranathan… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is caused by a mutation in the β-globin gene HBB. We used a
custom adenine base editor (ABE8e-NRCH), to convert the SCD allele (HBB S) into …

Ex vivo prime editing of patient haematopoietic stem cells rescues sickle-cell disease phenotypes after engraftment in mice

KA Everette, GA Newby, RM Levine… - Nature biomedical …, 2023 - nature.com
Sickle-cell disease (SCD) is caused by an A· T-to-T· A transversion mutation in the β-globin
gene (HBB). Here we show that prime editing can correct the SCD allele (HBB S) to wild …

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 …

Mitigation of chromosome loss in clinical CRISPR-Cas9-engineered T cells

CA Tsuchida, N Brandes, R Bueno, M Trinidad… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing has enabled advanced T cell therapies, but occasional loss
of the targeted chromosome remains a safety concern. To investigate whether Cas9-induced …

[HTML][HTML] Strategies in the delivery of Cas9 ribonucleoprotein for CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing

S Zhang, J Shen, D Li, Y Cheng - Theranostics, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing has gained rapidly increasing attentions in recent years,
however, the translation of this biotechnology into therapy has been hindered by efficient …

High-efficiency transgene integration by homology-directed repair in human primary cells using DNA-PKcs inhibition

S Selvaraj, WN Feist, S Viel, S Vaidyanathan… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Therapeutic applications of nuclease-based genome editing would benefit from improved
methods for transgene integration via homology-directed repair (HDR). To improve HDR …

RNA drugs and RNA targets for small molecules: principles, progress, and challenges

AM Yu, YH Choi, MJ Tu, RM TOUYZ - Pharmacological reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
RNA-based therapies, including RNA molecules as drugs and RNA-targeted small
molecules, offer unique opportunities to expand the range of therapeutic targets. Various …

CRISPR–Cas9 genome editing induces a p53-mediated DNA damage response

E Haapaniemi, S Botla, J Persson, B Schmierer… - Nature medicine, 2018 - nature.com
Here, we report that genome editing by CRISPR–Cas9 induces a p53-mediated DNA
damage response and cell cycle arrest in immortalized human retinal pigment epithelial …