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 …

Genotoxic effects of base and prime editing in human hematopoietic stem cells

M Fiumara, S Ferrari, A Omer-Javed, S Beretta… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Base and prime editors (BEs and PEs) may provide more precise genetic engineering than
nuclease-based approaches because they bypass the dependence on DNA double-strand …

DNA base editing in nuclear and organellar genomes

J Tan, J Forner, D Karcher, R Bock - Trends in Genetics, 2022 - cell.com
Genome editing continues to revolutionize biological research. Due to its simplicity and
flexibility, CRISPR/Cas-based editing has become the preferred technology in most systems …

Re-engineering the adenine deaminase TadA-8e for efficient and specific CRISPR-based cytosine base editing

L Chen, B Zhu, G Ru, H Meng, Y Yan, M Hong… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cytosine base editors (CBEs) efficiently generate precise C· G-to-T· A base conversions, but
the activation-induced cytidine deaminase/apolipoprotein B mRNA-editing enzyme catalytic …

Targeted A-to-G base editing in human mitochondrial DNA with programmable deaminases

SI Cho, S Lee, YG Mok, K Lim, J Lee, JM Lee, E Chung… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) editing paves the way for disease modeling of mitochondrial
genetic disorders in cell lines and animals and also for the treatment of these diseases in the …

Epitope editing enables targeted immunotherapy of acute myeloid leukaemia

G Casirati, A Cosentino, A Mucci, M Salah Mahmoud… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Despite the considerable efficacy observed when targeting a dispensable lineage antigen,
such as CD19 in B cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia,, the broader applicability of adoptive …

Adenine base editing efficiently restores the function of Fanconi anemia hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells

SM Siegner, L Ugalde, A Clemens… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Fanconi Anemia (FA) is a debilitating genetic disorder with a wide range of severe
symptoms including bone marrow failure and predisposition to cancer. CRISPR-Cas …

An adenine base editor variant expands context compatibility

YL Xiao, Y Wu, W Tang - Nature Biotechnology, 2024 - nature.com
Adenine base editors (ABEs) are precise gene-editing agents that convert A: T pairs into G:
C through a deoxyinosine intermediate. Existing ABEs function most effectively when the …

TadA reprogramming to generate potent miniature base editors with high precision

S Zhang, L Song, B Yuan, C Zhang, J Cao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Although miniature CRISPR-Cas12f systems were recently developed, the editing efficacy
and targeting range of derived miniature cytosine and adenine base editors (miniCBEs and …

Improvement of base editors and prime editors advances precision genome engineering in plants

K Hua, P Han, JK Zhu - Plant physiology, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR associated
protein (Cas)-mediated gene disruption has revolutionized biomedical research as well as …