Directed evolution: methodologies and applications

Y Wang, P Xue, M Cao, T Yu, ST Lane… - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Directed evolution aims to expedite the natural evolution process of biological molecules
and systems in a test tube through iterative rounds of gene diversifications and library …

Killing mechanisms of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells

MR Benmebarek, CH Karches, BL Cadilha… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Effective adoptive T cell therapy (ACT) comprises the killing of cancer cells through the
therapeutic use of transferred T cells. One of the main ACT approaches is chimeric antigen …

Engineering broad-spectrum bacterial blight resistance by simultaneously disrupting variable TALE-binding elements of multiple susceptibility genes in rice

Z Xu, X Xu, Q Gong, Z Li, Y Li, S Wang, Y Yang, W Ma… - Molecular plant, 2019 - cell.com
Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo), the causal agent of bacterial blight of rice, employs
the transcription activator-like effectors (TALEs) to induce the expression of the OsSWEET …

Genome-editing technologies for gene and cell therapy

ML Maeder, CA Gersbach - Molecular therapy, 2016 - cell.com
Gene therapy has historically been defined as the addition of new genes to human cells.
However, the recent advent of genome-editing technologies has enabled a new paradigm in …

ZFN, TALEN, and CRISPR/Cas-based methods for genome engineering

T Gaj, CA Gersbach, CF Barbas - Trends in biotechnology, 2013 - cell.com
Zinc-finger nucleases (ZFNs) and transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs)
comprise a powerful class of tools that are redefining the boundaries of biological research …

A guide to genome engineering with programmable nucleases

H Kim, JS Kim - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2014 - nature.com
Programmable nucleases—including zinc-finger nucleases (ZFNs), transcription activator-
like effector nucleases (TALENs) and RNA-guided engineered nucleases (RGENs) derived …

Precision mitochondrial DNA editing with high-fidelity DddA-derived base editors

S Lee, H Lee, G Baek, JS Kim - Nature Biotechnology, 2023 - nature.com
Bacterial toxin DddA-derived cytosine base editors (DdCBEs)—composed of split DddAtox
(a cytosine deaminase specific to double-stranded DNA), custom-designed TALE …

Strand-selective base editing of human mitochondrial DNA using mitoBEs

Z Yi, X Zhang, W Tang, Y Yu, X Wei, X Zhang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
A number of mitochondrial diseases in humans are caused by point mutations that could be
corrected by base editors, but delivery of CRISPR guide RNAs into the mitochondria is …

[HTML][HTML] TALE and TALEN genome editing technologies

S Becker, J Boch - Gene and Genome Editing, 2021 - Elsevier
TALEN were the first easy-to-use genome editing technology and sparked the genome
editing revolution. Their application in multiple species brought targeted mutagenesis to the …

CRISPR/Cas9 for genome editing: progress, implications and challenges

F Zhang, Y Wen, X Guo - Human molecular genetics, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated
(Cas) protein 9 system provides a robust and multiplexable genome editing tool, enabling …