CRISPR technology: A decade of genome editing is only the beginning

JY Wang, JA Doudna - Science, 2023 - science.org
The advent of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) genome
editing, coupled with advances in computing and imaging capabilities, has initiated a new …

[HTML][HTML] High-content CRISPR screening

C Bock, P Datlinger, F Chardon, MA Coelho… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
CRISPR screens are a powerful source of biological discovery, enabling the unbiased
interrogation of gene function in a wide range of applications and species. In pooled …

CRISPR in cancer biology and therapy

A Katti, BJ Diaz, CM Caragine, NE Sanjana… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Over the past decade, CRISPR has become as much a verb as it is an acronym,
transforming biomedical research and providing entirely new approaches for dissecting all …

Evolution of an adenine base editor into a small, efficient cytosine base editor with low off-target activity

ME Neugebauer, A Hsu, M Arbab, NA Krasnow… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cytosine base editors (CBEs) are larger and can suffer from higher off-target activity or lower
on-target editing efficiency than current adenine base editors (ABEs). To develop a CBE that …

Precise plant genome editing using base editors and prime editors

KA Molla, S Sretenovic, KC Bansal, Y Qi - Nature Plants, 2021 - nature.com
The development of CRISPR–Cas systems has sparked a genome editing revolution in
plant genetics and breeding. These sequence-specific RNA-guided nucleases can induce …

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 …

Engineering a precise adenine base editor with minimal bystander editing

L Chen, S Zhang, N Xue, M Hong, X Zhang… - Nature Chemical …, 2023 - nature.com
Adenine base editors (ABEs) catalyze A-to-G transitions showing broad applications, but
their bystander mutations and off-target editing effects raise safety concerns. Through …

Base editing rescue of spinal muscular atrophy in cells and in mice

M Arbab, Z Matuszek, KM Kray, A Du, GA Newby… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), the leading genetic cause of infant mortality, arises from
survival motor neuron (SMN) protein insufficiency resulting from SMN1 loss. Approved …

In vivo adenine base editing of PCSK9 in macaques reduces LDL cholesterol levels

T Rothgangl, MK Dennis, PJC Lin, R Oka… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Most known pathogenic point mutations in humans are C• G to T• A substitutions, which can
be directly repaired by adenine base editors (ABEs). In this study, we investigated the …

Base editing: advances and therapeutic opportunities

EM Porto, AC Komor, IM Slaymaker… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2020 - nature.com
Base editing—the introduction of single-nucleotide variants (SNVs) into DNA or RNA in
living cells—is one of the most recent advances in the field of genome editing. As around …