Gene therapy for CNS disorders: modalities, delivery and translational challenges

J Gao, S Gunasekar, Z **a, K Shalin, C Jiang… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Gene therapy is emerging as a powerful tool to modulate abnormal gene expression, a
hallmark of most CNS disorders. The transformative potentials of recently approved gene …

Huntington's disease: complex pathogenesis and therapeutic strategies

H Tong, T Yang, S Xu, X Li, L Liu, G Zhou… - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Huntington's disease (HD) arises from the abnormal expansion of CAG repeats in the
huntingtin gene (HTT), resulting in the production of the mutant huntingtin protein (mHTT) …

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 …

Targeted macrophage CRISPR‐cas13 mRNA editing in immunotherapy for tendon injury

S Wang, Y **ao, 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 …

Precise RNA targeting with CRISPR–Cas13d

SK Hart, S Müller, HH Wessels… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
The possibility of collateral RNA degradation poses a concern for transcriptome
perturbations and therapeutic applications using CRISPR–Cas13. We show that collateral …

The potential of gene editing for Huntington's disease

W Duan, E Urani, MP Mattson - Trends in neurosciences, 2023 - cell.com
Huntington's disease (HD) is a dominantly inherited neurodegenerative disorder caused by
a trinucleotide repeat expansion in the huntingtin gene resulting in long stretches of …

Mitigating a TDP-43 proteinopathy by targeting ataxin-2 using RNA-targeting CRISPR effector proteins

MA Zeballos C, HJ Moore, TJ Smith, JE Powell… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The TDP-43 proteinopathies, which include amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal
dementia, are a devastating group of neurodegenerative disorders that are characterized by …

The current role and evolution of X-ray crystallography in drug discovery and development

V Bijak, M Szczygiel, J Lenkiewicz… - Expert opinion on …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Macromolecular X-ray crystallography and cryo-EM are currently the primary
techniques used to determine the three-dimensional structures of proteins, nucleic acids …

[HTML][HTML] RNATACs: Multispecific small molecules targeting RNA by induced proximity

Y Song, J Cui, J Zhu, B Kim, ML Kuo, PR Potts - Cell Chemical Biology, 2024 - cell.com
RNA-targeting small molecules (rSMs) have become an attractive modality to tackle
traditionally undruggable proteins and expand the druggable space. Among many …

Multiplexed inhibition of immunosuppressive genes with Cas13d for combinatorial cancer immunotherapy

F Zhang, RD Chow, E He, C Dong, S **n, D Mirza… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
The complex nature of the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (TME) requires
multi-agent combinations for optimal immunotherapy. Here we describe multiplex universal …