CRISPR technologies for genome, epigenome and transcriptome editing

L Villiger, J Joung, L Koblan, J Weissman… - … Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Our ability to edit genomes lags behind our capacity to sequence them, but the growing
understanding of CRISPR biology and its application to genome, epigenome and …

Beyond knockouts: fine‐tuning regulation of gene expression in plants with CRISPR‐Cas‐based promoter editing

X Tang, Y Zhang - New Phytologist, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The CRISPR‐Cas‐based genome editing field in plants is expanding rapidly. Editing plant
promoters to obtain cis‐regulatory alleles with altered expression levels or patterns of target …

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 …

A split and inducible adenine base editor for precise in vivo base editing

H Zeng, Q Yuan, F Peng, D Ma, A Lingineni… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
DNA base editors use deaminases fused to a programmable DNA-binding protein for
targeted nucleotide conversion. However, the most widely used TadA deaminases lack post …

In the business of base editors: evolution from bench to bedside

EM Porto, AC Komor - PLoS biology, 2023 - journals.plos.org
With the advent of recombinant DNA technology in the 1970s, the idea of using gene
therapies to treat human genetic diseases captured the interest and imagination of scientists …

Base editor screens for in situ mutational scanning at scale

NZ Lue, BB Liau - Molecular Cell, 2023 - cell.com
A fundamental challenge in biology is understanding the molecular details of protein
function. How mutations alter protein activity, regulation, and response to drugs is of critical …

A prime editor mouse to model a broad spectrum of somatic mutations in vivo

ZA Ely, N Mathey-Andrews, S Naranjo, SI Gould… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Genetically engineered mouse models only capture a small fraction of the genetic lesions
that drive human cancer. Current CRISPR–Cas9 models can expand this fraction but are …

Past, present, and future of CRISPR genome editing technologies

M Pacesa, O Pelea, M **ek - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Genome editing has been a transformative force in the life sciences and human medicine,
offering unprecedented opportunities to dissect complex biological processes and treat the …

Phage-assisted evolution of highly active cytosine base editors with enhanced selectivity and minimal sequence context preference

E Zhang, ME Neugebauer, NA Krasnow… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
TadA-derived cytosine base editors (TadCBEs) enable programmable C• G-to-T• A editing
while retaining the small size, high on-target activity, and low off-target activity of TadA …

Dimerization of the deaminase domain and locking interactions with Cas9 boost base editing efficiency in ABE8e

PR Arantes, X Chen, S Sinha, A Saha… - Nucleic acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
CRISPR-based DNA adenine base editors (ABEs) hold remarkable promises to address
human genetic diseases caused by point mutations. ABEs were developed by combining …