CRISPR 101: Cytosine Transversion Editors
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...taking advantage of repair pathways within the cell — in some cases, the same repair pathways that were...an —NH2 (amine) group from the target base and replaced it with a double-bonded oxygen. This simple enzymatic...calling it the “edited strand.”
Uracil excision repair leads to the first base transversion editor
The...most CBEs include an inhibitor of base excision repair (BER), the cellular process that catches mutated...creating an “abasic,” or empty, DNA site, and then replacing the incorrect base with a G.
Pro tip! Abasic sites...even better cytosine transversion editors.
New DNA repair proteins fused to CGBEs
Instead of using UNG, the...fusions of a CBE with other BER components: the DNA repair protein rXRCC1, or the DNA binding and lyase domain...