CRISPR 101: Cytosine and Adenine Base Editors
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Blog Post
...coupling a cytidine deaminase with the inactive dCas9 (Komor et al., 2016). These fusions convert cytosine...an inhibitor of uracil DNA glycosylase (UGI) to dCas9 prevents base excision repair, which would change.... To do so, they used a Cas nickase, instead of dCas9. The resulting editor, BE3, nicks the unmodified...