CRISPR 101: Cytosine Transversion Editors
Type
Blog Post
...The first base editors revolutionized CRISPR gene editing. Cytosine base editors (CBEs) and adenine base...conducted a CRISPRi screen to identify endogenous genes that impact CGBE efficiency. In addition to using...review how CRISPR-derived base editing works in general. Base editors use either catalytically dead Cas9...efficiency and produced fewer indels than first-generation editors.
This team also demonstrated that different...sequences) (Huang et al., 2024). BE4max, a CBE, generated similar deletions at a lower frequency. Their ...and its inclusion significantly reduced indels generated by CGBEs.
What's next?
Base transversion editing...base transition editing, we can expect several generations of optimization before the field begins to converge...