A New Generation of Adenine Base Editors Improves Editing in Primary Human Cells
Type
Blog Post
Published
May 7, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
...editing single genes is very useful, sometimes, you need to modify multiple genes to generate a cellular ...Nicole Gaudelli, the Associate Director and Head of Gene Editing Technology at Beam Therapeutics, used a ...In addition to stem cells the authors targeted 6 genes in primary human T cells using 8 selected ABE8s ...the reduction in protein expression of these six genes. All ABE8s edited more efficiently than ABE7.10 ... was the winner. It could simultaneously edit 3 genes (98.1%, 98.3%, or 98.6% efficiency, respectively... eighth generation of adenine base editors, called ABE8 (Gaudelli et al., 2020). The generated ABE8s needed...replaced S. pyogenes Cas9 in the ABE complex with PAM-variant Cas9 proteins: the S. pyogenes NG-Cas9 (PAM...