CRISPR 101: Any Base Transversion Editors
Type
Blog Post
Published
April 1, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
...Red arrows indicate a conversion directly catalyzed by the base editor. Black arrows indicate natural cellular...the endogenous enzyme is not efficient enough to hinder adenine base editing.
Once base transversion editors...C-terminal domain of Cas9, which narrowed the editing window and reduced A → G bystander edits. Their final ...these adenine transversion editors produce a lot of indels (up to 40% at one site tested with AYBEv3!). Although...substrate for a base excision repair pathway. The team behind AYBEv3 introduced the first deaminase-free base...transversion editors, this editor had relatively high indel rates ranging from 4.7% to 30% at tested sites. ...deaminase-free C → G editor with a different editing window than existing CGBEs. This distinct approach means...