Expanding the Targeting Scope and Editing Efficiency of Adenine Base Editors
Type
Blog Post
Published
March 17, 2020, 1:32 p.m.
...David Liu’s lab created the first base editor in 2016 (Komor et al., 2016) and since then has been trying...David Liu’s lab set out to evolve ABEs with an increased compatibility to Cas homologs.
Evolving better...bacteriophage, which rely on the expression of gene III to create infectious particles. A plasmid-based genetic circuit...III to base editor activity and editing speed. Created with BioRender.com.
Introducing ABE8e - a fast...about 7 times higher than ABE7.10.
However, the increased editing speed and targeting scope of ABE8e comes...comes with a price: ABE8e showed increased off-target DNA and off-target RNA activity. To mitigate this...