CRISPR 101: Cytosine Transversion Editors
Type
Blog Post
Published
March 25, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
...Red arrows indicate a conversion directly catalyzed by the base editor. Black arrows indicate natural cellular...editing works in general. Base editors use either catalytically dead Cas9 (dCas9) or a Cas9 nickase (nCas9) ...excision repair (BER), the cellular process that catches mutated U’s in DNA and ideally converts them back...terms
gRNA/sgRNA
Guide RNA
RNA used by Cas9 to locate a matching DNA sequence.
Target strand
The ...directed base excision repair proteins. Nature Communications, 12(1), 1384. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467...double-strand breaks causing deletion, transversion and translocation. Nature Cell Biology, 26(2), 294–304. https:...predictable by machine learning methods. Nature Communications, 12(1), 4902. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467...