A New Generation of Adenine Base Editors Improves Editing in Primary Human Cells
Type
Blog Post
Published
May 7, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
...editors (ABE) mediate A•T-to-G•C base changes (Figure 1), but it can be challenging to make these base changes...dCas to the genomic DNA of interest
Figure 1. When ABEs are in action they bind DNA so that the... from E.coli, named TadA7.10 in ABE7.10)
a catalytically impaired Cas protein (dCas or Cas nickase)
...accidental insertions and deletions (indel) by the catalytically impaired D10A nickase from ABE7.10 can be a ...the authors created ABE8 constructs using a catalytically “dead” S. pyogenes Cas9 (dC9-ABE8.x-m/d). The...these variants, ABE8 could target many additional locations in the genome. Compared to ABE7.10, NG-ABE8.xm... reduced off-target editing frequencies. For applications that require high DNA editing specificity, for...