CRISPR 101: Cytosine and Adenine Base Editors
Type
Blog Post
Published
Feb. 13, 2025, 2:15 p.m.
...combining the function of both editors into one?
This has been done by fusing the adenine and cytosine editing...deaminases with a Cas9 nickase (Zhang et al., 2020). It has increased CBE activity and reduced RNA off-targeting...engineering and directed evolution of the TadA domain has yielded base editors that are equally efficient at...which uses a different mechanism than base editing, has allowed scientists to replace entire sequences of...properties of the individual Cas9. They also mutagenized the cytidine deaminase portion of the base editor...