CRISPR 101: Cytosine and Adenine Base Editors
Type
Blog Post
Published
Feb. 13, 2025, 2:15 p.m.
... and DNA repair. Black arrows indicate natural cellular processes. BER = base excision repair. Note: hypoxanthine...subsequently converted to thymine through DNA replication or repair. Fusing an inhibitor of uracil DNA glycosylase...the low editing efficiency of homology-directed repair (HDR), the pathway for resolving DNA double-strand...glycosylase (UGI) to dCas9 prevents base excision repair, which would change the U back to a C base.
To increase...newly synthesized” to the cell. Thus, the cell repairs the DNA using the U-containing strand as a template...uracil N-glycosylase (UNG) during base excision repair. Adding a second copy of the UNG inhibitor, UGI... product purity, and these three improvements represent the fourth generation of base editors. Compared...