A New Generation of Adenine Base Editors Improves Editing in Primary Human Cells
Type
Blog Post
Published
May 7, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
...that targets the complex of TadA and dCas to the genomic DNA of interest
Figure 1. When ABEs are... pyogenes Cas9 requires the target site in the genomic DNA to contain a specific protospacer adjacent ...ABE8 could target many additional locations in the genome. Compared to ABE7.10, NG-ABE8.xm/d showed a 1.6x... 8 selected ABE8s and ABE7.10. They quantified genomic editing by measuring the reduction in protein expression...note, ABE8s reported in this work did not cause genome-wide, guide-independent off-target deamination,...2017) Programmable base editing of A•T to G•C in genomic DNA without DNA cleavage. Nature 551:464–471 . ...