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Hyperactive Nickase Activity Improves Adenine Base Editing

Base editing technologies enable programmable single-nucleotide changes in target DNA without double-stranded DNA breaks. Adenine base editors (ABEs) allow precise conversion of adenine to guanine. However, limited availability of optimized deaminases as well as their variable efficiencies across different target sequences can limit the ability of ABEs to achieve effective adenine editing.

Citation:
Gandadireja AP, Vos PD, Siira SJ, Filipovska A, Rackham O. Hyperactive Nickase Activity Improves Adenine Base Editing. ACS Synth Biol. 2024.

Keywords:
CRISPR; Cas9; adenine base editor; gene editing; protein engineering

Abstract:
Base editing technologies enable programmable single-nucleotide changes in target DNA without double-stranded DNA breaks. Adenine base editors (ABEs) allow precise conversion of adenine to guanine. However, limited availability of optimized deaminases as well as their variable efficiencies across different target sequences can limit the ability of ABEs to achieve effective adenine editing.