Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

AsCas12a ultra nuclease facilitates the rapid generation of therapeutic cell medicines

  • Liyang Zhang,
  • John A. Zuris,
  • Ramya Viswanathan,
  • Jasmine N. Edelstein,
  • Rolf Turk,
  • Bernice Thommandru,
  • H. Tomas Rube,
  • Steve E. Glenn,
  • Michael A. Collingwood,
  • Nicole M. Bode,
  • Sarah F. Beaudoin,
  • Swarali Lele,
  • Sean N. Scott,
  • Kevin M. Wasko,
  • Steven Sexton,
  • Christopher M. Borges,
  • Mollie S. Schubert,
  • Gavin L. Kurgan,
  • Matthew S. McNeill,
  • Cecilia A. Fernandez,
  • Vic E. Myer,
  • Richard A. Morgan,
  • Mark A. Behlke,
  • Christopher A. Vakulskas

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24017-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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The utility of AsCas12a can be limited to poor editing efficiency. Here the authors identify a variant, “AsCas12a Ultra”, that has high on-target specificity demonstrated through editing of clinically relevant T cell genes.