Nature Communications (Oct 2022)

Transient inhibition of p53 enhances prime editing and cytosine base-editing efficiencies in human pluripotent stem cells

  • Mu Li,
  • Aaron Zhong,
  • Youjun Wu,
  • Mega Sidharta,
  • Michael Beaury,
  • Xiaolan Zhao,
  • Lorenz Studer,
  • Ting Zhou

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34045-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Li et al. report that co-delivering a dominant negative fragment of p53 (p53DD) greatly enhances precise editing efficiencies for prime editing and cytosine base editing in human pluripotent stem cells, without compromising the genome-wide safety.