Nature Communications (Mar 2022)

Harnessing DSB repair to promote efficient homology-dependent and -independent prime editing

  • Martin Peterka,
  • Nina Akrap,
  • Songyuan Li,
  • Sandra Wimberger,
  • Pei-Pei Hsieh,
  • Dmitrii Degtev,
  • Burcu Bestas,
  • Jack Barr,
  • Stijn van de Plassche,
  • Patricia Mendoza-Garcia,
  • Saša Šviković,
  • Grzegorz Sienski,
  • Mike Firth,
  • Marcello Maresca

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28771-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Prime editing is a next-generation approach for precision genome engineering. Here the authors design a nuclease-based prime editor that leverages DNA repair pathways for targeted genomic insertions.