Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

Docking sites inside Cas9 for adenine base editing diversification and RNA off-target elimination

  • Shuo Li,
  • Bo Yuan,
  • Jixin Cao,
  • Jingqi Chen,
  • Jinlong Chen,
  • Jiayi Qiu,
  • Xing-Ming Zhao,
  • Xiaolin Wang,
  • Zilong Qiu,
  • Tian-Lin Cheng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19730-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Current SpCas9 adenine base editors that minimise RNA off-target activities have constrained editing windows. Here the authors use domain insertion of TadA into Cas9 to narrow, expand or shift the editing window with RNA off-target minimization simultaneously