Nature Communications (Feb 2022)

Prime editing efficiency and fidelity are enhanced in the absence of mismatch repair

  • J. Ferreira da Silva,
  • G. P. Oliveira,
  • E. A. Arasa-Verge,
  • C. Kagiou,
  • A. Moretton,
  • G. Timelthaler,
  • J. Jiricny,
  • J. I. Loizou

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28442-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Prime Editing is a versatile genome engineering tool. Here, the authors identify the DNA repair pathway known as mismatch repair as inhibitory for Prime Editing, thus, loss of mismatch repair enhances the efficiency of Prime Editing.