Nature Communications (Mar 2023)

Improving adenine and dual base editors through introduction of TadA-8e and Rad51DBD

  • Niannian Xue,
  • Xu Liu,
  • Dan Zhang,
  • Youming Wu,
  • Yi Zhong,
  • Jinxin Wang,
  • Wenjing Fan,
  • Haixia Jiang,
  • Biyun Zhu,
  • Xiyu Ge,
  • Rachel V. L. Gonzalez,
  • Liang Chen,
  • Shun Zhang,
  • Peilu She,
  • Zhilin Zhong,
  • Jianjian Sun,
  • Xi Chen,
  • Liren Wang,
  • Zhimin Gu,
  • Ping Zhu,
  • Mingyao Liu,
  • Dali Li,
  • Tao P. Zhong,
  • Xiaohui Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36887-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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There is a low efficiency of A-to-G base conversion in at specific positions using base editors. Here the authors fuse ABE8e with the Rad51 DNA-binding domain to generate a hyperactive ABE allowing improved A-to-G editing efficiency at the region proximal to the PAM and improved simultaneous A/C conversion efficiency.