Nature Communications (Jan 2023)

Therapeutic adenine base editing of human hematopoietic stem cells

  • Jiaoyang Liao,
  • Shuanghong Chen,
  • Shenlin Hsiao,
  • Yanhong Jiang,
  • Yang Yang,
  • Yuanjin Zhang,
  • Xin Wang,
  • Yongrong Lai,
  • Daniel E. Bauer,
  • Yuxuan Wu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35508-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Here, Liao and colleagues apply adenine base editor ABE8e and its PAM-less variant ABE8e-SpRY to β-thalassemia patient hematopoietic stem cells in the form of ribonucleoprotein complexes, resulting in efficient long-term editing and β-thalassemia alleviation.