Nature Communications (Apr 2021)

Improved prime editors enable pathogenic allele correction and cancer modelling in adult mice

  • Pengpeng Liu,
  • Shun-Qing Liang,
  • Chunwei Zheng,
  • Esther Mintzer,
  • Yan G. Zhao,
  • Karthikeyan Ponnienselvan,
  • Aamir Mir,
  • Erik J. Sontheimer,
  • Guangping Gao,
  • Terence R. Flotte,
  • Scot A. Wolfe,
  • Wen Xue

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22295-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Prime editors use a template sequence within their pegRNA to facilitate nucleotide substitutions or local indels. Here the authors use AAVs to deliver a split-intein prime editor in vivo to correct a pathogenic mutation.