Engineering of near-PAMless adenine base editor with enhanced editing activity and reduced off-target

About 47% of pathogenic point mutations could be corrected by ABE-induced A·T-to-G·C conversions. However, the applications of ABEs are still hindered by undesired editing efficiency, limited editing scopes, and off-targeting effects. Here, we develop a new adenine base editor, by embedding TadA-8e...

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Main Authors: Xiaofang Cao (Author), Junfan Guo (Author), Shisheng Huang (Author), Wenxia Yu (Author), Guanglei Li (Author), Lisha An (Author), Xiangyang Li (Author), Wanyu Tao (Author), Qing Liu (Author), Xingxu Huang (Author), Xiaohua Jin (Author), Xu Ma (Author)
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Published: Elsevier, 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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Summary:About 47% of pathogenic point mutations could be corrected by ABE-induced A·T-to-G·C conversions. However, the applications of ABEs are still hindered by undesired editing efficiency, limited editing scopes, and off-targeting effects. Here, we develop a new adenine base editor, by embedding TadA-8e monomer into SpRY-nCas9, named as CE-8e-SpRY, which exhibits higher activity at NRN than NYN PAMs favored by SpRY nuclease. CE-8e-SpRY could target nearly all genomic sites in principle and induces the highest targeting efficiency among tested SpRY-based ABEs. In addition, CE-8e-SpRY also shows reduced RNA and DNA off-targeting activities. With optimized sgRNAs, CE-8e-SpRY induces efficient or desired target editing at some disease-relevant loci where conventional ABEs were unable to induce precise and satisfied editing. Taken together, our CE-8e-SpRY could broaden the applicability of ABEs in correcting or introducing pathogenic point mutations.
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10.1016/j.omtn.2022.04.032