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ArticleCell2020

Determinants of Base Editing Outcomes from Target Library Analysis and Machine Learning.

Mandana Arbab, Max W Shen, Beverly Mok, Christopher Wilson, Żaneta Matuszek, Christopher A Cassa, David R Liu

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Article in Cell, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 192 papers.

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192 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Mandana ArbabMerkin Institute of Transformative Technologies in Healthcare, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Max W ShenMerkin Institute of Transformative Technologies in Healthcare, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Computational and Systems Biology Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Beverly MokMerkin Institute of Transformative Technologies in Healthcare, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Christopher WilsonMerkin Institute of Transformative Technologies in Healthcare, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Żaneta MatuszekMerkin Institute of Transformative Technologies in Healthcare, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Christopher A CassaDivision of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
David R LiuMerkin Institute of Transformative Technologies in Healthcare, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Electronic address: drliu@fas.harvard.edu.

Funding

Center for Genomic Editing and Recording: Development and Application of Next-Generation Genome and Epigenome Editing Methods to Advance the Study and Treatment of Human DiseaseRM1HG009490 · NHGRI · WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RES · PI Brittany S. Adamson, Martin Joseph Ankrah Aryee · 2017 to 2026
$22.7M
Integrating Chemistry and Evolution to Illuminate Biology and Enable Novel TherapeuticsR35GM118062 · NIGMS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI LIU, DAVID R · 2016 to 2025
$6.4M
Graduate Training in Computational and Systems BiologyT32GM087237 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI BURGE, CHRISTOPHER B · 2009 to 2023
$4.6M
Integrated pathogenicity assessment of clinically actionable genetic variantsR01HG010372 · NHGRI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI CASSA, CHRISTOPHER · 2018 to 2022
$3.5M
Expanding the Scope of Base EditingU01AI142756 · NIAID · BROAD INSTITUTE, INC. · PI LIU, DAVID R · 2018 to 2022
$2.1M
Continuous Evolution of Proteins with Novel Therapeutic PotentialR01EB022376 · NIBIB · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI LIU, DAVID R · 2016 to 2019
$1.8M
Urgent Supplement: Correcting genetic disorders using predictable CRISPR/Cas9-induced exon skippingR21HG010391 · NHGRI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI CASSA, CHRISTOPHER, SHERWOOD, RICHARD I · 2019 to 2020
$632k
NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG010372NHGRI NIH HHS R21 HG010391NHGRI NIH HHS RM1 HG009490NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI142756NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB022376NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM118062NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM087237
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although base editors are widely used to install targeted point mutations, the factors that determine base editing outcomes are not well understood. We characterized sequence-activity relationships of 11 cytosine and adenine base editors (CBEs and ABEs) on 38,538 genomically integrated targets in mammalian cells and used the resulting outcomes to train BE-Hive, a machine learning model that accurately predicts base editing genotypic outcomes (R ≈ 0.9) and efficiency (R ≈ 0.7). We corrected 3,388 disease-associated SNVs with ≥90% precision, including 675 alleles with bystander nucleotides that BE-Hive correctly predicted would not be edited. We discovered determinants of previously unpredictable C-to-G, or C-to-A editing and used these discoveries to correct coding sequences of 174 pathogenic transversion SNVs with ≥90% precision. Finally, we used insights from BE-Hive to engineer novel CBE variants that modulate editing outcomes. These discoveries illuminate base editing, enable editing at previously intractable targets, and provide new base editors with improved editing capabilities.

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Machine LearningAnimalsGene EditingGene LibraryHumansMiceMouse Embryonic Stem CellsPoint MutationRNA, Guide, CRISPR-Cas SystemsRNA, Guide, CRISPR-Cas Systemsbase editingdisease correctionmachine learningprecision genome editingtransversion base editing

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PMID32533916
PMCPMC7384975

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