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ArticleMolecular therapy. Nucleic acids2022

Engineering an adenine base editor in human embryonic stem cells with minimal DNA and RNA off-target activities.

Zhenwu Zhang, Wanyu Tao, Shisheng Huang, Wenjun Sun, Yue Wang, Wen Jiang, Xingxu Huang, Chao-Po Lin

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Article in Molecular therapy. Nucleic acids, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Zhenwu ZhangSchool of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China.
Wanyu TaoSchool of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China.
Shisheng HuangSchool of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China.
Wenjun SunSchool of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China.
Yue WangSchool of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China.
Wen JiangDepartment of Hematology, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University (Army Medical University), Chongqing 400038, China.
Xingxu HuangSchool of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China.
Chao-Po LinSchool of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China.
ShanghaiTech University · CNArmy Medical University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Genome editing in pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) using CRISPR technology holds great promise for therapeutic applications. Yet, it has been reported that Cas9-mediated cleavage could cause large deletions or rearrangements of DNA, and the selection of edited PSCs could acquire p53 mutations. Adenine base editors (ABEs) do not introduce DNA double-strand breaks and thus have been proposed as alternatives to circumvent those problems, but their off-target effects still limit their applications. Here, we tested different combinations of off-target reduction methods to further diminish off-target effects of ABEs without compromising their on-target editing efficiencies. We subsequently chose the best editor, CE-8e-dV, which contains V106W substitution, R153 deletion, and Cas-embedding strategy, to establish a single-cell-derived human embryonic stem cell (hESC) line expressing tetracycline-inducible CE-8e-dV. By performing RNA and whole-genome sequencing, we demonstrated that the expression of CE-8e-dV did not produce nearly any DNA or RNA off-target effects in hESCs. Our results provide stringent proof of the safety of ABEs in PSCs and suggest that CE-8e-dV could be suitable for related therapeutic strategies, such as generation of engineered stem cells

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adenine base editorCRISPRhuman embryonic stem cellMT: RNA/DNA Editingoff-target effect

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