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ArticleNature communications2024

High performance TadA-8e derived cytosine and dual base editors with undetectable off-target effects in plants.

Tingting Fan, Yanhao Cheng, Yuechao Wu, Shishi Liu, Xu Tang, Yao He, Shanyue Liao, Xuelian Zheng, Tao Zhang, Yiping Qi and 1 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

36 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Tingting Fan *Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Center for Informational Biology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0005-5548-4174
Yanhao Cheng *Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, University of Maryland, College Park, ML, 20742, USA.
Yuechao Wu *Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genomics and Molecular Breeding/Zhongshan Biological Breeding Laboratory/Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics of the Ministry of Education, College of Agriculture, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, 225009, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9972-7407
Shishi Liu *Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Center for Informational Biology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, China.
Xu Tang *Chongqing Key Laboratory of Plant Resource Conservation and Germplasm Innovation, Integrative Science Center of Germplasm Creation in Western China (Chongqing) Science City, School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China.
Yao HeDepartment of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Center for Informational Biology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, China.
Shanyue LiaoDepartment of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Center for Informational Biology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, China.
Xuelian ZhengChongqing Key Laboratory of Plant Resource Conservation and Germplasm Innovation, Integrative Science Center of Germplasm Creation in Western China (Chongqing) Science City, School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7475-7888
Tao ZhangJiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genomics and Molecular Breeding/Zhongshan Biological Breeding Laboratory/Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics of the Ministry of Education, College of Agriculture, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, 225009, China. zhangtao@yzu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7897-0205
Yiping QiDepartment of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, University of Maryland, College Park, ML, 20742, USA. Yiping@umd.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9556-6706
Yong ZhangChongqing Key Laboratory of Plant Resource Conservation and Germplasm Innovation, Integrative Science Center of Germplasm Creation in Western China (Chongqing) Science City, School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China. zhangyong916@swu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3704-4835

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cytosine base editors (CBEs) and adenine base editors (ABEs) enable precise C-to-T and A-to-G edits. Recently, ABE8e, derived from TadA-8e, enhances A-to-G edits in mammalian cells and plants. Interestingly, TadA-8e can also be evolved to confer C-to-T editing. This study compares engineered CBEs derived from TadA-8e in rice and tomato cells, identifying TadCBEa, TadCBEd, and TadCBEd_V106W as efficient CBEs with high purity and a narrow editing window. A dual base editor, TadDE, promotes simultaneous C-to-T and A-to-G editing. Multiplexed base editing with TadCBEa and TadDE is demonstrated in transgenic rice, with no off-target effects detected by whole genome and transcriptome sequencing, indicating high specificity. Finally, two crop engineering applications using TadDE are shown: introducing herbicide resistance alleles in OsALS and creating synonymous mutations in OsSPL14 to resist OsMIR156-mediated degradation. Together, this study presents TadA-8e derived CBEs and a dual base editor as valuable additions to the plant editing toolbox.

Indexed as

CRISPR-Cas SystemsCytosineGene EditingOryzaPlants, Genetically ModifiedAdenineGenome, PlantHerbicide ResistanceSolanum lycopersicumAdenineCytosine

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PMID38877035
PMCPMC11178825

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