美国 Beam Therapeutics公司Giuseppe Ciaramella、Nicole M. Gaudelli等研究人员,合作开发了具有更高活性和更广应用前景的腺嘌呤碱基编辑器。相关论文于2020年4月13日在线发表于《自然—生物技术》。
Title: Directed evolution of adenine base editors with increased activity and therapeutic application
Author: Nicole M. Gaudelli, Dieter K. Lam, Holly A. Rees, Noris M. Sol-Esteves, Luis A. Barrera, David A. Born, Aaron Edwards, Jason M. Gehrke, Seung-Joo Lee, Alexander J. Liquori, Ryan Murray, Michael S. Packer, Conrad Rinaldi, Ian M. Slaymaker, Jonathan Yen, Lauren E. Young, Giuseppe Ciaramella
Issue&Volume: 2020-04-13
Abstract: The foundational adenine base editors (for example, ABE7.10) enable programmable AT to GC point mutations but editing efficiencies can be low at challenging loci in primary human cells. Here we further evolve ABE7.10 using a library of adenosine deaminase variants to create ABE8s. At NGG protospacer adjacent motif (PAM) sites, ABE8s result in ~1.5× higher editing at protospacer positions A5–A7 and ~3.2× higher editing at positions A3–A4 and A8–A10 compared with ABE7.10. Non-NGG PAM variants have a ~4.2-fold overall higher on-target editing efficiency than ABE7.10. In human CD34+ cells, ABE8 can recreate a natural allele at the promoter of the γ-globin genes HBG1 and HBG2 with up to 60% efficiency, causing persistence of fetal hemoglobin. In primary human T cells, ABE8s achieve 98–99% target modification, which is maintained when multiplexed across three loci. Delivered as messenger RNA, ABE8s induce no significant levels of single guide RNA (sgRNA)-independent off-target adenine deamination in genomic DNA and very low levels of adenine deamination in cellular mRNA.
DOI: 10.1038/s41587-020-0491-6
Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-020-0491-6
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