Improved prime editors enable pathogenic allele correction and cancer modelling in adult mice

Prime editors use a template sequence within their pegRNA to facilitate nucleotide substitutions or local indels. Here the authors use AAVs to deliver a split-intein prime editor in vivo to correct a pathogenic mutation.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Pengpeng Liu, Shun-Qing Liang, Chunwei Zheng, Esther Mintzer, Yan G. Zhao, Karthikeyan Ponnienselvan, Aamir Mir, Erik J. Sontheimer, Guangping Gao, Terence R. Flotte, Scot A. Wolfe, Wen Xue
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22295-w