Engineering of high-precision base editors for site-specific single nucleotide replacement

Base editors can target multiple bases within a window around the target site, reducing their specificity. Here the authors engineer the connection between the deaminase and Cas domain to narrow the window of activity.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Junjie Tan, Fei Zhang, Daniel Karcher, Ralph Bock
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08034-8