Engineering and optimising deaminase fusions for genome editing
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Author(s)
Yang, Luhan
Briggs, Adrian W.
Chew, Wei Leong
Mali, Prashant
Guell, Marc
Aach, John
Kan, Yinan
Lesha, Emal
Soundararajan, Venkataramanan
Goodman, Daniel Bryan
Date Issued
November 2016
Journal
Nature Communications
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Nature Publishing Group
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Yang, Luhan et al. “Engineering and Optimising Deaminase Fusions for Genome Editing.” Nature Communications 7 (2016): 13330.
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Final published version
Abstract
Precise editing is essential for biomedical research and gene therapy. Yet, homology-directed genome modification is limited by the requirements for genomic lesions, homology donors and the endogenous DNA repair machinery. Here we engineered programmable cytidine deaminases and test if we could introduce site-specific cytidine to thymidine transitions in the absence of targeted genomic lesions. Our programmable deaminases effectively convert specific cytidines to thymidines with 13% efficiency in Escherichia coli and 2.5% in human cells. However, off-target deaminations were detected more than 150 bp away from the target site. Moreover, whole genome sequencing revealed that edited bacterial cells did not harbour chromosomal abnormalities but demonstrated elevated global cytidine deamination at deaminase intrinsic binding sites. Therefore programmable deaminases represent a promising genome editing tool in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Future engineering is required to overcome the processivity and the intrinsic DNA binding affinity of deaminases for safer therapeutic applications.
MIT Department
Harvard University--MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT
Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13330
