CRISPR 101: Cytosine Transversion Editors
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...introduced its opposite, a uracil DNA N-glycosylase (UNG) from E. coli. The resulting construct, eUNG-BE4max...Editor, or GBE, for its reliance on the glycosylase UNG to crease abasic sites (Zhao et al., 2021). Their...processes. Created with BioRender.com.
Beyond UNG: Optimizing C → G editors
Now that several labs had...mechanism: cytidine deaminase converts C to U, and UNG excises the new U to create an abasic site. But how... repair proteins fused to CGBEs
Instead of using UNG, the Wei Leong Chew Lab developed two fusions of ...Yuan et al., 2021). In addition, they showed that UNG from both E. coli and C. elegans could be effective...team also demonstrated that different deaminase and UNG enzymes had different sequence preferences, which...