...David Liu’s lab created the first base editor in 2016 (Komor et al., 2016) and since then has been trying...deaminase. Base changes from C•G-to-T•A are mediated by cytosine base editors (CBEs) and base changes from... precision editing capabilities. Base editors make specific DNA base changes and consist of a catalytically...deaminase induces the DNA base change without a DNA double-strand break. But base editors aren’t perfect. They...go Figure 1: David Liu gives a talk at the Cell Symposia: Gene- and Cell-based Therapies: CRISPR,...issue that arises for base editors is that the editing domain must induce the base change before the Cas.... Evolving better base editors with the help of phages! The latest ABE from the Liu lab is ABE7.10 which...

...developed two classes of base editors: cytosine base editors (CBEs) and adenine base editors (ABEs).  (There are... RNA base editors, but we’ll just be covering DNA base editors here. To learn more about RNA base editors... Adenine base editors The beginning of adenine base editing Nicole Gaudelli from David LIu’s lab created...or ABEs, from David Liu’s lab has allowed scientists to make all 12 possible base-to-base changes. How ...first cytosine base editors from postdocs Alexis Komor and the first adenine base editors from Nicole Gaudelli...Gaudelli in David Liu’s lab in 2016. Cytosine base editing The beginnings of cytosine base editing Komor...to BE3, modifying a 3-5 base window 18 bases upstream of the PAM.  David Liu’s lab generated BE3 variants...

... than base editing (in certain circumstances) Current base editors can perform any base-to-base conversion...possible base-to-base changes in a single edit. Prime editing is also more precise. Base editors, for example...DNA strand, many previously developed base editors with a <8 base-pair editing window cannot edit within...typically edit all the target bases within the base editing window, while prime editors make a specific edit defined...ClinVar database. Previously developed genome editing methods using nucleases and base editors have the...prime editing, a CRISPR technique developed in David Liu’s lab in 2019, has added considerably more precision...targeted insertions, deletions, and all possible base-to-base conversions (Anzalone et al., 2019). Plus, it...

...Cytosine base editors with minimized off-target DNA editing The original cytosine base editor, BE3, induces... rapid and cost-effective screening methods, David Liu’s lab identified and validated CBEs with reduced...deamination. They generated these editors using the BE4max architecture. The new editors reported in this study ...Read the paper in Nature Biotechnology Find the base editor plasmids CRISPRi in Caulobacter crescentus ...research! This time: Optogenetic repression in yeast Base editing CRISPRi in Caulobacter crescentus Multiplexed...Multiplexed gRNA for human pluripotent stem cells CRISPR-based DNA demethylation Optogenetic repressors of gene...Scientific Reports Find the plasmids Enhanced CRISPR-based DNA demethylation Figure 2: The components...

...prime editing efficiency In the two years since David Liu’s group launched prime editing, they have continued...is less than half the size of the Cas9 or Cas12a based systems, making it well suited for AAV packaging...was shown to be effective for CRISPR activation, base editing, and genome editing in mammalian cells. ...had the highest activity for gene activation  and base editing, whereas a different set of mutations (the... efficient Cas system with very compact genome editors and a gRNA down-sized by almost 40%. The activity...optimize its outcomes. In their most recent work, the Liu Lab boosts the efficiency of prime editing to correct...manipulating MMR machinery In their Cell paper, the Liu Lab found that mismatch repair (MMR) interfered with...

...such as base editors which have a gene size of ~5.2 kb. To overcome this problem, David Liu’s lab developed...therapeutic potential for the split base editors. Find the split base editors at Addgene. Levy et al., Nature...sign up here.        AAV delivery of split base editors Article contributed by Jennifer Tsang AAVs are...developed split cytosine and adenine base editors that can be reconstituted in vivo to form a protein identical...sequence to the unmodified enzyme. Each half of the base editor is fused to a fast-splicing split intein and ... bond at the split site. Figure 1: The base editor is split into two plasmids and co-transfected...single AAV expressing GFP. The lab tested the base editors in vivo and achieved therapeutically relevant ...

...optimizations for prime editing By Emily P. Bentley The David Liu Lab has made two recent deposits focused on optimizing...K., & Liu, D. R. (2024). Engineered virus-like particles for transient delivery of prime editor ribonucleoprotein...systems for specific applications! Delivering prime editors (PEs) via engineered virus-like particles (eVLPs... contain no genetic material, which ensures the editor will only be transiently present in transduced ...in a single package. In a recent publication, the Liu lab showed that this method of delivery could be ...site-specific serine recombinase. First, the prime editor installs the recombinase “landing sites,” then ...landing sites on opposite DNA strands. When the prime editor releases the DNA, the two 3’ flaps containing the...

...onto the target strand based on the sequence of the pegRNA. Image from David Liu.   Activation and..., Koblan, L. W. & Liu, D. R. Genome editing with CRISPR–Cas nucleases, base editors, transposases and ...your precise edit without even making a break.  Base editors are dead Cas9 (dCas9) or nCas9 enzymes fused...double strand break.   Prime editors are the second generation of base modifiers available. This system...without undesired bases nearby that may undergo unwanted editing. Just like with base editing, alternative...modified to enable researchers to knock out, knock in, base edit, activate, repress, and even image your favorite...Requirement and Expanding CRISPR Beyond SpCas9.” Single base pair edits Is the location and type of edit you ...

...distinct PAM sequences. Now, Hu et al., working in David Liu’s lab, have gone one step further, using directed...PAM, confirming the flexibility of xCas9 3.7. Base editor variants with xCas9 are similarly flexible. Like...xCas9 3.7 fused to third generation cytidine base editor architecture (BE3) slightly improves NGG PAM ...with a smaller increase in NGA editing. Adenine base editor xCas9 3.7-ABE also follows the same pattern, ...IDT estimates that there is an NGG PAM every 42 bases in the human genome. SpCas9 targeting should be ...difficult if there’s no PAM near your insertion site. Base editing, another method to create point mutations...Employing xCas9 for transcriptional regulation and base editing Hu et al. also engineered transcriptional...

...cytidine deaminase portion of the base editor to create SpCas9 base editors with editing windows as small ...Coselection with Ouabain New CRISPR base editors The popular CRISPR base editing technique uses dCas9/Cas9...blue flame depositor David Liu’s lab increase both the range and specificity of base editing. Kim et al....number of available target sites for base editing. For each base editor, they observed editing activity with...effects associated with base editing, Rees et al. created HF-BE3, a base editor containing high fidelity...engineered Cas9 variants to develop five new base editors with distinct PAM sequences, expanding the number... Listen to Our Podcast Segment on these New Base Editors pPSU plasmids for generating DNA molecular weight...

...off-target edits of base editors, which convert a nucleotide base pair to another base pair at a specific...Bhoobalan-Chitty Y, Peng X (2018) Anti-CRISPR-Based and CRISPR-Based Genome Editing of Sulfolobus islandicus...CRISPR activity is an important step towards CRISPR-based therapies and for more precise editing in the lab...10.1038/nature22377 Harrington LB, Doxzen KW, Ma E, Liu J-J, Knott GJ, Edraki A, Garcia B, Amrani N, Chen....org/10.1016/j.cell.2016.11.017 Shin J, Jiang F, Liu J-J, Bray NL, Rauch BJ, Baik SH, Nogales E, Bondy-Denomy...systems.   Four years later, the Sontheimer and Davidson labs discovered three anti-CRISPRs for a type ...Chen JS, Cofsky JC, Kranzusch PJ, Sontheimer EJ, Davidson AR, Maxwell KL, Doudna JA (2017) A Broad-Spectrum...