Institute for Translational Brain Research, State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, MOE Frontiers Center for Brain Science, Institute of Pediatrics, National Children's Medical Center, Children's Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Department of Pediatrics, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Ji'nan, 250012, China.
Nat Commun. 2023 Jan 26;14(1):414. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-36003-3.
Cytidine and adenosine deaminases are required for cytosine and adenine editing of base editors respectively, and no single deaminase could enable concurrent and comparable cytosine and adenine editing. Additionally, distinct properties of cytidine and adenosine deaminases lead to various types of off-target effects, including Cas9-indendepent DNA off-target effects for cytosine base editors (CBEs) and RNA off-target effects particularly severe for adenine base editors (ABEs). Here we demonstrate that 25 TadA orthologs could be engineered to generate functional ABEs, CBEs or ACBEs via single or double mutations, which display minimized Cas9-independent DNA off-target effects and genotoxicity, with orthologs B5ZCW4, Q57LE3, E8WVH3, Q13XZ4 and B3PCY2 as promising candidates for further engineering. Furthermore, RNA off-target effects of TadA ortholog-derived base editors could be further reduced or even eliminated by additional single mutation. Taken together, our work expands the base editing toolkits, and also provides important clues for the potential evolutionary process of deaminases.
胞苷脱氨酶和腺苷脱氨酶分别是碱基编辑器实现胞嘧啶和腺嘌呤编辑所必需的,而且没有单一的脱氨酶可以同时实现可比的胞嘧啶和腺嘌呤编辑。此外,胞苷脱氨酶和腺苷脱氨酶的不同特性导致了不同类型的脱靶效应,包括 CBEs 的 Cas9 独立的 DNA 脱靶效应和 ABEs 特别严重的 RNA 脱靶效应。在这里,我们证明了 25 种 TadA 同源物可以通过单个或双突变工程化生成功能性 ABEs、CBEs 或 ACBEs,它们显示出最小化的 Cas9 独立的 DNA 脱靶效应和遗传毒性,其中同源物 B5ZCW4、Q57LE3、E8WVH3、Q13XZ4 和 B3PCY2 是进一步工程化的有前途的候选物。此外,通过额外的单点突变可以进一步降低或甚至消除 TadA 同源物衍生碱基编辑器的 RNA 脱靶效应。总之,我们的工作扩展了碱基编辑工具包,也为脱氨酶的潜在进化过程提供了重要线索。
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