植物学报 ›› 2019, Vol. 54 ›› Issue (3): 296-299.DOI: 10.11983/CBB19033

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中国科学家发现胞嘧啶单碱基编辑工具存在 基因组范围的脱靶

谢卡斌()   

  1. 华中农业大学, 作物遗传改良国家重点实验室, 武汉 430070
  • 收稿日期:2019-01-21 接受日期:2019-01-22 出版日期:2019-07-01 发布日期:2019-05-20
  • 通讯作者: 谢卡斌

Chinese Scientists Reveal Genome-wide Off-targeted Editing of Cytosine Base Editor

Kabin Xie()   

  1. National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
  • Received:2019-01-21 Accepted:2019-01-22 Online:2019-07-01 Published:2019-05-20
  • Contact: Kabin Xie

摘要: 基于CRISPR-Cas的单碱基编辑工具是近2年基因组编辑技术的重大突破之一, 已经在人类(Homo sapiens)细胞和动植物中得到了验证与应用。最近, 中国科学家分析了胞嘧啶编辑器(CBE) BE3和HF1-BE3, 以及腺嘌呤编辑器(ABE)等单碱基编辑工具在水稻(Oryza sativa)中的脱靶现象, 发现BE3和HF1-BE3两个CBE在全基因组范围内存在脱靶编辑, 而ABE则没有脱靶现象。这一发现对单碱基编辑工具的应用和进一步改进具有重要意义。

关键词: 单碱基编辑, CRISPR, 脱靶

Abstract: Targeted base editing with CRISPR-Cas systems is a breakthrough in genome editing technologies and is widely used in studies of humans, animals and plants. Recently, Chinese scientists discovered that the cytosine base editor (CBE) including BE3 and HF1-BE3 but not the adenine base editor (ABE) has substantial promise for genome-wide off-targeted editing in rice. This discovery is of great significance to the application and further optimization of targeted base editing.

Key words: base editing, CRISPR, off-targeting