Programmable C-to-U RNA editing using the human APOBEC3A deaminase.
EMBO J
; 39(22): e104741, 2020 11 16.
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ABSTRACT
Programmable RNA cytidine deamination has recently been achieved using a bifunctional editor (RESCUE-S) capable of deaminating both adenine and cysteine. Here, we report the development of "CURE", the first cytidine-specific C-to-U RNA Editor. CURE comprises the cytidine deaminase enzyme APOBEC3A fused to dCas13 and acts in conjunction with unconventional guide RNAs (gRNAs) designed to induce loops at the target sites. Importantly, CURE does not deaminate adenosine, enabling the high-specificity versions of CURE to create fewer missense mutations than RESCUE-S at the off-targets transcriptome-wide. The two editing approaches exhibit overlapping editing motif preferences, with CURE and RESCUE-S being uniquely able to edit UCC and AC motifs, respectively, while they outperform each other at different subsets of the UC targets. Finally, a nuclear-localized version of CURE, but not that of RESCUE-S, can efficiently edit nuclear RNAs. Thus, CURE and RESCUE are distinct in design and complementary in utility.
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Assunto principal:
Proteínas
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Edição de RNA
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Citidina Desaminase
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
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EMBO J
Ano de publicação:
2020
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Article
País de afiliação:
China