This work was supported by National Institutes of Health(NIH)/National Cancer Institute(NCI)grants(R01CA073764,R01CA085344,and R01CA233664 to B.S.and R50CA211397 to L.Z.);Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences(CIFMS,2023-I2M-3-006 to H.S.).
Nucleases are a super family of enzymes that hydrolyze phosphodiester bonds present in genomes.They widely vary in substrates,causing differentiation in cleavage patterns and having a diversified role in maintaining g...
supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology(2020YFA0907700);National Natural Science Foundation of China(31770078,32270051);Shanghai Pilot Program for Basic Research-Shanghai Jiao Tong University(21TQ1400204).
Mesophilic Argonautes(Agos)from microbial resources have received significant attention due to their potential applications in genome editing and molecular diagnostics.This study characterizes a novel Ago from Pseudob...
supported by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China;the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32150018);start-up funds from Tsinghua University,Beijing(J.J.G.L.)
In recent decades,gene-editing technologies,typically based on deoxyribonucleases to specifically modify genomic sequences,have dramatically remodeled various aspects of life sciences,including fundamental research,br...
supported by the grants from the China National Key Research and Development(R&D)Program(No.2021YFC2100100);the Wuhan Science and Technology Bureau Knowledge Innovation Special Dawning Program(No.2022020801020326);the Postdoctoral Innovation Project of Shandong Province(No.SDCX-ZG-202203010);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(No.2022M721074).
Argonaute(Ago)proteins are conserved programmable nucleases present in eukaryotes and prokaryotes and provide defense against mobile genetic elements.Almost all characterized pAgos prefer to cleave DNA targets.Here,we...
Double-stranded RNA-mediated interference (RNAi), antisense oligonucleotides (ASO), and ribozymes have excellent specificity to their target oncogenic mRNA. They also seem to show great promise when it comes to treati...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program(2019YFA0110800 and 2020YFA0707900 to W.L.and 2018YFA0108400 and 2019YFA0903800 to Q.Z.);the Strategic Priority Research Programof the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDA16030403 to W.L.);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31621004 to Q.Z.and W.L.);and the CAS Project for Young Scientists in Basic Research(YSBR-012 to W.L.).
The naturally occurring prokaryotic CRISPR-Cas systems provide valuable resources for the development of new genome-editing tools.However,the majority of prokaryotic Cas nucleases exhibit poor editing efficiency in ma...
supported by NIH R21EB026035(X.L.L.);NIH R21AI149312(C.E.C.,and X.L.L.);NSF CBET-1943696(X.L.L.);Penn State startup funding to X.L.L.
CRISPR/Cas-mediated genome editing in human pluripotent stem cells(hPSCs)offers unprecedented opportunities for developing in vitro disease modeling,drug screening and cell-based therapies.To efficiently deliver the C...
the Key Technologies Research and Development Program(2017YFC1001901);the Guangdong Special Support Program(2019BT02Y276);Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation(2018A030313370 and 2021A1515010759);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31971365);the Guangzhou Science and Technology Project(201803010020).
Recent advances in genome editing,especially CRISPR-Cas nucleases,have revolutionized both laboratory research and clinical therapeutics.CRISPR-Cas nucleases,together with the DNA damage repair pathway in cells,enable...
Despite relative effectiveness of current hepatitis B therapies,there is still no curative agents available.The new emerging approaches hold promise to achieve cure and loss of hepatitis B surface antigen.Studies or c...
the Akdeniz University Scientific Research Commission and the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey,No.TUBITAK-215S820.
Targeted genome editing is a continually evolving technology employing programmable nucleases to specifically change,insert,or remove a genomic sequence of interest.These advanced molecular tools include meganucleases...