supported by the grants from the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.XDB0570000);the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Nos.2021YFA1300800 and 2021YFC2700903);the Natural Science Foundation of China(No.32271300);the Committee of Science and Technology in Shanghai(Nos.22ZR1481300 and 22JC1400503);the CAS Project for Young Scientists in Basic Research(No.YSBR-075).
Transfer RNAs(tRNAs)play central roles in protein biosynthesis.Post-transcriptional RNA modifications affect tRNA function and stability.Among these modifications,RNA editing is a widespread RNA modification in three ...
The APOBEC3(A3)family plays a pivotal role in the immune system by performing DNA/RNA single-strand deamination.Cancers mostly arise from the accumulation of chronic mutations in somatic cells,and recent research has ...
supported by funds from the Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission (Z181100001318009);the National Science Foundation of China (NSFC31930016);the Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Genomics at Peking University and the Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences (to W. Wei);the Fellowship of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (to Z. Yi)
Mitochondrial base editing tools hold great promise for the investigation and treatment of mitochondrial diseases.Mitochondrial DNA base editors(mitoBEs)integrate a programmable transcriptionactivator-like effector(TA...
supported by National Key Research and Development Program National Key R&D Program of China(2023YFC3403400,2018YFA0801401 and 2019YFA0802804);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32371514 and 32070170);Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People’s Republic of China(NK2022010207);Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission(21JC1404600 and 23ZR1442500);Program of Shanghai Academic/Technology Research Leader(23XD1422500);Shanghai Frontiers Science Center for Biomacromolecules and Precision Medicine,Shanghai Tech University
The development of nucleoside deaminase-containing base editors realized targeted single base change with high efficiency and precision.Such nucleoside deaminases include adenosine and cytidine deaminases,which can ca...
This work was supported by HuidaGene Therapeutics Co.,Ltd.(H.T.).
Current DNA base editors contain nuclease and DNA deaminase that enables deamination of cytosine(C)or adenine(A),but no method for guanine(G)or thymine(T)editing is available at present.Here we developed a deaminase-f...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China Stem Cell and Translational Research(2019YFA0110700);the Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University(No.IRT_16R32);the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDA16030501,XDA16030503);Key Research&Development Program of Guangzhou Regenerative Medicine and Health Guangdong Laboratory(2018GZR110104004)。
CRISPR/Cas9 system is a robust genome editing platform in biotechnology and medicine.However,it generally produces small insertions/deletions(indels,typically 1-3 bp)but rarely induces larger deletions in specific tar...
supported by the grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.21977110,21977057,22174155 and 22177127);the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.XDB 20000000);the Center for Excellence in Molecular Synthesis,CAS(No.FZHCZY020600).
APOBEC3G(A3G)is a member of cytosine deaminase family with a variety of innate immune functions.It displays activities against retrovirus and retrotransposon by inhibition of virus infectivity factor(Vif)-deficient HI...
supported by the Basic Research Program through the National Research Foundation (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Republic of Korea (No. 2021R1A2C1006608)。
Dear Editor,Industrial emissions have played a major role in damaging the ozone layer,leading to increased atmospheric penetration of ultraviolet B (UV-B)(290–320 nm) radiation (Jordan,2002).The recovery rate of the ...
The authors are thankful to JAIN(Deemed-to-be University),India and Department of Science and Technology-Science and Engineering Research Board(DST-SERB),India(No.YSS/2015/001905)for the financial and infrastructural supports.
Pathogenesis-related(PR)proteins are one of the major and preliminary proteins accumulated as a defense against biotic stress.This defense response can be induced by using beneficial rhizobacteria,which has been studi...
financially supported by the national first-class discipline program of Light Industry Technology and Engineering(LITE201820);the Key Technologies Research and Development Program of Jiangsu Province(BE2018623)。
L-Amino acid deaminase(LAAD) is a key enzyme in the deamination of L-valine(L-val) to produce α-ketoisovalerate(KIV). However, the product inhibition of LAAD is a major hindrance to industrial KIV production.In the p...