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SUBMITTER: Lapinaite A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8598131 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20200701 6503
CRISPR-Cas-guided base editors convert A•T to G•C, or C•G to T•A, in cellular DNA for precision genome editing. To understand the molecular basis for DNA adenosine deamination by adenine base editors (ABEs), we determined a 3.2-angstrom resolution cryo-electron microscopy structure of ABE8e in a substrate-bound state in which the deaminase domain engages DNA exposed within the CRISPR-Cas9 R-loop complex. Kinetic and structural data suggest that ABE8e catalyzes DNA deamination up to ~1100-fold fa ...[more]