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William Shu Ching Ngai1,2, Shaojun Yang1, Xiangmei Zeng1,3
1Synthetic and Functional Biomolecules Center, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
Abstract:
Pyroptosis is an inflammatory cell death form triggered by protease-mediated truncation and release of the N-terminal pore-forming domain of the gasdermin (GSDM) family proteins in various cell types. We report a Bioorthogonally ACtivatable Base editor (BaseBAC) for in situ and on-demand initiation of cell-type-specific pyroptosis. We first made the enzymatic activity of a cytosine base editor (CBE) switchable by establishing a bioorthogonal blockage on the PAM-interacting residue to control its DNA-binding ability. The resulting BaseBAC allowed in situ control of base editing on the GSDME gene that switched to the truncated expression of its N-terminal domain to activate pyroptosis. BaseBAC offers a general method for on-demand awakening of functional domains of self-inhibiting proteins and the corresponding cellular processes with high specificity in living systems.
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