ADAR2-仿,C-to-URNA in vivo

Chenhui Hao1,2, Niubing Zhang1, Ouyang Mo3

  • 1Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, State Key Laboratory of Plant Trait Design, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China.

概括

一个新的RNA基编辑器,AMBER,有效地在细胞和小鼠中高效地纠正致病突变. 这种细胞因子转尿素编辑器通过精确地重写RNA序列来治疗遗传疾病的前景很有希望.

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