Smith, Cory J.Castanon, OscarSaid, KhaledVolf, VerenaKhoshakhlagh, ParastooHornick, AmandaFerreira, RaphaelWu, Chun-TingGüell Cargol, Marc, 1982-Garg, ShilpaNg, Alex H. M.Myllykallio, HannuChurch, George M.2020-06-042020-06-042020Smith CJ, Castanon O, Said K, Volf V, Khoshakhlagh P, Hornick A, Ferreira R, Wu CT, Güell M, Garg S, Ng AHM, Myllykallio H, Church GM. Enabling large-scale genome editing at repetitive elements by reducing DNA nicking. Nucleic Acids Res. 2020; 48(9):5183-95. DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkaa2390305-1048http://hdl.handle.net/10230/44895To extend the frontier of genome editing and enable editing of repetitive elements of mammalian genomes, we made use of a set of dead-Cas9 base editor (dBE) variants that allow editing at tens of thousands of loci per cell by overcoming the cell death associated with DNA double-strand breaks and single-strand breaks. We used a set of gRNAs targeting repetitive elements-ranging in target copy number from about 32 to 161 000 per cell. dBEs enabled survival after large-scale base editing, allowing targeted mutations at up to ∼13 200 and ∼12 200 loci in 293T and human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs), respectively, three orders of magnitude greater than previously recorded. These dBEs can overcome current on-target mutation and toxicity barriers that prevent cell survival after large-scale genome engineering.application/pdfeng© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Nucleic Acids Research. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaa239info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess