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ArticleNature biotechnology2023

Prediction of prime editing insertion efficiencies using sequence features and DNA repair determinants.

Jonas Koeppel, Juliane Weller, Elin Madli Peets, Ananth Pallaseni, Ivan Kuzmin, Uku Raudvere, Hedi Peterson, Fabio Giuseppe Liberante, Leopold Parts

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Article in Nature biotechnology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 53 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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53citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
12.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

53 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 81 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Jonas Koeppel *Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-1306-3994
Juliane Weller *Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-1310-6168
Elin Madli Peets *Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK.
Ananth PallaseniWellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-4840-195X
Ivan KuzminDepartment of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
Uku RaudvereDepartment of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
Hedi PetersonDepartment of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
Fabio Giuseppe LiberanteWellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-0192-5385
Leopold PartsWellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK. leopold.parts@sanger.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-2618-670X
Wellcome Sanger Institute · GBUniversity of Tartu · EE

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Most short sequences can be precisely written into a selected genomic target using prime editing; however, it remains unclear what factors govern insertion. We design a library of 3,604 sequences of various lengths and measure the frequency of their insertion into four genomic sites in three human cell lines, using different prime editor systems in varying DNA repair contexts. We find that length, nucleotide composition and secondary structure of the insertion sequence all affect insertion rates. We also discover that the 3' flap nucleases TREX1 and TREX2 suppress the insertion of longer sequences. Combining the sequence and repair features into a machine learning model, we can predict relative frequency of insertions into a site with R = 0.70. Finally, we demonstrate how our accurate prediction and user-friendly software help choose codon variants of common fusion tags that insert at high efficiency, and provide a catalog of empirically determined insertion rates for over a hundred useful sequences.

Indexed as

DNA RepairDNA Transposable ElementsCRISPR-Cas SystemsGene EditingHumansDNA Transposable Elements

Identifiers

PMID36797492
PMCPMC10567557
OpenAlexW4321076925

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