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ArticleNature biomedical engineering2026

High-efficiency TadA cytosine base editors for precise modelling of human disease variants.

Wei Qin, Sheng-Jia Lin, Yu Zhang, Kevin Huang, Cassidy Petree, Pratishtha Varshney, Gaurav K Varshney

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Article in Nature biomedical engineering, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. The landscape and trajectory of global CRISPR therapeutics.Molecular therapy. Nucleic acids · 2026
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7 authors.

Wei QinGenes and Human Disease Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2158-0553
Sheng-Jia LinGenes and Human Disease Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7559-6529
Yu ZhangGenes and Human Disease Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, USA.
Kevin HuangGenes and Human Disease Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, USA.
Cassidy PetreeGenes and Human Disease Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, USA.
Pratishtha VarshneyGenes and Human Disease Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, USA.
Gaurav K VarshneyGenes and Human Disease Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, USA. gaurav-varshney@omrf.org.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0429-1904

Funding

Development of scalable methods for rapid phenotyping and functional testing of variantsR24OD034438 · OD · OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION · PI Gaurav K Varshney · 2024 to 2026
$1.8M
NIH HHS R24 OD034438U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (NIH) R24OD034438P
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many missense mutations identified in genetic testing are variants of uncertain significance (VUS), not yet classified as either benign or pathogenic. Systematic determination of their functional relevance is a pressing clinical need. CRISPR-mediated base editing can precisely introduce precise variants into model organisms for functional testing, but current editors face efficiency and targeting constraints. We developed TCBE-Umax, a family of TadA-derived cytosine base editors optimized for zebrafish. Engineering the TadA deaminase domain improved editing efficiency and reduced sequence-context bias, expanded PAM compatibility, and minimized bystander edits and indel formation. Our editors achieved efficient biallelic editing, enabling rapid functional assessment of genetic variants in the F

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PMCPMC13316764

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