Optimized TadA-derived base editors efficiently manipulate mRNA splicing by A-to-G and C-to-K editing in potato
Kaiyuan Chen1†*, Yan Zhang1†, Jiuzhou Deng1, Lumin Zhang2,3, Huiying Zhou4, Yaxin Duan4, Enle Xiao4, Guangtao Zhu4 and Chunzhi Zhang1*
1. State Key Laboratory of Genome and Multi-omics Technologies, Shenzhen Branch, Guangdong Laboratory of Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen 518120, China 2. School of Life Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China 3. Shenzhen Research Institute of Henan University, Shenzhen 518000, China 4. School of Life Sciences, Yunnan Key Laboratory of Potato Biology, Southwest United Graduate School, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming 650500, China †These authors contributed equally to this article. *Correspondences: Chunzhi Zhang (zhangchunzhi01@caas.cn, Dr. Zhang is fully responsible for the distribution of all materials associated with this article); Kaiyuan Chen (chenkaiyuan@caas.cn)
This study is supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2021YFD1201400), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (32488302 and U2002204), the Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program (CAAS-ZDRW240204), and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2023M733833).