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Recently a cytidine deaminase-based method for highly efficient C-to-T targeted base editing was developed and has been used with CRISPR-mediated systems. It is a powerful method for genome engineering, although it is prone to off-target effects and has a limited targeting scope. Transcription activator-like effector (TALE)-based tools which allow longer recognition sequences than do CRISPR/Cas9 systems, can also be used for targeted C-to-T base editing. Here, we describe a method that efficiently achieved targeted C-to-T substitutions in nuclear genes using cytidine deaminase fused to a TALE DNA-binding domain. We used a single pair of TALEs with a novel TALE-repeat unit that can recognize all four DNA bases, especially to allow for variations in the third base of codons in homologous genes. This targeting strategy makes it possible to simultaneously base edit almost identical sites in multiple isoforms of a gene while suppressing off-target substitutions.
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