5, 8, 9 Although the importance of large genomic aberrations in genetic diseases and cancers has been widely recognized, our knowledge about the detailed mechanisms and treatments of these disorders is hurdled in part by lacking an efficient and precise editing tool capable of manipulating the aberrations. 4, 5, 6, 7 These aberrations dramatically alter the content and structure of the involved chromosome, leading to uncontrolled gene function or large-scale dysregulated gene expression. 1, 2, 3 They are also common somatic alterations found in human cancer cells and often function as driving forces for the disease on-set or advance. Therefore, our WT-PE system has great potential to model or treat diseases related to large-fragment aberrations.Р”Р„berrations of large chromosomal regions, including duplication, deletion, translocation, and other structural changes, are the cause of a subtype of hereditary genetic disorders, such as thalassemia and hemophilia A. Coupled with paired prime editing guide RNAs (pegRNAs) that have complementary sequences in their 3РІР‚Р† terminus while target different genomic regions, WT-PE produced bi-directional prime editing, which enabled efficient and versatile large-scale genome editing, including large fragment deletion up to 16.8 megabase (Mb) pairs and chromosomal translocation. WT-PE system simultaneously introduced a double strand break (DSB) and a single 3РІР‚Р† extended flap in the target site. Here, we designed a novel prime editor by fusing reverse transcriptase (RT) to nuclease wild-type Cas9 (WT-PE) to edit large genomic fragment.

The current prime editor, PE2, consisting of Cas9-nickase and reverse transcriptase enables efficient editing of genomic deletion and insertion, however, at small scale. Large scale genomic aberrations including duplication, deletion, translocation, and other structural changes are the cause of a subtype of hereditary genetic disorders and contribute to onset or progress of cancer.

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