Engineering Adenine Deaminase TadA for Precise and PAM-Flexible Point Mutagenesis and Gradient-Tuning Endogenous Protein Design

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第一作者： Sun, Kangli

作者： Sun, Kangli;Qian, Qian;Chen, Ke;Peng, Xin;Shen, Mengyuan;Zhou, Degui;Liu, Qi;Tan, Jiantao;Chai, Nan;Zhang, Ruixiang;Zheng, Zhiye;Zhu, Qinlong;Cheng, Si;Mi, Jianing;Zeng, Dongchang

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关键词： Badh2; gradient-tuned protein design; point mutagenesis; precise base editing; TadA variants

期刊名称：ADVANCED SCIENCE （ 影响因子：14.1； 五年影响因子：15.6 ）

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年卷期： 2025 年

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摘要： Base editing enables precise nucleotide substitutions within a relatively broad editing window (5-6 nucleotides). However, considerable bystander editing significantly compromise its accuracy. Point mutagenesis, a powerful approach for gradient-tuning protein function, facilitates the generation of diverse plant phenotypes to meet the demands of complex environments and consumer preferences. Here, a series of plant base editors is engineered by fusing three optimized TadA8e variants, TadA9, TadA-LM, and TadA-dual, with a PAM-flexible SpRY nickase (SpRYn, with 5 '-NNN PAM recognition). These editors enable A-to-G, C-to-T, and dual-base (simultaneous A-to-G and C-to-T) conversions within a highly condensed active window (1-3 nucleotides). Performance evaluations reveal that the TadDBE (TadA Dual-Base Editor) achieves the most robust outcomes, delivering dual-base editing efficiencies ranging from 2.3% to 61.4%, while maintaining minimal off-target activity. Utilizing TadDBE, targeted point mutagenesis is performed on OsBadh2, a gene encoding betaine aldehyde dehydrogenase that plays a critical role in the biosynthesis of 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (2-AP), a key aromatic compound. This approach yields rice lines exhibiting gradient-tuned aromatic profiles and optimized levels of 2-AP and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA). These evolved TadA-derived editors provide a precise, PAM-flexible platform for base editing and represent a versatile strategy for generating genome-edited plants with gradient-tuned agronomic traits.

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