Pengpeng Liu, Karthikeyan Ponnienselvan, Thomas Nyalile, Sarah Oikemus, Anya T. Joynt, Sukanya Iyer, Karen Kelly, Dongsheng Guo, Pyae P. Kyawe, Emma Vanderleeden, Sambra D. Redick, Lei Huang, Zexiang Chen, Jeong Min Lee, Celia A. Schiffer, David M. Harlan, Jennifer P. Wang, Charles P. Emerson, Nathan D. Lawson, Jonathan K. Watts, Erik J. Sontheimer, Jeremy Luban, Scot A. Wolfe
{"title":"Increasing intracellular dNTP levels improves prime editing efficiency","authors":"Pengpeng Liu, Karthikeyan Ponnienselvan, Thomas Nyalile, Sarah Oikemus, Anya T. Joynt, Sukanya Iyer, Karen Kelly, Dongsheng Guo, Pyae P. Kyawe, Emma Vanderleeden, Sambra D. Redick, Lei Huang, Zexiang Chen, Jeong Min Lee, Celia A. Schiffer, David M. Harlan, Jennifer P. Wang, Charles P. Emerson, Nathan D. Lawson, Jonathan K. Watts, Erik J. Sontheimer, Jeremy Luban, Scot A. Wolfe","doi":"10.1038/s41587-024-02405-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-024-02405-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In primary cell types, intracellular deoxynucleotide triphosphate (dNTP) levels are tightly regulated in a cell cycle-dependent manner. We report that prime editing efficiency is increased by mutations that improve the enzymatic properties of Moloney murine leukemia virus reverse transcriptase and treatments that increase intracellular dNTP levels. In combination, these modifications produce substantial increases in precise editing rates.</p>","PeriodicalId":19084,"journal":{"name":"Nature biotechnology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":46.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142317053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sidney Lyayuga Lisanza, Jacob Merle Gershon, Samuel W. K. Tipps, Jeremiah Nelson Sims, Lucas Arnoldt, Samuel J. Hendel, Miriam K. Simma, Ge Liu, Muna Yase, Hongwei Wu, Claire D. Tharp, Xinting Li, Alex Kang, Evans Brackenbrough, Asim K. Bera, Stacey Gerben, Bruce J. Wittmann, Andrew C. McShan, David Baker
{"title":"Multistate and functional protein design using RoseTTAFold sequence space diffusion","authors":"Sidney Lyayuga Lisanza, Jacob Merle Gershon, Samuel W. K. Tipps, Jeremiah Nelson Sims, Lucas Arnoldt, Samuel J. Hendel, Miriam K. Simma, Ge Liu, Muna Yase, Hongwei Wu, Claire D. Tharp, Xinting Li, Alex Kang, Evans Brackenbrough, Asim K. Bera, Stacey Gerben, Bruce J. Wittmann, Andrew C. McShan, David Baker","doi":"10.1038/s41587-024-02395-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-024-02395-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Protein denoising diffusion probabilistic models are used for the de novo generation of protein backbones but are limited in their ability to guide generation of proteins with sequence-specific attributes and functional properties. To overcome this limitation, we developed ProteinGenerator (PG), a sequence space diffusion model based on RoseTTAFold that simultaneously generates protein sequences and structures. Beginning from a noised sequence representation, PG generates sequence and structure pairs by iterative denoising, guided by desired sequence and structural protein attributes. We designed thermostable proteins with varying amino acid compositions and internal sequence repeats and cage bioactive peptides, such as melittin. By averaging sequence logits between diffusion trajectories with distinct structural constraints, we designed multistate parent–child protein triples in which the same sequence folds to different supersecondary structures when intact in the parent versus split into two child domains. PG design trajectories can be guided by experimental sequence–activity data, providing a general approach for integrated computational and experimental optimization of protein function.</p>","PeriodicalId":19084,"journal":{"name":"Nature biotechnology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":46.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142317065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Plastic-eating bacteria boost growing business of bioremediation","authors":"Ben Johnson","doi":"10.1038/s41587-024-02401-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41587-024-02401-1","url":null,"abstract":"Bacteria, fungi and plants can be grown and engineered to remove plastics, chemicals and pollutants from contaminated soil and water.","PeriodicalId":19084,"journal":{"name":"Nature biotechnology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":33.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-024-02401-1.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142276891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marek Kokot, Roozbeh Dehghannasiri, Tavor Baharav, Julia Salzman, Sebastian Deorowicz
{"title":"Scalable and unsupervised discovery from raw sequencing reads using SPLASH2","authors":"Marek Kokot, Roozbeh Dehghannasiri, Tavor Baharav, Julia Salzman, Sebastian Deorowicz","doi":"10.1038/s41587-024-02381-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-024-02381-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We introduce SPLASH2, a fast, scalable implementation of SPLASH based on an efficient <i>k</i>-mer counting approach for regulated sequence variation detection in massive datasets from a wide range of sequencing technologies and biological contexts. We demonstrate biological discovery by SPLASH2 in single-cell RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) data and in bulk RNA-seq data from the Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia, including unannotated alternative splicing in cancer transcriptomes and sensitive detection of circular RNA.</p>","PeriodicalId":19084,"journal":{"name":"Nature biotechnology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":46.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142276919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jonathan Mitchel, M. Grace Gordon, Richard K. Perez, Evan Biederstedt, Raymund Bueno, Chun Jimmie Ye, Peter V. Kharchenko
{"title":"Coordinated, multicellular patterns of transcriptional variation that stratify patient cohorts are revealed by tensor decomposition","authors":"Jonathan Mitchel, M. Grace Gordon, Richard K. Perez, Evan Biederstedt, Raymund Bueno, Chun Jimmie Ye, Peter V. Kharchenko","doi":"10.1038/s41587-024-02411-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-024-02411-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Tissue-level and organism-level biological processes often involve the coordinated action of multiple distinct cell types. The recent application of single-cell assays to many individuals should enable the study of how donor-level variation in one cell type is linked to that in other cell types. Here we introduce a computational approach called single-cell interpretable tensor decomposition (scITD) to identify common axes of interindividual variation by considering joint expression variation across multiple cell types. scITD combines expression matrices from each cell type into a higher-order matrix and factorizes the result using the Tucker tensor decomposition. Applying scITD to single-cell RNA-sequencing data on 115 persons with lupus and 83 persons with coronavirus disease 2019, we identify patterns of coordinated cellular activity linked to disease severity and specific phenotypes, such as lupus nephritis. scITD results also implicate specific signaling pathways likely mediating coordination between cell types. Overall, scITD offers a tool for understanding the covariation of cell states across individuals, which can yield insights into the complex processes that define and stratify disease.</p>","PeriodicalId":19084,"journal":{"name":"Nature biotechnology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":46.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142276917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hongyu Chen, Dangliang Liu, Abhishek Aditham, Jianting Guo, Jiahao Huang, Franklin Kostas, Kamal Maher, Mirco J. Friedrich, Ramnik J. Xavier, Feng Zhang, Xiao Wang
{"title":"Chemical and topological design of multicapped mRNA and capped circular RNA to augment translation","authors":"Hongyu Chen, Dangliang Liu, Abhishek Aditham, Jianting Guo, Jiahao Huang, Franklin Kostas, Kamal Maher, Mirco J. Friedrich, Ramnik J. Xavier, Feng Zhang, Xiao Wang","doi":"10.1038/s41587-024-02393-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-024-02393-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Protein and vaccine therapies based on mRNA would benefit from an increase in translation capacity. Here, we report a method to augment translation named ligation-enabled mRNA–oligonucleotide assembly (LEGO). We systematically screen different chemotopological motifs and find that a branched mRNA cap effectively initiates translation on linear or circular mRNAs without internal ribosome entry sites. Two types of chemical modification, locked nucleic acid (LNA) <i>N</i><sup>7</sup>-methylguanosine modifications on the cap and LNA + 5 × 2′ <i>O</i>-methyl on the 5′ untranslated region, enhance RNA–eukaryotic translation initiation factor (eIF4E–eIF4G) binding and RNA stability against decapping in vitro. Through multidimensional chemotopological engineering of dual-capped mRNA and capped circular RNA, we enhanced mRNA protein production by up to tenfold in vivo, resulting in 17-fold and 3.7-fold higher antibody production after prime and boost doses in a severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 vaccine setting, respectively. The LEGO platform opens possibilities to design unnatural RNA structures and topologies beyond canonical linear and circular RNAs for both basic research and therapeutic applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":19084,"journal":{"name":"Nature biotechnology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":46.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142276920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Building better mRNA for therapeutics","authors":"Bei Liu, Tao Pan","doi":"10.1038/s41587-024-02424-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-024-02424-8","url":null,"abstract":"Redesigning mRNA with chemo-topological strategies improves its stability and translation efficiency, paving the way for more effective mRNA therapeutics.","PeriodicalId":19084,"journal":{"name":"Nature biotechnology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":46.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142276890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Targeting double-stranded nucleic acids using the λExo–pDNA system","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41587-024-02409-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-024-02409-7","url":null,"abstract":"λ exonuclease (λExo) binds 5′-phosphorylated single-stranded DNA (pDNA) at complementary regions on double-stranded DNA and DNA–RNA duplexes under ambient conditions without a PAM-like motif. In the presence of Mg2+, λExo then digests the pDNA into nucleotides.","PeriodicalId":19084,"journal":{"name":"Nature biotechnology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":46.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142236741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bacteriophage λ exonuclease and a 5′-phosphorylated DNA guide allow PAM-independent targeting of double-stranded nucleic acids","authors":"Shengnan Fu, Junjie Li, Jing Chen, Linghao Zhang, Jiajia Liu, Huiyu Liu, Xin Su","doi":"10.1038/s41587-024-02388-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-024-02388-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Sequence-specific recognition of double-stranded nucleic acids is essential for molecular diagnostics and in situ imaging. Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats and Cas systems rely on protospacer-adjacent motif (PAM)-dependent double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) recognition, limiting the range of targetable sequences and leading to undesired off-target effects. Using single-molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer analysis, we discover the enzymatic activity of bacteriophage λ exonuclease (λExo). We show binding of 5′-phosphorylated single-stranded DNA (pDNA) to complementary regions on dsDNA and DNA–RNA duplexes, without the need for a PAM-like motif. Upon binding, the λExo–pDNA system catalytically digests the pDNA into nucleotides in the presence of Mg<sup>2+</sup>. This process is sensitive to mismatches within a wide range of the pDNA-binding region, resulting in exceptional sequence specificity and reduced off-target effects in various applications. The absence of a requirement for a specific motif such as a PAM sequence greatly broadens the range of targets. We demonstrate that the λExo–pDNA system is a versatile tool for molecular diagnostics, DNA computing and gene imaging applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":19084,"journal":{"name":"Nature biotechnology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":46.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142236742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A developmental route to hematopoietic stem cells","authors":"Adam C. Wilkinson, Marella F. T. R. de Bruijn","doi":"10.1038/s41587-024-02398-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-024-02398-7","url":null,"abstract":"A differentiation method informed by developmental biology converts human pluripotent stem cells to engraftable hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells without the use of transgenes.","PeriodicalId":19084,"journal":{"name":"Nature biotechnology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":46.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142236279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}