AAG	Alkyl adenine DNA glycosylase
AAP	Assembly activating protein
AAV	Adeno-associated virus
ABE1.2	First-generation adenine deaminase
ABE7.10	Seventh-generation adenine base-editor
ABE8	Eighth-generation adenine base-editor
AID	Activation-induced cytidine deaminase
APOBEC1	Apolipoprotein B MRNA Editing Enzyme Catalytic Subunit 1
AsCpf1	Acidaminococcus sp. Cfp1
LbCpf1	Lachnospiraceae bacteriumare Cpf1
Bps	Base-pairs
SaCas9	Staphylococcus aureus Cas9
BE	Base-editor
BER	Base excision repair
Cas	CRISPR-associated genes
CBE1	First-generation cytosine base-editor
CBE2	Second-generation cytosine base-editor
CBE4	Fourth-generation cytosine base-editor
CjCas9	Campylobacter jejuni Cas9
Cpf1/Cas12a	Prevotella and Francisella1
CRISPR	Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats
dAsCpf1	Catalytically inactive AsCpf1
dCas9	Catalytically deficient Cas9
dLbCpf1	Catalytically inactive LbCpf1
DSB	Double-strand DNA break
CBE	Cytosine base-editor
ABE	Adenine base-editor
PE	Prime editor
Indel	Insertion or deletion
NHEJ	Non-homologous end joining
GDS	Gene delivery system
HDR	Homology directed repair
HEK293	Human embryonic kidney cells
HF	High-fidelity version of dCas9
HT1	Hereditary tyrosinemia type 1
iPSCs	Induced pluripotent stem cells
ITR	Inverted terminal repeats
M-MLV RT	Moloney murine leukemia virus reverse transcriptase
nCas9	Cas9 nickase
NLS	Nuclear Localization Signal
ORF	Open reading frame
PACE	Phase assisted continuous evolution
PAM	Protospacer adjacent motif
gRNA	Guide RNA
PANCE	Phage-assisted non-continuous evolution
PBS	Primer binding site
PE1	First-generation prime editor
pegRNA	Prime editing guide RNA
pmCDA1	Petromyzon marinus cytidine deaminase 1
rAAV	Recombinant AAV
RK	Rhodopsin kinase
RP	Retinitis pigmentosa
RT	Reverse Transcriptase
ScCas9	Streptococcus canis Cas9
sgRNA	Small guide RNA
SpCas9	S. pyogenes’ Cas9
Spy-mac	Cas9 fusion derived from Streptococcus pyogenes and Streptococcus macacae
TadA	tRNA adenosine deaminase
TALEN	Transcription activator-like effector nucleases
tracrRNA	Trans-activating RNA
UNG	Uracil N-glycosylate
ZFN	Zinc-finger nuclease