Alexis Komor

Title(s)	Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
School	Vc-academic Affairs
Address	9500 Gilman Drive # La Jolla CA 92093
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Research

Research Activities and Funding

Development and Application of New Genome Editing Tools for the Functional Investigation of Genetic Variants of Uncertain Significance
NIH R35GM138317Sep 1, 2020 - Aug 31, 2025
Role: Principal Investigator

Development of New Genome Editing Agents Using RNA Modifying Enzymes
NIH R21GM135736Sep 20, 2019 - Aug 31, 2021
Role: Principal Investigator

Development and validation of a precision genome editing platform
NIH F32GM112366Apr 1, 2015 - Mar 31, 2018
Role: Principal Investigator

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Publications

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Functional EPAS1/HIF2A missense variant is associated with hematocrit in Andean highlanders. Sci Adv. 2024 Feb 09; 10(6):eadj5661. Lawrence ES, Gu W, Bohlender RJ, Anza-Ramirez C, Cole AM, Yu JJ, Hu H, Heinrich EC, O'Brien KA, Vasquez CA, Cowan QT, Bruck PT, Mercader K, Alotaibi M, Long T, Hall JE, Moya EA, Bauk MA, Reeves JJ, Kong MC, Salem RM, Vizcardo-Galindo G, Macarlupu JL, Figueroa-Mujíca R, Bermudez D, Corante N, Gaio E, Fox KP, Salomaa V, Havulinna AS, Murray AJ, Malhotra A, Powel FL, Jain M, Komor AC, Cavalleri GL, Huff CD, Villafuerte FC, Simonson TS. PMID: 38335297; PMCID: PMC10857371.

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Sci Science
Translation:Humans
Expanded palette of RNA base editors for comprehensive RBP-RNA interactome studies. Nat Commun. 2024 Jan 29; 15(1):875. Medina-Munoz HC, Kofman E, Jagannatha P, Boyle EA, Yu T, Jones KL, Mueller JR, Lykins GD, Doudna AT, Park SS, Blue SM, Ranzau BL, Kohli RM, Komor AC, Yeo GW. PMID: 38287010; PMCID: PMC10825223.

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Bio Biology Sci Science
Translation:Cells
Expanded palette of RNA base editors for comprehensive RBP-RNA interactome studies. bioRxiv. 2023 Sep 25. Medina-Munoz HC, Kofman E, Jagannatha P, Boyle EA, Yu T, Jones KL, Mueller JR, Lykins GD, Doudna AT, Park SS, Blue SM, Ranzau BL, Kohli RM, Komor AC, Yeo GW. PMID: 37808757; PMCID: PMC10557582.

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The Wild-Type tRNA Adenosine Deaminase Enzyme TadA Is Capable of Sequence-Specific DNA Base Editing. Chembiochem. 2023 08 15; 24(16):e202200788. Ranzau BL, Rallapalli KL, Evanoff M, Paesani F, Komor AC. PMID: 36947856; PMCID: PMC10514239.

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Bio Biochemistry
Curing "GFP-itis" in Bacteria with Base Editors: Development of a Genome Editing Science Program Implemented with High School Biology Students. CRISPR J. 2023 06; 6(3):186-195. Vasquez CA, Evanoff M, Ranzau BL, Gu S, Deters E, Komor AC. PMID: 37083425; PMCID: PMC10277996.

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Mol Molecular Biology
Translation:Humans Cells
In the business of base editors: Evolution from bench to bedside. PLoS Biol. 2023 04; 21(4):e3002071. Porto EM, Komor AC. PMID: 37043430; PMCID: PMC10096463.

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Bio Biology
Translation:Humans
The Design and Application of DNA-Editing Enzymes as Base Editors. Annu Rev Biochem. 2023 06 20; 92:43-79. Rallapalli KL, Komor AC. PMID: 37018843; PMCID: PMC10330504.

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Bio Biochemistry
Curing "GFP-itis" in Bacteria with Base Editors: Development of a Genome Editing Science Program Implemented with High School Biology Students. bioRxiv. 2023 Feb 07. Vasquez CA, Evanoff M, Ranzau BL, Gu S, Deters E, Komor AC. PMID: 36798336; PMCID: PMC9934571.

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Examination of the Cell Cycle Dependence of Cytosine and Adenine Base Editors. Front Genome Ed. 2022; 4:923718. Burnett CA, Wong AT, Vasquez CA, McHugh CA, Yeo GW, Komor AC. PMID: 35910415; PMCID: PMC9333457.

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Targeting double-strand break indel byproducts with secondary guide RNAs improves Cas9 HDR-mediated genome editing efficiencies. Nat Commun. 2022 05 09; 13(1):2351. Bodai Z, Bishop AL, Gantz VM, Komor AC. PMID: 35534455; PMCID: PMC9085776.

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Bio Biology Sci Science
Translation:Animals Cells
Double-tap gene drive uses iterative genome targeting to help overcome resistance alleles. Nat Commun. 2022 May 09; 13(1):2595. Bishop AL, López Del Amo V, Okamoto EM, Bodai Z, Komor AC, Gantz VM. PMID: 35534475; PMCID: PMC9085836.

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Bio Biology Sci Science
Translation:Animals Cells
The use of base editing technology to characterize single nucleotide variants. Comput Struct Biotechnol J. 2022; 20:1670-1680. McDaniel S, Komor A, Goren A. PMID: 35465164; PMCID: PMC9010703.

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Combined Theoretical, Bioinformatic, and Biochemical Analyses of RNA Editing by Adenine Base Editors. CRISPR J. 2022 04; 5(2):294-310. Rallapalli KL, Ranzau BL, Ganapathy KR, Paesani F, Komor AC. PMID: 35353638; PMCID: PMC9347300.

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Mol Molecular Biology
Translation:Cells
CRISPR-derived genome editing therapies: Progress from bench to bedside. Mol Ther. 2021 Nov 03; 29(11):3125-3139. Rees HA, Minella AC, Burnett CA, Komor AC, Gaudelli NM. PMID: 34619370; PMCID: PMC8572140.

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Mol Molecular Biology The Therapeutics
Translation:Humans Animals Cells
Single-base editing of rs12603332 on chromosome 17q21 with a cytosine base editor regulates ORMDL3 and ATF6α expression. Allergy. 2022 04; 77(4):1139-1149. Weng N, Miller M, Pham AK, Komor AC, Broide DH. PMID: 34525218; PMCID: PMC8920947.

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All Allergy and Immunology
Translation:Humans Cells
Base Editors: Expanding the Types of DNA Damage Products Harnessed for Genome Editing. Gene Genome Ed. 2021 Jun; 1. Gu S, Bodai Z, Cowan QT, Komor AC. PMID: 34368792; PMCID: PMC8341163.

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Base Editing in Human Cells to Produce Single-Nucleotide-Variant Clonal Cell Lines. Curr Protoc Mol Biol. 2020 12; 133(1):e129. Vasquez CA, Cowan QT, Komor AC. PMID: 33151638; PMCID: PMC7654285.

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Mol Molecular Biology
Translation:Humans Cells
Celebrating Rosalind Franklin's Centennial with a Nobel Win for Doudna and Charpentier. Mol Ther. 2020 12 02; 28(12):2519-2520. Gaudelli NM, Komor AC. PMID: 33181064; PMCID: PMC7704750.

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Mol Molecular Biology The Therapeutics
Translation:Humans Cells PHPublic Health
Base editing: advances and therapeutic opportunities. Nat Rev Drug Discov. 2020 12; 19(12):839-859. Porto EM, Komor AC, Slaymaker IM, Yeo GW. PMID: 33077937; PMCID: PMC7721651.

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Dru Drug Therapy Pha Pharmacology
Translation:Humans
Computer simulations explain mutation-induced effects on the DNA editing by adenine base editors. Sci Adv. 2020 03; 6(10):eaaz2309. Rallapalli KL, Komor AC, Paesani F. PMID: 32181363; PMCID: PMC7056309.

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Sci Science
Translation:Humans Cells
Global chemical effects of the microbiome include new bile-acid conjugations. Nature. 2020 03; 579(7797):123-129. Quinn RA, Melnik AV, Vrbanac A, Fu T, Patras KA, Christy MP, Bodai Z, Belda-Ferre P, Tripathi A, Chung LK, Downes M, Welch RD, Quinn M, Humphrey G, Panitchpakdi M, Weldon KC, Aksenov A, da Silva R, Avila-Pacheco J, Clish C, Bae S, Mallick H, Franzosa EA, Lloyd-Price J, Bussell R, Thron T, Nelson AT, Wang M, Leszczynski E, Vargas F, Gauglitz JM, Meehan MJ, Gentry E, Arthur TD, Komor AC, Poulsen O, Boland BS, Chang JT, Sandborn WJ, Lim M, Garg N, Lumeng JC, Xavier RJ, Kazmierczak BI, Jain R, Egan M, Rhee KE, Ferguson D, Raffatellu M, Vlamakis H, Haddad GG, Siegel D, Huttenhower C, Mazmanian SK, Evans RM, Nizet V, Knight R, Dorrestein PC. PMID: 32103176; PMCID: PMC7252668.

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Sci Science
Translation:Humans Animals
Rewriting Human History and Empowering Indigenous Communities with Genome Editing Tools. Genes (Basel). 2020 01 12; 11(1). Fox K, Rallapalli KL, Komor AC. PMID: 31940934; PMCID: PMC7016644.

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Gen Genetics
Translation:Humans
Base Editors: Modular Tools for the Introduction of Point Mutations in Living Cells. Emerg Top Life Sci. 2019 Nov; 3(5):483-491. Evanoff M, Komor AC. PMID: 32270050; PMCID: PMC7141416.

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Bio Biology
Translation:Cells
The Beginning of Base Editing: An Interview with Alexis C. Komor and Nicole M. Gaudelli. CRISPR J. 2019 04; 2:81-90. Davies K, Komor AC, Gaudelli NM. PMID: 30998094.

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Mol Molecular Biology
Translation:Humans
Genome, Epigenome, and Transcriptome Editing via Chemical Modification of Nucleobases in Living Cells. Biochemistry. 2019 02 05; 58(5):330-335. Ranzau BL, Komor AC. PMID: 30500171; PMCID: PMC6720104.

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Bio Biochemistry
Translation:Humans Cells
Publisher Correction: Programmable base editing of A•T to G•C in genomic DNA without DNA cleavage. Nature. 2018 07; 559(7714):E8. Gaudelli NM, Komor AC, Rees HA, Packer MS, Badran AH, Bryson DI, Liu DR. PMID: 29720650.

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Sci Science
Programmable base editing of A•T to G•C in genomic DNA without DNA cleavage. Nature. 2017 11 23; 551(7681):464-471. Gaudelli NM, Komor AC, Rees HA, Packer MS, Badran AH, Bryson DI, Liu DR. PMID: 29160308; PMCID: PMC5726555.

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Sci Science
Translation:Humans Cells
Editing the Genome Without Double-Stranded DNA Breaks. ACS Chem Biol. 2018 02 16; 13(2):383-388. Komor AC, Badran AH, Liu DR. PMID: 28957631; PMCID: PMC5891729.

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Bio Biochemistry Bio Biology
Translation:Animals Cells
Improved base excision repair inhibition and bacteriophage Mu Gam protein yields C:G-to-T:A base editors with higher efficiency and product purity. Sci Adv. 2017 08; 3(8):eaao4774. Komor AC, Zhao KT, Packer MS, Gaudelli NM, Waterbury AL, Koblan LW, Kim YB, Badran AH, Liu DR. PMID: 28875174; PMCID: PMC5576876.

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Sci Science
Translation:Humans Cells
Improving the DNA specificity and applicability of base editing through protein engineering and protein delivery. Nat Commun. 2017 06 06; 8:15790. Rees HA, Komor AC, Yeh WH, Caetano-Lopes J, Warman M, Edge ASB, Liu DR. PMID: 28585549; PMCID: PMC5467206.

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Bio Biology Sci Science
Translation:Animals Cells
CRISPR-Based Technologies for the Manipulation of Eukaryotic Genomes. Cell. 2017 04 20; 169(3):559. Komor AC, Badran AH, Liu DR. PMID: 28431253.

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Cel Cell Biology
Increasing the genome-targeting scope and precision of base editing with engineered Cas9-cytidine deaminase fusions. Nat Biotechnol. 2017 04; 35(4):371-376. Kim YB, Komor AC, Levy JM, Packer MS, Zhao KT, Liu DR. PMID: 28191901; PMCID: PMC5388574.

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Bio Biotechnology
Translation:Cells
CRISPR-Based Technologies for the Manipulation of Eukaryotic Genomes. Cell. 2017 Jan 12; 168(1-2):20-36. Komor AC, Badran AH, Liu DR. PMID: 27866654; PMCID: PMC5235943.

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Cel Cell Biology
Translation:Humans Animals Cells
Programmable editing of a target base in genomic DNA without double-stranded DNA cleavage. Nature. 2016 May 19; 533(7603):420-4. Komor AC, Kim YB, Packer MS, Zuris JA, Liu DR. PMID: 27096365; PMCID: PMC4873371.

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Sci Science
Translation:Humans Animals Cells
An unusual ligand coordination gives rise to a new family of rhodium metalloinsertors with improved selectivity and potency. J Am Chem Soc. 2014 Oct 08; 136(40):14160-72. Komor AC, Barton JK. PMID: 25254630; PMCID: PMC4195389.

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Che Chemistry
Translation:Humans Cells
Targeted Chemotherapy with Metal Complexes. Comments Mod Chem A Comments Inorg Chem. 2014 May; 34(3-4):114-123. Weidmann AG, Komor AC, Barton JK. PMID: 25642012; PMCID: PMC4309285.

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An inducible, isogenic cancer cell line system for targeting the state of mismatch repair deficiency. PLoS One. 2013; 8(10):e78726. Bailis JM, Gordon ML, Gurgel JL, Komor AC, Barton JK, Kirsch IR. PMID: 24205301; PMCID: PMC3812133.

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Med Medicine (General)Sci Science
Translation:Humans Cells
Biological effects of simple changes in functionality on rhodium metalloinsertors. Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci. 2013 Jul 28; 371(1995):20120117. Weidmann AG, Komor AC, Barton JK. PMID: 23776288; PMCID: PMC3685451.

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Bio Biomedical Engineering Bio Biophysics Sta Statistics as Topic
Translation:Cells
The path for metal complexes to a DNA target. Chem Commun (Camb). 2013 May 07; 49(35):3617-30. Komor AC, Barton JK. PMID: 23423158; PMCID: PMC3660861.

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Che Chemistry
Translation:Humans
Cell-selective biological activity of rhodium metalloinsertors correlates with subcellular localization. J Am Chem Soc. 2012 Nov 21; 134(46):19223-33. Komor AC, Schneider CJ, Weidmann AG, Barton JK. PMID: 23137296; PMCID: PMC3740518.

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Che Chemistry
Translation:Humans Cells
Selective cytotoxicity of rhodium metalloinsertors in mismatch repair-deficient cells. Biochemistry. 2011 Dec 20; 50(50):10919-28. Ernst RJ, Komor AC, Barton JK. PMID: 22103240; PMCID: PMC3364161.

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Bio Biochemistry
Translation:Humans Cells
A hydrogen-bond facilitated cycle for oxygen reduction by an acid- and base-compatible iron platform. Inorg Chem. 2009 Nov 02; 48(21):10024-35. Soo HS, Komor AC, Iavarone AT, Chang CJ. PMID: 19780564.

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Che Chemistry
Translation:Cells