Fuente: WIPO "tomato" A gene editing protein variant is capable of reducing a gene editing off-target rate. The variant is an unnatural protein with cis-cleavage activity, and the variant has reduced trans-cleavage activity as compared to a wild-type gene editing protein thereof. Furthermore, the variant is mutated at one or more of cleavage activity-related core amino acid sites of the wild-type gene editing protein selected from the following: a phenylalanine (F) site corresponding to the 1081st position of FnCas12a; and/or a lysine (K) site corresponding to the 1069th site of the FnCas12a. The variant can have cis-cleavage activity and reduced trans-cleavage activity. Moreover, the gene editing protein variant or a gene editing system having the gene editing protein variant can significantly reduce the gene editing off-target rate.