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Kira S. Makarova

national institutes of health

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384Paper Count
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Published Papers 160
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Diverse bacterial pattern recognition receptors sense the core phage proteome
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IF48.5
err2026-07-29
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errHyunbin Lee; Sofia Luengo-Woods; Jianxiu Zhang; Kira S. Makarova; Yuri I. Wolf; Collin Chiu; Simone A. Evans; Junyi Chen; Haopeng Xiao; Liang Feng; Eugene V. Koonin; Alex Gao
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END nucleases are antiphage defence systems targeting multiple phages with modified genomes
err2026-06-26
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errWearn-Xin Yee; Yan-Jiun Lee; Kira S. Makarova; Timothy A. Klein; Alex Wirganowicz; Andres E. Gabagat; Miaoxi Liu; Bálint Csörgő; Eugene V. Koonin; Peter R. Weigele; Joseph Bondy-Denomy
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Identification of a distinct family of polyphosphate kinases relevant to energy homeostasis in Crenarchaeota
err2026-02-12
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errSvenja Höfmann; Roman Kogay; Christian Schmerling; Christina Stracke; Felix Niemeyer; Torsten Schaller; Kira S. Makarova; Eugene V. Koonin; Jacky L. Snoep; Christopher Bräsen; Bettina Siebers
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Ecological determinants of altruism in prokaryote antivirus defense
err2025-12-20
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errDmitry A. Biba; Kira S. Makarova; Yuri I. Wolf; Levi Waldron; Eugene V. Koonin; Nash D. Rochman
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Spatial-temporal genome analysis and its application for the prediction of functional systems in bacteria and archaea
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IF4.7
err2025-12-01
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errKaramycheva, Svetlana; Wolf, Yuri I.; Koonin, Eugene V.; Makarova, Kira S.
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An updated evolutionary classification of CRISPR–Cas systems including rare variants
err2025-11-06
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errKira S. Makarova; Sergey A. Shmakov; Yuri I. Wolf; Pascal Mutz; Han Altae-Tran; Chase L. Beisel; Stan J. J. Brouns; Emmanuelle Charpentier; David Cheng; Jennifer Doudna; Daniel H. Haft; Philippe Horvath; Sylvain Moineau; Francisco J. M. Mojica; Patrick Pausch; Rafael Pinilla-Redondo; Shiraz A. Shah; Virginijus Siksnys; Michael P. Terns; Jesse Tordoff; Česlovas Venclovas; Malcolm F. White; Alexander F. Yakunin; Feng Zhang; Roger A. Garrett; Rolf Backofen; John van der Oost; Rodolphe Barrangou; Eugene V. Koonin
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Anti-restriction functions of injected phage proteins revealed by peeling back layers of bacterial immunity
err2025-08-22
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errSukrit Silas; Héloïse Carion; Kira S. Makarova; David Sanchez Godinez; Surabhi Haniyur; Lucy Volino; Wearn-Xin Yee; Andrea Fossati; Danielle Swaney; Michael Bocek; Eugene V. Koonin; Joseph Bondy-Denomy
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Engineering archaeal membrane-spanning lipid GDGT biosynthesis in bacteria: Implications for early life membrane transformations
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IF4.5
err2025-03-13
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errChen, Huahui; Zheng, Fengfeng; Feng, Xi; Huang, Zijing; Yang, Wei; Zhang, Chuanlun; Du, Wenbin; Makarova, Kira S.; Koonin, Eugene V.; Zeng, Zhirui
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Initial Characterization of 12 New Subtypes and Variants of Type V CRISPR Systems
err2025-03-01
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errTordoff, Jesse; Alfonse, Lauren E.; Makarova, Kira S.; Ornstein, Alexa; Garrity, Anthony J.; Yan, Winston X.; Scott, David A.; Koonin, Eugene V.; Cheng, David R.
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Reprogrammable RNA-targeting CRISPR systems evolved from RNA toxin-antitoxins
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IF42.5
err2025-02-01
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errZilberzwige-Tal, Shai; Altae-Tran, Han; Kannan, Soumya; Wilkinson, Max E.; Vo, Samuel Chau-Duy-Tam; Strebinger, Daniel; Edmonds, KeHuan K.; Yao, Chun-Chen Jerry; Mears, Kepler S.; Shmakov, Sergey A.; Makarova, Kira S.; Macrae, Rhiannon K.; Koonin, Eugene, V; Zhang, Feng
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COG database update 2024
err2024-11-04
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errGalperin, Michael Y.; Alvarez, Roberto Vera; Karamycheva, Svetlana; Makarova, Kira S.; Wolf, Yuri, I; Landsman, David; Koonin, Eugene, V
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Biochemical plasticity of the Escherichia coli CRISPR Cascade revealed by in vitro reconstitution of Cascade activities from purified Cas proteins
err2024-10-07
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errLemak, Sofia; Brown, Greg; Makarova, Kira S.; Koonin, Eugene V.; Yakunin, Alexander F.
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Long range segmentation of prokaryotic genomes by gene age and functionality
err2024-08-28
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errWolf, Yuri, I; Schurov, Ilya, V; Makarova, Kira S.; Katsnelson, Mikhail, I; Koonin, Eugene, V
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CoCoNuTs are a diverse subclass of Type IV restriction systems predicted to target RNA
err2024-05-13
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errBell, Ryan T.; Sahakyan, Harutyun; Makarova, Kira S.; Wolf, Yuri, I; Koonin, Eugene, V
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Regulatory sequence-based discovery of anti-defense genes in archaeal viruses
err2024-05-02
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errBhoobalan-Chitty, Yuvaraj; Xu, Shuanshuan; Martinez-Alvarez, Laura; Karamycheva, Svetlana; Makarova, Kira S.; Koonin, Eugene V.; Peng, Xu
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tRNA anticodon cleavage by target-activated CRISPR-Cas13a effector
err2024-04-26
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errJain, Ishita; Kolesnik, Matvey; Kuznedelov, Konstantin; Minakhin, Leonid; Morozova, Natalia; Shiriaeva, Anna; Kirillov, Alexandr; Medvedeva, Sofia; Livenskyi, Alexei; Kazieva, Laura; Makarova, Kira S.; Koonin, Eugene V.; Borukhov, Sergei; Severinov, Konstantin; Semenova, Ekaterina
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Diversity, origin, and evolution of the ESCRT systems
errMBIO
IF4.7
err2024-03-13
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errMakarova, Kira S.; Tobiasson, Victor; Wolf, Yuri I.; Lu, Zhongyi; Liu, Yang; Zhang, Siyu; Krupovic, Mart; Li, Meng; Koonin, Eugene V.
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Computational analysis of genes with lethal knockout phenotype and prediction of essential genes in archaea
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IF4.7
err2024-02-14
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errMakarova, Kira S.; Zhang, Changyi; Wolf, Yuri I.; Karamycheva, Svetlana; Whitaker, Rachel J.; Koonin, Eugene V.
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Cellular differentiation into hyphae and spores in halophilic archaea (vol 14, 1827, 2023)
err2024-02-01
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errTang, Shu-Kun; Zhi, Xiao-Yang; Zhang, Yao; Makarova, Kira S.; Liu, Bing-Bing; Zheng, Guo-Song; Zhang, Zhen-Peng; Zheng, Hua-Jun; Wolf, Yuri I.; Zhao, Yu-Rong; Jiang, Song-Hao; Chen, Xi-Ming; Li, En-Yuan; Zhang, Tao; Chen, Pei-Ru; Feng, Yu-Zhou; Xiang, Ming-Xian; Lin, Zhi-Qian; Shi, Jia-Hui; Chang, Cheng; Zhang, Xue; Li, Rui; Lou, Kai; Wang, Yun; Chang, Lei; Yin, Min; Yang, Ling-Ling; Gao, Hui-Ying; Zhang, Zhong-Kai; Tao, Tian-Shen; Guan, Tong-Wei; He, Fu-Chu; Lu, Yin-Hua; Cui, Heng-Lin; Koonin, Eugene V.; Zhao, Guo-Ping; Xu, Ping
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Crystal structure of GTP-dependent dephospho-coenzyme A kinase from the hyperthermophilic archaeon, Thermococcus kodakarensis
err2024-01-18
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PREAI
errKita, Akiko; Ishida, Yuna; Shimosaka, Takahiro; Michimori, Yuta; Makarova, Kira; Koonin, Eugene; Atomi, Haruyuki; Miki, Kunio
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