April Pawluk

2.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
14 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

April Pawluk is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, April Pawluk has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Ecology and 6 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in April Pawluk's work include CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (13 papers), Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (6 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (6 papers). April Pawluk is often cited by papers focused on CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (13 papers), Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (6 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (6 papers). April Pawluk collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Japan. April Pawluk's co-authors include Karen L. Maxwell, Alan R. Davidson, Joseph Bondy‐Denomy, Corinda Taylor, Raymond H.J. Staals, Peter C. Fineran, Senjuti Saha, Bridget N. J. Watson, Matthew G. Durrant and Patrick D. Hsu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Nature Biotechnology.

In The Last Decade

April Pawluk

14 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Bacteriophage genes that inactivate the CRISPR/Cas bacterial immune system

2012 607 citations April Pawluk, Karen L. Maxwell et al. Nature profile →
Bridge RNAs direct programmable recombination of target and donor DNA

2024 67 citations Matthew G. Durrant, Nicholas T. Perry et al. Nature profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of April Pawluk

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All Works

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14 of 14 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Site-specific DNA insertion into the human genome with engineered recombinases 2025 ·Nature Biotechnology ·Alison Fanton, (unknown), Jade Martins, (unknown), Laine Goudy, (unknown), Matthew G. Durrant, (unknown), (unknown), April Pawluk, Silvana Konermann, Alexander Marson, Luke A. Gilbert, Theodore L. Roth, Patrick D. Hsu	1
2	Structural mechanism of bridge RNA-guided recombination 2024 ·Nature ·Masahiro Hiraizumi, Nicholas T. Perry, Matthew G. Durrant, (unknown), (unknown), Sae Okazaki, Januka S. Athukoralage, (unknown), (unknown), April Pawluk, Silvana Konermann, Keitaro Yamashita, Patrick D. Hsu, Hiroshi Nishimasu	31
3	Bridge RNAs direct programmable recombination of target and donor DNA breakdown → 2024 ·Nature ·Matthew G. Durrant, Nicholas T. Perry, (unknown), Aditya R. Jangid, Januka S. Athukoralage, Masahiro Hiraizumi, (unknown), April Pawluk, Hiroshi Nishimasu, Silvana Konermann, Patrick D. Hsu	67
4	Deep learning and CRISPR-Cas13d ortholog discovery for optimized RNA targeting 2023 ·Cell Systems ·(unknown), Peter Lotfy, (unknown), (unknown), Emily A. Gibson, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Sita S. Chandrasekaran, (unknown), Matthew G. Durrant, Connor V. Duffy, April Pawluk, Patrick D. Hsu, Silvana Konermann	37
5	Anti-CRISPR AcrIE2 Binds the Type I-E CRISPR-Cas Complex But Does Not Block DNA Binding 2020 ·Journal of Molecular Biology ·(unknown), April Pawluk, Karen L. Maxwell, Alan R. Davidson	13
6	Potent Cas9 Inhibition in Bacterial and Human Cells by AcrIIC4 and AcrIIC5 Anti-CRISPR Proteins 2018 ·mBio ·Jooyoung Lee, Aamir Mir, Alireza Edraki, Bianca Garcı́a, Nadia Amrani, (unknown), Ildar Gainetdinov, April Pawluk, Raed Ibraheim, Xin D. Gao, Pengpeng Liu, Alan R. Davidson, Karen L. Maxwell, Erik J. Sontheimer	79
7	Breaking the Rules 2018 ·Cell ·April Pawluk	1
8	CRISPR: No Sign of Slowing Down 2018 ·Cell ·April Pawluk	4
9	Tiny Answers to Big Questions 2017 ·Cell ·April Pawluk	4
10	Anti-CRISPR: discovery, mechanism and function 2017 ·Nature Reviews Microbiology ·April Pawluk, Alan R. Davidson, Karen L. Maxwell	273
11	Disabling a Type I-E CRISPR-Cas Nuclease with a Bacteriophage-Encoded Anti-CRISPR Protein 2017 ·mBio ·April Pawluk, Megha Shah, (unknown), Charles Calmettes, Trevor F. Moraes, Alan R. Davidson, Karen L. Maxwell	64
12	Inactivation of CRISPR-Cas systems by anti-CRISPR proteins in diverse bacterial species 2016 ·Nature Microbiology ·April Pawluk, Raymond H.J. Staals, Corinda Taylor, Bridget N. J. Watson, Senjuti Saha, Peter C. Fineran, Karen L. Maxwell, Alan R. Davidson	240
13	A New Group of Phage Anti-CRISPR Genes Inhibits the Type I-E CRISPR-Cas System of Pseudomonas aeruginosa 2014 ·mBio ·April Pawluk, Joseph Bondy‐Denomy, (unknown), Karen L. Maxwell, Alan R. Davidson	204
14	Bacteriophage genes that inactivate the CRISPR/Cas bacterial immune system breakdown → 2012 ·Nature ·(unknown), April Pawluk, Karen L. Maxwell, Alan R. Davidson	607

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