Gavin J. Knott

7.0k citations

36 papers · 3.9k indexed · 7 hit papers · h-index 21

Impact in

Business and International Management top 0.5%
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
Aging top 2%

Papers in

Co-authors: Jennifer A. Doudna Charles S. Bond Archa H. Fox Alexandra East-Seletsky Mitchell R. O’Connell Brady F. Cress Basem Al-Shayeb Junjie Liu
Journals: Science (4 papers)Nucleic Acids Research (4 papers)Nature Structural & Molecular Biology (3 papers)Nature Communications (2 papers)Cell (2 papers)
Partner nations: United States Australia United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Gavin J. Knott

32 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

7 papers align trajectories log scale

CRISPR-CasΦ from huge phages is a hypercompact genome editor 2020 · 394 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2020 Science
2020 Nature Chemical Biology
2020 Science
2019 Nature
2018 Science
2017 Molecular Cell
2017 Cell

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1	De novo design of potent CRISPR–Cas13 inhibitors Nature Chemical Biology ·Cyntia Taveneau, Natsuki Izumoto, Sheachlainn Óg, Rebecca S. Bamert, Shatadal Ghosh, Wasan T Al-Rubayee, Kerstin Bly Joyce, Zhi Hua Song, Ivan Belousov, Bonti Rani Gogoi, Lisandra L. Martin, Jeremy J. Barr, Joseph Rosenbluh, Mohamed Fareh, Biswajit Giri, Gavin J. Knott	2026	1
2	Structures of tRNA-bound CRISPR-Cas13 reveal universal HEPN RNase mechanisms bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) ·Kerstin Bly Joyce, Wasan T Al-Rubayee, Natsuki Izumoto, Yongyi Peng, Cheng Huang, Hariprasad Venugopal, Cyntia Taveneau, Sheachlainn Óg, Joseph Rosenbluh, Chen Davidovich, Chris Greening, Rebecca S. Bamert, Gavin J. Knott	2025	0
3	Inhibiting heme piracy by pathogenic Escherichia coli using de novo-designed proteins Nature Communications ·Daniel Fox, M. Castro García, 恵樹南, Bradley A. Spicer, H. Mahdavi-Roshan, Wilhelm Andreas Henatsch, 米澤弘恵, Chunxiao Wang, Hariprasad Venugopal, Marija Dramićanin, Gavin J. Knott, Rhys Grinter	2025	2
4	High-resolution cryo-EM using a common LaB ₆ 120-keV electron microscope equipped with a sub–200-keV direct electron detector Science Advances ·Hariprasad Venugopal, Jesse I. Mobbs, Cyntia Taveneau, Daniel Fox, Ziva Vuckovic, Sahil Gulati, Gavin J. Knott, Rhys Grinter, David M. Thal, Sunjida Amin Promi, Cory Czarnik, Georg Ramm	2025	0
5	And… cut! – how conformational regulation of CRISPR-Cas effectors directs nuclease activity Biochemical Journal ·Kerstin Bly Joyce, Gavin J. Knott	2025	0
6	Structural plasticity of the coiled–coil interactions in human SFPQ Nucleic Acids Research ·W.M. de Cock, Naeun Kim, A.C. Marshall, Jr. Jack Tackett, G B David, Yang Ou, Gavin J. Knott, Timothy J. Ryan, Archa H. Fox, Andrew E. Whitten, Mihwa Lee, Charles S. Bond	2024	1
7	CRISPR–Cas9 bends and twists DNA to read its sequence Nature Structural & Molecular Biology ·Joshua C. Cofsky, Katarzyna M. Soczek, Gavin J. Knott, Eva Nogales, Jennifer A. Doudna	2022	53
8	Crystal structure of an RNA/DNA strand exchange junction PLoS ONE ·Joshua C. Cofsky, Gavin J. Knott, Christine L. Gee, Jennifer A. Doudna	2022	4
9	Cancer-specific loss of TERT activation sensitizes glioblastoma to DNA damage Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Alexandra M. Amen, Christof Fellmann, Katarzyna M. Soczek, J. F. Owens, Rachel J. Lew, Gavin J. Knott, Rifka Raihana, Andrew McKinney, Andrew Mancini, Jennifer A. Doudna, J Costello	2021	41
10	Structural basis of dimerization and nucleic acid binding of human DBHS proteins NONO and PSPC1 Nucleic Acids Research ·Gavin J. Knott, Jin Yansheng, Daniel M. Passon, Xue‐hai Liang, Evelyne Deplazes, Maria R. Conte, A.C. Marshall, Mihwa Lee, Archa H. Fox, Charles S. Bond	2021	23
11	Kinetic analysis of Cas12a and Cas13a RNA-Guided nucleases for development of improved CRISPR-Based diagnostics iScience ·Eric A. Nalefski, Роман Наумович Кветный, Philip J. Y. Leung, Ascensión Solís Fernández, 三喜男草刈, Muhammad Zeeshan Bhatti, Estelle Marion, Gavin J. Knott, Jennifer A. Doudna, Anne-Laure M. Le Ny, Damian Madan	2021	83
12	CRISPR-CasΦ from huge phages is a hypercompact genome editor Science ·Patrick Pausch, Basem Al-Shayeb, Insa Roemgens, Connor A. Tsuchida, Zheng Li, Brady F. Cress, Gavin J. Knott, Steven E. Jacobsen, Jillian F. Banfield, Jennifer A. Doudna Hit paper breakdown →	2020	394
13	Controlling and enhancing CRISPR systems Nature Chemical Biology ·Haridha Shivram, Brady F. Cress, Gavin J. Knott, Jennifer A. Doudna Hit paper breakdown →	2020	136
14	DNA capture by a CRISPR-Cas9–guided adenine base editor Science ·Audronė Lapinaitė, Gavin J. Knott, Aditya Saifuddin, Enrique Lin-Shiao, Michelle F. Richter, Kevin T. Zhao, Peter A. Beal, David R. Liu, Jennifer A. Doudna Hit paper breakdown →	2020	130
15	Machine learning predicts new anti-CRISPR proteins Nucleic Acids Research ·Francisco Bevia Pérez, Amina Asif, Kyle E. Watters, Anthony T. Iavarone, Gavin J. Knott, Jennifer A. Doudna, Fayyaz Minhas	2020	75
16	Broad-spectrum enzymatic inhibition of CRISPR-Cas12a Nature Structural & Molecular Biology ·Gavin J. Knott, Brittney W. Thornton, Marco Lobba, Junjie Liu, Basem Al-Shayeb, Kyle E. Watters, Jennifer A. Doudna	2019	97
17	Structural basis for AcrVA4 inhibition of specific CRISPR-Cas12a eLife ·Gavin J. Knott, Brady F. Cress, Junjie Liu, Brittney W. Thornton, Rachel J. Lew, Basem Al-Shayeb, Daniel J. Rosenberg, Michal Hammel, Benjamin A. Adler, Marco Lobba, Michael Xu, Adam P. Arkin, Christof Fellmann, Jennifer A. Doudna	2019	47
18	CRISPR-Cas guides the future of genetic engineering Science ·Gavin J. Knott, Jennifer A. Doudna Hit paper breakdown →	2018	1022
19	Guide-bound structures of an RNA-targeting A-cleaving CRISPR–Cas13a enzyme Nature Structural & Molecular Biology ·Gavin J. Knott, Alexandra East-Seletsky, Joshua C. Cofsky, James M. Holton, Emeric Charles, Mitchell R. O’Connell, Jennifer A. Doudna	2017	129
20	Crystal ‘Unengineering’: Reducing the Crystallisability of Sulfolobus solfataricus Hjc Australian Journal of Chemistry ·Lucas Mertens, Joanne L. Parker, Gavin J. Knott, Malcolm F. White, Charles S. Bond	2014	2

About Gavin J. Knott

Gavin J. Knott is a scholar working on Business and International Management, Structural Biology, Insect Science, Molecular Biology and Virology, having authored 36 papers that have together received 3.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (17 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (15 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (8 papers), Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (6 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (5 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (4 papers), RNA regulation and disease (3 papers) and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Business and International Management (327 citations), Aging (130 citations), Molecular Biology (3.5k citations), Insect Science (302 citations) and Genetics (504 citations). Gavin J. Knott has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Jennifer A. Doudna, Charles S. Bond, Archa H. Fox, Alexandra East-Seletsky, Mitchell R. O’Connell, Brady F. Cress, Basem Al-Shayeb, Junjie Liu, David Burstein and Eva Nogales. Their work appears in journals such as Science, Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, Nature Communications and Cell.

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