Karen L. Maxwell

9.2k citations

94 papers · 5.7k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 39

Business and International Management top 0.2%
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development 7
Ecology top 0.5%
- Bacteriophages and microbial interactions 55
Endocrinology top 1%
Microbiology top 1%
Molecular Biology top 1%
- CRISPR and Genetic Engineering 22
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms 20
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 13
- Protein Structure and Dynamics 10
Genetics
- Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology 23
Insect Science
- Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences 7

Co-authors: Alan R. Davidson April Pawluk Joseph Bondy‐Denomy Nichole Cumby Judith A. Berliner Pasquale A. Cancilla Yukie Aizawa Molly S. Shoichet
Cited by: Business and International Management Ecology Endocrinology
Partner nations: Canada United States United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Karen L. Maxwell

89 papers receiving 5.6k citations

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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.

2017 A Broad-Spectrum Inhibitor of CRISPR-Cas9
2016 Prophages mediate defense against phage infection through diverse mechanisms
2012 Bacteriophage genes that inactivate the CRISPR/Cas bacterial immune system

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1	Results of TOR001: An open-label single patient study using targeted bacteriophage therapy for the treatment of chronic urinary tract infection Jonathan D. Cook,Payton B. Hooey,Keiko C. Salazar,Justin R. Clark,Utkarsh Jain,Carlos Fernando,Hanjeong Harvey,Alejandro Acevedo Cervantes,Stephanie Omagari,Udi Blankstein,Andrew M. Kropinski,Alan R. Davidson,Karen L. Maxwell,Lori L. Burrows,Austen Terwilliger,Anthony W. Maresso,Greg J. German	2025	0
2	Prophages block cell surface receptors to preserve their viral progeny Véronique L. Taylor,Pramalkumar H. Patel,Megha Shah,Ahmed Yusuf,Cayla M. Burk,Kristina M. Sztanko,Zemer Gitai,Alan R. Davidson,Matthias D. Koch,Karen L. Maxwell	2025	2
3	Phage reprogramming of Pseudomonas aeruginosa amino acid metabolism drives efficient phage replication Alexa D. Fitzpatrick,Véronique L. Taylor,Pramalkumar H. Patel,Dominick R. Faith,Patrick R. Secor,Karen L. Maxwell	2025	0
4	An anti-CRISPR that pulls apart a CRISPR–Cas complex Chantel N. Trost,Jing Yang,Bianca Garcı́a,Yurima Hidalgo-Reyes,Beatrice C M Fung,Jiuyu Wang,Wang-Ting Lu,Karen L. Maxwell,Yanli Wang,Alan R. Davidson	2024	8
5	Prophages provide a rich source of antiphage defense systems Pramalkumar H. Patel,Karen L. Maxwell	2023	29
6	Inhibition of PQS signaling by the Pf bacteriophage protein PfsE enhances viral replication in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Caleb M. Schwartzkopf,Véronique L. Taylor,Marie‐Christine Groleau,Dominick R. Faith,Amelia K. Schmidt,Tyrza L. Lamma,Diane M. Brooks,Éric Déziel,Karen L. Maxwell,Patrick R. Secor	2023	7
7	Diverse Mechanisms of CRISPR-Cas9 Inhibition by Type II Anti-CRISPR Proteins Sungwon Hwang,Karen L. Maxwell	2023	20
8	Inhibition of CRISPR-Cas9 ribonucleoprotein complex assembly by anti-CRISPR AcrIIC2 Annoj Thavalingam,Zhi Cheng,Bianca Garcı́a,Xue Huang,Megha Shah,Wei Sun,Min Wang,Lucas B. Harrington,Sungwon Hwang,Yurima Hidalgo-Reyes,Erik J. Sontheimer,Jennifer A. Doudna,Alan R. Davidson,Trevor F. Moraes,Yanli Wang,Karen L. Maxwell	2019	54
9	Meet the Anti-CRISPRs: Widespread Protein Inhibitors of CRISPR-Cas Systems Sungwon Hwang,Karen L. Maxwell	2019	57
10	Anti-CRISPR AcrIIA5 Potently Inhibits All Cas9 Homologs Used for Genome Editing Bianca Garcı́a,Jooyoung Lee,Alireza Edraki,Yurima Hidalgo-Reyes,Steven Erwood,Aamir Mir,Chantel N. Trost,Uri Seroussi,Sabrina Y. Stanley,Ronald D. Cohn,Julie M. Claycomb,Erik J. Sontheimer,Karen L. Maxwell,Alan R. Davidson	2019	36
11	Potent Cas9 Inhibition in Bacterial and Human Cells by AcrIIC4 and AcrIIC5 Anti-CRISPR Proteins Jooyoung Lee,Aamir Mir,Alireza Edraki,Bianca Garcı́a,Nadia Amrani,Hannah E. Lou,Ildar Gainetdinov,April Pawluk,Raed Ibraheim,Xin D. Gao,Pengpeng Liu,Alan R. Davidson,Karen L. Maxwell,Erik J. Sontheimer	2018	79
12	Extrachromosomal circular elements targeted by CRISPR-Cas in Dehalococcoides mccartyi are linked to mobilization of reductive dehalogenase genes Olivia Molenda,Shuiquan Tang,Line Lomheim,Vasu K Gautam,Sofia Lemak,Alexander F. Yakunin,Karen L. Maxwell,Elizabeth A. Edwards	2018	15
13	The Anti-CRISPR Story: A Battle for Survival Karen L. Maxwell	2017	66
14	Prophages mediate defense against phage infection through diverse mechanismsbreakdown → Joseph Bondy‐Denomy,Z. Jason Qian,Edze R. Westra,Angus Buckling,David S. Guttman,Alan R. Davidson,Karen L. Maxwell	2016	327
15	The Bacteriophage HK97 gp15 Moron Element Encodes a Novel Superinfection Exclusion Protein Nichole Cumby,A.M. Edwards,Alan R. Davidson,Karen L. Maxwell	2012	91
16	The protein gp74 from the bacteriophage HK97 functions as a HNH endonuclease Serisha Moodley,Karen L. Maxwell,Voula Kanelis	2012	28
17	Spatially controlled simultaneous patterning of multiple growth factors in three-dimensional hydrogels Ryan G. Wylie,Shoeb Ahsan,Yukie Aizawa,Karen L. Maxwell,Cindi M. Morshead,Molly S. Shoichet	2011	406
18	Long Noncontractile Tail Machines of Bacteriophages Alan R. Davidson,Lia Cardarelli,Lisa G. Pell,Devon Radford,Karen L. Maxwell	2011	110
19	The Solution Structure of the C-Terminal Ig-like Domain of the Bacteriophage λ Tail Tube Protein Lisa G. Pell,Geneviève M. C. Gasmi-Seabrook,Marc C. Morais,Philipp Neudecker,Voula Kanelis,Diane Bona,Logan W. Donaldson,A.M. Edwards,P. Lynne Howell,Alan R. Davidson,Karen L. Maxwell	2010	43
20	Protein Folding Kinetics Beyond the Φ Value: Using Multiple Amino Acid Substitutions to Investigate the Structure of the SH3 Domain Folding Transition State Julian G. B. Northey,Karen L. Maxwell,Alan R. Davidson	2002	67

About Karen L. Maxwell

Karen L. Maxwell is a scholar working on Business and International Management, Ecology and Endocrinology, having authored 94 papers that have together received 5.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (55 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (23 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (22 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (20 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (13 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (10 papers), Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (7 papers) and Innovation and Socioeconomic Development (7 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Business and International Management (418 citations), Ecology (2.6k citations) and Endocrinology (517 citations). Karen L. Maxwell has collaborated with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Alan R. Davidson, April Pawluk, Joseph Bondy‐Denomy, Nichole Cumby, Judith A. Berliner, Pasquale A. Cancilla, Yukie Aizawa, Molly S. Shoichet, Cindi M. Morshead and Ryan G. Wylie.

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