Raymond H.J. Staals

5.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
44 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Raymond H.J. Staals is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Insect Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Raymond H.J. Staals has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Molecular Biology, 14 papers in Insect Science and 8 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Raymond H.J. Staals's work include CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (38 papers), Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (14 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (12 papers). Raymond H.J. Staals is often cited by papers focused on CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (38 papers), Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (14 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (12 papers). Raymond H.J. Staals collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, New Zealand and United States. Raymond H.J. Staals's co-authors include Peter C. Fineran, John van der Oost, Stan J. J. Brouns, Bridget N. J. Watson, Edze R. Westra, Chris M. Brown, Corinda Taylor, Matthijs M. Jore, Ger J.M. Pruijn and Tim Künne and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Raymond H.J. Staals

41 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

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  1. CRISPR Immunity Relies on the Consecutive Binding and Degradation of Negatively Supercoiled Invader DNA by Cascade and Cas3
    2012 410 citations Edze R. Westra, Tim Künne et al. Molecular Cell profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Raymond H.J. Staals Netherlands 27 3.0k 873 663 592 453 44 3.4k
Josiane E. Garneau Canada 6 3.0k 1.0× 992 1.1× 690 1.0× 380 0.6× 246 0.5× 6 3.4k
Daan C. Swarts Netherlands 22 3.3k 1.1× 748 0.9× 642 1.0× 279 0.5× 184 0.4× 34 3.7k
Alfonso H. Magadán Canada 11 2.3k 0.7× 1.0k 1.2× 545 0.8× 259 0.4× 221 0.5× 13 2.7k
Melissa Richards United States 5 4.6k 1.5× 1.2k 1.4× 1.0k 1.5× 555 0.9× 369 0.8× 7 5.1k
Sergey Shmakov United States 23 4.9k 1.6× 708 0.8× 839 1.3× 662 1.1× 279 0.6× 30 5.3k
Manuela Villion Canada 13 2.1k 0.7× 659 0.8× 485 0.7× 245 0.4× 247 0.5× 19 2.4k
Yanjie Chao China 19 3.2k 1.0× 900 1.0× 1.3k 2.0× 248 0.4× 348 0.8× 39 4.0k
Ido Yosef Israel 19 1.6k 0.5× 762 0.9× 542 0.8× 266 0.4× 259 0.6× 32 2.0k
Cristóbal Almendros Spain 12 1.6k 0.5× 336 0.4× 406 0.6× 314 0.5× 230 0.5× 16 1.7k
Christopher A. Vakulskas United States 26 2.7k 0.9× 348 0.4× 1.4k 2.1× 127 0.2× 456 1.0× 38 3.2k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bravo, Jack P. K., Stephan Köstlbacher, Constantinos Patinios, et al.. (2024). Type III-B CRISPR-Cas cascade of proteolytic cleavages. Science. 383(6682). 512–519. 17 indexed citations
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Mohanraju, Prarthana, et al.. (2023). Characterization of the AcrIIC1 anti‒CRISPR protein for Cas9‒based genome engineering in E. coli. Communications Biology. 6(1). 1042–1042.
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Haan, Laura de, et al.. (2023). Efficient Genome and Base Editing in Human Cells Using ThermoCas9. The CRISPR Journal. 6(3). 278–288. 4 indexed citations
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Staals, Raymond H.J., et al.. (2022). The diverse arsenal of type III CRISPR–Cas-associated CARF and SAVED effectors. Biochemical Society Transactions. 50(5). 1353–1364. 21 indexed citations
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Mohanraju, Prarthana, et al.. (2022). Alternative functions of CRISPR–Cas systems in the evolutionary arms race. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 20(6). 351–364. 48 indexed citations
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Patinios, Constantinos, Adini Qisthi Arifah, Belén Adiego-Pérez, et al.. (2021). Streamlined CRISPR genome engineering in wild-type bacteria using SIBR-Cas. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(19). 11392–11404. 14 indexed citations
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Zhou, Yi, et al.. (2021). Structure of a type IV CRISPR-Cas ribonucleoprotein complex. iScience. 24(3). 102201–102201. 27 indexed citations
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Watson, Bridget N. J., et al.. (2021). Coevolution between bacterial CRISPR-Cas systems and their bacteriophages. Cell Host & Microbe. 29(5). 715–725. 60 indexed citations
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Zhu, Yifan, David W. Taylor, Jack P. K. Bravo, et al.. (2021). SCOPE enables type III CRISPR-Cas diagnostics using flexible targeting and stringent CARF ribonuclease activation. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5033–5033. 62 indexed citations
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Mohanraju, Prarthana, et al.. (2019). Keepingcrisprin check: diverse mechanisms of phage-encoded anti-crisprs. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 366(9). 56 indexed citations
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Watson, Bridget N. J., et al.. (2019). Type I-F CRISPR-Cas resistance against virulent phages results in abortive infection and provides population-level immunity. Nature Communications. 10(1). 5526–5526. 43 indexed citations
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Zhu, Yifan, Sanne E. Klompe, Marnix Vlot, John van der Oost, & Raymond H.J. Staals. (2018). Shooting the messenger: RNA-targetting CRISPR-Cas systems. Bioscience Reports. 38(3). 21 indexed citations
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Pawluk, April, Raymond H.J. Staals, Corinda Taylor, et al.. (2016). Inactivation of CRISPR-Cas systems by anti-CRISPR proteins in diverse bacterial species. Nature Microbiology. 1(8). 16085–16085. 240 indexed citations
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Wilkinson, Max E., Yoshio Nakatani, Raymond H.J. Staals, et al.. (2016). Structural plasticity and in vivo activity of Cas1 from the type I-F CRISPR–Cas system. Biochemical Journal. 473(8). 1063–1072. 9 indexed citations
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Staals, Raymond H.J., et al.. (2016). Interference-driven spacer acquisition is dominant over naive and primed adaptation in a native CRISPR–Cas system. Nature Communications. 7(1). 12853–12853. 107 indexed citations
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Staals, Raymond H.J., et al.. (2016). CRISPRDetect: A flexible algorithm to define CRISPR arrays. BMC Genomics. 17(1). 356–356. 234 indexed citations
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Niemelä, Elina H., Ali Oghabian, Raymond H.J. Staals, et al.. (2014). Global analysis of the nuclear processing of transcripts with unspliced U12-type introns by the exosome. Nucleic Acids Research. 42(11). 7358–7369. 24 indexed citations
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Westra, Edze R., Raymond H.J. Staals, Gerrit Gort, et al.. (2013). CRISPR-Cas systems preferentially target the leading regions of MOBFconjugative plasmids. RNA Biology. 10(5). 749–761. 30 indexed citations
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Westra, Edze R., Tim Künne, Raymond H.J. Staals, et al.. (2012). CRISPR Immunity Relies on the Consecutive Binding and Degradation of Negatively Supercoiled Invader DNA by Cascade and Cas3. Molecular Cell. 46(5). 595–605. 410 indexed citations breakdown →
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Staals, Raymond H.J. & Ger J.M. Pruijn. (2010). The Human Exosome and Disease. Advances in experimental medicine and biology. 702. 132–142. 53 indexed citations

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