Tautvydas Karvelis

2.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
15 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Tautvydas Karvelis is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Tautvydas Karvelis has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Genetics and 2 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Tautvydas Karvelis's work include CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (14 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (11 papers) and RNA regulation and disease (5 papers). Tautvydas Karvelis is often cited by papers focused on CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (14 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (11 papers) and RNA regulation and disease (5 papers). Tautvydas Karvelis collaborates with scholars based in Lithuania, United States and Germany. Tautvydas Karvelis's co-authors include Virginijus Šikšnys, Giedrius Gasiūnas, Arūnas Šilanskas, Greta Bigelyte, Joshua K. Young, Ralf Seidel, Mark D. Szczelkun, Česlovas Venclovas, Rimantė Žedaveinytė and Tomas Šinkūnas and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Tautvydas Karvelis

14 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

PAM recognition by miniature CRISPR–Cas12f nucleases trig... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 2021 50 100 150 200
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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.

  1. PAM recognition by miniature CRISPR–Cas12f nucleases triggers programmable double-stranded DNA target cleavage
    2020 241 citations Tautvydas Karvelis, Greta Bigelyte et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  2. Transposon-associated TnpB is a programmable RNA-guided DNA endonuclease
    2021 199 citations Tautvydas Karvelis, Gytis Druteika et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Tautvydas Karvelis Lithuania 12 1.3k 248 177 169 147 15 1.4k
Iana Fedorova Russia 10 1.4k 1.0× 206 0.8× 170 1.0× 194 1.1× 150 1.0× 11 1.4k
Jiuyu Wang China 13 1.6k 1.2× 242 1.0× 160 0.9× 170 1.0× 196 1.3× 20 1.7k
David R. Cheng United States 4 882 0.7× 177 0.7× 118 0.7× 104 0.6× 94 0.6× 6 1.0k
Arūnas Šilanskas Lithuania 11 887 0.7× 175 0.7× 96 0.5× 131 0.8× 100 0.7× 24 982
Yibei Xiao United States 10 915 0.7× 207 0.8× 116 0.7× 91 0.5× 181 1.2× 12 935
Frank Hille Germany 3 897 0.7× 167 0.7× 94 0.5× 110 0.7× 94 0.6× 9 1.0k
Ryan N. Jackson United States 19 1.7k 1.3× 359 1.4× 186 1.1× 149 0.9× 273 1.9× 24 1.8k
Tomas Šinkūnas Lithuania 10 1.2k 0.9× 291 1.2× 161 0.9× 96 0.6× 180 1.2× 15 1.3k
R.E. Haurwitz United States 6 1.1k 0.8× 230 0.9× 79 0.4× 101 0.6× 109 0.7× 7 1.1k
Ksenia Pougach Russia 8 905 0.7× 282 1.1× 68 0.4× 81 0.5× 159 1.1× 11 978

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tautvydas Karvelis

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All Works

15 of 15 papers shown
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Kauert, Dominik J., Arūnas Šilanskas, Tautvydas Karvelis, et al.. (2025). Structural and mechanistic insights into the sequential dsDNA cleavage by SpCas12f1. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(13).
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Bigelyte, Greta, Rimantė Žedaveinytė, Giedrius Sasnauskas, et al.. (2024). Innate programmable DNA binding by CRISPR-Cas12m effectors enable efficient base editing. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(6). 3234–3248. 8 indexed citations
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Sasnauskas, Giedrius, Giedrė Tamulaitienė, Gytis Druteika, et al.. (2023). TnpB structure reveals minimal functional core of Cas12 nuclease family. Nature. 616(7956). 384–389. 52 indexed citations
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Bigelyte, Greta, Joshua K. Young, Tautvydas Karvelis, et al.. (2021). Miniature type V-F CRISPR-Cas nucleases enable targeted DNA modification in cells. Nature Communications. 12(1). 6191–6191. 76 indexed citations
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Karvelis, Tautvydas, Gytis Druteika, Greta Bigelyte, et al.. (2021). Transposon-associated TnpB is a programmable RNA-guided DNA endonuclease. Nature. 599(7886). 692–696. 199 indexed citations breakdown →
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Rakickas, Tomas, et al.. (2021). Oriented Soft DNA Curtains for Single-Molecule Imaging. Langmuir. 37(11). 3428–3437. 8 indexed citations
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Karvelis, Tautvydas, Greta Bigelyte, Joshua K. Young, et al.. (2020). PAM recognition by miniature CRISPR–Cas12f nucleases triggers programmable double-stranded DNA target cleavage. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(9). 5016–5023. 241 indexed citations breakdown →
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Aelst, Kara van, Mohsin M. Naqvi, Tautvydas Karvelis, et al.. (2020). 5′ modifications to CRISPR–Cas9 gRNA can change the dynamics and size of R-loops and inhibit DNA cleavage. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(12). 6811–6823. 33 indexed citations
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Karvelis, Tautvydas, Joshua K. Young, & Virginijus Šikšnys. (2018). A pipeline for characterization of novel Cas9 orthologs. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 616. 219–240. 13 indexed citations
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Karvelis, Tautvydas, Giedrius Gasiūnas, & Virginijus Šikšnys. (2017). Methods for decoding Cas9 protospacer adjacent motif (PAM) sequences: A brief overview. Methods. 121-122. 3–8. 21 indexed citations
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Karvelis, Tautvydas, Giedrius Gasiūnas, & Virginijus Šikšnys. (2017). Harnessing the natural diversity and in vitro evolution of Cas9 to expand the genome editing toolbox. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 37. 88–94. 28 indexed citations
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Karvelis, Tautvydas, Giedrius Gasiūnas, Joshua K. Young, et al.. (2015). Rapid characterization of CRISPR-Cas9 protospacer adjacent motif sequence elements. Genome biology. 16(1). 253–253. 162 indexed citations
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Szczelkun, Mark D., Maria S. Tikhomirova, Tomas Šinkūnas, et al.. (2014). Direct observation of R-loop formation by single RNA-guided Cas9 and Cascade effector complexes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(27). 9798–9803. 346 indexed citations
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Karvelis, Tautvydas, Giedrius Gasiūnas, & Virginijus Šikšnys. (2013). Programmable DNA cleavage in vitro by Cas9. Biochemical Society Transactions. 41(6). 1401–1406. 22 indexed citations
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Karvelis, Tautvydas, et al.. (2013). crRNA and tracrRNA guide Cas9-mediated DNA interference inStreptococcus thermophilus. RNA Biology. 10(5). 841–851. 184 indexed citations

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