PADLOC: a web server for the identification of antiviral defence systems in microbial genomes LJ Payne, S Meaden, MR Mestre, C Palmer, N Toro, PC Fineran, ... Nucleic acids research 50 (W1), W541-W550, 2022 | 107 | 2022 |
Systematic prediction of genes functionally associated with bacterial retrons and classification of the encoded tripartite systems MR Mestre, A González-Delgado, LI Gutiérrez-Rus, F Martínez-Abarca, ... Nucleic acids research 48 (22), 12632-12647, 2020 | 68 | 2020 |
Recruitment of reverse transcriptase-Cas1 fusion proteins by type VI-A CRISPR-Cas systems N Toro, MR Mestre, F Martínez-Abarca, A González-Delgado Frontiers in microbiology 10, 2160, 2019 | 41 | 2019 |
Prokaryotic reverse transcriptases: from retroelements to specialized defense systems A González-Delgado, MR Mestre, F Martínez-Abarca, N Toro FEMS microbiology reviews 45 (6), fuab025, 2021 | 39 | 2021 |
Spacer acquisition from RNA mediated by a natural reverse transcriptase-Cas1 fusion protein associated with a type III-D CRISPR–Cas system in Vibrio vulnificus A González-Delgado, MR Mestre, F Martínez-Abarca, N Toro Nucleic acids research 47 (19), 10202-10211, 2019 | 32 | 2019 |
Multiple origins of reverse transcriptases linked to CRISPR-Cas systems N Toro, F Martínez-Abarca, MR Mestre, A González-Delgado RNA biology 16 (10), 1486-1493, 2019 | 27 | 2019 |
UG/Abi: a highly diverse family of prokaryotic reverse transcriptases associated with defense functions MR Mestre, LA Gao, SA Shah, A López-Beltrán, A González-Delgado, ... Nucleic acids research 50 (11), 6084-6101, 2022 | 25 | 2022 |
On the origin and evolutionary relationships of the reverse transcriptases associated with type III CRISPR-Cas systems N Toro, F Martínez-Abarca, A González-Delgado, MR Mestre Frontiers in microbiology 9, 1317, 2018 | 16 | 2018 |
Type IV-A3 CRISPR-Cas systems drive inter-plasmid conflicts by acquiring spacers in trans F Benz, S Camara-Wilpert, J Russel, KG Wandera, R Čepaitė, ... Cell Host & Microbe 32 (6), 875-886. e9, 2024 | 14 | 2024 |
Retron-Eco1 assembles NAD+-hydrolyzing filaments that provide immunity against bacteriophages A Carabias, S Camara-Wilpert, MR Mestre, B Lopéz-Méndez, IA Hendriks, ... Molecular Cell, 2024 | 13 | 2024 |
Phage defense and genome editing using novel retrons sourced from isolated environmental bacteria K Nakamura, K Zhang, MR Mestre, M Rojas-Montero, S Shipman bioRxiv, 2025.01. 29.635429, 2025 | | 2025 |
Adaptive immunity of type VI CRISPR-Cas systems associated with reverse transcriptase–Cas1 fusion proteins MD Molina-Sánchez, F Martínez-Abarca, V Millán, MR Mestre, ... Nucleic Acids Research 52 (22), 14229-14243, 2024 | | 2024 |
Phage CRISPR-like regulatory RNAs silence bacterial adaptive and innate immunity C Liu, R Wang, Z Li, W Wang, J Yao, F Cheng, X Du, L Guan, MR Mestre, ... bioRxiv, 2024.10. 29.618823, 2024 | | 2024 |
The role of noncoding RNAs in bacterial immunity D Mayo-Muñoz, H Li, MR Mestre, R Pinilla-Redondo Trends in Microbiology, 2024 | | 2024 |
Engineered retrons and methods of use A Ladha, V Presnyak, I Shcherbakova, B Goodman, MR Mestre, ... US Patent 12,054,739, 2024 | | 2024 |
Spacer acquisition in type VI CRISPR-Cas systems associated with reverse transcriptase-Cas1 fusion proteins MD Molina-Sánchez, F Martínez-Abarca, VM Casamayor, MR Mestre, ... bioRxiv, 2024.03. 12.584598, 2024 | | 2024 |
Engineered retrons and methods of use A Ladha, V Presnyak, I Shcherbakova, B Goodman, MR Mestre, ... US Patent 11,866,728, 2024 | | 2024 |
Base-modified nucleotides mediate immune signaling in bacteria Z Zeng, Z Hu, R Zhao, J Rao, M Mestre, Y Liu, S Liu, H Feng, Y Chen, ... bioRxiv, 2024.12. 20.629578, 2024 | | 2024 |
Longitudinal characterization of escherichia coli in the infant gut microbiome L Yang, S Shah, I Kovačić, J Russel, MR Mestre, T Zachariasen, ... The Danish Microbiological Society Annual Congress 2023, 15-15, 2023 | | 2023 |