Publications 2017 – 2018
- Czapinska, H., Kowalska, M., Zagorskaitė, E., Manakova, E., Slyvka, A., Xu, S.-y., Siksnys, V., Sasnauskas, G. & Bochtler, M., Activity and structure of EcoKMcrA Nucleic Acids Research, 2018. (PDF)
- Drabavicius, G., Sinkunas, T., Silanskas, A., Gasiunas, G., Venclovas, Č. & Siksnys, V., DnaQ exonuclease‐like domain of Cas2 promotes spacer integration in a type I‐E CRISPR‐Cas system EMBO reports, 2018, vol. 19, e45543. (PDF)
- Gordeeva, J., Morozova, N., Sierro, N., Isaev, A., Sinkunas, T., Tsvetkova, K., Matlashov, M., Truncaite, L., Morgan, R. D., Ivanov, N. V., Siksnys, V., Zeng, L. & Severinov, K., {BREX} system of {E}scherichia coli distinguishes self from non-self by methylation of a specific {DNA} site Nucleic Acids Research, 2018. (PDF)
- Sasnauskas, G., Manakova, E., Lapėnas, K., Kauneckaitė, K. & Siksnys, V., DNA recognition by Arabidopsis transcription factors ABI3 and NGA1 The FEBS Journal, 2018, vol. 285, 4041–4059. (PDF)
- Sasnauskas, G., Kauneckaitė, K. & Siksnys, V., Structural basis of DNA target recognition by the B3 domain of Arabidopsis epigenome reader VAL1 Nucleic Acids Research, 2018, vol. 46, 4316–4324. (PDF)
- Tamulaitiene, G., Manakova, E., Jovaisaite, V., Tamulaitis, G., Grazulis, S., Bochtler, M. & Siksnys, V., Unique mechanism of target recognition by PfoI restriction endonuclease of the CCGG-family Nucleic Acids Research, 2018. (PDF)
- Toliusis, P., Tamulaitiene, G., Grigaitis, R., Tuminauskaite, D., Silanskas, A., Manakova, E., Venclovas, Č., Szczelkun, M. D., Siksnys, V. & Zaremba, M., The H-subunit of the restriction endonuclease CglI contains a prototype DEAD-Z1 helicase-like motor Nucleic Acids Research, 2018, vol. 46, 2560–2572. (PDF)
- Karvelis, T., Gasiunas, G. & Siksnys, V., Harnessing the natural diversity and in vitro evolution of Cas9 to expand the genome editing toolbox Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2017, vol. 37, 88–94. (PDF)
- Karvelis, T., Gasiunas, G. & Siksnys, V., Methods for decoding Cas9 protospacer adjacent motif (PAM) sequences: A brief overview Methods, 2017, vol. 121-122, 3–8. (PDF)
- Kazlauskiene, M., Kostiuk, G., Venclovas, Č., Tamulaitis, G. & Siksnys, V., A cyclic oligonucleotide signaling pathway in type III CRISPR-Cas systems Science, 2017, vol. 357, 605–609. (PDF)
- Kostiuk, G., Dikić, J., Schwarz, F. W., Sasnauskas, G., Seidel, R. & Siksnys, V., The dynamics of the monomeric restriction endonuclease BcnI during its interaction with DNA Nucleic Acids Research, 2017, vol. 45, 5968–5979. (PDF)
- Sasnauskas, G., Tamulaitienė, G., Tamulaitis, G., Čalyševa, J., Laime, M., Rimšelienė, R., Lubys, A. & Siksnys, V., UbaLAI is a monomeric Type IIE restriction enzyme Nucleic Acids Research, 2017, vol. 45, 9583–9594. (PDF)
- Toliusis, P., Zaremba, M., Silanskas, A., Szczelkun, M. D. & Siksnys, V., CgII cleaves DNA using a mechanism distinct from other ATP-dependent restriction endonucleases Nucleic Acids Research, 2017, vol. 45, 8435–8447. (PDF)
- Tamulaitiene, G., Jovaisaite, V., Tamulaitis, G., Songailiene, I., Manakova, E., Zaremba, M., Grazulis, S., Xu, S.-y. & Siksnys, V., Restriction endonuclease AgeI is a monomer which dimerizes to cleave DNA Nucleic Acids Research, 2016, gkw1310. (PDF)