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A. Francis Stewart

A. Francis Stewart

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Genetics
Germany
2024

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Genetics

D-Index
85
Citations
27068
World Ranking
1310
National Ranking
101

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in Germany Leader Award
  • 2020 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

A. Francis Stewart is a researcher affiliated with TU Dresden in Germany, focusing on areas within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as well as Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans several subfields including Molecular Biology, Insect Science, Plant Science, Pharmacology, and Genetics.

Their research topics concentrate on Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity, Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis, CRISPR and Genetic Engineering, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology, and DNA Repair Mechanisms.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by A. Francis Stewart include:

  • RedEx: a method for seamless DNA insertion and deletion in large multimodular polyketide synthase gene clusters, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
  • Seamless site-directed mutagenesis in complex cloned DNA sequences using the RedEx method, 2024, Nature Protocols
  • Short oligomers rather than rings of human RAD52 promote single-strand annealing, 2023, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Stewart on multiple occasions include:

  • Chaoyi Song
  • Ji Luan
  • Chanjuan Jiang
  • Qingwen Cui
  • Jun Fu

Stewart's publications have appeared in venues such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Protocols, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

In recognition of their work, A. Francis Stewart was named a Member of Academia Europaea in 2020.

Best Publications

  • A conditional knockout resource for the genome-wide study of mouse gene function.

    William C. Skarnes;Barry Rosen;Anthony P. West;Manousos Koutsourakis

  • A new logic for DNA engineering using recombination in Escherichia coli

    Youming Zhang;F. Buchholz;J. P. P. Muyrers;A. F. Stewart

  • High-efficiency deleter mice show that FLPe is an alternative to Cre- loxP

    C I Rodríguez;F Buchholz;J Galloway;R Sequerra

  • The Transcriptional and Epigenomic Foundations of Ground State Pluripotency

    Hendrik Marks;Tüzer Kalkan;Roberta Menafra;Sergey Denissov

  • High-throughput engineering of the mouse genome coupled with high-resolution expression analysis

    David M Valenzuela;Andrew J Murphy;David Frendewey;Nicholas W Gale

  • Rapid modification of bacterial artificial chromosomes by ET-recombination.

    Joep P. P. Muyrers;Youming Zhang;Giuseppe Testa;A. Francis Stewart

  • The Saccharomyces cerevisiae Set1 complex includes an Ash2 homologue and methylates histone 3 lysine 4

    Assen Roguev;Daniel Schaft;Anna Shevchenko;W.W.M.Pim Pijnappel

  • BAC TransgeneOmics: a high-throughput method for exploration of protein function in mammals.

    Ina Poser;Mihail Sarov;Mihail Sarov;James R.A. Hutchins;Jean Karim Hériché

  • Improved properties of FLP recombinase evolved by cycling mutagenesis.

    Buchholz F;Angrand Po;Stewart Af

  • The SANT domain: a putative DNA-binding domain in the SWI-SNF and ADA complexes, the transcriptional co-repressor N-CoR and TFIIIB.

    Rein Aasland;A. Francis Stewart;Toby Gibson

  • Full-length RecE enhances linear-linear homologous recombination and facilitates direct cloning for bioprospecting

    Jun Fu;Xiaoying Bian;Shengbaio Hu;Shengbaio Hu;Hailong Wang;Hailong Wang

  • Techniques: Recombinogenic engineering--new options for cloning and manipulating DNA.

    Joep P.P Muyrers;Youming Zhang;A.Francis Stewart

  • The mammalian gene function resource: the international knockout mouse consortium

    Allan Bradley;Konstantinos Anastassiadis;Abdelkader Ayadi;James F. Battey

  • Dre recombinase, like Cre, is a highly efficient site-specific recombinase in E. coli, mammalian cells and mice

    Konstantinos Anastassiadis;Jun Fu;Christoph Patsch;Shengbiao Hu

  • The S. cerevisiae SET3 complex includes two histone deacetylases, Hos2 and Hst1, and is a meiotic-specific repressor of the sporulation gene program

    W.W.M. Pim Pijnappel;Daniel Schaft;Assen Roguev;Anna Shevchenko

  • Multiple epigenetic maintenance factors implicated by the loss of Mll2 in mouse development

    Stefan Glaser;Julia Schaft;Sandra Lubitz;Kristina Vintersten

  • A Genome-Scale RNAi Screen for Oct4 Modulators Defines a Role of the Paf1 Complex for Embryonic Stem Cell Identity

    Li Ding;Maciej Paszkowski-Rogacz;Anja Nitzsche;Mikolaj Michal Slabicki

  • Different Thermostabilities of FLP and Cre Recombinases: Implications for Applied Site-Specific Recombination

    F Buchholz;L Ringrose;P O Angrand;F Rossi

  • A Genome-Scale Resource for In Vivo Tag-Based Protein Function Exploration in C. elegans

    Mihail Sarov;John I Murray;Kristin Schanze;Andrei Pozniakovski

  • Jarid2 Is Implicated in the Initial Xist-Induced Targeting of PRC2 to the Inactive X Chromosome

    Simão Teixeira da Rocha;Valentina Boeva;Martin Escamilla-Del-Arenal;Katia Ancelin

Frequent Co-Authors

Rolf Müller
Rolf Müller Saarland University
Frank Buchholz
Frank Buchholz TU Dresden
Andrej Shevchenko
Andrej Shevchenko Max Planck Society
Anna Shevchenko
Anna Shevchenko Max Planck Society
Austin Smith
Austin Smith University of Exeter
Yulong Yin
Yulong Yin Chinese Academy of Sciences
Gavin Kelsey
Gavin Kelsey Babraham Institute
Anthony A. Hyman
Anthony A. Hyman Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
Robert A. Holt
Robert A. Holt BC Cancer Research Institute

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