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David Prangishvili

David Prangishvili

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
65
Citations
13416
World Ranking
9262
National Ranking
324

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

David Prangishvili is affiliated with the Institut Pasteur in France and has contributed extensively to the study of viruses, particularly those infecting prokaryotes and archaea. Their research spans multiple interconnected fields, with a focus on viral taxonomy, structure, and microbial interactions within environmental and molecular biology contexts.

Their recent publications highlight key developments in the understanding of archaeal viruses and virus classification. Notable papers include:

  • Taxonomy of prokaryotic viruses: 2018-2019 update from the ICTV Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee, 2020, Archives of Virology
  • Diversity, taxonomy, and evolution of archaeal viruses of the class Caudoviricetes, 2021, PLoS Biology
  • Structure and assembly of archaeal viruses, 2020, Advances in Virus Research
  • The structures of two archaeal type IV pili illuminate evolutionary relationships, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Bacterial Viruses Subcommittee and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee of the ICTV: update of taxonomy changes in 2021, 2021, Archives of Virology

The scientist frequently collaborates with several researchers in the field. Their most common co-authors include Mart Krupovìč, Diana P. Baquero, Ying Liu, Fengbin Wang, and Edward H. Egelman.

Prangishvili's work is often published in respected journals, with repeated contributions to the Journal of General Virology, Archives of Virology, Nature Communications, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Their main fields of study encompass Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these domains, notable subfields include Ecology, Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, Plant Science, and Endocrinology.

Research topics covered by Prangishvili are diverse but centered around:

  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Genomics and phylogenetic studies
  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
  • Plant virus research studies
  • Microbial community ecology and physiology
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Plant and fungal interactions research

In recognition of contributions to science, Prangishvili was named a Member of Academia Europaea in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Ratification vote on taxonomic proposals to the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2015).

    M J Adams;E J Lefkowitz;A M Q King;D H Bamford

  • Structural basis of enzyme encapsulation into a bacterial nanocompartment

    Markus Sutter;Daniel Boehringer;Sascha Gutmann;Susanne Günther

  • Viruses of the Archaea: a unifying view

    David Prangishvili;Patrick Forterre;Roger A. Garrett

  • Taxonomy of prokaryotic viruses: 2017 update from the ICTV Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee

    Mart Krupovic;Bas E Dutilh;Bas E Dutilh;Bas E Dutilh;Evelien M Adriaenssens;Johannes Wittmann

  • Prokaryote viruses studied by electron microscopy

    H.-W. Ackermann;D. Prangishvili

  • Genomics of Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses: Dynamics within the Prokaryotic Virosphere

    Mart Krupovic;David Prangishvili;Roger W. Hendrix;Dennis H. Bamford

  • Evolutionary genomics of archaeal viruses : Unique viral genomes in the third domain of life

    David Prangishvili;Roger A. Garrett;Eugene V. Koonin

  • Virology: independent virus development outside a host.

    Monika Häring;Gisle Vestergaard;Reinhard Rachel;Lanming Chen

  • The enigmatic archaeal virosphere.

    David Prangishvili;Dennis H. Bamford;Patrick Forterre;Jaime Iranzo

  • Position paper: the creation of a rational scheme for the nomenclature of viruses of Bacteria and Archaea.

    Andrew M. Kropinski;Andrew M. Kropinski;David Prangishvili;Rob Lavigne

  • Viruses of archaea: Structural, functional, environmental and evolutionary genomics.

    Mart Krupovic;Virginija Cvirkaite-Krupovic;Jaime Iranzo;David Prangishvili

  • Casposons: a new superfamily of self-synthesizing DNA transposons at the origin of prokaryotic CRISPR-Cas immunity

    Mart Krupovic;Kira S Makarova;Patrick Forterre;David Prangishvili

  • Roles of viruses in the environment.

    Forest Rohwer;David Prangishvili;Debbie Lindell

  • Viruses, plasmids and other genetic elements of thermophilic and hyperthermophilic Archaea

    Wolfram Zillig;David Prangishvili;Christa Schleper;Marieke Elferink

  • The wonderful world of archaeal viruses.

    David Prangishvili

  • The Great Billion-year War between Ribosome- and Capsid-encoding Organisms (Cells and Viruses) as the Major Source of Evolutionary Novelties

    Patrick Forterre;Patrick Forterre;David Prangishvili

  • Genetic elements in the extremely thermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus

    Wolfram Zillig;Hans Peter Arnold;Ingelore Holz;David Prangishvili

  • A Novel Virus Family, the Rudiviridae: Structure, Virus-Host Interactions and Genome Variability of the Sulfolobus Viruses SIRV1 and SIRV2

    David Prangishvili;Hans Peter Arnold;Dorothee Götz;Ulrike Ziese

  • AFV1, a novel virus infecting hyperthermophilic archaea of the genus acidianus.

    Marcus Bettstetter;Xu Peng;Roger A Garrett;David Prangishvili

  • Genome Analyses of Icelandic Strains of Sulfolobus islandicus, Model Organisms for Genetic and Virus-Host Interaction Studies

    Li Guo;Kim Brügger;Chao Liu;Shiraz Ali Shah

Frequent Co-Authors

Mart Krupovic
Mart Krupovic Université Paris Cité
Patrick Forterre
Patrick Forterre University of Paris-Saclay
Roger A. Garrett
Roger A. Garrett University of Copenhagen
Edward H. Egelman
Edward H. Egelman University of Virginia
Reinhard Rachel
Reinhard Rachel University of Regensburg
Eugene V. Koonin
Eugene V. Koonin National Institutes of Health
Wolfram Zillig
Wolfram Zillig Max Planck Society
Qunxin She
Qunxin She Shandong University
Stefan Schouten
Stefan Schouten Utrecht University
Dennis H. Bamford
Dennis H. Bamford University of Helsinki

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