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Overview

Yuri I. Wolf is a researcher affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their work primarily spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a total of 226 publications in this domain. Within this broad area, their research further focuses on key subfields including Molecular Biology, Ecology, Genetics, Infectious Diseases, and Plant Science.

The range of main topics covered by their research includes bacteriophages and microbial interactions, genomics and phylogenetic studies, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, plant virus research, evolution and genetic dynamics, CRISPR and genetic engineering, as well as SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research.

Yuri I. Wolf has published extensively in various scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, mBio, and Nucleic Acids Research.

Their recent notable publications demonstrate contributions to viral diversity, immunity mechanisms, and microbiology, including:

  • Doubling of the known set of RNA viruses by metagenomic analysis of an aquatic virome, 2020, Nature Microbiology
  • Expanded diversity of Asgard archaea and their relationships with eukaryotes, 2021, Nature
  • Diverse enzymatic activities mediate antiviral immunity in prokaryotes, 2020, Science
  • Global Organization and Proposed Megataxonomy of the Virus World, 2020, Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews
  • COG database update: focus on microbial diversity, model organisms, and widespread pathogens, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research

Collaborative work is a key component of their research activity, with frequent co-authors including Eugene V. Koonin, Kira S. Makarova, Nash D. Rochman, Mart Krupovìč, and Guilhem Faure, reflecting ongoing partnerships in molecular biology and microbiology research.

Best Publications

  • Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome.

    Eric S. Lander;Lauren M. Linton;Bruce Birren;Chad Nusbaum

  • The COG database: an updated version includes eukaryotes

    Roman L Tatusov;Natalie D Fedorova;John D Jackson;Aviva R Jacobs

  • Evolution and classification of the CRISPR-Cas systems

    Kira S. Makarova;Daniel H. Haft;Rodolphe Barrangou;Stan J. J. Brouns

  • An updated evolutionary classification of CRISPR–Cas systems

    Kira S. Makarova;Yuri I. Wolf;Omer S. Alkhnbashi;Fabrizio Costa

  • Evolutionary classification of CRISPR-Cas systems: a burst of class 2 and derived variants.

    Kira S. Makarova;Yuri I. Wolf;Jaime Iranzo;Sergey A. Shmakov

  • Comparative genomics of the lactic acid bacteria

    K. Makarova;A. Slesarev;Y. Wolf;A. Sorokin

  • A putative RNA-interference-based immune system in prokaryotes: computational analysis of the predicted enzymatic machinery, functional analogies with eukaryotic RNAi, and hypothetical mechanisms of action

    Kira S Makarova;Nick V Grishin;Svetlana A Shabalina;Yuri I Wolf

  • Improving the accuracy of PSI-BLAST protein database searches with composition-based statistics and other refinements

    Alejandro A. Schäffer;L. Aravind;Thomas L. Madden;Sergei Shavirin

  • Expanded microbial genome coverage and improved protein family annotation in the COG database

    Michael Y. Galperin;Kira S. Makarova;Yuri I. Wolf;Eugene V. Koonin

  • The ecoresponsive genome of Daphnia pulex

    John K. Colbourne;Michael E. Pfrender;Michael E. Pfrender;Donald Gilbert;W. Kelley Thomas

  • Classification and evolution of P-loop GTPases and related ATPases.

    Detlef D Leipe;Yuri I Wolf;Eugene V Koonin;L Aravind

  • Discovery and Functional Characterization of Diverse Class 2 CRISPR-Cas Systems

    Sergey Shmakov;Omar O. Abudayyeh;Kira S. Makarova;Yuri I. Wolf

  • A comprehensive evolutionary classification of proteins encoded in complete eukaryotic genomes

    Eugene V Koonin;Natalie D Fedorova;John D Jackson;Aviva R Jacobs

  • Diversity and evolution of class 2 CRISPR-Cas systems

    Sergey Shmakov;Aaron Smargon;David Scott;David Cox

  • Genome Sequence and Comparative Analysis of the Solvent-Producing Bacterium Clostridium acetobutylicum

    J Nölling;G Breton;M V Omelchenko;K S Makarova;K S Makarova

  • Genomics of bacteria and archaea: the emerging dynamic view of the prokaryotic world

    Eugene V. Koonin;Yuri I. Wolf

  • Genome of the Extremely Radiation-Resistant Bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans Viewed from the Perspective of Comparative Genomics

    Kira S. Makarova;Kira S. Makarova;L. Aravind;Yuri I. Wolf;Roman L. Tatusov

  • Selection in the evolution of gene duplications

    Fyodor A Kondrashov;Igor B Rogozin;Yuri I Wolf;Eugene V Koonin

  • Unification of Cas protein families and a simple scenario for the origin and evolution of CRISPR-Cas systems

    Kira S Makarova;L Aravind;Yuri I Wolf;Eugene V Koonin

  • The structure of the protein universe and genome evolution

    Eugene V. Koonin;Yuri I. Wolf;Georgy P. Karev

Frequent Co-Authors

Eugene V. Koonin
Eugene V. Koonin National Institutes of Health
Kira S. Makarova
Kira S. Makarova National Institutes of Health
Igor B. Rogozin
Igor B. Rogozin National Institutes of Health
Konstantin Severinov
Konstantin Severinov Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
L. Aravind
L. Aravind National Institutes of Health
Natalya Yutin
Natalya Yutin National Institutes of Health
Mikhail I. Katsnelson
Mikhail I. Katsnelson Radboud University
Michael Y. Galperin
Michael Y. Galperin National Institutes of Health
Mart Krupovic
Mart Krupovic Université Paris Cité
Valerian V. Dolja
Valerian V. Dolja Oregon State University

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