Sukrit Silas • UCSF Profiles

Sukrit Silas, PhD

Title(s)	Assistant Professor, Microbiology and Immunology
School	School of Medicine
Address	35 Medical Center Way, #001 San Francisco CA 94143
Pronouns	He/Him/His
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Activation of bacterial programmed cell death by phage inhibitors of host immunity. Mol Cell. 2025 May 01; 85(9):1838-1851.e10. Silas S, Carion H, Makarova KS, Laderman ES, Todeschini T, Kumar P, Johnson M, Bocek M, Nobrega FL, Koonin EV, Bondy-Denomy J. PMID: 40315827; PMCID: PMC12088041.

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Cel Cell Biology Mol Molecular Biology
Multi-interface licensing of protein import into a phage nucleus. Nature. 2025 Mar; 639(8054):456-462. Kokontis C, Klein TA, Silas S, Bondy-Denomy J. PMID: 39910297.

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Sci Science
Bacteriophages inhibit and evade cGAS-like immune function in bacteria. Cell. 2023 02 16; 186(4):864-876.e21. Huiting E, Cao X, Ren J, Athukoralage JS, Luo Z, Silas S, An N, Carion H, Zhou Y, Fraser JS, Feng Y, Bondy-Denomy J. PMID: 36750095; PMCID: PMC9975087.

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Cel Cell Biology
Translation:Animals Cells
Doubling of the known set of RNA viruses by metagenomic analysis of an aquatic virome. Nat Microbiol. 2020 10; 5(10):1262-1270. Wolf YI, Silas S, Wang Y, Wu S, Bocek M, Kazlauskas D, Krupovic M, Fire A, Dolja VV, Koonin EV. PMID: 32690954; PMCID: PMC7508674.

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Mic Microbiology Par Parasitology Vir Virology
Translation:Cells PHPublic Health
A Reverse Transcriptase-Cas1 Fusion Protein Contains a Cas6 Domain Required for Both CRISPR RNA Biogenesis and RNA Spacer Acquisition. Mol Cell. 2018 11 15; 72(4):700-714.e8. Mohr G, Silas S, Stamos JL, Makarova KS, Markham LM, Yao J, Lucas-Elío P, Sanchez-Amat A, Fire AZ, Koonin EV, Lambowitz AM. PMID: 30344094; PMCID: PMC6242336.

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Cel Cell Biology Mol Molecular Biology
On the Origin of Reverse Transcriptase-Using CRISPR-Cas Systems and Their Hyperdiverse, Enigmatic Spacer Repertoires. mBio. 2017 07 11; 8(4). Silas S, Makarova KS, Shmakov S, Páez-Espino D, Mohr G, Liu Y, Davison M, Roux S, Krishnamurthy SR, Fu BXH, Hansen LL, Wang D, Sullivan MB, Millard A, Clokie MR, Bhaya D, Lambowitz AM, Kyrpides NC, Koonin EV, Fire AZ. PMID: 28698278; PMCID: PMC5513706.

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Mic Microbiology
Translation:Cells