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Sukrit Silas, PhD

Title(s)	Assistant Professor, Microbiology and Immunology
School	School of Medicine
Address	35 Medical Center Way, #001 San Francisco CA 94143
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Anti-restriction functions of injected phage proteins revealed by peeling back layers of bacterial immunity. Nat Commun. 2025 Aug 22; 16(1):7828. Silas S, Carion H, Makarova KS, Sanchez Godinez D, Haniyur S, Volino L, Yee WX, Fossati A, Swaney D, Bocek M, Koonin EV, Bondy-Denomy J. PMID: 40846711; PMCID: PMC12373910.

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Bio Biology Sci Science
Translation:Cells
Bacteriophages inhibit and evade cGAS-like immune function in bacteria. Cell. 2025 Sep 04; 188(18):5118. 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: 40848727; PMCID: PMC12483331.

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Cel Cell Biology
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.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 3 Fields:
Cel Cell Biology Mol Molecular Biology
Translation:Cells
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; PMCID: PMC12165441.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 2 Fields:
Sci Science
Translation:Cells
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.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 62 Fields:
Cel Cell Biology
Translation:Animals Cells
Rapid deployment of SARS-CoV-2 testing: The CLIAHUB. PLoS Pathog. 2020 10; 16(10):e1008966. Crawford ED, Acosta I, Ahyong V, Anderson EC, Arevalo S, Asarnow D, Axelrod S, Ayscue P, Azimi CS, Azumaya CM, Bachl S, Bachmutsky I, Bhaduri A, Brown JB, Batson J, Behnert A, Boileau RM, Bollam SR, Bonny AR, Booth D, Borja MJB, Brown D, Buie B, Burnett CE, Byrnes LE, Cabral KA, Cabrera JP, Caldera S, Canales G, Castañeda GR, Chan AP, Chang CR, Charles-Orszag A, Cheung C, Chio U, Chow ED, Citron YR, Cohen A, Cohn LB, Chiu C, Cole MA, Conrad DN, Constantino A, Cote A, Crayton-Hall T, Darmanis S, Detweiler AM, Dial RL, Dong S, Duarte EM, Dynerman D, Egger R, Fanton A, Frumm SM, Fu BXH, Garcia VE, Garcia J, Gladkova C, Goldman M, Gomez-Sjoberg R, Gordon MG, Grove JCR, Gupta S, Haddjeri-Hopkins A, Hadley P, Haliburton J, Hao SL, Hartoularos G, Herrera N, Hilberg M, Ho KYE, Hoppe N, Hosseinzadeh S, Howard CJ, Hussmann JA, Hwang E, Ingebrigtsen D, Jackson JR, Jowhar ZM, Kain D, Kim JYS, Kistler A, Kreutzfeld O, Kulsuptrakul J, Kung AF, Langelier C, Laurie MT, Lee L, Leng K, Leon KE, Leonetti MD, Levan SR, Li S, Li AW, Liu J, Lubin HS, Lyden A, Mann J, Mann S, Margulis G, Marquez DM, Marsh BP, Martyn C, McCarthy EE, McGeever A, Merriman AF, Meyer LK, Miller S, Moore MK, Mowery CT, Mukhtar T, Mwakibete LL, Narez N, Neff NF, Osso LA, Oviedo D, Peng S, Phelps M, Phong K, Picard P, Pieper LM, Pincha N, Pisco AO, Pogson A, Pourmal S, Puccinelli RR, Puschnik AS, Rackaityte E, Raghavan P, Raghavan M, Reese J, Replogle JM, Retallack H, Reyes H, Rose D, Rosenberg MF, Sanchez-Guerrero E, Sattler SM, Savy L, See SK, Sellers KK, Serpa PH, Sheehy M, Sheu J, Silas S, Streithorst JA, Strickland J, Stryke D, Sunshine S, Suslow P, Sutanto R, Tamura S, Tan M, Tan J, Tang A, Tato CM, Taylor JC, Tenvooren I, Thompson EM, Thornborrow EC, Tse E, Tung T, Turner ML, Turner VS, Turnham RE, Turocy MJ, Vaidyanathan TV, Vainchtein ID, Vanaerschot M, Vazquez SE, Wandler AM, Wapniarski A, Webber JT, Weinberg ZY, Westbrook A, Wong AW, Wong E, Worthington G, Xie F, Xu A, Yamamoto T, Yang Y, Yarza F, Zaltsman Y, Zheng T, DeRisi JL. PMID: 33112933; PMCID: PMC7592773.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 12 Fields:
Mic Microbiology
Translation:Humans Cells PHPublic Health
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.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 123 Fields:
Mic Microbiology Par Parasitology Vir Virology
Translation:Cells PHPublic Health
A novel high-throughput molecular counting method with single base-pair resolution enables accurate single-gene NIPT. Sci Rep. 2019 10 07; 9(1):14382. Tsao DS, Silas S, Landry BP, Itzep NP, Nguyen AB, Greenberg S, Kanne CK, Sheehan VA, Sharma R, Shukla R, Arora PN, Atay O. PMID: 31591409; PMCID: PMC6779891.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 15 Fields:
Sci Science
Translation:Humans Cells
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.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 17 Fields:
Cel Cell Biology Mol Molecular Biology
Translation:Cells
A Small RNA Isolation and Sequencing Protocol and Its Application to Assay CRISPR RNA Biogenesis in Bacteria. Bio Protoc. 2018 Feb 20; 8(4). Silas S, Jain N, Stadler M, Fu BXH, Sánchez-Amat A, Fire AZ, Arribere J. PMID: 29600253; PMCID: PMC5870890.

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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.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 36 Fields:
Mic Microbiology
Translation:Cells
Direct CRISPR spacer acquisition from RNA by a natural reverse transcriptase-Cas1 fusion protein. Science. 2016 Feb 26; 351(6276):aad4234. Silas S, Mohr G, Sidote DJ, Markham LM, Sanchez-Amat A, Bhaya D, Lambowitz AM, Fire AZ. PMID: 26917774; PMCID: PMC4898656.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 111 Fields:
Sci Science
Translation:Cells