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Adair L. Borges

University of California, Berkeley
Verified email at berkeley.edu
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Species-and site-specific genome editing in complex bacterial communities

…, BF Cress, A Crits-Christoph, YC Lou, AL Borges… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Understanding microbial gene functions relies on the application of experimental genetics
in cultured microorganisms. However, the vast majority of bacteria and archaea remain …

[PDF][PDF] ERICA: prevalences of hypertension and obesity in Brazilian adolescents

…, ERA Oliveira, E Fujimori, AL Borges… - Revista de saúde …, 2016 - SciELO Public Health
… 55 estudos dos cinco continentes, Moraes et al.observaram redução da prevalência de
hipertensão nos … específicos para cada medida estão descritos detalhadamente em Bloch et al.…

Discovery of widespread type I and type V CRISPR-Cas inhibitors

ND Marino, JY Zhang, AL Borges, AA Sousa, LM Leon… - Science, 2018 - science.org
… Watters et al. and Marino et al. used bioinformatic and experimental approaches to identify
inhibitors of type V CRISPR-Cas12a. Cas12a has been successfully engineered for gene …

[HTML][HTML] Cryptic inoviruses revealed as pervasive in bacteria and archaea across Earth's biomes

S Roux, M Krupovic, RA Daly, AL Borges… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Bacteriophages from the Inoviridae family (inoviruses) are characterized by their unique
morphology, genome content and infection cycle. One of the most striking features of inoviruses …

The discovery, mechanisms, and evolutionary impact of anti-CRISPRs

AL Borges, AR Davidson… - Annual review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Bacteria and archaea use CRISPR-Cas adaptive immune systems to defend themselves
from infection by bacteriophages (phages). These RNA-guided nucleases are powerful …

Widespread stop-codon recoding in bacteriophages may regulate translation of lytic genes

AL Borges, YC Lou, R Sachdeva, B Al-Shayeb… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Bacteriophages (phages) are obligate parasites that use host bacterial translation machinery
to produce viral proteins. However, some phages have alternative genetic codes with …

[PDF][PDF] Bacteriophage cooperation suppresses CRISPR-Cas3 and Cas9 immunity

AL Borges, JY Zhang, MCF Rollins, BA Osuna… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Bacteria utilize CRISPR-Cas adaptive immune systems for protection from bacteriophages (phages),
and some phages produce anti-CRISPR (Acr) proteins that inhibit immune function. …

[PDF][PDF] Anti-CRISPR-associated proteins are crucial repressors of anti-CRISPR transcription

SY Stanley, AL Borges, KH Chen, DL Swaney… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
… Performing assays in the lysogenic state also allowed us to assess transcription levels at
a steady state as opposed to the dynamic situation existing during phage infection. Both the …

[HTML][HTML] Machine-learning approach expands the repertoire of anti-CRISPR protein families

AB Gussow, AE Park, AL Borges, SA Shmakov… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The CRISPR-Cas are adaptive bacterial and archaeal immunity systems that have been
harnessed for the development of powerful genome editing and engineering tools. In the …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental validation that human microbiome phages use alternative genetic coding

SL Peters, AL Borges, RJ Giannone… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Previous bioinformatic analyses of metagenomic data have indicated that bacteriophages
can use genetic codes different from those of their host bacteria. In particular, reassignment of …