User profiles for Lina M. Leon

Lina Leon

CRISPR-Cas genome engineer, Scientist
Verified email at ucsf.edu
Cited by 607

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
Bacterial CRISPR-Cas systems protect their host from bacteriophages and other mobile genetic
elements. Mobile elements, in turn, encode various anti-CRISPR (Acr) proteins to inhibit …

A compact Cascade–Cas3 system for targeted genome engineering

B Csörgő, LM León, IJ Chau-Ly, A Vasquez-Rifo… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
CRISPR–Cas technologies have enabled programmable gene editing in eukaryotes and
prokaryotes. However, the leading Cas9 and Cas12a enzymes are limited in their ability to …

A bacteriophage nucleus-like compartment shields DNA from CRISPR nucleases

…, ES Nieweglowska, S Govindarajan, LM Leon… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
All viruses require strategies to inhibit or evade the immune pathways of cells that they infect.
The viruses that infect bacteria, bacteriophages (phages), must avoid immune pathways …

Mobile element warfare via CRISPR and anti-CRISPR in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

LM Leon, AE Park, AL Borges, JY Zhang… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Bacteria deploy multiple defenses to prevent mobile genetic element (MGEs) invasion.
CRISPR–Cas immune systems use RNA-guided nucleases to target MGEs, which counter with …

How bacteria control the CRISPR-Cas arsenal

LM Leon, SD Mendoza, J Bondy-Denomy - Current opinion in microbiology, 2018 - Elsevier
… Author links open overlay panel Lina M Leon 1 , Senén D Mendoza 1 , Joseph Bondy-…
into methyltransferases (MT, S 1 M 2 ) and restriction-competent holoenzymes (S 1 M 2 R 2 ). …

[HTML][HTML] Impacto en la salud y el medio ambiente por exposición a plaguicidas e implementación de buenas prácticas agrícolas en el cultivo de tomate, Colombia …

…, N Carvajal, E Barbosa, LM León… - Rev. chil. salud …, 2012 - pesquisa.bvsalud.org
Objetivo: describir los posibles efectos adversos en salud y medio ambiente por el uso de
plaguicidas en zonas productoras de Colombia e implementar las buenas prácticas agrícolas …

A nucleus-like compartment shields bacteriophage DNA from CRISPR-Cas and restriction nucleases

SD Mendoza, JD Berry, ES Nieweglowska, LM Leon… - BioRxiv, 2018 - biorxiv.org
All viruses require strategies to inhibit or evade the immunity pathways of cells they infect.
The viruses that infect bacteria, bacteriophages (phages), must avoid nucleic-acid targeting …

Building an action plan to tackle palliative care inequality through multi-stakeholder platforms

…, MX León-Delgado… - Palliative Care and …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: To achieve universal care and overcome existing barriers, the most effective
strategy is to devise an action plan that incorporates palliative care into primary health care (…

[BOOK][B] CRISPR-Cas3: Studying the molecular interactions that drive adaptation & engineering novel bacterial editing tools

LM Leon - 2021 - search.proquest.com
Bacteria deploy multiple defenses to prevent mobile genetic element (MGEs) invasion.
CRISPR-Cas immune systems feature RNA-guided nucleases that target MGEs, which counter …

A minimal CRISPR-Cas3 system for genome engineering

B Csörgő, LM León, IJ Chau-Ly, A Vasquez-Rifo… - bioRxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
CRISPR-Cas technologies have provided programmable gene editing tools that have
revolutionized research. The leading CRISPR-Cas9 and Cas12a enzymes are ideal for …