Eugene Koonin - Selected Publications#

SCOPUS: H-INDEX 178; CITATIONS 132,250; 968 SCIENTIFIC PAPERS
Google Scholar: H-INDEX 212; CITATIONS 201940; 868 SCIENTIFIC PAPERS
Relevant papers: Nature x19; Science x24; Cell x12.

1. Yutin N, Benler S, Shmakov SA, Wolf YI, Tolstoy I, Rayko M, Antipov D, Pevzner PA, Koonin EV. Analysis of metagenome-assembled viral genomes from the human gut reveals diverse putative CrAss-like phages with unique genomic features. Nat Commun. 2021 Feb 16;12(1):1044

2. Wolf YI, Silas S, Wang Y, Bocek M, Krupovic M, Fire A, Dolja VV, Koonin EV. Doubling of the known set of RNA viruses by metagenomic analysis of an aquatic virome. Nat Microbiol. 2020 Oct;5(10):1262-1270

3. Koonin EV, Dolja VV, Krupovic M, Varsani A, Wolf YI, Yutin N, Zerbini FM, Kuhn JH. Global Organization and Proposed Megataxonomy of the Virus World. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev. 2020 Mar 4;84(2):e00061-19

4. Palazzo AF, Koonin EV. Functional Long Non-coding RNAs Evolve from Junk Transcripts. Cell. 2020 Nov 25;183(5):1151-1161

5. Gussow AB, Park AE, Borges AL, Shmakov SA, Makarova KS, Wolf YI, Bondy-Denomy J, Koonin EV.
Machine-learning approach expands the repertoire of anti-CRISPR protein families. Nat Commun. 2020 Jul 29;11(1):3784.

6. Gussow AB, Auslander N, Faure G, Wolf YI, Zhang F, Koonin EV.
Genomic determinants of pathogenicity in SARS-CoV-2 and other human coronaviruses. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 Jun 30;117(26):15193-15199

7. Auslander N, Wolf YI, Koonin EV.
Interplay between DNA damage repair and apoptosis shapes cancer evolution through aneuploidy and microsatellite instability.
Nat Commun. 2020 Mar 6;11(1):1234

8. Yutin N. Makarova KS, Krupovic M., Gussow AB, Segall A, Edwards RA, Koonin EV. Discovery of an expansive bacteriophage family that includes the most abundant viruses from the human gut. Nat Microbiol. 2018 Jan;3(1):38-46

9. Sorokin DY, Makarova KS, Abbas B, Ferrer M, Golyshin PN, Galinski EA, Ciordia S, Mena MC, Merkel AY, Wolf YI, van Loosdrecht MCM, Koonin EV.
Discovery of extremely halophilic, methyl-reducing euryarchaea provides insights into the evolutionary origin of methanogenesis.
Nat Microbiol. 2017 May 30;2:17081

10, Wolf YI, Makarova KS, Lobkovsky AE, Koonin EV.
Two fundamentally different classes of microbial genes.

Nat Microbiol. 2016 Nov 7;2:16208