Francisco Martinez Mojica - Selected Publications#

F.J.M. Mojica, G. Juez, and F. Rodríguez-Valera. Transcription at different salinities of Haloferax mediterranei sequences adjacent to partially modified PstI sites. Molecular Microbiology 9:613 621 (1993). 173 times cited (WOS).

F.J.M Mojica, C. Ferrer, G. Juez and F. Rodríguez-Valera. Long stretches of short tandem repeats are present in the largest replicons of the Archaea Haloferax mediterranei and Haloferax volcanii and could be involved in replicon partitioning. Molecular Microbiology. 17:85-93 (1995). 188 times cited (WOS).

F.J.M. Mojica, C. Díez-Villaseñor, E. Soria, and G. Juez. 2000. Biological significance of a family of regularly spaced repeats in the genomes of Archaea, Bacteria and mitochondria. Molecular Microbiology. 36:244-246 (2000). 463 times cited (WOS).

F.J.M. Mojica, C. Díez-Villaseñor, J. García Martínez, and E. Soria. Intervening sequences of regularly spaced prokaryotic repeats derive from foreign genetic elements. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 60:174-182 (2005). 1282 times cited (WOS).

F.J.M. Mojica, C. Díez-Villaseñor, J. García-Martínez, C. Almendros. Short motif sequences determine the targets of the prokaryotic CRISPR defence system. Microbiology (SGM). 155:733-740 (2009). 991 times cited (WOS).

F.J.M. Mojica, R. Garrett. Discovery and Seminal Developments in the CRISPR field. CRISPR-Cas Systems: RNA-mediated adaptive immunity in Bacteria and Archaea. Barrangou, R. and van der Oost, J. (Eds.) Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. Ch 1. pp 1-32 (2013). First book on CRISPR.

F.J.M Mojica, F. Rodriguez-Valera. The discovery of CRISPR in archaea and bacteria. FEBS J. 283(17):3162-9 (2016). 91 times cited (WOS). 3.9 Journal Impact Factor ™ (2016).

C. Almendros, N.M. Guzmán, J. García-Martínez, F.J.M. Mojica. Anti-cas spacers in orphan CRISPR4 arrays prevent uptake of active CRISPR-Cas I-F systems. Nature Microbiology. 1(8):16081 (2016). 26 times cited (WOS). 28.31 Journal Impact Factor ™ (2022).

Makarova, Kira S; Wolf, Yuri I; Iranzo, Jaime; Shmakov, Sergey A; Alkhnbashi, Omer S; Brouns, Stan J J; Charpentier, Emmanuelle; Cheng, David; Haft, Daniel H; Horvath, Philippe; Moineau, Sylvain; Mojica, Francisco J M; Scott, David; Shah, Shiraz A; Siksnys, Virginijus; Terns, Michael P; Venclovas, Česlovas; White, Malcolm F; Yakunin, Alexander F; Yan, Winston; Zhang, Feng; Garrett, Roger A; Backofen, Rolf; van der Oost, John; Barrangou, Rodolphe; Koonin, Eugene V. Evolutionary classification of CRISPR–Cas systems: a burst of class 2 and derived variants. Nature Rev Microbiol. 18:67-83 (2020). 884 times cited (WOS). 88.1 Journal Impact Factor ™ (2022).

Esquerra-Ruvira B, Baquedano I, Ruiz R, Fernandez A, Montoliu L, Mojica FJM. Identification of the EH CRISPR-Cas9 system on a metagenome and its application to genome engineering. Microbial Biotechnology. 16(7):1505–1523 (2023). 5.7 Journal Impact Factor ™ (2022).