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Contact Details

Email
nils.birkholz@otago.ac.nz
Position
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Research summary
Bacterial defence systems and mobile genetic elements

Publications

Kamata, K., Celeen, M., Birkholz, N., Fagerlund, R., Jackson, S., & Fineran, P. (2024). CRISPR-based bacteriophage engineering reveals essentiality of anti-CRISPR-associated gene. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 300(3, Suppl.), 1335. doi: 10.1016/j.jbc.2024.105832 Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Mayo-Muñoz, D., Pinilla-Redondo, R., Camara-Wilpert, S., Birkholz, N., & Fineran, P. C. (2024). Inhibitors of bacterial immune systems: Discovery, mechanisms and applications. Nature Reviews Genetics. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1038/s41576-023-00676-9 Journal - Research Article

Mayo-Muñoz, D., Pinilla-Redondo, R., Birkholz, N., & Fineran, P. C. (2023). A host of armor: Prokaryotic immune strategies against mobile genetic elements. Cell Reports, 42(7), 112672. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2023.112672 Journal - Research Other

Birkholz, N., Jackson, S. A., Fagerlund, R. D., & Fineran, P. C. (2022). A mobile restriction-modification phage defence system resolves an epigenetic conflict with an antagonistic endonuclease. Proceedings of the Genetics Otago (GO) Annual Symposium. Retrieved from https://blogs.otago.ac.nz/go Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Kim, G. E., Lee, S. Y., Birkholz, N., Kamata, K., Jeong, J.-H., Kim, Y.-G., Fineran, P. C., & Park, H. H. (2022). Molecular basis of dual anti-CRISPR and auto-regulatory functions of AcrIF24. Nucleic Acids Research, 50(19), 11344-11358. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkac880 Journal - Research Article

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