Publications

1. A Unique Type V CRISPR-Cas System Encoded by a Group of Thermus Viruses

   Anna B. Trofimova, Alina O. Demkina, Sergey A. Shmakov, Alexei D. Livenskyi, Marina V. Serebryakova, Alexandr A. Dmitriev, Ilya D. Rubinshteyn, Konstantin V. Severinov, Matvey V. Kolesnik

   bioRxiv (preprint)2026

2. An ancient Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae genome recovered from 1400-year-old human remains in the Northern Caucasus

   Andrey A. Kritsky, Natalia Y. Berezina, Alexandra O. Ivanova, Dmitry A. Sutormin, Egor I. Botsmanov, Alla A. Perevozchikova, Anna A. Kadieva, Tatiana R. Tsedilina, Matvey V. Kolesnik, Anastasia V. Pavlova, Sergej V. Demidenko, Evgeny I. Klimuk, Alexandra P. Buzhilova, Konstantin V. Severinov

   Scientific Reports2026

3. Interference Requirements of Type III CRISPR-Cas Systems from Thermus thermophilus

   Karyna Karneyeva, Matvey Kolesnik, Alexei Livenskyi, Viktor Zgoda, Vasiliy Zubarev, Anna Trofimova, Daria Artamonova, Yaroslav Ispolatov, Konstantin Severinov

   Journal of Molecular Biology2024

4. New Viruses Infecting Hyperthermophilic Bacterium Thermus thermophilus

   Matvey Kolesnik, Constantine Pavlov, Alina Demkina, Aleksei Samolygo, Karyna Karneyeva, Anna Trofimova, Olga Sokolova, Andrei Moiseenko, Maria Kirsanova, Konstantin Severinov

   Viruses2024

5. tRNA anticodon cleavage by target-activated CRISPR-Cas13a effector

   Ishita Jain, Matvey Kolesnik, Konstantin Kuznedelov, Leonid Minakhin, Natalia Morozova, Anna Shiriaeva, Alexandr Kirillov, Sofia Medvedeva, Alexei Livenskyi, Laura Kazieva, Kira S. Makarova, Eugene V. Koonin, Sergei Borukhov, Konstantin Severinov, Ekaterina Semenova

   Science Advances2024

6. Type III CRISPR-Cas Systems: Deciphering the Most Complex Prokaryotic Immune System

   Matvey V. Kolesnik, Iana Fedorova, Karyna A. Karneyeva, Daria N. Artamonova, Konstantin V. Severinov

   Biochemistry (Moscow)2021

7. Spacer acquisition by Type III CRISPR–Cas system during bacteriophage infection of Thermus thermophilus

   Daria Artamonova, Karyna Karneyeva, Sofia Medvedeva, Evgeny Klimuk, Matvey Kolesnik, Anna Yasinskaya, Aleksei Samolygo, Konstantin Severinov

   Nucleic Acids Research2020

8. Structure and function of virion RNA polymerase of a crAss-like phage

   Arina V. Drobysheva, Sofia A. Panafidina, Matvei V. Kolesnik, Evgeny I. Klimuk, Leonid Minakhin, Maria V. Yakunina, Sergei Borukhov, Emelie Nilsson, Karin Holmfeldt, Natalya Yutin, Kira S. Makarova, Eugene V. Koonin, Konstantin V. Severinov, Petr G. Leiman, Maria L. Sokolova

   Nature2020

9. Natural diversity of CRISPR spacers of Thermus : evidence of local spacer acquisition and global spacer exchange

   Anna Lopatina, Sofia Medvedeva, Daria Artamonova, Matvey Kolesnik, Vasily Sitnik, Yaroslav Ispolatov, Konstantin Severinov

   Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences2019