| A host of armor: Prokaryotic immune strategies against mobile genetic elements D Mayo-Muñoz, R Pinilla-Redondo, N Birkholz, PC Fineran Cell Reports 42 (7), 112672, 2023 | 105 | 2023 |
| Conquering CRISPR: how phages overcome bacterial adaptive immunity LM Malone, N Birkholz, PC Fineran Current Opinion in Biotechnology 68, 30-36, 2021 | 86 | 2021 |
| Inhibitors of bacterial immune systems: discovery, mechanisms and applications D Mayo-Muñoz, R Pinilla-Redondo, S Camara-Wilpert, N Birkholz, ... Nature Reviews Genetics 25 (4), 237-254, 2024 | 84 | 2024 |
| Imprecise spacer acquisition generates CRISPR-Cas immune diversity through primed adaptation SA Jackson, N Birkholz, LM Malone, PC Fineran Cell Host & Microbe 25 (2), 250-260.e4, 2019 | 72 | 2019 |
| The autoregulator Aca2 mediates anti-CRISPR repression N Birkholz, RD Fagerlund, LM Smith, SA Jackson, PC Fineran Nucleic Acids Research 47 (18), 9658-9665, 2019 | 67 | 2019 |
| A mobile restriction–modification system provides phage defence and resolves an epigenetic conflict with an antagonistic endonuclease N Birkholz, SA Jackson, RD Fagerlund, PC Fineran Nucleic Acids Research 50 (6), 3348-3361, 2022 | 50 | 2022 |
| Widespread repression of anti-CRISPR production by anti-CRISPR-associated proteins S Shehreen, N Birkholz, PC Fineran, CM Brown Nucleic Acids Research 50 (15), 8615-8625, 2022 | 27 | 2022 |
| Phage anti-CRISPR control by an RNA- and DNA-binding helix–turn–helix protein N Birkholz, K Kamata, M Feussner, ME Wilkinson, C Cuba Samaniego, ... Nature 631 (8021), 670-677, 2024 | 26 | 2024 |
| Molecular basis of anti-CRISPR operon repression by Aca10 SY Lee, N Birkholz, PC Fineran, HH Park Nucleic Acids Research 50 (15), 8919-8928, 2022 | 15 | 2022 |
| Molecular basis of dual anti-CRISPR and auto-regulatory functions of AcrIF24 GE Kim, SY Lee, N Birkholz, K Kamata, JH Jeong, YG Kim, PC Fineran, ... Nucleic Acids Research 50 (19), 11344-11358, 2022 | 11 | 2022 |
| Crystal structure of the anti-CRISPR repressor Aca2 B Usher, N Birkholz, IN Beck, RD Fagerlund, SA Jackson, PC Fineran, ... Journal of Structural Biology 213 (3), 107752, 2021 | 8 | 2021 |
| Turning down the (C)BASS: Phage-encoded inhibitors jam bacterial immune signaling N Birkholz, PC Fineran Molecular Cell 82 (12), 2185-2187, 2022 | 5 | 2022 |
| Repurposing an Endogenous CRISPR-Cas System to Generate and Study Subtle Mutations in Bacteriophages K Kamata, N Birkholz, M Ceelen, RD Fagerlund, SA Jackson, PC Fineran The CRISPR journal, 2024 | 1 | 2024 |
| Regulation of anti-CRISPR operons by structurally distinct families of Aca proteins SY Lee, N Birkholz, JH Lee, PC Fineran, HH Park Communications Biology 8 (1), 1698, 2025 | | 2025 |
| Anti-CRISPRs deconstruct bacterial defense N Birkholz, PC Fineran Molecular cell 84 (17), 3172-3174, 2024 | | 2024 |
