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  1. Effects of Coenzyme Q10 on the Biomarkers (Hydrogen, Methane, SCFA and TMA) and Composition of the Gut Microbiome in Rats

    Article • Pharmaceuticals, May 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  2. Analysis of Genome Structure and Its Variations in Potato Cultivars Grown in Russia

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, March 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  3. Carbon Emission and Biodiversity of Arctic Soil Microbial Communities of the Novaya Zemlya and Franz Josef Land Archipelagos

    Article • Microorganisms, February 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  4. Effect of Brown Algae and Lichen Extracts on the SCOBY Microbiome and Kombucha Properties

    Article • Foods, December 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  5. Targeted Modification of Mammalian DNA by a Novel Type V Cas12a Endonuclease from Ruminococcus bromii

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, August 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  6. Nitrogen Fixation Activity and Genome Analysis of a Moderately Haloalkaliphilic Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacterium Rhodovulum tesquicola

    Article • Microorganisms, August 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  7. Wintertime Simulations Induce Changes in the Structure, Diversity and Function of Antarctic Sea Ice-Associated Microbial Communities

    Article • Microorganisms, March 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  8. Culture-Independent Survey of Thermophilic Microbial Communities of the North Caucasus

    Article • Biology, December 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  9. Draft Genome Sequence of Rhodococcus qingshengii (Formerly erythropolis ) TA37, a First-Generation Biocatalyst for Synthesis of Functionalized Acrylamides

    Article • Microbiology Resource Announcements, December 2021, ASM Journals

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov, Andrey Novikov

  10. Draft Genome Sequences of Two Strains of Enterococcus lactis Showing High Potential as Cattle Probiotic Supplements

    Article • Microbiology Resource Announcements, December 2021, ASM Journals

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  11. SNP-Based Analysis Reveals Authenticity and Genetic Similarity of Russian Indigenous V. vinifera Grape Cultivars

    Article • Plants, December 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  12. An interplay between viruses and bacteria associated with marine sponges from the White Sea revealed by metagenomics

    Article • November 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  13. Draft Genome Sequence of the Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacterium Rhodoferax sp. Strain U11-2br, Isolated from a Mountain Lake on the Ulagan Plateau

    Article • Microbiology Resource Announcements, October 2021, ASM Journals

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  14. Draft Genome Sequence of the Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacterium Rhodomicrobium sp. Strain Az07, Isolated from a Brackish Canal

    Article • Microbiology Resource Announcements, September 2021, ASM Journals

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  15. Draft De Novo Genome Assembly of Acinetobacter pittii Strain VKPM B-3780, a Prospective Multifunctional Bioremediation Agent

    Article • Microbiology Resource Announcements, August 2021, ASM Journals

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  16. Draft Genome Sequence of Rhodococcus erythropolis VKPM Ac-1659, a Putative Oil-Degrading Strain Isolated from Polluted Soil in Siberia

    Article • Microbiology Resource Announcements, July 2021, ASM Journals

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  17. Appearances are deceptive: Three RNA viruses co-infected with the nucleopolyhedrovirus in host Lymantria dispar

    Article • Virus Research, May 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  18. Thermogemmata fonticola gen. nov., sp. nov., the first thermophilic planctomycete of the order Gemmatales from a Kamchatka hot spring

    Article • Systematic and Applied Microbiology, January 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  19. Origin and Evolution of Studiervirinae Bacteriophages Infecting Pectobacterium: Horizontal Transfer Assists Adaptation to New Niches

    Article • Microorganisms, October 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Alexander N. Ignatov, Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  20. Hot in Cold: Microbial Life in the Hottest Springs in Permafrost

    Article • Microorganisms, August 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  21. Isachenkonia alkalipeptolytica gen. nov. sp. nov., a new anaerobic, alkaliphilic proteolytic bacterium capable of reducing Fe(III) and sulfur

    Article • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, August 2020, Society for General Microbiology

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  22. Tepidiforma bonchosmolovskayae gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately thermophilic Chloroflexi bacterium from a Chukotka hot spring (Arctic, Russia), representing a novel class, Tepidiformia, which includes the previously uncultivated lineage OLB14

    Article • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, February 2020, Society for General Microbiology

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  23. Genomic Insights into the Carbon and Energy Metabolism of a Thermophilic Deep-Sea Bacterium Deferribacter autotrophicus Revealed New Metabolic Traits in the Phylum Deferribacteres

    Article • Genes, October 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  24. Form III RubisCO-mediated transaldolase variant of the Calvin cycle in a chemolithoautotrophic bacterium

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, August 2019, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  25. Diversity of “Ca. Micrarchaeota” in Two Distinct Types of Acidic Environments and Their Associations with Thermoplasmatales

    Article • Genes, June 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  26. Natrarchaeobius chitinivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., and Natrarchaeobius halalkaliphilus sp. nov., alkaliphilic, chitin-utilizing haloarchaea from hypersaline alkaline lakes

    Article • Systematic and Applied Microbiology, May 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  27. Genomic Insights Into Energy Metabolism of Carboxydocella thermautotrophica Coupling Hydrogenogenic CO Oxidation With the Reduction of Fe(III) Minerals

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, August 2018, Frontiers

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  28. Genome of Pectobacterium atrosepticum PB72 and Genome its Specific Bacteriophage PP90

    Article • Genome Announcements, July 2018, ASM Journals

    Dr Alexander N. Ignatov, Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  29. Natronobiforma cellulositropha gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel haloalkaliphilic member of the family Natrialbaceae (class Halobacteria) from hypersaline alkaline lakes

    Article • Systematic and Applied Microbiology, July 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  30. Draft Genome Sequence of Roseomonas aestuarii Strain JR1/69-1-13 Isolated from Nitrate- and Radionuclide-Contaminated Groundwater in Russia

    Article • Genome Announcements, June 2018, ASM Journals

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  31. Microbiome Responses to an Uncontrolled Short-Term Diet Intervention in the Frame of the Citizen Science Project

    Article • Nutrients, May 2018, MDPI AG

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  32. Draft Genome Sequence of Methylovulum psychrotolerans Sph1 T , an Obligate Methanotroph from Low-Temperature Environments

    Article • Genome Announcements, March 2018, ASM Journals

    Dr Svetlana N Dedysh, Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  33. Genomic characteristics of vB_PpaP_PP74, a T7-like Autographivirinae bacteriophage infecting a potato pathogen of the newly proposed species Pectobacterium parmentieri

    Article • Archives of Virology, February 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alexander N. Ignatov, Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  34. The genome analysis of Oleiphilus messinensis ME102 (DSM 13489 T ) reveals backgrounds of its obligate alkane-devouring marine lifestyle

    Article • Marine Genomics, December 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  35. The nucleoid protein Dps binds genomic DNA of Escherichia coli in a non-random manner

    Article • PLoS ONE, August 2017, PLOS

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  36. ‘ARMAN’ archaea depend on association with euryarchaeal host in culture and in situ

    Article • Nature Communications, July 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  37. Calorithrix insularis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel representative of the phylum Calditrichaeota

    Article • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, May 2017, Society for General Microbiology

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  38. Thermodesulfobium acidiphilum sp. nov., a thermoacidophilic, sulfate-reducing, chemoautotrophic bacterium from a thermal site

    Article • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, May 2017, Society for General Microbiology

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  39. Discovery of anaerobic lithoheterotrophic haloarchaea, ubiquitous in hypersaline habitats

    Article • The ISME Journal, January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  40. Analysis of chitinase diversity in the Baltic Sea bottom sediments

    Article • Microbiology, January 2017, Pleiades Publishing Ltd

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  41. High Diversity of Planctomycetes in Soils of Two Lichen-Dominated Sub-Arctic Ecosystems of Northwestern Siberia

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, December 2016, Frontiers

    Dr Svetlana N Dedysh, Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  42. Biology of archaea from a novel family Cuniculiplasmataceae (Thermoplasmata) ubiquitous in hyperacidic environments

    Article • Scientific Reports, December 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  43. Induction of transcription through the scs insulator leads to abnormal development of Drosophila melanogaster

    Article • Russian Journal of Genetics, October 2016, Pleiades Publishing Ltd

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  44. Complete genome sequence of ‘Halanaeroarchaeum sulfurireducens’ M27-SA2, a sulfur-reducing and acetate-oxidizing haloarchaeon from the deep-sea hypersaline anoxic lake Medee

    Article • Standards in Genomic Sciences, May 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  45. Thermogladius calderae gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, hyperthermophilic crenarchaeote from a Kamchatka hot spring

    Article • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, March 2016, Society for General Microbiology

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  46. Complete genome sequence of and proposal of Thermofilum uzonense sp. nov. a novel hyperthermophilic crenarchaeon and emended description of the genus Thermofilum

    Article • Standards in Genomic Sciences, December 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  47. Halo(natrono)archaea isolated from hypersaline lakes utilize cellulose and chitin as growth substrates

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, September 2015, Frontiers

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  48. Diversity of hydrolases from hydrothermal vent sediments of the Levante Bay, Vulcano Island (Aeolian archipelago) identified by activity-based metagenomics and biochemical characterization of new esterases and an arabinopyranosidase

    Article • Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, August 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  49. Structure of the archaeal community in the Black Sea photic zone

    Article • Microbiology, July 2015, Pleiades Publishing Ltd

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  50. Genomic Analysis of Pure Cultures and Communities

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  51. Tepidisphaera mucosa gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately thermophilic member of the class Phycisphaerae in the phylum Planctomycetes, and proposal of a new family, Tepidisphaeraceae fam. nov., and a new order, Tepidisphaerales ord. nov.

    Article • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, November 2014, Society for General Microbiology

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  52. Thermosipho activus sp. nov., a thermophilic, anaerobic, hydrolytic bacterium isolated from a deep-sea sample

    Article • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, July 2014, Society for General Microbiology

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  53. Mobilitalea sibirica gen. nov., sp. nov., a halotolerant polysaccharide-degrading bacterium

    Article • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, May 2014, Society for General Microbiology

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  54. Complete Genomic Sequence of "Thermofilum adornatus" Strain 1910bT, a Hyperthermophilic Anaerobic Organotrophic Crenarchaeon

    Article • Genome Announcements, September 2013, ASM Journals

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  55. Complete Genome Sequence of Salinarchaeum sp. Strain HArcht-Bsk1T, Isolated from Hypersaline Lake Baskunchak, Russia

    Article • Genome Announcements, July 2013, ASM Journals

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  56. Selective interactions of boundaries with upstream region of Abd-B promoter in Drosophila bithorax complex and role of dCTCF in this process

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, December 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  57. Functional Interaction between the Fab-7 and Fab-8 Boundaries and the Upstream Promoter Region in the Drosophila Abd-B Gene

    Article • Molecular and Cellular Biology, April 2008, ASM Journals

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  58. Study of the Functional Interaction between Mcp Insulators from the Drosophila bithorax Complex: Effects of Insulator Pairing on Enhancer-Promoter Communication

    Article • Molecular and Cellular Biology, February 2007, ASM Journals

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov