Publications

Shaw LP, Celis AP, Arroyo MA, Luo L, Dimitriu T & de la Cruz F (2025) The leading region of many conjugative plasmids is depleted in restriction-modification targets. bioRxiv 2025.04.03.647016

Matthews AC, Dimitriu T (2025) Stealth plasmids: rapid evolution of deleted plasmids can displace antibiotic resistance plasmids under selection for horizontal transmission. bioRxiv 2025.03.30.646151

Dimitriu T, Szczelkun MD, Westra ER (2024) Various plasmid strategies limit the effect of bacterial Restriction-Modification systems against conjugation. Nucleic Acids Research 52 (21) 12976-12986. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkae896

Vos M, Buckling A, Kuijper B, Eyre-Walker A, Bontemps C, Leblond P & Dimitriu T (2024) Why do mobile genetic elements transfer DNA of their hosts ? Trends in Genetics 40 (11), 927-938. DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2024.07.008

Dimitriu T (2022) Evolution of horizontal transmission in antimicrobial resistance plasmids. Microbiology 168 (7), 001214. https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.001214

Dimitriu T, Kurilovich E, Lapinska U, Severinov K, Pagliara S, Szczelkin MD, Westra ER (2022) Bacteriostatic antibiotics promote CRISPR-Cas adaptive immunity by enabling increased spacer acquisition. Cell Host & Microbe 30 (1), 31-40.e5 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2021.11.014

Pursey E, Dimitriu T, Paganelli FL, Westra ER, van Houte S (2022) CRISPR-Cas is associated with fewer antibiotic resistance genes in bacterial pathogens. Phil Trans Roy Soc B 377 (1842), 20200464. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0464

Dimitriu T, Matthews AC and Buckling A (2021) Increased copy number couples the evolution of plasmid horizontal transmission and antibiotic resistance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (31), e2107818118 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2107818118

Dimitriu T, Szczelkun MD and Westra ER (2020) Evolutionary Ecology and Interplay of Prokaryotic Innate and Adaptive Immune Systems. Current Biology 30 (19), R1189-R1202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.08.028