A Sancar

4.7k citations

35 papers · 4.0k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 28

Molecular Biology top 2%
Plant Science top 2%
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience top 2%
Genetics top 5%
Cancer Research top 5%

Co-authors: Christopher P. Selby Sang Tae Kim Stephen G. Chaney Paul F. Heelis Gillian Payne Intisar Husain Jing‐Jer Lin Evelyn M. Witkin
Topics: DNA Repair Mechanisms (17 papers)Light effects on plants (13 papers)Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (10 papers)
Cited by: Molecular Biology Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Cancer Research
Journals: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Nucleic Acids Research Journal of Biological Chemistry
Partner nations: United States Russia Germany

In The Last Decade

A Sancar

34 papers receiving 3.9k citations

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DNA EXCISION REPAIR

1996 954 citations A Sancar Annual Review of Biochemistry profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	The General Transcription-Repair Factor TFIIH Is Recruited to the Excision Repair Complex by the XPA Protein Independent of the TFIIE Transcription Factor 2021 ·UNC Libraries ·Joyce T. Reardon,(unknown),A Sancar,David Mu	0
2	Cooperative activation of the ATR checkpoint kinase by TopBP1 and damaged DNA 2009 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Jae Hyuk Choi,Laura A. Lindsey‐Boltz,A Sancar	41
3	DNA Excision Repair Assays 1997 ·Progress in nucleic acid research and molecular biology ·David Mu,A Sancar	8
4	RNA polymerase II stalled at a thymine dimer: footprint and effect on excision repair 1997 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·(unknown),Ronny Drapkin,Danny Reinberg,A Sancar	154
5	DNA EXCISION REPAIRbreakdown → 1996 ·Annual Review of Biochemistry ·A Sancar	954
6	Putative Blue-Light Photoreceptors from Arabidopsis thaliana and Sinapis alba with a High Degree of Sequence Homology to DNA Photolyase Contain the Two Photolyase Cofactors but Lack DNA Repair Activity 1995 ·Biochemistry ·Khushbeer Malhotra,(unknown),Alfred Batschauer,Lale Dawut,A Sancar	218
7	DNA REPAIR IN HUMANS 1995 ·Annual Review of Genetics ·A Sancar	178
8	Phosphorylated and unphosphorylated forms of human single-stranded DNA-binding protein are equally active in simian virus 40 DNA replication and in nucleotide excision repair. 1995 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Zheng Pan,(unknown),Anthony A. Amin,J Hurwitz,A Sancar	57
9	Formation of a ternary complex by human XPA, ERCC1, and ERCC4(XPF) excision repair proteins. 1994 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown),A Sancar	164
10	Limitations of the in vitro repair synthesis assay for probing the role of DNA repair in platinum resistance 1992 ·Chemico-Biological Interactions ·Anne Nichols,W Schmidt,Stephen G. Chaney,A Sancar	6
11	Energy transfer (deazaflavin .fwdarw. FADH2) and electron transfer (FADH2 .fwdarw. T.ltbbrac..rtbbrac.T) kinetics in Anacystis nidulans photolyase 1992 ·Biochemistry ·Sang Tae Kim,Paul F. Heelis,A Sancar	72
12	In vitro characterization of repair synthesis initiated by T4 endonuclease V on a synthetic DNA substrate. 1992 ·PubMed ·(unknown),A Sancar	1
13	Excited quartet states in DNA photolyase 1992 ·Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B Biology ·Paul F. Heelis,A Sancar,Tadashi Okamura	5
14	Effect of base, pentose, and phosphodiester backbone structures on binding and repair of pyrimidine dimers by Escherichia coli DNA photolyase 1991 ·Biochemistry ·Sang Tae Kim,A Sancar	111
15	Determination of rates and yields of interchromophore (folate .fwdarw. flavin) energy transfer and intermolecular (flavin .fwdarw. DNA) electron transfer in Escherichia coli photolyase by time-resolved fluorescence and absorption spectroscopy 1991 ·Biochemistry ·Sang Tae Kim,Paul F. Heelis,Tadashi Okamura,Yoshinori Hirata,Noboru Mataga,A Sancar	102
16	Excited-state properties of Escherichia coli DNA photolyase in the picosecond to millisecond time scale 1990 ·Biochemistry ·Paul F. Heelis,Tadashi Okamura,A Sancar	67
17	Active site of Escherichia coli DNA photolyase: mutations at Trp277 alter the selectivity of the enzyme without affecting the quantum yield of photorepair 1990 ·Biochemistry ·(unknown),A Sancar	67
18	Reconstitution of Escherichia coli photolyase with flavins and flavin analogs 1990 ·Biochemistry ·Gillian Payne,Matthew A. Wills,Christopher T. Walsh,A Sancar	60
19	Human nucleotide excision repairin vitro: repair of pyrimidine dimers, psoralen and cisplatin adducts by HeLa cell-free extract 1989 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·(unknown),Intisar Husain,(unknown),A Sancar	129
20	The active form of Escherichia coli DNA photolyase contains a fully reduced flavin and not a flavin radical, both in vivo and in vitro 1987 ·Biochemistry ·Gillian Payne,Paul F. Heelis,Brian R. Rohrs,A Sancar	95

About A Sancar

A Sancar is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Plant Science, having authored 35 papers that have together received 4.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include DNA Repair Mechanisms (17 papers), Light effects on plants (13 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (10 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Molecular Biology (3.3k citations), Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (687 citations) and Cancer Research (524 citations). A Sancar has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Russia and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Christopher P. Selby, Sang Tae Kim, Stephen G. Chaney, Paul F. Heelis, Gillian Payne, Intisar Husain, Jing‐Jer Lin, Evelyn M. Witkin, Jack D. Griffith and Alfred Batschauer. Their work appears in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

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