J C Wang

6.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

J C Wang is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, J C Wang has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Organic Chemistry and 4 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in J C Wang's work include Cancer therapeutics and mechanisms (29 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (13 papers) and DNA Repair Mechanisms (11 papers). J C Wang is often cited by papers focused on Cancer therapeutics and mechanisms (29 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (13 papers) and DNA Repair Mechanisms (11 papers). J C Wang collaborates with scholars based in United States, Taiwan and Japan. J C Wang's co-authors include John L. Nitiss, Leroy F. Liu, Joaquím Roca, James M. Berger, Mary‐Ann Bjornsti, Stephen T. Worland, Paul R. Caron, Henggui Zhang, Piero Benedetti and Takashi Goto and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

J C Wang

31 papers receiving 5.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

DNA TOPOISOMERASES

1996 1.6k citations J C Wang Annual Review of Biochemistry profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
J C Wang United States	28	5.5k	1.7k	1.1k	741	399	32	5.9k
Ole Westergaard Denmark	37	3.4k 0.6×	965 0.6×	669 0.6×	340 0.5×	243 0.6×	92	3.6k
Tao‐shih Hsieh United States	33	2.9k 0.5×	549 0.3×	315 0.3×	230 0.3×	430 1.1×	68	3.1k
Kenneth N. Kreuzer United States	36	4.5k 0.8×	498 0.3×	318 0.3×	223 0.3×	324 0.8×	89	5.0k
Akio Sugino United States	49	7.1k 1.3×	678 0.4×	256 0.2×	184 0.2×	575 1.4×	100	7.7k
Paul R. Caron United States	26	4.0k 0.7×	485 0.3×	113 0.1×	265 0.4×	297 0.7×	40	5.2k
Kenneth J. Marians United States	64	10.1k 1.8×	725 0.4×	360 0.3×	189 0.3×	533 1.3×	150	10.8k
Mark R. Sanderson United Kingdom	29	2.3k 0.4×	298 0.2×	145 0.1×	334 0.5×	98 0.2×	55	2.8k
Silvio Spadari Italy	43	4.5k 0.8×	753 0.4×	71 0.1×	564 0.8×	589 1.5×	188	6.1k
Richard A. Pauptit United Kingdom	25	1.8k 0.3×	558 0.3×	100 0.1×	526 0.7×	75 0.2×	42	2.6k
Benoı̂t Gigant France	32	3.2k 0.6×	629 0.4×	130 0.1×	1.5k 2.0×	169 0.4×	63	5.1k

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Wang, J C. (1996). DNA TOPOISOMERASES. Annual Review of Biochemistry. 65(1). 635–692. 1643 indexed citations breakdown →

Lue, Neal F., et al.. (1995). A 26 kDa yeast DNA topoisomerase I fragment: crystallographic structure and mechanistic implications. Structure. 3(12). 1315–1322. 26 indexed citations

Caron, Paul R., Paul M. Watt, & J C Wang. (1994). The C-terminal domain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA topoisomerase II.. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 14(5). 3197–3207. 75 indexed citations

Hanai, Ryo & J C Wang. (1994). Protein footprinting by the combined use of reversible and irreversible lysine modifications.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 91(25). 11904–11908. 37 indexed citations

Lynch, A. Simon & J C Wang. (1993). Anchoring of DNA to the bacterial cytoplasmic membrane through cotranscriptional synthesis of polypeptides encoding membrane proteins or proteins for export: a mechanism of plasmid hypernegative supercoiling in mutants deficient in DNA topoisomerase I. Journal of Bacteriology. 175(6). 1645–1655. 128 indexed citations

Roca, Joaquím, James M. Berger, & J C Wang. (1993). On the simultaneous binding of eukaryotic DNA topoisomerase II to a pair of double-stranded DNA helices. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 268(19). 14250–14255. 80 indexed citations

Benedetti, Piero, et al.. (1993). Camptothecin resistance from a single mutation changing glycine 363 of human DNA topoisomerase I to cysteine.. PubMed. 53(18). 4343–8. 93 indexed citations

Lee, Ming-Sheng, J C Wang, & M Beran. (1992). Two independent amsacrine-resistant human myeloid leukemia cell lines share an identical point mutation in the 170 kDa form of human topoisomerase II. Journal of Molecular Biology. 223(4). 837–843. 85 indexed citations

Wang, J C, et al.. (1992). Identification of the yeast TOP3 gene product as a single strand-specific DNA topoisomerase.. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 267(24). 17178–17185. 113 indexed citations

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Wang, J C. (1991). DNA topoisomerases: why so many?. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 266(11). 6659–6662. 307 indexed citations

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Lindsley, Janet E. & J C Wang. (1991). Proteolysis patterns of epitopically labeled yeast DNA topoisomerase II suggest an allosteric transition in the enzyme induced by ATP binding.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 88(23). 10485–10489. 113 indexed citations

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Wang, J C, et al.. (1989). A subthreshold level of DNA topoisomerases leads to the excision of yeast rDNA as extrachromosomal rings. Cell. 57(6). 975–985. 176 indexed citations

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Worland, Stephen T. & J C Wang. (1989). Inducible overexpression, purification, and active site mapping of DNA topoisomerase II from the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 264(8). 4412–4416. 233 indexed citations

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Bjornsti, Mary‐Ann, Piero Benedetti, Gregory A. Viglianti, & J C Wang. (1989). Expression of human DNA topoisomerase I in yeast cells lacking yeast DNA topoisomerase I: restoration of sensitivity of the cells to the antitumor drug camptothecin.. PubMed. 49(22). 6318–23. 235 indexed citations

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Liu, Leroy F., K M Tewey, Jacqueline Whang‐Peng, et al.. (1988). Cloning and sequencing of cDNA encoding human DNA topoisomerase II and localization of the gene to chromosome region 17q21-22.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 85(19). 7177–7181. 354 indexed citations

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Nitiss, John L. & J C Wang. (1988). DNA topoisomerase-targeting antitumor drugs can be studied in yeast.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 85(20). 7501–7505. 424 indexed citations

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Zhang, Henggui, J C Wang, & Leroy F. Liu. (1988). Involvement of DNA topoisomerase I in transcription of human ribosomal RNA genes.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 85(4). 1060–1064. 251 indexed citations

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Margolin, Paul, Louis A. Zumstein, Rolf Sternglanz, & J C Wang. (1985). The Escherichia coli supX locus is topA, the structural gene for DNA topoisomerase I.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 82(16). 5437–5441. 38 indexed citations

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Sternglanz, Rolf, Stephen DiNardo, Y Nishimura, et al.. (1981). Mutations in the gene coding for Escherichia coli DNA topoisomerase I affect transcription and transposition.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 78(5). 2747–2751. 247 indexed citations

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Wang, J C & Karla Kirkegaard. (1981). DNA topoisomerases.. PubMed. 2. 455–73. 4 indexed citations

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