Kirk T. Ehmsen

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Kirk T. Ehmsen is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Kirk T. Ehmsen has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Oncology and 2 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Kirk T. Ehmsen's work include DNA Repair Mechanisms (11 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (8 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (3 papers). Kirk T. Ehmsen is often cited by papers focused on DNA Repair Mechanisms (11 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (8 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (3 papers). Kirk T. Ehmsen collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Spain. Kirk T. Ehmsen's co-authors include Wolf‐Dietrich Heyer, Jie Liu, Jachen A. Solinger, Wolf-Dietrich Heyer, Erin K. Schwartz, William D. Wright, Scott W. Morrical, Henning Stahlberg, James Evans and Cristina Tous and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, PLoS ONE and Molecular and Cellular Biology.

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Kirk T. Ehmsen

13 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Regulation of Homologous Recombination in Eukaryotes

2010 809 citations Wolf‐Dietrich Heyer, Kirk T. Ehmsen et al. Annual Review of Genetics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kirk T. Ehmsen United States	10	1.1k	213	183	151	144	13	1.2k
Beth Elliott United States	9	962 0.8×	152 0.7×	190 1.0×	235 1.6×	130 0.9×	10	1.1k
Tatiana Kent United States	14	896 0.8×	260 1.2×	138 0.8×	115 0.8×	88 0.6×	19	978
Robin van Schendel Netherlands	17	1.3k 1.1×	167 0.8×	190 1.0×	309 2.0×	131 0.9×	29	1.4k
Aline Marnef France	17	980 0.9×	106 0.5×	140 0.8×	111 0.7×	75 0.5×	21	1.1k
Benjamin Pardo France	14	841 0.7×	116 0.5×	83 0.5×	125 0.8×	103 0.7×	19	921
Veronika Altmannová Czechia	15	1.0k 0.9×	249 1.2×	142 0.8×	99 0.7×	138 1.0×	23	1.1k
Giordano Reginato Switzerland	14	861 0.7×	123 0.6×	124 0.7×	74 0.5×	69 0.5×	20	896
Jordan Pinder Canada	12	597 0.5×	100 0.5×	92 0.5×	60 0.4×	59 0.4×	14	682
Prabha Sarangi United States	14	1.1k 1.0×	291 1.4×	199 1.1×	85 0.6×	142 1.0×	15	1.2k

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13 of 13 papers shown

Ehmsen, Kirk T., et al.. (2021). Computational resources to define alleles and altered regulatory motifs at genomically edited candidate response elements. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(16). 9117–9131. 2 indexed citations

Arastu‐Kapur, Shirin, Mai Nguyen, Joseph P. Vacca, et al.. (2020). 676 PD-L1 is induced by the periodontal pathogen porphyromonas gingivalis and can be blocked by small molecule gingipain inhibitors, including atuzaginstat. Regular and Young Investigator Award Abstracts. A406–A407. 1 indexed citations

Wright, William D., et al.. (2014). The Mus81-Mms4 structure-selective endonuclease requires nicked DNA junctions to undergo conformational changes and bend its DNA substrates for cleavage. Nucleic Acids Research. 42(10). 6511–6522. 15 indexed citations

Zhang, Xiaoping, et al.. (2013). A Conserved Sequence Extending Motif III of the Motor Domain in the Snf2-Family DNA Translocase Rad54 Is Critical for ATPase Activity. PLoS ONE. 8(12). e82184–e82184. 9 indexed citations

Muñoz-Galván, Sandra, Cristina Tous, Miguel G. Blanco, et al.. (2012). Distinct Roles of Mus81, Yen1, Slx1-Slx4, and Rad1 Nucleases in the Repair of Replication-Born Double-Strand Breaks by Sister Chromatid Exchange. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 32(9). 1592–1603. 55 indexed citations

Schwartz, Erin K., William D. Wright, Kirk T. Ehmsen, et al.. (2012). Mus81-Mms4 Functions as a Single Heterodimer To Cleave Nicked Intermediates in Recombinational DNA Repair. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 32(15). 3065–3080. 51 indexed citations

Wright, William D., Kirk T. Ehmsen, & Wolf‐Dietrich Heyer. (2011). Assays for Structure-Selective DNA Endonucleases. Methods in molecular biology. 745. 345–362. 3 indexed citations

Liu, Jie, Kirk T. Ehmsen, Wolf-Dietrich Heyer, & Scott W. Morrical. (2011). Presynaptic filament dynamics in homologous recombination and DNA repair. Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 46(3). 240–270. 39 indexed citations

Heyer, Wolf‐Dietrich, Kirk T. Ehmsen, & Jie Liu. (2010). Regulation of Homologous Recombination in Eukaryotes. Annual Review of Genetics. 44(1). 113–139. 809 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ehmsen, Kirk T. & Wolf-Dietrich Heyer. (2009). A junction branch point adjacent to a DNA backbone nick directs substrate cleavage by Saccharomyces cerevisiae Mus81-Mms4. Nucleic Acids Research. 37(6). 2026–2036. 27 indexed citations

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Ehmsen, Kirk T. & Wolf‐Dietrich Heyer. (2008). Biochemistry of Meiotic Recombination: Formation, Processing, and Resolution of Recombination Intermediates. PubMed. 3. 91–164. 27 indexed citations

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Ehmsen, Kirk T. & Wolf‐Dietrich Heyer. (2008). Saccharomyces cerevisiae Mus81-Mms4 is a catalytic, DNA structure-selective endonuclease. Nucleic Acids Research. 36(7). 2182–2195. 74 indexed citations

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Heyer, Wolf‐Dietrich, Kirk T. Ehmsen, & Jachen A. Solinger. (2003). Holliday junctions in the eukaryotic nucleus: resolution in sight?. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 28(10). 548–557. 75 indexed citations

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