Luis Blanco

9.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
146 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

About

Luis Blanco is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Luis Blanco has authored 146 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 123 papers in Molecular Biology, 41 papers in Genetics and 30 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Luis Blanco's work include DNA Repair Mechanisms (93 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (50 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (38 papers). Luis Blanco is often cited by papers focused on DNA Repair Mechanisms (93 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (50 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (38 papers). Luis Blanco collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United States and France. Luis Blanco's co-authors include Margarita Salas, António Bernad, José M. Lázaro, Miguel Garcı́a-Dı́az, Katarzyna Bębenek, Thomas A. Kunkel, Juan Méndez, Miguel de Vega, María I. Martínez-Jiménez and Cristina Garmendia and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Luis Blanco

144 papers receiving 7.2k 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.

Highly Efficient DNA Synthesis by the Phage ϕ 29 DNA Polymerase

1989 544 citations Luis Blanco, António Bernad et al. Journal of Biological Chemistry profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Luis Blanco	6.3k	2.0k	1.4k	825	619	146	7.4k
Frank B. Dean	4.9k 0.8×	1.9k 0.9×	1.5k 1.0×	558 0.7×	2.0k 3.2×	49	7.0k
Patrick Linder	7.9k 1.3×	1.3k 0.6×	606 0.4×	320 0.4×	327 0.5×	101	9.3k
James E. Dahlberg	8.2k 1.3×	1.2k 0.6×	790 0.6×	2.9k 3.5×	320 0.5×	81	9.4k
Kevin M. Weeks	12.1k 1.9×	940 0.5×	815 0.6×	1.2k 1.4×	142 0.2×	175	13.3k
James L. Hartley	4.0k 0.6×	929 0.5×	389 0.3×	237 0.3×	457 0.7×	48	5.5k
Richard W. Moyer	2.5k 0.4×	1.4k 0.7×	589 0.4×	651 0.8×	528 0.9×	128	5.5k
Robert J. Crouch	5.5k 0.9×	1.2k 0.6×	668 0.5×	190 0.2×	263 0.4×	86	6.4k
Maciej Żylicz	6.8k 1.1×	1.5k 0.7×	505 0.4×	290 0.4×	579 0.9×	86	7.8k
C. Erec Stebbins	3.1k 0.5×	942 0.5×	407 0.3×	485 0.6×	354 0.6×	59	5.1k
Grzegorz Kudla	6.7k 1.1×	1.1k 0.5×	444 0.3×	1.6k 1.9×	205 0.3×	55	7.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Luis Blanco

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Drury, Lucy S., María I. Martínez-Jiménez, Luis Blanco, et al.. (2025). S-phase checkpoint protects from aberrant replication fork processing and degradation. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(14). 1 indexed citations

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Alcorlo, Martín, Juan R. Luque-Ortega, Federico Gago, et al.. (2024). Flexible structural arrangement and DNA-binding properties of protein p6 from Bacillus subtillis phage φ29. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(4). 2045–2065. 2 indexed citations

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Blanco, Luis, et al.. (2023). 3′dNTP Binding Is Modulated during Primer Synthesis and Translesion by Human PrimPol. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 25(1). 51–51.

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Kasho, Kazutoshi, Gorazd Stojkovič, María I. Martínez-Jiménez, et al.. (2021). A unique arginine cluster in PolDIP2 enhances nucleotide binding and DNA synthesis by PrimPol. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(4). 2179–2191. 10 indexed citations

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Díaz‐Talavera, Alberto, et al.. (2021). Human PrimPol Discrimination against Dideoxynucleotides during Primer Synthesis. Genes. 12(10). 1487–1487. 5 indexed citations

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González‐Acosta, Daniel, Karun Mutreja, Susana Llanos, et al.. (2021). PrimPol‐mediated repriming facilitates replication traverse of DNA interstrand crosslinks. The EMBO Journal. 40(14). e106355–e106355. 47 indexed citations

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Cañón, Susana, Antonio Molina, Javier Suela, et al.. (2017). Polμ deficiency induces moderate shortening of P53−/− mouse lifespan and modifies tumor spectrum. DNA repair. 54. 40–45. 2 indexed citations

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Martín, María José & Luis Blanco. (2014). Decision-making during NHEJ: a network of interactions in human Polμ implicated in substrate recognition and end-bridging. Nucleic Acids Research. 42(12). 7923–7934. 12 indexed citations

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Mesa, Pablo, Arkaitz Ibarra, María I. Martínez-Jiménez, et al.. (2011). Molecular architecture of a multifunctional MCM complex. Nucleic Acids Research. 40(3). 1366–1380. 22 indexed citations

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Blanco, Luis & Laurent M. Mugnier. (2011). Marginal blind deconvolution of adaptive optics retinal images. Optics Express. 19(23). 23227–23227. 26 indexed citations

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Kamtekar, Satwik, Andrea J. Berman, Jimin Wang, et al.. (2006). The ϕ29 DNA polymerase:protein‐primer structure suggests a model for the initiation to elongation transition. The EMBO Journal. 25(6). 1335–1343. 76 indexed citations

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Lucas, Daniel, Teresa Laı́n de Lera, Manuel González‐Guerrero, et al.. (2005). Polymerase μ is up‐regulated during the T cell‐dependent immune response and its deficiency alters developmental dynamics of spleen centroblasts. European Journal of Immunology. 35(5). 1601–1611. 17 indexed citations

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Kamtekar, Satwik, Andrea J. Berman, Jimin Wang, et al.. (2004). Insights into Strand Displacement and Processivity from the Crystal Structure of the Protein-Primed DNA Polymerase of Bacteriophage φ29. Molecular Cell. 16(4). 609–618. 142 indexed citations

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Kamtekar, Satwik, Andrea J. Berman, Jimin Wang, et al.. (2004). Insights into Strand Displacement and Processivity from the Crystal Structure of the Protein-Primed DNA Polymerase of Bacteriophage φ29. Molecular Cell. 16(6). 1035–1036. 2 indexed citations

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Méndez, Juan, et al.. (2000). An aspartic acid residue in TPR-1, a specific region of protein-priming DNA polymerases, is required for the functional interaction with primer terminal protein. Journal of Molecular Biology. 304(3). 289–300. 44 indexed citations

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Zaballos, Ángel, et al.. (1998). The RGD Sequence in Phage ø29 Terminal Protein Is Required for Interaction with ø29 DNA Polymerase. Virology. 248(1). 12–19. 15 indexed citations

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Yáñez‐Muñoz, Rafael J., et al.. (1997). Characterization of an African Swine Fever Virus 20-kDa DNA Polymerase Involved in DNA Repair. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 272(49). 30899–30910. 89 indexed citations

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Blanco, Luis & Margarita Salas. (1996). Relating Structure to Function in 29 DNA Polymerase. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 271(15). 8509–8512. 97 indexed citations

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Blasco, Marı́a A., Juan Méndez, José M. Lázaro, Luis Blanco, & Margarita Salas. (1995). Primer Terminus Stabilization at the φ29 DNA Polymerase Active Site. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 270(6). 2735–2740. 64 indexed citations

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Blasco, Marı́a A., José A. Esteban, Juan Méndez, Luis Blanco, & Margarita Salas. (1992). Structural and functional studies on ø29 DNA polymerase. Chromosoma. 102(S1). S32–S38. 10 indexed citations

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