Mansour Akbari

4.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
39 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Mansour Akbari is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Mansour Akbari has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Physiology and 4 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Mansour Akbari's work include DNA Repair Mechanisms (26 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (14 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (5 papers). Mansour Akbari is often cited by papers focused on DNA Repair Mechanisms (26 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (14 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (5 papers). Mansour Akbari collaborates with scholars based in Norway, United States and Denmark. Mansour Akbari's co-authors include Hans E. Krokan, Vilhelm A. Bohr, Marit Otterlei, Geir Slupphaug, Deborah L. Croteau, Hilde Nilsen, Frank Skorpen, Ottar Sundheim, Per Arne and Yujun Hou and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Mansour Akbari

39 papers receiving 3.8k citations

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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.

Mitophagy inhibits amyloid-β and tau pathology and reverses cognitive deficits in models of Alzheimer’s disease

2019 1.3k citations Yujun Hou, Deborah L. Croteau et al. profile →
Human and bacterial oxidative demethylases repair alkylation damage in both RNA and DNA

2003 528 citations Per Arne, Marit Otterlei et al. Nature profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	The DNA repair enzyme, aprataxin, plays a role in innate immune signaling 2023 ·Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience ·Helena Borland Madsen, (unknown), (unknown), Mansour Akbari, Lene Juel Rasmussen, Daryl P. Shanley, Vilhelm A. Bohr	2
2	Cytosolic Self-DNA—A Potential Source of Chronic Inflammation in Aging 2021 ·Cells ·Mansour Akbari, Daryl P. Shanley, Vilhelm A. Bohr, Lene Juel Rasmussen	18
3	Hippocampal tau oligomerization early in tau pathology coincides with a transient alteration of mitochondrial homeostasis and DNA repair in a mouse model of tauopathy 2020 ·Acta Neuropathologica Communications ·Jin Zheng, Mansour Akbari, (unknown), (unknown), Anne Loyens, Bruno Lefebvre, Luc Buée, Deborah L. Croteau, Marie‐Christine Galas, Vilhelm A. Bohr	39
4	DNA Polymerase Beta Participates in Mitochondrial DNA Repair 2017 ·Molecular and Cellular Biology ·Peter Sýkora, Shin-ichiro Kanno, Mansour Akbari, Tomasz Kulikowicz, Beverly A. Baptiste, Giovana da Silva Leandro, Huiming Lu, Jane Tian, Alfred May, Karsten Becker, Deborah L. Croteau, David M. Wilson, Robert W. Sobol, Akira Yasui, Vilhelm A. Bohr	82
5	Genome instability in Alzheimer disease 2016 ·Mechanisms of Ageing and Development ·Yujun Hou, Hyundong Song, Deborah L. Croteau, Mansour Akbari, Vilhelm A. Bohr	87
6	Slow mitochondrial repair of 5′-AMP renders mtDNA susceptible to damage in APTX deficient cells 2015 ·Scientific Reports ·Mansour Akbari, Peter Sýkora, Vilhelm A. Bohr	21
7	Overexpression of DNA ligase III in mitochondria protects cells against oxidative stress and improves mitochondrial DNA base excision repair 2014 ·DNA repair ·Mansour Akbari, Guido Keijzers, Scott Maynard, Morten Scheibye‐Knudsen, Claus Desler, Ian D. Hickson, Vilhelm A. Bohr	36
8	The region of XRCC1 which harbours the three most common nonsynonymous polymorphic variants, is essential for the scaffolding function of XRCC1 2012 ·DNA repair ·Audun Hanssen‐Bauer, (unknown), Karin M. Gilljam, (unknown), David M. Wilson, Mansour Akbari, Marit Otterlei	27
9	Base excision repair efficiency and mechanism in nuclear extracts are influenced by the ratio between volume of nuclear extraction buffer and nuclei—Implications for comparative studies 2011 ·Mutation research. Fundamental and molecular mechanisms of mutagenesis ·Mansour Akbari, Hans E. Krokan	4
10	Direct interaction between XRCC1 and UNG2 facilitates rapid repair of uracil in DNA by XRCC1 complexes 2010 ·DNA repair ·Mansour Akbari, (unknown), Audun Hanssen‐Bauer, (unknown), Henrik Sahlin Pettersen, (unknown), David M. Wilson, Hans E. Krokan, Marit Otterlei	48
11	Extracts of proliferating and non-proliferating human cells display different base excision pathways and repair fidelity 2009 ·DNA repair ·Mansour Akbari, Javier Peña-Dı́az, Sonja Andersen, Nina‐Beate Liabakk, Marit Otterlei, Hans E. Krokan	37
12	Mitochondrial base excision repair of uracil and AP sites takes place by single-nucleotide insertion and long-patch DNA synthesis 2008 ·DNA repair ·Mansour Akbari, Torkild Visnes, Hans E. Krokan, Marit Otterlei	104
13	The rate of base excision repair of uracil is controlled by the initiating glycosylase 2008 ·DNA repair ·Torkild Visnes, Mansour Akbari, Lars Hagen, Geir Slupphaug, Hans E. Krokan	37
14	Low Copy Number DNA Template Can Render Polymerase Chain Reaction Error Prone in a Sequence-Dependent Manner 2005 ·Journal of Molecular Diagnostics ·Mansour Akbari, Marianne Doré Hansen, Jostein Halgunset, Frank Skorpen, Hans E. Krokan	80
15	Trypanosoma cruzi Contains a Single Detectable Uracil-DNA Glycosylase and Repairs Uracil Exclusively Via Short Patch Base Excision Repair 2004 ·Journal of Molecular Biology ·Javier Peña-Dı́az, Mansour Akbari, Ottar Sundheim, María Esther Fárez‐Vidal, Sonja Andersen, (unknown), Dolores González‐Pacanowska, Hans E. Krokan, Geir Slupphaug	13
16	A gel electrophoresis method for detection of mitochondrial DNA mutation (3243 tRNA^{Leu (UUR)}) applied to a Norwegian family with diabetes mellitus and hearing loss 2004 ·Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation ·Mansour Akbari, Camilla Furu Skjelbred, Ivar Følling, Jørn V. Sagen, Hans E. Krokan	8
17	Repair of U/G and U/A in DNA by UNG2-associated repair complexes takes place predominantly by short-patch repair both in proliferating and growth-arrested cells 2004 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Mansour Akbari	94
18	Human and bacterial oxidative demethylases repair alkylation damage in both RNA and DNA breakdown → 2003 ·Nature ·Per Arne, Marit Otterlei, Pål Ø. Falnes, Cathrine Broberg Vågbø, Frank Skorpen, Mansour Akbari, Ottar Sundheim, Magnar Bjørås, Geir Slupphaug, Erling Seeberg, Hans E. Krokan	528
19	hUNG2 Is the Major Repair Enzyme for Removal of Uracil from U:A Matches, U:G Mismatches, and U in Single-stranded DNA, with hSMUG1 as a Broad Specificity Backup 2002 ·Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Bodil Kavli, Ottar Sundheim, Mansour Akbari, Marit Otterlei, Hilde Nilsen, Frank Skorpen, Per Arne, Lars Hagen, Hans E. Krokan, Geir Slupphaug	281
20	Properties and functions of human uracil-DNA glycosylase from the UNG gene 2001 ·Progress in nucleic acid research and molecular biology ·Hans E. Krokan, Marit Otterlei, Hilde Nilsen, Bodil Kavli, Frank Skorpen, Sonja Andersen, Camilla Furu Skjelbred, Mansour Akbari, Per Arne, Geir Slupphaug	71

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