Michael D. Topal

8.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
50 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Michael D. Topal is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael D. Topal has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Genetics and 7 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Michael D. Topal's work include DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (31 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (20 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (11 papers). Michael D. Topal is often cited by papers focused on DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (31 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (20 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (11 papers). Michael D. Topal collaborates with scholars based in United States. Michael D. Topal's co-authors include Jacques R. Fresco, Michael N. Conrad, Jeffrey M. Voigt, J. Eadie, Mary S. Baker, Kiwon Jo, Navin Sinha, Erich Huang, Richard J. Reid and Tara Lyons‐Darden and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Michael D. Topal

49 papers receiving 2.5k citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael D. Topal United States	25	2.2k	501	284	279	253	50	2.6k
M. Daune France	33	2.6k 1.2×	451 0.9×	521 1.8×	386 1.4×	354 1.4×	95	3.1k
H. Pelletier United States	9	2.4k 1.1×	333 0.7×	162 0.6×	144 0.5×	104 0.4×	9	2.7k
Evangelos N. Moudrianakis United States	32	3.8k 1.7×	283 0.6×	166 0.6×	114 0.4×	111 0.4×	83	4.3k
Siddhartha Roy India	33	2.3k 1.1×	432 0.9×	501 1.8×	95 0.3×	192 0.8×	136	3.1k
Steven R. Jordan United States	24	2.2k 1.0×	406 0.8×	501 1.8×	550 2.0×	247 1.0×	46	3.2k
G. Victor Fazakerley France	31	2.1k 0.9×	144 0.3×	402 1.4×	107 0.4×	433 1.7×	96	2.7k
Mark M. Garner United States	25	2.1k 0.9×	710 1.4×	438 1.5×	83 0.3×	560 2.2×	45	3.4k
John Spurlino United States	24	1.6k 0.7×	485 1.0×	538 1.9×	309 1.1×	432 1.7×	42	2.8k
Peter D. Cary United Kingdom	30	2.2k 1.0×	381 0.8×	137 0.5×	144 0.5×	66 0.3×	74	2.8k
Howard Gamper United States	33	3.6k 1.6×	610 1.2×	254 0.9×	306 1.1×	374 1.5×	98	4.1k

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Topal, Michael D., et al.. (2004). Triplet Repeat Expansion Generated by DNA Slippage Is Suppressed by Human Flap Endonuclease 1. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 279(22). 23088–23097. 22 indexed citations

Carrick, Kevin & Michael D. Topal. (2003). Amino Acid Substitutions at Position 43 of NaeI Endonuclease. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 278(11). 9733–9739. 3 indexed citations

Heidenfelder, Brooke L, Alexander M. Makhov, & Michael D. Topal. (2003). Hairpin Formation in Friedreich's Ataxia Triplet Repeat Expansion. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 278(4). 2425–2431. 56 indexed citations

Huai, Qing, et al.. (2001). Structure of NaeI-DNA complex reveals dual-mode DNA recognition and complete dimer rearrangement.. Nature Structural Biology. 8(8). 665–669. 41 indexed citations

Lyons‐Darden, Tara & Michael D. Topal. (1999). Abasic Sites Induce Triplet-repeat Expansion during DNA Replication in Vitro. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 274(37). 25975–25978. 26 indexed citations

Lyons‐Darden, Tara & Michael D. Topal. (1999). Effects of temperature, Mg2+ concentration and mismatches on triplet-repeat expansion during DNA replication in vitro. Nucleic Acids Research. 27(11). 2235–2240. 20 indexed citations

Jo, Kyubong & Michael D. Topal. (1998). Step-wise DNA relaxation and decatenation by NaeI-43K. Nucleic Acids Research. 26(10). 2380–2384. 9 indexed citations

Voigt, Jeffrey M. & Michael D. Topal. (1995). O⁶-Methylguanine-induced replication blocks. Carcinogenesis. 16(8). 1775–1782. 33 indexed citations

Jo, Kiwon & Michael D. Topal. (1995). DNA Topoisomerase and Recombinase Activities in Nae I Restriction Endonuclease. Science. 267(5205). 1817–1820. 61 indexed citations

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Baxter, Bonnie K., et al.. (1994). DNA Cleavage by NaeI: Protein Purification, Rate-Limiting Step, and Accuracy. Biochemistry. 33(49). 14918–14925. 15 indexed citations

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Baxter, Bonnie K. & Michael D. Topal. (1993). Formation of a cleavasome: enhancer DNA-2 stabilizes an active conformation of NaeI dimer. Biochemistry. 32(32). 8291–8298. 18 indexed citations

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Topal, Michael D. & Michael N. Conrad. (1993). Changing endonucleaseEcoRIITyr308 to Phe abolishes cleavage but not recognition: possible homology with the int-family of recombinases. Nucleic Acids Research. 21(11). 2599–2603. 30 indexed citations

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Conrad, Michael N. & Michael D. Topal. (1992). Modified DNA fragments activateNaelcleavage of refractory DNA sites. Nucleic Acids Research. 20(19). 5127–5130. 18 indexed citations

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Topal, Michael D., Randy Thresher, Michael N. Conrad, & Jack Griffith. (1991). NaeI endonuclease binding to pBR322 DNA induces looping. Biochemistry. 30(7). 2006–2010. 51 indexed citations

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Oller, Adriana R., et al.. (1991). Ability of DNA and spermidine to affect the activity of restriction endonucleases from several bacterial species. Biochemistry. 30(9). 2543–2549. 57 indexed citations

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Voigt, Jeffrey M. & Michael D. Topal. (1990). O6-Methylguanine in place of guanine causes asymmetric single-strand cleavage of DNA by some restriction enzymes. Biochemistry. 29(6). 1632–1637. 19 indexed citations

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Voigt, Jeffrey M. & Michael D. Topal. (1990). O6-Methylguanine and A:C and G:T mismatches cause asymmetric structural defects in DNA that are affected by DNA sequence. Biochemistry. 29(21). 5012–5018. 26 indexed citations

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Rossi, Susan C., Michael N. Conrad, Jeffrey M. Voigt, & Michael D. Topal. (1989). Excision repair of O⁶-methylguanine synthesized at the rat H-ras N-methyl-N-nitrosourea activation site and introduced into Escherichia coli. Carcinogenesis. 10(2). 373–377. 43 indexed citations

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Topal, Michael D.. (1988). DNA repair, oncogenes and carcinogenesis. Carcinogenesis. 9(5). 691–696. 63 indexed citations

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Topal, Michael D. & Navin Sinha. (1983). Products of bacteriophage T4 genes 32 and 45 improve the accuracy of DNA replication in vitro.. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 258(20). 12274–12279. 36 indexed citations

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