Mike O’Donnell

26.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
300 papers, 21.5k citations indexed

About

Mike O’Donnell is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mike O’Donnell has authored 300 papers receiving a total of 21.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 270 papers in Molecular Biology, 125 papers in Genetics and 16 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Mike O’Donnell's work include DNA Repair Mechanisms (206 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (126 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (117 papers). Mike O’Donnell is often cited by papers focused on DNA Repair Mechanisms (206 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (126 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (117 papers). Mike O’Donnell collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Mike O’Donnell's co-authors include John Kuriyan, Zvi Kelman, Myron F. Goodman, Roxana E. Georgescu, René Onrust, Nina Y. Yao, Lance D. Langston, Jennifer Turner, Aaron M. Johnson and Manju Hingorani and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Mike O’Donnell

300 papers receiving 21.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Structure of the C-Terminal Region of p21WAF1/CIP1 Complexed with Human PCNA

1996 668 citations Zvi Kelman, Mike O’Donnell et al. Cell profile →
Three-dimensional structure of the β subunit of E. coli DNA polymerase III holoenzyme: A sliding DNA clamp

1992 651 citations Mike O’Donnell, John Kuriyan et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mike O’Donnell United States	82	19.0k	8.3k	2.1k	1.5k	1.4k	300	21.5k
Jack D. Griffith United States	73	14.6k 0.8×	3.1k 0.4×	1.7k 0.8×	1.6k 1.0×	1.0k 0.7×	265	17.7k
Mark Ptashne United States	91	26.5k 1.4×	9.4k 1.1×	1.5k 0.7×	3.6k 2.4×	1.3k 0.9×	204	30.7k
Martin Gellert United States	71	16.5k 0.9×	2.8k 0.3×	3.1k 1.4×	1.4k 0.9×	778 0.5×	142	20.7k
Jack Greenblatt Canada	75	18.0k 1.0×	3.4k 0.4×	1.4k 0.6×	1.3k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	166	19.8k
Stephen C. West United Kingdom	93	23.3k 1.2×	6.3k 0.8×	4.6k 2.1×	702 0.5×	2.0k 1.4×	241	25.4k
Hidesaburô Hanafusa United States	86	15.1k 0.8×	5.8k 0.7×	4.0k 1.9×	657 0.4×	2.8k 1.9×	296	23.3k
Jerard Hurwitz United States	73	12.5k 0.7×	2.8k 0.3×	2.5k 1.2×	1.3k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	185	14.0k
Carl O. Pabo United States	61	19.4k 1.0×	5.1k 0.6×	1.6k 0.8×	1.9k 1.2×	611 0.4×	89	22.1k
Bruce Stillman United States	100	29.3k 1.5×	6.7k 0.8×	7.1k 3.3×	1.5k 1.0×	4.0k 2.8×	227	33.9k
Stephen C. Kowalczykowski United States	72	16.0k 0.8×	5.0k 0.6×	1.9k 0.9×	1.0k 0.7×	850 0.6×	158	17.0k

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Yuan, Zuanning, Roxana E. Georgescu, Nina Y. Yao, et al.. (2024). Mechanism of PCNA loading by Ctf18-RFC for leading-strand DNA synthesis. Science. 385(6708). eadk5901–eadk5901. 7 indexed citations

Huang, Yongjian, Subu Subramanian, Christine L. Gee, et al.. (2024). Autoinhibition of a clamp-loader ATPase revealed by deep mutagenesis and cryo-EM. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 31(3). 424–435. 1 indexed citations

Wasserman, Michael, et al.. (2022). Nucleosome-directed replication origin licensing independent of a consensus DNA sequence. Nature Communications. 13(1). 4947–4947. 18 indexed citations

Georgescu, Roxana E., et al.. (2022). Cryo-EM structures reveal that RFC recognizes both the 3′- and 5′-DNA ends to load PCNA onto gaps for DNA repair. eLife. 11. 20 indexed citations

Yuan, Zuanning, Roxana E. Georgescu, Lin Bai, et al.. (2020). DNA unwinding mechanism of a eukaryotic replicative CMG helicase. Nature Communications. 11(1). 60 indexed citations

Lewis, Jacob S., Grant D. Schauer, S.H. Mueller, et al.. (2019). Nuclease dead Cas9 is a programmable roadblock for DNA replication. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 13292–13292. 47 indexed citations

Mayle, Ryan, Lance D. Langston, Kelly R. Molloy, et al.. (2018). Mcm10 has potent strand-annealing activity and limits translocase-mediated fork regression. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(3). 798–803. 35 indexed citations

O’Donnell, Mike & Huilin Li. (2016). The Eukaryotic Replisome Goes Under the Microscope. Current Biology. 26(6). R247–R256. 29 indexed citations

Langston, Lance D., Dan Zhang, Olga Yurieva, et al.. (2014). CMG helicase and DNA polymerase ε form a functional 15-subunit holoenzyme for eukaryotic leading-strand DNA replication. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(43). 15390–15395. 132 indexed citations

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Kurth, Isabel & Mike O’Donnell. (2012). New insights into replisome fluidity during chromosome replication. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 38(4). 195–203. 25 indexed citations

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Yao, Nina Y., Roxana E. Georgescu, Jeff Finkelstein, & Mike O’Donnell. (2009). Single-molecule analysis reveals that the lagging strand increases replisome processivity but slows replication fork progression. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(32). 13236–13241. 89 indexed citations

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Indiani, Chiara, Lance D. Langston, Olga Yurieva, Myron F. Goodman, & Mike O’Donnell. (2009). Translesion DNA polymerases remodel the replisome and alter the speed of the replicative helicase. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(15). 6031–6038. 92 indexed citations

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Kadyrov, Farid A., Shannon F. Holmes, Mercedes E. Arana, et al.. (2007). Saccharomyces cerevisiae MutLα Is a Mismatch Repair Endonuclease. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 282(51). 37181–37190. 199 indexed citations

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McInerney, Peter, et al.. (2007). Characterization of a Triple DNA Polymerase Replisome. Molecular Cell. 27(4). 527–538. 139 indexed citations

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Kazmirski, Steven L., Yanxiang Zhao, Gregory D. Bowman, Mike O’Donnell, & John Kuriyan. (2005). Out-of-plane motions in open sliding clamps: Molecular dynamics simulations of eukaryotic and archaeal proliferating cell nuclear antigen. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(39). 13801–13806. 54 indexed citations

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Saro, Francisco J. López de, Roxana E. Georgescu, & Mike O’Donnell. (2003). A peptide switch regulates DNA polymerase processivity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 100(25). 14689–14694. 62 indexed citations

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Jeruzalmi, David, Olga Yurieva, Yanxiang Zhao, et al.. (2001). Mechanism of Processivity Clamp Opening by the Delta Subunit Wrench of the Clamp Loader Complex of E. coli DNA Polymerase III. Cell. 106(4). 417–428. 206 indexed citations

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Kelman, Zvi, Jeff Finkelstein, & Mike O’Donnell. (1995). Protein Structure: Why have six-fold symmetry?. Current Biology. 5(11). 1239–1242. 15 indexed citations

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Crowley, Herman J., Bohdan Yaremko, William M. Selig, et al.. (1991). Pharmacology of a potent platelet-activating factor antagonist: Ro 24-4736.. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. 259(1). 78–85. 12 indexed citations

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O’Donnell, Mike, et al.. (1987). Pharmacological profile of Ro 23-3544, a new aerosol active leukotriene receptor antagonist.. PubMed. 17A. 512–8. 1 indexed citations

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