Patrick Sung

28.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
283 papers, 21.7k citations indexed

About

Patrick Sung is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Patrick Sung has authored 283 papers receiving a total of 21.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 275 papers in Molecular Biology, 70 papers in Cancer Research and 51 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Patrick Sung's work include DNA Repair Mechanisms (256 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (108 papers) and Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment (64 papers). Patrick Sung is often cited by papers focused on DNA Repair Mechanisms (256 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (108 papers) and Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment (64 papers). Patrick Sung collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Patrick Sung's co-authors include Louise Prakash, Satya Prakash, Hannah L. Klein, Stephen Van Komen, Joseph San Filippo, Youngho Kwon, Lumír Krejčí, Hengyao Niu, Galina Petukhova and James M. Daley and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Patrick Sung

278 papers receiving 21.5k 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.

Mechanism of Eukaryotic Homologous Recombination

2008 1.2k citations Patrick Sung, Hannah L. Klein et al. profile →
Mechanism of homologous recombination: mediators and helicases take on regulatory functions

2006 508 citations Patrick Sung, Hannah L. Klein profile →
DNA helicase Srs2 disrupts the Rad51 presynaptic filament

2003 506 citations Lumír Krejčí, Hannah L. Klein et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Patrick Sung United States	79	20.6k	4.3k	3.6k	2.5k	2.2k	283	21.7k
Ian D. Hickson United Kingdom	85	22.1k 1.1×	4.7k 1.1×	4.4k 1.2×	2.3k 0.9×	3.1k 1.4×	289	23.8k
Wim Vermeulen Netherlands	72	15.5k 0.8×	3.1k 0.7×	2.6k 0.7×	2.2k 0.9×	995 0.4×	192	17.4k
Maria Jasin United States	85	24.8k 1.2×	6.7k 1.6×	4.1k 1.1×	5.6k 2.3×	3.5k 1.6×	206	27.4k
David Cortez United States	63	15.0k 0.7×	6.0k 1.4×	2.8k 0.8×	2.0k 0.8×	757 0.3×	114	16.6k
Penny A. Jeggo United Kingdom	81	18.6k 0.9×	7.0k 1.6×	5.1k 1.4×	1.9k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	188	21.8k
Antony M. Carr United Kingdom	74	14.1k 0.7×	3.3k 0.8×	2.0k 0.6×	1.6k 0.6×	1.6k 0.7×	200	15.3k
John H.J. Petrini United States	54	11.9k 0.6×	3.8k 0.9×	3.4k 0.9×	1.4k 0.5×	1.2k 0.5×	113	13.1k
Joan Conaway United States	76	17.1k 0.8×	3.5k 0.8×	3.3k 0.9×	2.5k 1.0×	1.2k 0.5×	189	20.0k
Ronald Conaway United States	77	17.6k 0.9×	3.5k 0.8×	3.3k 0.9×	2.7k 1.1×	1.3k 0.6×	189	20.6k
Lee Zou United States	63	14.3k 0.7×	5.1k 1.2×	3.2k 0.9×	1.2k 0.5×	780 0.4×	127	16.1k

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Rawal, Yashpal, Kristie Darrah, Sarah R Hengel, et al.. (2025). Comprehensive RAD51C ovarian cancer variant analysis uncouples homologous recombination and replicative functions. Nature Communications. 16(1). 6539–6539.

Merigliano, Chiara, Taehyun Ryu, Chetan C. Rawal, et al.. (2025). Off-pore Nup98 condensates mobilize heterochromatic breaks and exclude Rad51. Molecular Cell. 85(12). 2355–2373.e11. 1 indexed citations

Kupfer, Gary M., Jian Li, Erica A. Golemis, et al.. (2024). PLK1 Acts in Homologous Recombinatorial Repair and in Mitosis As Synthetically Lethal with the Fanconi Anemia/BRCA Pathway. Blood. 144(Supplement 1). 2705–2705.

Rawal, Yashpal, Shuo Zhou, Hardeep Kaur, et al.. (2023). Structural insights into BCDX2 complex function in homologous recombination. Nature. 619(7970). 640–649. 22 indexed citations

Jaiswal, Aruna S., Arijit Dutta, Gayathri Srinivasan, et al.. (2023). TATDN2 resolution of R-loops is required for survival of BRCA1-mutant cancer cells. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(22). 12224–12241. 10 indexed citations

Xue, Chaoyou, Sameer Salunkhe, Nozomi Tomimatsu, et al.. (2022). Bloom helicase mediates formation of large single–stranded DNA loops during DNA end processing. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2248–2248. 15 indexed citations

Prakash, Rohit, Yashpal Rawal, Kristie Darrah, et al.. (2022). Homologous recombination–deficient mutation cluster in tumor suppressor RAD51C identified by comprehensive analysis of cancer variants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(38). e2202727119–e2202727119. 17 indexed citations

Daley, James M., Arijit Dutta, Tatsuya Niwa, et al.. (2021). A conserved Ctp1/CtIP C-terminal peptide stimulates Mre11 endonuclease activity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(11). 16 indexed citations

Zhang, Peng, Ying Guo, Ying Li, et al.. (2021). INTS11 regulates hematopoiesis by promoting PRC2 function. Science Advances. 7(36). eabh1684–eabh1684. 9 indexed citations

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Sullivan, Meghan R., Rohit Prakash, Yashpal Rawal, et al.. (2021). Long-term survival of an ovarian cancer patient harboring a RAD51C missense mutation. Molecular Case Studies. 7(2). a006083–a006083. 5 indexed citations

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Crickard, J. Brooks, Youngho Kwon, Patrick Sung, & Eric C. Greene. (2020). Rad54 and Rdh54 occupy spatially and functionally distinct sites within the Rad51‐ss DNA presynaptic complex. The EMBO Journal. 39(20). e105705–e105705. 14 indexed citations

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Xue, Chaoyou, Justin B. Steinfeld, Weixing Zhao, et al.. (2020). Single-molecule visualization of human RECQ5 interactions with single-stranded DNA recombination intermediates. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(1). 285–305. 16 indexed citations

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Jiang, Hui, Xiaoyu Xue, Swarupa Panda, et al.. (2019). Chromatin‐bound cGAS is an inhibitor of DNA repair and hence accelerates genome destabilization and cell death. The EMBO Journal. 38(21). e102718–e102718. 197 indexed citations

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Crickard, J. Brooks, Kyle Kaniecki, Youngho Kwon, Patrick Sung, & Eric C. Greene. (2018). Meiosis-specific recombinase Dmc1 is a potent inhibitor of the Srs2 antirecombinase. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(43). E10041–E10048. 25 indexed citations

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Cheng, Xue, Olivier Jobin‐Robitaille, Pierre Billon, et al.. (2018). Phospho-dependent recruitment of the yeast NuA4 acetyltransferase complex by MRX at DNA breaks regulates RPA dynamics during resection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(40). 10028–10033. 21 indexed citations

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Crickard, J. Brooks, Kyle Kaniecki, Youngho Kwon, et al.. (2018). Regulation of Hed1 and Rad54 binding during maturation of the meiosis‐specific presynaptic complex. The EMBO Journal. 37(7). 27 indexed citations

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Lee, Ja Yil, Tsuyoshi Terakawa, Zhi Qi, et al.. (2015). Base triplet stepping by the Rad51/RecA family of recombinases. Science. 349(6251). 977–981. 129 indexed citations

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Gibb, Bryan, Ling F. Ye, Youngho Kwon, et al.. (2014). Protein dynamics during presynaptic-complex assembly on individual single-stranded DNA molecules. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 21(10). 893–900. 74 indexed citations

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Kwon, Youngho, et al.. (2011). Activation of Protein Kinase Tel1 through Recognition of Protein-Bound DNA Ends. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 31(10). 1959–1971. 24 indexed citations

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Moses, Dana N., Youngho Kwon, Pamela Chan, et al.. (2009). Structural transitions within human Rad51 nucleoprotein filaments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(31). 12688–12693. 44 indexed citations

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