Patrick Sung

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 3.8k 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 20 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Cancer Research and 3 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Patrick Sung's work include DNA Repair Mechanisms (19 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (12 papers) and Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment (4 papers). Patrick Sung is often cited by papers focused on DNA Repair Mechanisms (19 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (12 papers) and Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment (4 papers). Patrick Sung collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Patrick Sung's co-authors include Kelly M. Trujillo, Alan E. Tomkinson, Louise Prakash, Satya Prakash, Sabrina A. Stratton, Ling Chen, Yvette Habraken, Suh-Chin J. Lin, William Ramos and Sami N. Guzder and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Patrick Sung

20 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

Catalysis of ATP-Dependent Homologous DNA Pairing and Str... 1994 2026 2004 2015 1994 200 400 600
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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.

  1. Catalysis of ATP-Dependent Homologous DNA Pairing and Strand Exchange by Yeast RAD51 Protein
    1994 743 citations Patrick Sung Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Patrick Sung United States 20 3.6k 769 667 507 343 20 3.8k
Yunmei Ma United States 18 3.0k 0.8× 526 0.7× 857 1.3× 365 0.7× 310 0.9× 22 3.4k
Masafumi Saijo Japan 31 3.7k 1.0× 569 0.7× 800 1.2× 530 1.0× 193 0.6× 55 3.9k
Adelina A. Davies United Kingdom 26 3.1k 0.8× 615 0.8× 625 0.9× 545 1.1× 238 0.7× 40 3.6k
Frédéric Coin France 36 3.8k 1.1× 733 1.0× 660 1.0× 603 1.2× 157 0.5× 65 4.1k
Masamichi Ishiai Japan 36 2.7k 0.7× 714 0.9× 679 1.0× 469 0.9× 206 0.6× 67 3.7k
Phillip B. Carpenter United States 23 3.6k 1.0× 610 0.8× 1.0k 1.6× 398 0.8× 213 0.6× 31 4.0k
Angelos Constantinou France 25 3.3k 0.9× 823 1.1× 553 0.8× 377 0.7× 382 1.1× 46 3.5k
Maria Jasin United States 19 2.8k 0.8× 479 0.6× 720 1.1× 860 1.7× 375 1.1× 23 3.2k
Kevin Hiom United Kingdom 21 2.6k 0.7× 414 0.5× 583 0.9× 568 1.1× 275 0.8× 36 3.0k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kawale, Ajinkya S. & Patrick Sung. (2020). Mechanism and significance of chromosome damage repair by homologous recombination. Essays in Biochemistry. 64(5). 779–790. 24 indexed citations
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Steinfeld, Justin B., Ondrej Beláň, Youngho Kwon, et al.. (2019). Defining the influence of Rad51 and Dmc1 lineage-specific amino acids on genetic recombination. Genes & Development. 33(17-18). 1191–1207. 35 indexed citations
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Yu, Xiong, Robyn Roth, John E. Heuser, et al.. (2008). A comparative analysis of Dmc1 and Rad51 nucleoprotein filaments. Nucleic Acids Research. 36(12). 4057–4066. 90 indexed citations
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Trujillo, Kelly M., et al.. (2003). Yeast Xrs2 Binds DNA and Helps Target Rad50 and Mre11 to DNA Ends. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 278(49). 48957–48964. 88 indexed citations
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Chen, Ling, Kelly M. Trujillo, William Ramos, Patrick Sung, & Alan E. Tomkinson. (2001). Promotion of Dnl4-Catalyzed DNA End-Joining by the Rad50/Mre11/Xrs2 and Hdf1/Hdf2 Complexes. Molecular Cell. 8(5). 1105–1115. 241 indexed citations
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Trujillo, Kelly M. & Patrick Sung. (2001). DNA Structure-specific Nuclease Activities in theSaccharomyces cerevisiae Rad50·Mre11 Complex. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 276(38). 35458–35464. 228 indexed citations
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Anderson, David E., Kelly M. Trujillo, Patrick Sung, & Harold Erickson. (2001). Structure of the Rad50·Mre11 DNA Repair Complex fromSaccharomyces cerevisiae by Electron Microscopy. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 276(40). 37027–37033. 90 indexed citations
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Petukhova, Galina, Patrick Sung, & Hannah L. Klein. (2000). Promotion of Rad51-dependent D-loop formation by yeast recombination factor Rdh54/Tid1. Genes & Development. 14(17). 2206–2215. 115 indexed citations
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Mazin, Alexander V., Elena Zaitseva, Patrick Sung, & Stephen C. Kowalczykowski. (2000). Tailed duplex DNA is the preferred substrate for Rad51 protein-mediated homologous pairing. The EMBO Journal. 19(5). 1148–1156. 134 indexed citations
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Lin, Suh-Chin J., et al.. (1999). DNA damage-induced cell cycle checkpoints and DNA strand break repair in development and tumorigenesis. Oncogene. 18(55). 7883–7899. 350 indexed citations
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Huang, Yinyin, Takatoshi Ishiko, Shuji Nakada, et al.. (1998). Regulation of Rad51 Function by c-Abl in Response to DNA Damage. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 273(7). 3799–3802. 172 indexed citations
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Habraken, Yvette, Patrick Sung, Louise Prakash, & Satya Prakash. (1997). Enhancement of MSH2–MSH3-mediated mismatch recognition by the yeast MLH1–PMS1 complex. Current Biology. 7(10). 790–793. 73 indexed citations
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Sung, Patrick. (1997). Function of Yeast Rad52 Protein as a Mediator between Replication Protein A and the Rad51 Recombinase. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 272(45). 28194–28197. 451 indexed citations
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Habraken, Yvette, Patrick Sung, Louise Prakash, & Satya Prakash. (1996). Binding of insertion/deletion DNA mismatches by the heterodimer of yeast mismatch repair proteins MSH2 and MSH3. Current Biology. 6(9). 1185–1187. 133 indexed citations
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Guzder, Sami N., Patrick Sung, Louise Prakash, & Satya Prakash. (1996). Nucleotide Excision Repair in Yeast Is Mediated by Sequential Assembly of Repair Factors and Not by a Pre-assembled Repairosome. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 271(15). 8903–8910. 78 indexed citations
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Burns, John L., Sami N. Guzder, Patrick Sung, Satya Prakash, & Louise Prakash. (1996). An Affinity of Human Replication Protein A for Ultraviolet-damaged DNA. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 271(20). 11607–11610. 99 indexed citations
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Sung, Patrick & Sabrina A. Stratton. (1996). Yeast Rad51 Recombinase Mediates Polar DNA Strand Exchange in the Absence of ATP Hydrolysis. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 271(45). 27983–27986. 151 indexed citations
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Habraken, Yvette, Patrick Sung, Satya Prakash, & Louise Prakash. (1996). Transcription factor TFIIH and DNA endonuclease Rad2 constitute yeast nucleotide excision repair factor 3: implications for nucleotide excision repair and Cockayne syndrome.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 93(20). 10718–10722. 42 indexed citations
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Sung, Patrick. (1994). Catalysis of ATP-Dependent Homologous DNA Pairing and Strand Exchange by Yeast RAD51 Protein. Science. 265(5176). 1241–1243. 743 indexed citations breakdown →

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