Peter Karran

10.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
132 papers, 8.9k citations indexed

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Peter Karran is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Pathology and Forensic Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Karran has authored 132 papers receiving a total of 8.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 102 papers in Molecular Biology, 43 papers in Cancer Research and 35 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine. Recurrent topics in Peter Karran's work include DNA Repair Mechanisms (82 papers), Genetic factors in colorectal cancer (35 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (24 papers). Peter Karran is often cited by papers focused on DNA Repair Mechanisms (82 papers), Genetic factors in colorectal cancer (35 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (24 papers). Peter Karran collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Italy and United States. Peter Karran's co-authors include Tomas Lindahl, Margherita Bignami, Reto Brem, N. R. Attard, Gabriele Aquilina, Yao−Zhong Xu, P Branch, Peter Macpherson, Richard Hampson and Conal M. Perrett and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Peter Karran

132 papers receiving 8.5k citations

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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.

Induction of a DNA glycosylase for N-methylated purines is part of the adaptive response to alkylating agents

1982 246 citations Peter Karran, Tomas Lindahl et al. profile →
Adaptive response to alkylating agents involves alteration in situ of O6-methylguanine residues in DNA

1979 229 citations Peter Karran, Tomas Lindahl et al. profile →
Inducible repair of O-alkylated DNA pyrimidines in Escherichia coli.

1984 204 citations Peter Karran, Tomas Lindahl et al. The EMBO Journal profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter Karran United Kingdom	54	6.1k	2.2k	1.9k	1.8k	887	132	8.9k
Fumio Hanaoka Japan	73	16.2k 2.6×	3.6k 1.6×	807 0.4×	2.8k 1.5×	832 0.9×	373	18.7k
Varsha Gandhi United States	60	6.2k 1.0×	968 0.4×	2.5k 1.3×	3.7k 2.0×	720 0.8×	311	13.5k
Maureen E. Murphy United States	54	8.4k 1.4×	2.4k 1.1×	520 0.3×	5.4k 2.9×	1.2k 1.3×	143	12.8k
Larry H. Thompson United States	61	12.4k 2.0×	4.5k 2.0×	668 0.3×	3.4k 1.8×	321 0.4×	178	14.3k
Georg W. Bornkamm Germany	66	5.6k 0.9×	1.8k 0.8×	2.6k 1.4×	5.8k 3.1×	2.5k 2.8×	186	14.2k
William Plunkett United States	77	10.0k 1.6×	2.1k 1.0×	3.7k 1.9×	7.1k 3.8×	1.5k 1.7×	346	21.9k
Jamil Momand United States	25	6.0k 1.0×	1.6k 0.7×	756 0.4×	6.3k 3.4×	464 0.5×	40	9.2k
D. Paul Harkin United Kingdom	15	3.1k 0.5×	1.2k 0.5×	598 0.3×	2.6k 1.4×	343 0.4×	28	6.2k
P.H.M. Lohman Netherlands	43	6.1k 1.0×	2.7k 1.2×	338 0.2×	1.7k 0.9×	135 0.2×	173	7.7k
Gilles Courtois France	40	3.7k 0.6×	2.9k 1.3×	252 0.1×	1.2k 0.7×	711 0.8×	113	7.6k

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Brem, Reto, et al.. (2016). Oxidative Stress–Induced Protein Damage Inhibits DNA Repair and Determines Mutation Risk and Therapeutic Efficacy. Molecular Cancer Research. 14(7). 612–622. 73 indexed citations

Karran, Peter & Reto Brem. (2016). Protein oxidation, UVA and human DNA repair. DNA repair. 44. 178–185. 125 indexed citations

Brem, Reto, et al.. (2015). Oxidative Damage to RPA Limits the Nucleotide Excision Repair Capacity of Human Cells. Journal of Investigative Dermatology. 135(11). 2834–2841. 54 indexed citations

Brem, Reto & Peter Karran. (2012). Oxidation-Mediated DNA Cross-Linking Contributes to the Toxicity of 6-Thioguanine in Human Cells. Cancer Research. 72(18). 4787–4795. 33 indexed citations

Brem, Rachel F., Fei Li, Beatriz Montaner, Olivier Reelfs, & Peter Karran. (2010). DNA breakage and cell cycle checkpoint abrogation induced by a therapeutic thiopurine and UVA radiation. Oncogene. 29(27). 3953–3963. 37 indexed citations

Daehn, Ilse S. & Peter Karran. (2009). Immune Effector Cells Produce Lethal DNA Damage in Cells Treated with a Thiopurine. Cancer Research. 69(6). 2393–2399. 18 indexed citations

Bignami, Margherita, Ida Casorelli, & Peter Karran. (2003). Mismatch repair and response to DNA-damaging antitumour therapies. European Journal of Cancer. 39(15). 2142–2149. 56 indexed citations

Lindahl, Tomas, Peter Karran, & Richard D. Wood. (1997). DNA excision repair pathways. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 7(2). 158–169. 209 indexed citations

Karran, Peter. (1996). Microsatellite instability and DNA mismatch repair in human cancer. Seminars in Cancer Biology. 7(1). 15–24. 78 indexed citations

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Branch, P, Gabriele Aquilina, Patricia Hess, Margherita Bignami, & Peter Karran. (1994). Mammalian Cells Defective in DNA Mismatch Correction. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 726(1). 355–358. 1 indexed citations

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Zhukovskaya, Natalia L., P Branch, Gabriele Aquilina, & Peter Karran. (1994). DNA replication arrest and tolerance to DNA methylation damage. Carcinogenesis. 15(10). 2189–2194. 32 indexed citations

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Griffin, Shaun, et al.. (1994). DNA Mismatch Binding and Incision at Modified Guanine Bases by Extracts of Mammalian Cells: Implications for Tolerance to DNA Methylation Damage. Biochemistry. 33(16). 4787–4793. 93 indexed citations

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Karran, Peter, et al.. (1993). O6-methylguanine residues elicit DNA repair synthesis by human cell extracts. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 268(21). 15878–15886. 51 indexed citations

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Rosa, Silvia De, Paola Fortini, Peter Karran, Margherita Bignami, & Eugenia Dogliotti. (1991). processingin vitroof an abasic site reacted with methoxyamine: a new assay for the detection of abasic sites formedin vivo. Nucleic Acids Research. 19(20). 5569–5574. 66 indexed citations

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Egyházi, Suzanne, Jonas Bergh, Johan Hansson, Peter Karran, & Ulrik Ringborg. (1991). Carmustine-induced toxicity, DNA crosslinking and 06-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase activity in two human lung cancer cell lines. European Journal of Cancer and Clinical Oncology. 27(12). 1658–1662. 12 indexed citations

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Karran, Peter, et al.. (1990). Mismatch binding proteins and tolerance to alkylating agents in human cells. Mutation Research/DNA Repair. 236(2-3). 269–275. 26 indexed citations

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Karran, Peter, et al.. (1989). Selective binding to DNA base pair mismatches by proteins from human cells. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 264(35). 21177–21182. 45 indexed citations

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Kataoka, Hiroko, J. Hall, & Peter Karran. (1986). Complementation of sensitivity to alkylating agents in Escherichia coli and Chinese hamster ovary cells by expression of a cloned bacterial DNA repair gene.. The EMBO Journal. 5(12). 3195–3200. 65 indexed citations

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Karran, Peter, S. Stevens, & Barbara Sedgwick. (1982). The adaptive response to alkylating agents the removal of O6-methylguanine from DNA is not dependent on DNA polymerase-1. Mutation Research Letters. 104(1-3). 67–73. 7 indexed citations

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Scudiero, Dominic A., Allen J. Norin, Peter Karran, & Bernard S. Strauss. (1976). DNA excision-repair deficiency of human peripheral blood lymphocytes treated with chemical carcinogens.. PubMed. 36(4). 1397–403. 94 indexed citations

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