Ryan C. Heller

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Ryan C. Heller is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ryan C. Heller has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Genetics and 2 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Ryan C. Heller's work include DNA Repair Mechanisms (6 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (3 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (2 papers). Ryan C. Heller is often cited by papers focused on DNA Repair Mechanisms (6 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (3 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (2 papers). Ryan C. Heller collaborates with scholars based in United States and Germany. Ryan C. Heller's co-authors include Kenneth J. Marians, Ann Sutton, Rolf Sternglanz, Joseph W. Landry, Stefan T. Tafrov, Lorraine Pillus, Stephen P. Bell, Clara S. Chan, Sukhyun Kang and Shuyan Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Ryan C. Heller

10 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

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The silencing protein SIR2 and its homologs are NAD-dependent protein deacetylases

2000 800 citations Joseph W. Landry, Ann Sutton et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ryan C. Heller United States	10	1.6k	481	428	224	210	10	2.0k
Zarmik Moqtaderi United States	24	2.9k 1.9×	330 0.7×	225 0.5×	162 0.7×	85 0.4×	39	3.3k
Adam Oberstein United States	12	957 0.6×	233 0.5×	122 0.3×	113 0.5×	184 0.9×	13	1.5k
Jason C. Tanny Canada	20	1.8k 1.2×	521 1.1×	60 0.1×	208 0.9×	100 0.5×	39	2.3k
Jean Dorsey United States	15	2.6k 1.7×	117 0.2×	252 0.6×	357 1.6×	72 0.3×	16	3.0k
Ann E. Ehrenhofer‐Murray Germany	28	2.3k 1.5×	127 0.3×	147 0.3×	336 1.5×	177 0.8×	56	2.5k
Noriyuki Suka United States	16	2.7k 1.7×	151 0.3×	171 0.4×	130 0.6×	131 0.6×	19	2.9k
Robyn D. Moir United States	25	1.4k 0.9×	99 0.2×	81 0.2×	113 0.5×	164 0.8×	45	1.7k
Stefan T. Tafrov United States	11	1.0k 0.7×	475 1.0×	48 0.1×	167 0.7×	40 0.2×	11	1.5k
Giorgio Camilloni Italy	18	918 0.6×	156 0.3×	80 0.2×	93 0.4×	29 0.1×	54	1.1k
Sebastian Greiss United Kingdom	13	801 0.5×	126 0.3×	101 0.2×	70 0.3×	74 0.4×	14	1.1k

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10 of 10 papers shown

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Heller, Ryan C., et al.. (2019). Engineering of a thermostable viral polymerase using metagenome-derived diversity for highly sensitive and specific RT-PCR. Nucleic Acids Research. 47(7). 3619–3630. 19 indexed citations

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Gyanchandani, Rekha, Erik Kvam, Ryan C. Heller, et al.. (2018). Whole genome amplification of cell-free DNA enables detection of circulating tumor DNA mutations from fingerstick capillary blood. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 17313–17313. 19 indexed citations

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Heller, Ryan C., et al.. (2011). Eukaryotic Origin-Dependent DNA Replication In Vitro Reveals Sequential Action of DDK and S-CDK Kinases. Cell. 146(1). 80–91. 250 indexed citations

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Randell, John C.W., Clara S. Chan, Laura Francis, et al.. (2010). Mec1 Is One of Multiple Kinases that Prime the Mcm2-7 Helicase for Phosphorylation by Cdc7. Molecular Cell. 40(3). 353–363. 133 indexed citations

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Heller, Ryan C. & Kenneth J. Marians. (2006). Replication fork reactivation downstream of a blocked nascent leading strand. Nature. 439(7076). 557–562. 256 indexed citations

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Heller, Ryan C. & Kenneth J. Marians. (2006). Replisome assembly and the direct restart of stalled replication forks. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 7(12). 932–943. 223 indexed citations

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Heller, Ryan C. & Kenneth J. Marians. (2005). Unwinding of the Nascent Lagging Strand by Rep and PriA Enables the Direct Restart of Stalled Replication Forks. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 280(40). 34143–34151. 78 indexed citations

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Heller, Ryan C. & Kenneth J. Marians. (2005). The Disposition of Nascent Strands at Stalled Replication Forks Dictates the Pathway of Replisome Loading during Restart. Molecular Cell. 17(5). 733–743. 123 indexed citations

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Sutton, Ann, et al.. (2001). A Novel Form of Transcriptional Silencing by Sum1-1 Requires Hst1 and the Origin Recognition Complex. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 21(10). 3514–3522. 76 indexed citations

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Landry, Joseph W., Ann Sutton, Stefan T. Tafrov, et al.. (2000). The silencing protein SIR2 and its homologs are NAD-dependent protein deacetylases. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 97(11). 5807–5811. 800 indexed citations breakdown →

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