Thomas A. Kunkel

62.9k citations

405 papers · 51.9k indexed · 11 hit papers · h-index 113

Impact in

Molecular Biology top 0.01%
- DNA Repair Mechanisms
- DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
- Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
Virology top 0.1%

Papers in

Cancer Research 91
- Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics 52
- Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment 39
Pathology and Forensic Medicine 103
- Genetic factors in colorectal cancer 102

Co-authors: Katarzyna Bębenek John D. Roberts Richard A. Zakour Asad Umar Dorothy A. Erie Peter Burgers Lawrence A. Loeb Allan Clark
Journals: Journal of Biological Chemistry (73 papers)Nucleic Acids Research (34 papers)DNA repair (32 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (31 papers)Biochemistry (19 papers)
Partner nations: United States Sweden Japan

In The Last Decade

Thomas A. Kunkel

399 papers receiving 50.8k citations

Hit Papers

11 papers align trajectories log scale

Eukaryotic DNA Replication Fork 2017 · 354 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2017 Annual Review of Biochemistry
2005 Annual Review of Biochemistry
2004 Journal of Biological Chemistry
2000 Annual Review of Biochemistry
1998 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
1991 Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology
1988 Science
1988 Biochemistry
1987 Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology
1985 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
1982 Annual Review of Biochemistry

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#	Work
1	Evidence that transient replication errors initiate nuclear genome mutations Nucleic Acids Research ·Scott A. Lujan, Zhi-Xiong Zhou, Thomas A. Kunkel	2025	0
2	Stepwise requirements for polymerases δ and θ in theta-mediated end joining Nature ·David Maya‐Franco, Juan Carvajal-Garcia, Dipika Gupta, Olatunji Oni, Ren Hu, David W. Wyatt, O. E. Bellini, Wanjuan Feng, Thomas A. Kunkel, Gaorav P. Gupta, Mark Hedglin, Richard D. Wood, Sylvie Doublié, Eli Rothenberg, Dale A. Ramsden	2023	18
3	Ribonucleotide Excision Repair Is Essential to Prevent Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Skin Cancer Research ·Björn Hiller, A. Travis, Christa Haase, 直彦上山, Nadja Schubert, Werner Müller, Martin A.M. Reijns, Andrew P. Jackson, Thomas A. Kunkel, Joerg Wenzel, Rayk Behrendt, Axel Roers	2018	30
4	DNA polymerase zeta generates clustered mutations during bypass of endogenous DNA lesions inSaccharomyces cerevisiae Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis ·Jana E. Stone, Scott A. Lujan, Thomas A. Kunkel	2012	37
5	Replication infidelity via a mismatch with Watson–Crick geometry Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Katarzyna Bębenek, Lars C. Pedersen, Thomas A. Kunkel	2011	141
6	An Msh2 Conditional Knockout Mouse for Studying Intestinal Cancer and Testing Anticancer Agents Gastroenterology ·Melanie H. Kucherlapati, Carla Miró-Vinyals, Andrew Nguyen, Allan Clark, Harry Hou, D.L. Montana, Hua Li, Kan Yang, Kunhua Fan, Martin Lipkin, Roderick T. Bronson, Linda A. Jelicks, Thomas A. Kunkel, Raju Kucherlapati, Winfried Edelmann	2009	77
7	The fidelity of DNA synthesis by eukaryotic replicative and translesion synthesis polymerases Cell Research ·Scott McCulloch, Thomas A. Kunkel	2008	381
8	Yeast DNA Polymerase ε Participates in Leading-Strand DNA Replication Science ·Zachary F. Pursell, Isabelle Isoz, Else-Britt Lundström, Erik Johansson, Thomas A. Kunkel	2007	431
9	Saccharomyces cerevisiae MutLα Is a Mismatch Repair Endonuclease Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Farid A. Kadyrov, Shannon F. Holmes, Mercedes E. Arana, O.A. Lukianova, Mike O’Donnell, Thomas A. Kunkel, Paul Modrich	2007	199
10	20 DNA Polymerases and the Fidelity of DNA Replication Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive ·Polina V. Shcherbakova, Thomas A. Kunkel	2006	1
11	An Msh2 Point Mutation Uncouples DNA Mismatch Repair and Apoptosis Cancer Research ·Diana P. Lin, Yuxun Wang, Stefan Scherer, Allan Clark, Kan Yang, Elena Avdievich, Bo Jin, Uwe Werling, Tchaiko Parris, Naoto Kurihara, Asad Umar, Raju Kucherlapati, Martin Lipkin, Thomas A. Kunkel, Winfried Edelmann	2004	151
12	A Structural Solution for the DNA Polymerase λ-Dependent Repair of DNA Gaps with Minimal Homology Molecular Cell ·Miguel Garcı́a-Dı́az, Katarzyna Bębenek, Joseph M. Krahn, Luis Blanco, Thomas A. Kunkel, Lars C. Pedersen	2004	110
13	Inactivation of Exonuclease 1 in mice results in DNA mismatch repair defects, increased cancer susceptibility, and male and female sterility Genes & Development ·Kaichun Wei, Allan Clark, Song Song Zhao, Michael Kane, Dan J. Mazur, Tchaiko Parris, Nadine K. Kolas, Robert G. Russell, Harry Hou, Burkhard Kneitz, I. Martinez Fernandez, Thomas A. Kunkel, Richard D. Kolodner, Paula E. Cohen, Winfried Edelmann	2003	261
14	Correlation of somatic hypermutation specificity and A-T base pair substitution errors by DNA polymerase η during copying of a mouse immunoglobulin κ light chain transgene Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Youri I. Pavlov, Igor B. Rogozin, Galkin Ap, Anna Y. Aksenova, Fumio Hanaoka, Samuel Kiplangat, Thomas A. Kunkel	2002	107
15	The role of hMLH1, hMSH3, and hMSH6 defects in cisplatin and oxaliplatin resistance: correlation with replicative bypass of platinum-DNA adducts. PubMed ·Alexandra Vaisman, Andrés Rodríguez Gallego, Asad Umar, Thomas A. Kunkel, John I. Risinger, J. Carl Barrett, Thomas C. Hamilton, Stephen G. Chaney	1998	246
16	Functional Overlap in Mismatch Repair by Human MSH3 and MSH6 Genetics ·Asad Umar, John I. Risinger, Warren E. Glaab, Kenneth R. Tindall, J. Carl Barrett, Thomas A. Kunkel	1998	122
17	7 Fidelity of DNA Replication Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive ·John D. Roberts, Thomas A. Kunkel	1996	13
18	Strand Specificity of Mutagenic Bypass Replication of DNA Containing Psoralen Monoadducts in a Human Cell Extract Molecular and Cellular Biology ·David Thomas, Daniel Svoboda, Jean‐Michel H. Vos, Thomas A. Kunkel	1996	23
19	5 The Fidelity of Retroviral Reverse Transcriptases Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive ·Katarzyna Bębenek, Thomas A. Kunkel	1993	46
20	The use of oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis to probe molecular mechanisms of mutagenesis. PubMed ·Thomas A. Kunkel	1988	1

About Thomas A. Kunkel

Thomas A. Kunkel is a scholar working on Cancer Research, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Molecular Biology, Virology and Genetics, having authored 405 papers that have together received 51.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include DNA Repair Mechanisms (310 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (115 papers), Genetic factors in colorectal cancer (102 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (79 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (65 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (52 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (51 papers) and Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment (39 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Molecular Biology (42.0k citations), Virology (2.7k citations), Cancer Research (8.4k citations), Pathology and Forensic Medicine (8.6k citations) and Genetics (9.1k citations). Thomas A. Kunkel has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Japan. Frequent co-authors include Katarzyna Bębenek, John D. Roberts, Richard A. Zakour, Asad Umar, Dorothy A. Erie, Peter Burgers, Lawrence A. Loeb, Allan Clark, Samuel H. Wilson and Youri I. Pavlov. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Nucleic Acids Research, DNA repair, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Biochemistry.

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