Ulrich Hübscher

14.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
224 papers, 12.1k citations indexed

About

Ulrich Hübscher is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Ulrich Hübscher has authored 224 papers receiving a total of 12.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 185 papers in Molecular Biology, 48 papers in Genetics and 38 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Ulrich Hübscher's work include DNA Repair Mechanisms (133 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (56 papers) and HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment (33 papers). Ulrich Hübscher is often cited by papers focused on DNA Repair Mechanisms (133 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (56 papers) and HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment (33 papers). Ulrich Hübscher collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Italy and France. Ulrich Hübscher's co-authors include Giovanni Maga, Silvio Spadari, Elena Ferrari, Vladimir N. Podust, Barbara van Loon, I. V. Shevelev, Enni Markkanen, Pia Thömmes, Clive C. Kuenzle and Zophonı́as O. Jónsson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Ulrich Hübscher

222 papers receiving 11.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA): a dancer with many partners

2003 908 citations Giovanni Maga, Ulrich Hübscher profile →
Eukaryotic DNA Polymerases

2002 532 citations Ulrich Hübscher, Giovanni Maga et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ulrich Hübscher Switzerland	60	10.2k	2.0k	1.8k	1.7k	898	224	12.1k
Laurence H. Pearl United Kingdom	76	18.0k 1.8×	1.4k 0.7×	2.5k 1.4×	868 0.5×	911 1.0×	217	21.3k
Kazunari Taira Japan	60	10.9k 1.1×	1.6k 0.8×	1.6k 0.9×	1.6k 0.9×	1.2k 1.4×	333	16.4k
Geir Slupphaug Norway	44	7.7k 0.8×	1.0k 0.5×	1.2k 0.7×	1.2k 0.7×	417 0.5×	120	9.6k
Yasuhiro Furuichi Japan	60	9.0k 0.9×	1.5k 0.8×	1.1k 0.6×	1.6k 0.9×	1.3k 1.4×	256	12.1k
Karin Moelling Germany	49	6.3k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	1.3k 0.7×	588 0.3×	1.8k 2.0×	220	9.9k
Markus G. Grütter Switzerland	59	7.8k 0.8×	1.2k 0.6×	1.6k 0.9×	511 0.3×	621 0.7×	168	11.3k
Kim Orth United States	64	7.8k 0.8×	2.0k 1.0×	1.6k 0.9×	1.2k 0.7×	645 0.7×	168	14.4k
Robert A. Bambara United States	63	9.4k 0.9×	2.4k 1.2×	1.2k 0.7×	968 0.6×	2.4k 2.6×	239	11.7k
Rajendra Prasad United States	52	8.3k 0.8×	987 0.5×	2.1k 1.2×	1.8k 1.1×	474 0.5×	141	9.6k
Jerard Hurwitz United States	73	12.5k 1.2×	2.8k 1.4×	2.5k 1.4×	1.2k 0.7×	348 0.4×	185	14.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Ulrich Hübscher

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ulrich Hübscher

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Galli, Silvia, Anna Garbelli, Silvia Bione, et al.. (2021). A Role for Human DNA Polymerase λ in Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(5). 2365–2365. 3 indexed citations

Kanagaraj, Radhakrishnan, Prasanna Parasuraman, Barbara van Loon, et al.. (2012). Involvement of Werner syndrome protein in MUTYH-mediated repair of oxidative DNA damage. Nucleic Acids Research. 40(17). 8449–8459. 22 indexed citations

Villani, Giuseppe, Ulrich Hübscher, Sinikka Parkkinen, et al.. (2011). In Vitro Gap-directed Translesion DNA Synthesis of an Abasic Site Involving Human DNA Polymerases ϵ, λ, and β. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 286(37). 32094–32104. 25 indexed citations

Meerang, Mayura, Danilo Ritz, Shreya Paliwal, et al.. (2011). The ubiquitin-selective segregase VCP/p97 orchestrates the response to DNA double-strand breaks. Nature Cell Biology. 13(11). 1376–1382. 210 indexed citations

Loon, Barbara van, Enni Markkanen, & Ulrich Hübscher. (2010). Oxygen as a friend and enemy: How to combat the mutational potential of 8-oxo-guanine. DNA repair. 9(6). 604–616. 255 indexed citations

Blasius, Melanie, Ulrich Hübscher, & Suzanne Sommer. (2008). Deinococcus radiodurans: What Belongs to the Survival Kit?. Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 43(3). 221–238. 186 indexed citations

Maga, Giovanni, Kristijan Ramadan, Giada A. Locatelli, et al.. (2004). DNA Elongation by the Human DNA Polymerase λ Polymerase and Terminal Transferase Activities Are Differentially Coordinated by Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen and Replication Protein A. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 280(3). 1971–1981. 25 indexed citations

Maga, Giovanni, Giuseppe Villani, Kristijan Ramadan, et al.. (2002). Human DNA Polymerase λ Functionally and Physically Interacts with Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen in Normal and Translesion DNA Synthesis. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 277(50). 48434–48440. 91 indexed citations

Maga, Giovanni, I. A. Shevelev, Kristijan Ramadan, Silvio Spadari, & Ulrich Hübscher. (2002). DNA Polymerase θ Purified from Human Cells is a High-fidelity Enzyme. Journal of Molecular Biology. 319(2). 359–369. 35 indexed citations

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Hasan, Sameez, Manuel Stucki, Paul O. Hassa, et al.. (2001). Regulation of Human Flap Endonuclease-1 Activity by Acetylation through the Transcriptional Coactivator p300. Molecular Cell. 7(6). 1221–1231. 141 indexed citations

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Maga, Giovanni, Giuseppe Villani, Vanessa Tillement, et al.. (2001). Okazaki fragment processing: Modulation of the strand displacement activity of DNA polymerase δ by the concerted action of replication protein A, proliferating cell nuclear antigen, and flap endonuclease-1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 98(25). 14298–14303. 106 indexed citations

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Maga, Giovanni, Anna Ramunno, Vito Nacci, et al.. (2001). The Stereoselective Targeting of a Specific Enzyme-Substrate Complex Is the Molecular Mechanism for the Synergic Inhibition of HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase by (R)-(−)-PPO464. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 276(48). 44653–44662. 11 indexed citations

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Hübscher, Ulrich, Giovanni Maga, & Vladimir N. Podust. (1996). 17 DNA Replication Accessory Proteins. Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive. 31. 525–543. 27 indexed citations

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Jessberger, Rolf, Vladimir N. Podust, Ulrich Hübscher, & Paul Berg. (1993). A mammalian protein complex that repairs double-strand breaks and deletions by recombination. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 268(20). 15070–15079. 120 indexed citations

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Hübscher, Ulrich, et al.. (1992). DNA polymerase ε: in search of a function. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 17(2). 55–58. 36 indexed citations

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Focher, Federico, Elena Ferrari, Silvio Spadari, & Ulrich Hübscher. (1988). Do DNA polymerases δ and α act coordinately as leading and lagging strand replicases?. FEBS Letters. 229(1). 6–10. 42 indexed citations

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Hübscher, Ulrich, Max Gassmann, Silvio Spadari, et al.. (1987). Mammalian DNA polymerase α : a replication-competent holoenzyme form from calf thymus. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 317(1187). 421–428. 6 indexed citations

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Hübscher, Ulrich & Hanspeter Stalder. (1985). Mammalian DNA helicase. Nucleic Acids Research. 13(15). 5471–5483. 41 indexed citations

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Spanos, Ad, Steven G. Sedgwick, Geoffrey Yarranton, Ulrich Hübscher, & Geoffrey R. Banks. (1981). Detection of the catalytic activities of DNA polymerases and their associated exonucleases following SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Nucleic Acids Research. 9(8). 1825–1839. 182 indexed citations

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Lutz, Hans, Niels C. Pedersen, Joanne Higgins, et al.. (1980). Humoral immune reactivity to feline leukemia virus and associated antigens in cats naturally infected with feline leukemia virus.. PubMed. 40(10). 3642–51. 78 indexed citations

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