William A. Beard

9.7k total citations
151 papers, 8.3k citations indexed

About

William A. Beard is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, William A. Beard has authored 151 papers receiving a total of 8.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 140 papers in Molecular Biology, 31 papers in Infectious Diseases and 21 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in William A. Beard's work include DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (102 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (100 papers) and HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment (31 papers). William A. Beard is often cited by papers focused on DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (102 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (100 papers) and HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment (31 papers). William A. Beard collaborates with scholars based in United States, Poland and Japan. William A. Beard's co-authors include Samuel H. Wilson, David D. Shock, Rajendra Prasad, V.K. Batra, Lars C. Pedersen, Thomas A. Kunkel, Bret Freudenthal, Brian J. Vande Berg, Tamar Schlick and Esther W. Hou and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

William A. Beard

148 papers receiving 8.2k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William A. Beard United States 53 7.5k 1.1k 1.0k 1.0k 968 151 8.3k
L.S. Beese United States 39 6.1k 0.8× 1.2k 1.1× 672 0.7× 382 0.4× 800 0.8× 73 7.1k
Silvio Spadari Italy 43 4.5k 0.6× 789 0.7× 934 0.9× 712 0.7× 753 0.8× 188 6.1k
Sylvie Doublié United States 36 5.0k 0.7× 997 0.9× 549 0.5× 401 0.4× 405 0.4× 91 5.7k
Gerald Zon United States 54 6.4k 0.9× 514 0.5× 582 0.6× 363 0.4× 916 0.9× 207 9.3k
Kathleen M. Downey United States 36 3.4k 0.4× 820 0.8× 617 0.6× 432 0.4× 756 0.8× 63 4.6k
Antero G. So United States 39 3.7k 0.5× 848 0.8× 1.3k 1.3× 382 0.4× 743 0.8× 64 5.7k
John O. Trent United States 52 7.7k 1.0× 310 0.3× 255 0.3× 715 0.7× 1.2k 1.3× 151 9.7k
Clifford D. Mol United States 26 5.0k 0.7× 642 0.6× 192 0.2× 283 0.3× 1.1k 1.1× 31 6.3k
Peter Burgers United States 77 14.8k 2.0× 2.5k 2.3× 370 0.4× 2.2k 2.2× 1.8k 1.8× 191 16.0k
Hans E. Huber United States 32 3.2k 0.4× 710 0.7× 306 0.3× 236 0.2× 835 0.9× 66 4.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Beard, William A.. (2020). DNA polymerase β: Closing the gap between structure and function. DNA repair. 93. 102910–102910. 9 indexed citations
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Beard, William A., Julie K. Horton, Rajendra Prasad, & Samuel H. Wilson. (2019). Eukaryotic Base Excision Repair: New Approaches Shine Light on Mechanism. Annual Review of Biochemistry. 88(1). 137–162. 147 indexed citations
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Sassa, Akira, Melike Çağlayan, Yesenia Rodriguez, et al.. (2016). Impact of Ribonucleotide Backbone on Translesion Synthesis and Repair of 7,8-Dihydro-8-oxoguanine. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 291(46). 24314–24323. 19 indexed citations
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Sassa, Akira, Melike Çağlayan, Nadezhda S. Dyrkheeva, William A. Beard, & Samuel H. Wilson. (2014). Base Excision Repair of Tandem Modifications in a Methylated CpG Dinucleotide. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 289(20). 13996–14008. 25 indexed citations
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Chamberlain, Brian T., Elena Ferri, B. A. Kashemirov, et al.. (2014). Transition State in DNA Polymerase β Catalysis: Rate-Limiting Chemistry Altered by Base-Pair Configuration. Biochemistry. 53(11). 1842–1848. 26 indexed citations
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Chamberlain, Brian T., V.K. Batra, William A. Beard, et al.. (2012). Stereospecific Formation of a Ternary Complex of (S)‐α,β‐Fluoromethylene‐dATP with DNA Pol β. ChemBioChem. 13(4). 528–530. 29 indexed citations
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Freudenthal, Bret, William A. Beard, & Samuel H. Wilson. (2012). Structures of dNTP Intermediate States during DNA Polymerase Active Site Assembly. Structure. 20(11). 1829–1837. 45 indexed citations
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Masaoka, Aya, Julie K. Horton, William A. Beard, & Samuel H. Wilson. (2009). DNA polymerase β and PARP activities in base excision repair in living cells. DNA repair. 8(11). 1290–1299. 32 indexed citations
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Wang, Yanli, et al.. (2007). Differing Conformational Pathways Before and After Chemistry for Insertion of dATP versus dCTP Opposite 8-OxoG in DNA Polymerase β. Biophysical Journal. 92(9). 3063–3070. 22 indexed citations
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Moon, A.F., Miguel Garcı́a-Dı́az, V.K. Batra, et al.. (2007). The X family portrait: Structural insights into biological functions of X family polymerases. DNA repair. 6(12). 1709–1725. 151 indexed citations
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Lin, Ping, Lars C. Pedersen, V.K. Batra, et al.. (2006). Energy analysis of chemistry for correct insertion by DNA polymerase β. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(36). 13294–13299. 77 indexed citations
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Batra, V.K., William A. Beard, David D. Shock, et al.. (2006). Magnesium-Induced Assembly of a Complete DNA Polymerase Catalytic Complex. Structure. 14(4). 757–766. 233 indexed citations
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Beard, William A. & Samuel H. Wilson. (2001). DNA Lesion Bypass Polymerases Open Up. Structure. 9(9). 759–764. 18 indexed citations
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Berg, Brian J. Vande, William A. Beard, & Samuel H. Wilson. (2001). DNA Structure and Aspartate 276 Influence Nucleotide Binding to Human DNA Polymerase β. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 276(5). 3408–3416. 147 indexed citations
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Beard, William A. & Samuel H. Wilson. (2000). Structural design of a eukaryotic DNA repair polymerase: DNA polymerase β. Mutation Research/DNA Repair. 460(3-4). 231–244. 128 indexed citations
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Beard, William A., Katarzyna Bębenek, Thomas A. Darden, et al.. (1998). Vertical-scanning Mutagenesis of a Critical Tryptophan in the Minor Groove Binding Track of HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 273(46). 30435–30442. 35 indexed citations
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Lavrik, Olga I., Rajendra Prasad, William A. Beard, et al.. (1996). dNTP Binding to HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase and Mammalian DNA Polymerase β as Revealed by Affinity Labeling with a Photoreactive dNTP Analog. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 271(36). 21891–21897. 31 indexed citations
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Beard, William A. & Samuel H. Wilson. (1995). [11] Purification and domain-mapping of mammalian DNA polymerase β. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 262. 98–107. 153 indexed citations
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Beard, William A. & Samuel H. Wilson. (1994). Site-directed mutagenesis of HIV reverse transcriptase to probe enzyme processivity and drug binding. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 5(4). 414–421. 4 indexed citations
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Beard, William A., James R. Appleman, Tavner J. Delcamp, James H. Freisheim, & Raymond L. Blakley. (1989). Hydride Transfer by Dihydrofolate Reductase. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 264(16). 9391–9399. 33 indexed citations

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