William D. Wright

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

William D. Wright is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, William D. Wright has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Cancer Research and 7 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in William D. Wright's work include DNA Repair Mechanisms (25 papers), Heat shock proteins research (13 papers) and Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment (8 papers). William D. Wright is often cited by papers focused on DNA Repair Mechanisms (25 papers), Heat shock proteins research (13 papers) and Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment (8 papers). William D. Wright collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Netherlands. William D. Wright's co-authors include Wolf‐Dietrich Heyer, Joseph L. Roti Roti, Shanaya Shital Shah, Robert S. Malyapa, Aurèle Piazza, Robert P. Vanderwaal, Harm H. Kampinga, Ryuji Higashikubo, Steven K Gore and Ming Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

William D. Wright

46 papers receiving 1.8k citations

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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.

Homologous recombination and the repair of DNA double-strand breaks

2018 499 citations William D. Wright, Shanaya Shital Shah et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William D. Wright United States	22	1.6k	356	337	178	145	46	1.8k
Raquel Muñoz Spain	24	815 0.5×	477 1.3×	182 0.5×	133 0.7×	119 0.8×	68	1.7k
Mitsumasa Hashimoto Japan	20	1.5k 0.9×	510 1.4×	395 1.2×	159 0.9×	291 2.0×	60	2.0k
Ryushin Mizuta Japan	15	1.8k 1.1×	550 1.5×	378 1.1×	102 0.6×	109 0.8×	29	2.5k
Francis Jacob Switzerland	25	1.0k 0.7×	282 0.8×	210 0.6×	66 0.4×	146 1.0×	61	1.6k
John Sgouros United Kingdom	11	1.4k 0.9×	346 1.0×	370 1.1×	84 0.5×	163 1.1×	18	1.8k
Lynn C. Yeoman United States	26	1.6k 1.0×	400 1.1×	188 0.6×	74 0.4×	172 1.2×	67	2.1k
Ben Hodgson United Kingdom	12	2.0k 1.3×	688 1.9×	333 1.0×	133 0.7×	401 2.8×	13	2.4k
Bin Zhou China	22	1.0k 0.6×	148 0.4×	412 1.2×	95 0.5×	101 0.7×	72	1.5k
Luís Lombardía Spain	19	1.0k 0.6×	248 0.7×	407 1.2×	75 0.4×	176 1.2×	31	1.7k
Graham Daly United Kingdom	12	1.8k 1.2×	313 0.9×	409 1.2×	120 0.7×	57 0.4×	12	2.2k

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Shah, Shanaya Shital, Stella R. Hartono, Aurèle Piazza, et al.. (2020). Rdh54/Tid1 inhibits Rad51-Rad54-mediated D-loop formation and limits D-loop length. eLife. 9. 17 indexed citations

Piazza, Aurèle, Shanaya Shital Shah, William D. Wright, et al.. (2019). Dynamic Processing of Displacement Loops during Recombinational DNA Repair. Molecular Cell. 73(6). 1255–1266.e4. 69 indexed citations

Piazza, Aurèle, William D. Wright, & Wolf‐Dietrich Heyer. (2017). Multi-invasions Are Recombination Byproducts that Induce Chromosomal Rearrangements. Cell. 170(4). 760–773.e15. 85 indexed citations

Spies, Julian, et al.. (2016). Nek1 Regulates Rad54 to Orchestrate Homologous Recombination and Replication Fork Stability. Molecular Cell. 62(6). 903–917. 76 indexed citations

Wright, William D., et al.. (2014). The Mus81-Mms4 structure-selective endonuclease requires nicked DNA junctions to undergo conformational changes and bend its DNA substrates for cleavage. Nucleic Acids Research. 42(10). 6511–6522. 15 indexed citations

Wright, William D. & Wolf‐Dietrich Heyer. (2014). Rad54 Functions as a Heteroduplex DNA Pump Modulated by Its DNA Substrates and Rad51 during D Loop Formation. Molecular Cell. 53(3). 420–432. 114 indexed citations

Baird, Teaster, William D. Wright, & Charles S. Craik. (2006). Conversion of trypsin to a functional threonine protease. Protein Science. 15(6). 1229–1238. 25 indexed citations

Vanderwaal, Robert P., et al.. (2001). Cytometric methods to analyze thermal effects. Methods in cell biology. 64. 269–286. 2 indexed citations

Vanderwaal, Robert P., Cara L. Griffith, William D. Wright, Michael J. Borrelli, & Joseph L. Roti Roti. (2001). Delaying S‐phase progression rescues cells from heat‐induced S‐phase hypertoxicity. Journal of Cellular Physiology. 187(2). 236–243. 18 indexed citations

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Vanderwaal, Robert P., William D. Wright, & Joseph L. Roti Roti. (1999). The Effects of Heat-Shock on Nuclear Matrix-Associated DNA-Replication Complexes. Critical Reviews in Eukaryotic Gene Expression. 9(3-4). 363–371. 7 indexed citations

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Wright, William D., et al.. (1998). Intracellular distribution of hsp70 during long duration moderate hyperthermia. International Journal of Hyperthermia. 14(2). 211–225. 16 indexed citations

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Malyapa, Robert S., William D. Wright, & Joseph L. Roti Roti. (1996). DNA supercoiling changes and nucleoid protein composition in a group of L5178Y cells of varying radiosensitivity.. PubMed. 145(2). 239–42. 28 indexed citations

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Malyapa, Robert S., William D. Wright, & Joseph L. Roti Roti. (1996). DNA Supercoiling Changes and Nucleoid Protein Composition in a Group of L5178Y Cells of Varying Radiosensitivity. Radiation Research. 145(2). 239–239. 15 indexed citations

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Malyapa, Robert S., William D. Wright, Yvonne C. Taylor, & Joseph L. Roti Roti. (1996). DNA supercoiling changes and nuclear matrix-associated proteins: Possible role in oncogene-mediated radioresistance. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics. 35(5). 963–973. 12 indexed citations

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Wright, William D., et al.. (1990). Repair of Radiation-Induced DNA Damage in Thermotolerant and Nonthermotolerant HeLa Cells. Radiation Research. 124(1). 85–85. 19 indexed citations

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Higashikubo, Ryuji, William D. Wright, & Joseph L. Roti Roti. (1990). Chapter 31 Flow Cytometric Methods for Studying Isolated Nuclei: DNA Accessibility to DNase I and Protein–DNA Content. Methods in cell biology. 33. 325–336. 9 indexed citations

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Wright, William D., Ryuji Higashikubo, & Joseph L. Roti Roti. (1990). Chapter 33 Fluorescent Methods for Studying Subnuclear Particles. Methods in cell biology. 33. 353–362. 5 indexed citations

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Wright, William D., Ryuji Higashikubo, & Joseph L. Roti Roti. (1989). Flow cytometric studies of the nuclear matrix. Cytometry. 10(3). 303–311. 13 indexed citations

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Kampinga, Harm H., William D. Wright, Antonius W.T. Konings, & Joseph L. Roti Roti. (1989). Changes in the structure of nucleoids isolated from heat-shocked HeLa cells.. PubMed. 56(3). 369–82. 14 indexed citations

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Roti, Joseph L. Roti & William D. Wright. (1987). Visualization of DNA loops in nucleoids from HeLa cells: Assays for DNA damage and repair. Cytometry. 8(5). 461–467. 89 indexed citations

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