A Sancar

4.8k citations

36 papers · 4.2k · 1 hit paper · h-index 28

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Molecular Biology top 2%
- DNA Repair Mechanisms
- DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry
- CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
- Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience top 2%
- Photoreceptor and optogenetics research

Papers in

Molecular Biology 32
- DNA Repair Mechanisms 18
- Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms 8
- DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry 8
- bioluminescence and chemiluminescence research 4
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience 10
- Photoreceptor and optogenetics research 10

Co-authors: Christopher P. Selby (3 shared papers)Sang Tae Kim (6 shared papers)Stephen G. Chaney (2 shared papers)Paul F. Heelis (5 shared papers)Gillian M. Payne (3 shared papers)Intisar Husain (2 shared papers)Jing‐Jer Lin (2 shared papers)Evelyn M. Witkin (1 shared paper)
Journals: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (11 papers)Biochemistry (9 papers)Nucleic Acids Research (3 papers)Journal of Biological Chemistry (2 papers)Annual Review of Genetics (1 paper)
Partner nations: United States Russia United Kingdom

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A Sancar

35 papers receiving 4.0k citations

A Sancar's Hit Papers

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DNA EXCISION REPAIR 1996 · 986 citations

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Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

1996 Annual Review of Biochemistry

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1	DNA EXCISION REPAIR Annual Review of Biochemistry ·A Sancar Hit paper breakdown →	1996	986
2	DNA Repair: Enzymatic Mechanisms and Relevance to Drug Response JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute ·Stephen G. Chaney, A Sancar	1996	239
3	Putative Blue-Light Photoreceptors from Arabidopsis thaliana and Sinapis alba with a High Degree of Sequence Homology to DNA Photolyase Contain the Two Photolyase Cofactors but Lack DNA Repair Activity Biochemistry ·Khushbeer Malhotra, Sang-Tae Kim, Alfred Batschauer, Lale Dawut, A Sancar	1995	235
4	Escherichia coli mfd mutant deficient in "mutation frequency decline" lacks strand-specific repair: in vitro complementation with purified coupling factor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Christopher P. Selby, Evelyn M. Witkin, A Sancar	1991	197
5	DNA REPAIR IN HUMANS Annual Review of Genetics ·A Sancar	1995	188
6	Formation of a ternary complex by human XPA, ERCC1, and ERCC4(XPF) excision repair proteins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·C H Park, A Sancar	1994	173
7	RNA polymerase II stalled at a thymine dimer: footprint and effect on excision repair Nucleic Acids Research ·C. P. Selby, Ronny Drapkin, Danny Reinberg, A Sancar	1997	157
8	Transcription preferentially inhibits nucleotide excision repair of the template DNA strand in vitro. Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Christopher P. Selby, A Sancar	1990	153
9	Thymine dimers bend DNA. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Intisar Husain, Jack D. Griffith, A Sancar	1988	152
10	Human nucleotide excision repairin vitro: repair of pyrimidine dimers, psoralen and cisplatin adducts by HeLa cell-free extract Nucleic Acids Research ·Sibghat-Ullah, Intisar Husain, Wendi Carlton, A Sancar	1989	134
11	Escherichia coli DNA photolyase stimulates uvrABC excision nuclease in vitro. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·A Sancar, Kate Franklin, Gwendolyn B. Sancar	1984	125
12	Effect of base, pentose, and phosphodiester backbone structures on binding and repair of pyrimidine dimers by Escherichia coli DNA photolyase Biochemistry ·Sang Tae Kim, A Sancar	1991	117
13	Mechanisms of transcription-repair coupling and mutation frequency decline Microbiological Reviews ·Christopher P. Selby, A Sancar	1994	117
14	Active site of (A)BC excinuclease. I. Evidence for 5' incision by UvrC through a catalytic site involving Asp399, Asp438, Asp466, and His538 residues. Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Jing‐Jer Lin, A Sancar	1992	111
15	Determination of rates and yields of interchromophore (folate .fwdarw. flavin) energy transfer and intermolecular (flavin .fwdarw. DNA) electron transfer in Escherichia coli photolyase by time-resolved fluorescence and absorption spectroscopy Biochemistry ·Sang Tae Kim, Paul F. Heelis, Tadashi Okamura, Yoshinori Hirata, Noboru Mataga, A Sancar	1991	105
16	Isolation and characterization of two human transcription factor IIH (TFIIH)-related complexes: ERCC2/CAK and TFIIH. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·J T Reardon, Hui Ge, Erna Leonhardt Gibbs, A Sancar, J Hurwitz, Zheng Pan	1996	102
17	The active form of Escherichia coli DNA photolyase contains a fully reduced flavin and not a flavin radical, both in vivo and in vitro Biochemistry ·Gillian M. Payne, Paul F. Heelis, Brian R. Rohrs, A Sancar	1987	98
18	Absolute action spectrum of E-FADH2 and E-FADH2-MTHF forms of Escherichia coli DNA photolyase Biochemistry ·Gillian M. Payne, A Sancar	1990	92
19	Evidence for lack of DNA photoreactivating enzyme in humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Y F Li, Sang Tae Kim, A Sancar	1993	86
20	Time-resolved EPR studies with DNA photolyase: excited-state FADH0 abstracts an electron from Trp-306 to generate FADH-, the catalytically active form of the cofactor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Sang Tae Kim, A Sancar, Craig Essenmacher, Ǵerald Babcock	1993	79

About A Sancar

A Sancar is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Plant Science, Genetics and Cell Biology, having authored 36 papers that have together received 4.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include DNA Repair Mechanisms (18 papers), Light effects on plants (13 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (10 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (8 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (8 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (8 papers), Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry (5 papers) and bioluminescence and chemiluminescence research (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Molecular Biology (3.4k citations), Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (722 citations), Cancer Research (517 citations), Plant Science (1.2k citations) and Endocrine and Autonomic Systems (150 citations). A Sancar has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Russia and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Christopher P. Selby, Sang Tae Kim, Stephen G. Chaney, Paul F. Heelis, Gillian M. Payne, Intisar Husain, Jing‐Jer Lin, Evelyn M. Witkin, Jack D. Griffith and Lale Dawut. Their work appears in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Biochemistry, Nucleic Acids Research, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Annual Review of Genetics.

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