Arthur Kornberg

Research.com Recognitions

• 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United States Leader Award
• 1979 - US President's National Medal of Science "For accomplishments providing the conceptual and experimental framework for much of our current understanding of the manner in which DNA, the genetic substance, is replicated.", Presented by President Carter at a White House Ceremony on January 14, 1980.
• 1969 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
• 1959 - Nobel Prize for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid
• 1957 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 1956 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Best Publications

• The extinction coefficients of the reduced band of pyridine nucleotides

  B.L. Horecker;Arthur. Kornberg

  1650
  Citations

• Inorganic polyphosphate: a molecule of many functions.

  Arthur Kornberg;Narayana N. Rao;Dana Ault-Riché

  1520
  Citations

• Inorganic polyphosphate is needed for swimming, swarming, and twitching motilities of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

  M H Rashid;A Kornberg

  1107
  Citations

• ENZYMATIC SYNTHESIS OF DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID. XIV. FURTHER PURIFICATION AND PROPERTIES OF DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID POLYMERASE OF ESCHERICHIA COLI.

  C C Richardson;C L Schildkraut;H V Aposhian;A Kornberg

  1071
  Citations

• Enzymatic Synthesis of Deoxyribonucleic Acid. VIII. Frequencies of Nearest Neighbor Base Sequences in Deoxyribonucleic Acid

  John Josse;Armin D. Kaiser;Arthur Kornberg

  1009
  Citations

• Duplex opening by dnaA protein at novel sequences in initiation of replication at the origin of the E. coli chromosome

  David Bramhill;Arthur Kornberg

  900
  Citations

• Enzymatic Synthesis of Deoxyribonucleic Acid I. PREPARATION OF SUBSTRATES AND PARTIAL PURIFICATION OF AN ENZYME FROM ESCHERICHIA COLI

  I. R. Lehman;Maurice J. Bessman;Ernest S. Simms;Arthur Kornberg

  897
  Citations

• The dnaA protein complex with the E. coli chromosomal replication origin (oriC) and other DNA sites

  Robert S. Fuller;Barbara E. Funnell;Arthur Kornberg

  838
  Citations

• Enzymatic Synthesis of Deoxyribonucleic Acid. IX. The Polymerase Formed after T2 Bacteriophage Infection of Escherichia coli: A New Enzyme

  H. Vasken Aposhian;Arthur Kornberg

  835
  Citations

• Enzymatic Synthesis of Deoxyribonucleic Acid XXXVI. A PROOFREADING FUNCTION FOR THE 3' → 5' EXONUCLEASE ACTIVITY IN DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID POLYMERASES

  Douglas Brutlag;Arthur Kornberg

  808
  Citations

• Inorganic polyphosphate: essential for growth and survival.

  Narayana N Rao;María R Gómez-García;Arthur Kornberg

  795
  Citations

• Inorganic Polyphosphate: Toward Making a Forgotten Polymer Unforgettable

  Arthur Kornberg

  760
  Citations

• The enzymatic mechanism of oxidation-reductions between malate or isocitrate and pyruvate.

  Alan H. Mehler;Arthur. Kornberg;Santiago. Grisolia;Severo. Ochoa

  668
  Citations

• ATP activates dnaA protein in initiating replication of plasmids bearing the origin of the E. coli chromosome

  Kazuhisa Sekimizu;David Bramhill;Arthur Kornberg

  637
  Citations

• A model for initiation at origins of DNA replication

  David Bramhill;Arthur Kornberg

  586
  Citations

• Enzymatic synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid. XI. Further studies on nearest neighbor base sequences in deoxyribonucleic acids.

  M. N. Swartz;T. A. Trautner;Arthur Kornberg

  585
  Citations

• Active center of DNA polymerase.

  Arthur Kornberg

  578
  Citations

• Enzymatic synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid. XXXII. Replication of duplex deoxyribonucleic acid by polymerase at a single strand break.

  Regis B. Kelly;Nicholas R. Cozzarelli;Murray P. Deutscher;I. R. Lehman

  578
  Citations

• Biosynthesis of dicarboxylic acids by carbon dioxide fixation; isolation and properties of an enzyme from pigeon liver catalyzing the reversible oxidative decarboxylation of 1-malic acid.

  Severo. Ochoa;Alan H. Mehler;Arthur. Kornberg

  558
  Citations

• A DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID PHOSPHATASE-EXONUCLEASE FROM ESCHERICHIA COLI. II. CHARACTERIZATION OF THE EXONUCLEASE ACTIVITY.

  Charles C. Richardson;I. R. Lehman;Arthur Kornberg

  543
  Citations