2026 Aseem Z. Ansari: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	47	4125	3895	1779	1670	103	8337

Overview

Aseem Z. Ansari is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Molecular Biology as a subfield. Additional areas of study include Hematology, Genetics, Virology, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

The main scientific topics covered in their body of work include:

RNA Research and Splicing
Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
Protein Degradation and Inhibitors
Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways
RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
RNA modifications and cancer
DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry

Aseem Z. Ansari has contributed to multiple scientific publications across several venues. Frequent venues of publication are:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Molecular Cell
Nature Communications
PLoS ONE
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews - RNA

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Ansari include:

"S1-END-seq reveals DNA secondary structures in human cells," 2022, Molecular Cell
"Hidden modes of DNA binding by human nuclear receptors," 2023, Nature Communications
"Fusion proteins form onco-condensates," 2021, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
"Single position substitution of hairpin pyrrole-imidazole polyamides imparts distinct DNA-binding profiles across the human genome," 2020, PLoS ONE
"The Phantom Mark: Enigmatic roles of phospho-Threonine 4 modification of the C-terminal domain of RNA polymerase II," 2023, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews - RNA

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

Ashraf Mohammed
Adithi Danda
Steven J. Philips
Walter H. Lang
Ryan P. Kempen

Best Publications

A library of yeast transcription factor motifs reveals a widespread function for Rsc3 in targeting nucleosome exclusion at promoters.

Gwenael Badis;Esther T. Chan;Harm van Bakel;Lourdes Pena-Castillo

530
Citations
Genome-wide distribution of yeast RNA polymerase II and its control by Sen1 helicase.

Eric J. Steinmetz;Christopher L. Warren;Jason N. Kuehner;Bahman Panbehi

456
Citations
TFIIH kinase places bivalent marks on the carboxy-terminal domain of RNA polymerase II.

Md. Sohail Akhtar;Martin Heidemann;Joshua R. Tietjen;David W. Zhang

362
Citations
A unified nomenclature for protein subunits of mediator complexes linking transcriptional regulators to RNA polymerase II.

Henri Marc Bourbon;Andres Aguilera;Aseem Z. Ansari;Francisco J. Asturias

343
Citations
Activation of gene expression by small molecule transcription factors

Anna K. Mapp;Aseem Z. Ansari;Mark Ptashne;Peter B. Dervan

305
Citations
Defining the sequence-recognition profile of DNA-binding molecules.

Christopher L. Warren;Natasha C. S. Kratochvil;Karl E. Hauschild;Shane Foister

291
Citations
Gene Loops Enhance Transcriptional Directionality

Sue Mei Tan-Wong;Judith B. Zaugg;Jurgi Camblong;Zhenyu Xu

288
Citations
DNA-bend modulation in a repressor-to-activator switching mechanism.

Aseem Z. Ansari;James E. Bradner;Thomas V. O'Halloran

286
Citations
An Activator Target in the RNA Polymerase II Holoenzyme

Sang Seok Koh;Aseem Z Ansari;Mark Ptashne;Richard A Young

285
Citations
Regulator Trafficking on Bacterial Transcription Units In Vivo

Rachel A. Mooney;Sarah E. Davis;Jason M. Peters;Jennifer L. Rowland

273
Citations
Allosteric underwinding of DNA is a critical step in positive control of transcription by Hg-MerR.

Aseem Z. Ansari;Mark L. Chael;Thomas V. O'Halloran

254
Citations
Two cyclin-dependent kinases promote RNA polymerase II transcription and formation of the scaffold complex.

Ying Liu;Charles Kung;James Fishburn;Aseem Z. Ansari

249
Citations
Chemical-genomic dissection of the CTD code.

Joshua R Tietjen;David W Zhang;Juan B Rodríguez-Molina;Brent E White

187
Citations
Design of artificial transcriptional activators with rigid poly-L-proline linkers.

Paramjit S. Arora;Aseem Z. Ansari;Timothy P. Best;Mark Ptashne

152
Citations
Ssu72 phosphatase-dependent erasure of phospho-Ser7 marks on the RNA polymerase II C-terminal domain is essential for viability and transcription termination.

David W. Zhang;Amber L. Mosley;Amber L. Mosley;Sreenivasa R. Ramisetty;Juan B. Rodríguez-Molina

150
Citations
The Bacterial Response Regulator ArcA Uses a Diverse Binding Site Architecture to Regulate Carbon Oxidation Globally

Dan M. Park;Md. Sohail Akhtar;Aseem Z. Ansari;Robert Landick;Robert Landick

150
Citations
Immobilization of Escherichia coli RNA Polymerase and Location of Binding Sites by Use of Chromatin Immunoprecipitation and Microarrays

Christopher D. Herring;Marni Raffaelle;Timothy E. Allen;Elenita I. Kanin

147
Citations
Towards a minimal motif for artificial transcriptional activators

Aseem Z Ansari;Anna K Mapp;Doan H Nguyen;Peter B Dervan

143
Citations
Combinatorial bZIP dimers display complex DNA-binding specificity landscapes.

José A Rodríguez-Martínez;Aaron W Reinke;Devesh Bhimsaria;Amy E Keating

143
Citations
Modular design of artificial transcription factors.

Aseem Z Ansari;Anna K Mapp

141
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Ptashne Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Peter B. Dervan California Institute of Technology

Robert Landick University of Wisconsin–Madison

Thomas V. O'Halloran Northwestern University

Paul C. Blainey MIT

James A. Thomson University of California, Santa Barbara

Parameswaran Ramanathan University of Wisconsin–Madison

Audrey P. Gasch University of Wisconsin–Madison

Kevan M. Shokat University of California, San Francisco

Nicholas M. Luscombe The Francis Crick Institute

External Links

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