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Erik Johansson

Erik Johansson

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
54
Citations
11869
World Ranking
15529
National Ranking
236

Overview

Erik Johansson is affiliated with Umeå University in Sweden and has contributed extensively to the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, producing a total of 39 publications. Their research primarily focuses on Molecular Biology, with significant work also conducted in Genetics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry.

The scientist's work covers key topics including DNA Repair Mechanisms, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Viral Infectious Diseases and Gene Expression in Insects, Protein purification and stability, thermodynamics and calorimetric analyses, Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology, and PARP inhibition in cancer therapy.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Johansson include:

  • Solid-State Lithium Batteries: Advances, Challenges, and Future Perspectives, 2025, published in Batteries
  • The [4Fe4S] Cluster of Yeast DNA Polymerase ε Is Redox Active and Can Undergo DNA-Mediated Signaling, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Eukaryotic DNA replication with purified budding yeast proteins, 2021, Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology
  • Hierarchical time-series analysis of dynamic bioprocess systems, 2022, Biotechnology Journal
  • Enhanced polymerase activity permits efficient synthesis by cancer-associated DNA polymerase ϵ variants at low dNTP levels, 2022, Nucleic Acids Research

Johansson frequently collaborates with other researchers. Prominent co-authors include Göran Bylund, Vimal Parkash, Johan Trygg, Yashraj Kulkarni, and Pia Osterman.

The scientist has published multiple works in several notable venues. These include:

  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biotechnology Journal
  • Communications Biology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Best Publications

  • Visualization of GC/TOF-MS-based metabolomics data for identification of biochemically interesting compounds using OPLS class models.

    Susanne Wiklund;Erik Johansson;Lina Sjöström;Ewa J Mellerowicz

  • PLS: Partial Least Squares Projections to Latent Structures

    S. Wold;E. Johansson;Marina Cocchi

  • Yeast DNA polymerase ε participates in leading-strand DNA replication

    Zachary F. Pursell;Isabelle Isoz;Else-Britt Lundström;Erik Johansson

  • Roles of yeast DNA polymerases delta and zeta and of Rev1 in the bypass of abasic sites.

    Lajos Haracska;Ildiko Unk;Robert E. Johnson;Erik Johansson

  • Abundant ribonucleotide incorporation into DNA by yeast replicative polymerases

    Stephanie A. Nick McElhinny;Brian E. Watts;Dinesh Kumar;Danielle L. Watt

  • Genome instability due to ribonucleotide incorporation into DNA

    Stephanie A Nick McElhinny;Dinesh Kumar;Alan B Clark;Danielle L Watt

  • RNase H2-Initiated Ribonucleotide Excision Repair

    Justin L. Sparks;Hyongi Chon;Susana M. Cerritelli;Thomas A. Kunkel

  • Using chemometrics for navigating in the large data sets of genomics, proteomics, and metabonomics (gpm)

    Lennart Eriksson;Henrik Antti;Henrik Antti;Johan Gottfries;Elaine Holmes

  • Summary recommendations for standardization and reporting of metabolic analyses.

    John C Lindon;Jeremy K Nicholson;Elaine Holmes;Hector C Keun

  • Mechanism of suppression of chromosomal instability by DNA polymerase POLQ

    Matthew J. Yousefzadeh;David W. Wyatt;Kei ichi Takata;Yunxiang Mu

  • Interactions between the Werner syndrome helicase and DNA polymerase delta specifically facilitate copying of tetraplex and hairpin structures of the d(CGG)n trinucleotide repeat sequence.

    Ashwini S. Kamath-Loeb;Lawrence A. Loeb;Erik Johansson;Peter M.J. Burgers

  • Idling by DNA polymerase delta maintains a ligatable nick during lagging-strand DNA replication.

    Parie Garg;Carrie M. Stith;Nasim Sabouri;Erik Johansson

  • Mixture design—design generation, PLS analysis, and model usage

    Lennart Eriksson;Erik Johansson;Conny Wikström

  • Functional interaction between the Werner Syndrome protein and DNA polymerase delta.

    A S Kamath-Loeb;Erik Johansson;P M Burgers;L A Loeb

  • A mechanism for preventing asymmetric histone segregation onto replicating DNA strands

    Chuanhe Yu;Haiyun Gan;Albert Serra-Cardona;Lin Zhang

  • The Pol32 Subunit of DNA Polymerase δ Contains Separable Domains for Processive Replication and Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen (PCNA) Binding

    Erik Johansson;Parie Garg;Peter M. J. Burgers

  • Structural basis for processive DNA synthesis by yeast DNA polymerase ɛ

    Matthew Hogg;Pia Osterman;Göran O Bylund;Rais A Ganai

  • The eukaryotic leading and lagging strand DNA polymerases are loaded onto primer-ends via separate mechanisms but have comparable processivity in the presence of PCNA

    Olga Chilkova;Peter Stenlund;Isabelle Isoz;Carrie M. Stith

  • Multivariate analysis of aquatic toxicity data with PLS

    Lennart Eriksson;Joop L. M. Hermens;Erik Johansson;Henk J. M. Verhaar

  • DNA Replication-A Matter of Fidelity.

    Rais Ahmad Ganai;Rais Ahmad Ganai;Erik Johansson

Frequent Co-Authors

Svante Wold
Svante Wold Umeå University
Peter M. J. Burgers
Peter M. J. Burgers Washington University in St. Louis
Thomas A. Kunkel
Thomas A. Kunkel National Institutes of Health
Lars Thelander
Lars Thelander Umeå University
Youri I. Pavlov
Youri I. Pavlov University of Nebraska Medical Center
Hans Stenlund
Hans Stenlund Umeå University
Mats Tysklind
Mats Tysklind Umeå University
Elaine Holmes
Elaine Holmes Imperial College London
Bengt Söderström
Bengt Söderström Lund University
Dale A. Ramsden
Dale A. Ramsden University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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