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Errol C. Friedberg publication distribution in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Molecular Biology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Errol C. Friedberg sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 564+

This scientist: 443 publications — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 564 publications or more.

Errol C. Friedberg D-index placement in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Molecular Biology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Errol C. Friedberg sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 101 D-Index — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 145 D-Index or more.

Overview

Errol C. Friedberg was affiliated with The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in the United States. Their research contributed to areas within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with particular focus on molecular biology. Their academic work spanned fields such as oncology and infectious diseases.

The scientist's research topics encompassed DNA repair mechanisms, CRISPR and genetic engineering, cancer-related molecular pathways, HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment, and advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques.

Errol C. Friedberg authored several papers, including:

  • Paul Berg (1926-2023), 2023, Nature
  • Two-polymerase mechanisms dictate error-free and error-prone translesion DNA synthesis in mammals, 2021, UNC Libraries
  • Apurinic/Apyrimidinic Endonuclease (APE/REF-1) Haploinsufficient Mice Display Tissue-specific Differences in DNA Polymerase β-Dependent Base Excision Repair, 2021, UNC Libraries

Frequent coauthors included:

  • Hani Zaher
  • Sigal Shachar
  • Omer Ziv
  • Sharon Avkin
  • Sheera Adar

Most of their publications appeared in UNC Libraries and Nature, with two papers published in the former and one in the latter.

Best Publications

  • DNA Repair and Mutagenesis

    Errol C. Friedberg;Graham C. Walker;Wolfram Siede

  • DNA damage and repair

    Errol C. Friedberg

  • The Y-Family of DNA Polymerases

    Haruo Ohmori;Errol C. Friedberg;Robert P.P. Fuchs;Myron F. Goodman

  • How nucleotide excision repair protects against cancer

    Errol C. Friedberg

  • p53 modulation of TFIIH-associated nucleotide excision repair activity.

    Xin Wei Wang;H. Yeh;L. Schaeffer;Richard Roy

  • The SAD1/RAD53 protein kinase controls multiple checkpoints and DNA damage-induced transcription in yeast.

    James B. Allen;Zheng Zhou;Wolfram Siede;Errol C. Friedberg

  • DNA repair: A laboratory manual of research procedures

    Errol C. Friedberg;Philip C. Hanawalt

  • The absence of a pyrimidine dimer repair mechanism in mammalian mitochondria

    David A. Clayton;Jackie N. Doda;Errol C. Friedberg

  • The Cockayne syndrome group A gene encodes a WD repeat protein that interacts with CSB protein and a subunit of RNA polymerase II TFIIH

    Karla A. Henning;Lei Li;Narayan Iyer;Lisa D. McDaniel

  • Specialized DNA polymerases, cellular survival, and the genesis of mutations.

    Errol C. Friedberg;Robert Wagner;Miroslav Radman

  • Trading places: how do DNA polymerases switch during translesion DNA synthesis?

    Errol C. Friedberg;Alan R. Lehmann;Robert P.P. Fuchs

  • Eukaryotic DNA polymerases: proposal for a revised nomenclature.

    Peter M J Burgers;Eugene V. Koonin;Elspeth Bruford;Luis Blanco

  • Dual roles of a multiprotein complex from S. cerevisiae in transcription and DNA repair

    William J. Feaver;Jesper Q. Svejstrup;Lee Bardwell;A.Jane Bardwell

  • Mouse Rev1 protein interacts with multiple DNA polymerases involved in translesion DNA synthesis.

    Caixia Guo;Paula L. Fischhaber;Margaret J. Luk-Paszyc;Yuji Masuda

  • Deoxyribonucleic acid repair in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    E C Friedberg

  • UV-induced ubiquitination of RNA polymerase II: a novel modification deficient in Cockayne syndrome cells

    David B. Bregman;David B. Bregman;Ruth Halaban;Alain J. Van Gool;Karla A. Henning;Karla A. Henning

  • Suffering in silence: the tolerance of DNA damage

    Errol C. Friedberg

  • Two-polymerase mechanisms dictate error-free and error-prone translesion DNA synthesis in mammals

    Sigal Shachar;Omer Ziv;Sharon Avkin;Sheera Adar

  • Relationships between DNA repair and transcription.

    Errol C. Friedberg

  • Erratum: Trading places: How do DNA polymerases switch during translesion DNA synthesis? (Molecular Cell (May 27, 2005) 18 (499-505) PII: S1097-2765(05)01276-1 and DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2005.03.032)

    Errol C. Friedberg;Alan R. Lehmann;Robert P P Fuchs

Frequent Co-Authors

Roger D. Kornberg
Roger D. Kornberg Stanford University
Jesper Q. Svejstrup
Jesper Q. Svejstrup University of Copenhagen
Gijsbertus T. J. van der Horst
Gijsbertus T. J. van der Horst Erasmus University Rotterdam
Harry van Steeg
Harry van Steeg Centre for Health Protection
Kiyoji Tanaka
Kiyoji Tanaka University of Tsukuba
Jan H.J. Hoeijmakers
Jan H.J. Hoeijmakers Erasmus University Rotterdam
Eugene V. Koonin
Eugene V. Koonin National Institutes of Health
Fumio Hanaoka
Fumio Hanaoka National Institute of Genetics
Vilhelm A. Bohr
Vilhelm A. Bohr University of Copenhagen
Alan R. Lehmann
Alan R. Lehmann University of Sussex

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