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66
Citations
12995
World Ranking
1633
National Ranking
825

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1991 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1981 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Harrison Echols was affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their academic career was marked without available details on the specific research papers, co-authors, or publication venues typically associated with their work.

There is no publicly listed information about frequent co-authors, recent papers, or published books associated with this scientist. Likewise, the main fields and subfields of study remain unspecified.

Despite the limited data on their scientific outputs, Harrison Echols received recognition during their career through notable awards. They were named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1981. Later, in 1991, they were elected as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences.

The scientist passed away, which contexts their body of work as complete and historically situated. The absence of further documented contributions restricts the scope of available information regarding their specific areas of research focus or the impact of their publications.

Best Publications

  • Fidelity mechanisms in DNA replication.

    Harrison Echols;Myron F. Goodman

  • UmuD mutagenesis protein of Escherichia coli: Overproduction, purification, and cleavage by RecA

    Sabine E. Burckhardt;Roger Woodgate;Richard H. Scheuermann;Harrison Echols

  • Multiple DNA-protein interactions governing high-precision DNA transactions.

    Harrison Echols

  • DNA-looping and enhancer activity: association between DNA-bound NtrC activator and RNA polymerase at the bacterial glnA promoter.

    Wen Su;Susan Porter;Sydney Kustu;Harrison Echols

  • A separate editing exonuclease for DNA replication: the epsilon subunit of Escherichia coli DNA polymerase III holoenzyme

    Richard H. Scheuermann;Harrison Echols

  • UmuC mutagenesis protein of Escherichia coli: purification and interaction with UmuD and UmuD'

    Roger Woodgate;Malini Rajagopalan;Chi Lu;Harrison Echols

  • Activity of the purified mutagenesis proteins UmuC, UmuD', and RecA in replicative bypass of an abasic DNA lesion by DNA polymerase III.

    Malini Rajagopalan;Chi Lu;Roger Woodgate;Mike O'Donnell

  • Control of phage λ development by stability and synthesis of cll protein: Role of the viral clll and host hflA, himA and himD genes

    M.Andrew Hoyt;David M. Knight;Asis Das;Harvey I. Miller

  • Identification of the epsilon-subunit of Escherichia coli DNA polymerase III holoenzyme as the dnaQ gene product: a fidelity subunit for DNA replication.

    Richard Scheuermann;Schuman Tam;Peter M. J. Burgers;Chi Lu

  • Mutator strains of Escherichia coli, mutD and dnaQ, with defective exonucleolytic editing by DNA polymerase III holoenzyme

    Harrison Echols;Chi Lu;Peter M. J. Burgers

  • Specialized nucleoprotein structures at the origin of replication of bacteriophage lambda: localized unwinding of duplex DNA by a six-protein reaction.

    Mark Dodson;Harrison Echols;Sue Wickner;Christine Alfano

  • Unwinding of duplex DNA from the SV40 origin of replication by T antigen.

    Mark Dodson;Frank B. Dean;Peter Bullock;Harrison Echols

  • SOS functions, cancer and inducible evolution

    Harrison Echols

  • Establishment and Maintenance of Repression by Bacteriophage Lambda: The Role of the cI, cII, and cIII Proteins

    Harrison Echols;Linda Green

  • Control of recA gene RNA in E. coli: Regulatory and signal genes

    Ann McPartland;Linda Green;Harrison Echols

  • Capacity of RecA protein to bind preferentially to UV lesions and inhibit the editing subunit (epsilon) of DNA polymerase III: a possible mechanism for SOS-induced targeted mutagenesis.

    Chi Lu;Richard H. Scheuermann;Harrison Echols

  • Nucleoprotein structures initiating DNA replication, transcription, and site-specific recombination.

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  • ATP-dependent formation of a specialized nucleoprotein structure by simian virus 40 (SV40) large tumor antigen at the SV40 replication origin

    Frank B. Dean;Mark Dodson;Harrison Echols;Jerard Hurwitz

  • Specialized nucleoprotein structures at the origin of replication of bacteriophage lambda: complexes with lambda O protein and with lambda O, lambda P, and Escherichia coli DnaB proteins

    Mark Dodson;John Roberts;Roger McMacken;Harrison Echols

  • Mutation induced by DNA damage: a many protein affair.

    Harrison Echols;Myron F. Goodman

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard H. Scheuermann
Richard H. Scheuermann J. Craig Venter Institute
Myron F. Goodman
Myron F. Goodman University of Southern California
Robert L. Fischer
Robert L. Fischer University of California, Berkeley
Jerard Hurwitz
Jerard Hurwitz Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Stuart Linn
Stuart Linn University of California, Berkeley
Ira Herskowitz
Ira Herskowitz University of California, San Francisco
Anna M. Wu
Anna M. Wu City Of Hope National Medical Center
Hans H. Cheng
Hans H. Cheng Agricultural Research Service
Yoshiyuki Sakaki
Yoshiyuki Sakaki Toyohashi University of Technology
Peter M. J. Burgers
Peter M. J. Burgers Washington University in St. Louis

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