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Overview

Jacqueline K. Barton is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research spans several subfields within biochemistry and molecular biology, with a focus on areas including molecular biology, oncology, renewable energy and sustainability, inorganic chemistry, and pathology and forensic medicine.

Their work addresses a range of topics such as DNA repair mechanisms, metal complex synthesis and properties, metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins, RNA modifications and cancer, metal-catalyzed oxygenation mechanisms, genetic factors in colorectal cancer, and microbial fuel cells and bioremediation.

Jacqueline K. Barton's recent papers include the following:

  • Extracellular DNA Promotes Efficient Extracellular Electron Transfer by Pyocyanin in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms, 2020, Cell
  • DNA Electrochemistry: Charge-Transport Pathways through DNA Films on Gold, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • In vivo anticancer activity of a rhodium metalloinsertor in the HCT116 xenograft tumor model, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The [4Fe4S] Cluster of Yeast DNA Polymerase ε Is Redox Active and Can Undergo DNA-Mediated Signaling, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Rhodium Complexes Targeting DNA Mismatches as a Basis for New Therapeutics in Cancers Deficient in Mismatch Repair, 2021, Biochemistry

The most frequent publication venues for Jacqueline K. Barton are:

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Biochemistry
  • Cell
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent coauthors in their research network include:

  • Adela Nano
  • Stephanie D. Threatt
  • Julie M. Bailis
  • Scott Saunders
  • Edmund C. M. Tse

The fields of study associated with their work primarily focus on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, as well as medicine.

Best Publications

  • Electrochemical DNA sensors

    T Gregory Drummond;Michael G Hill;Jacqueline K Barton

  • Recognition and reaction of metallointercalators with DNA.

    Kathryn E. Erkkila;Duncan T. Odom;Jacqueline K. Barton

  • Molecular light switch for DNA : Ru(bpy)2(dppz)2+

    Alan E. Friedman;Jean Claude Chambron;Jean Pierre Sauvage;Nicholas J. Turro

  • Mixed-ligand complexes of ruthenium(II): factors governing binding to DNA

    A. M. Pyle;J. P. Rehmann;R. Meshoyrer;C. V. Kumar

  • TRIS(PHENANTHROLINE)RUTHENIUM(II): STEREOSELECTIVITY IN BINDING TO DNA

    J. K. Barton;A. T. Danishefsky;J. M. Goldberg

  • Long-range photoinduced electron transfer through a DNA helix

    C. J. Murphy;M. R. Arkin;Y. Jenkins;N. D. Ghatlia

  • On demonstrating DNA intercalation

    Eric C. Long;Jacqueline K. Barton

  • Electron transfer between bases in double helical DNA.

    Shana O. Kelley;Jacqueline K. Barton

  • Oxidative DNA damage through long-range electron transfer

    D B Hall;R E Holmlin;J K Barton

  • Metals and DNA: molecular left-handed complements

    Jacqueline K. Barton

  • Novel dipyridophenazine complexes of ruthenium(II): exploring luminescent reporters of DNA

    Richard M. Hartshorn;Jacqueline K. Barton

  • Mutation detection by electrocatalysis at DNA-modified electrodes.

    Elizabeth M. Boon;Donato M. Ceres;Thomas G. Drummond;Michael G. Hill

  • Mechanisms for DNA Charge Transport

    Joseph C. Genereux;Jacqueline K. Barton

  • Photophysics of ruthenium complexes bound to double helical DNA

    Challa V. Kumar;Jacqueline K. Barton;Nicholas J. Turro

  • Single-base mismatch detection based on charge transduction through DNA

    Shana O. Kelley;Elizabeth M. Boon;Jacqueline K. Barton;Nicole M. Jackson

  • Metallo-intercalators and metallo-insertors

    Brian M. Zeglis;Valerie C. Pierre;Jacqueline K. Barton

  • Binding Modes and Base Specificity of Tris(phenanthroline)ruthenium(II) Enantiomers with Nucleic Acids: Tuning the Stereoselectivity.

    J. K. Barton;J. M. Goldberg;C. V. Kumar;N. J. Turro

  • Electrochemistry of Methylene Blue Bound to a DNA-Modified Electrode

    Shana O. Kelley;Jacqueline K. Barton;Nicole M. Jackson;Michael G. Hill

  • Methods to Explore Cellular Uptake of Ruthenium Complexes

    Cindy A. Puckett;Jacqueline K. Barton

  • Oxidative thymine dimer repair in the DNA helix.

    Peter J. Dandliker;R. Erik Holmlin;Jacqueline K. Barton

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas J. Turro
Nicholas J. Turro Columbia University
Michael G. Hill
Michael G. Hill Occidental College
Shana O. Kelley
Shana O. Kelley Northwestern University
Challa V. Kumar
Challa V. Kumar University of Connecticut
Michelle R. Arkin
Michelle R. Arkin University of California, San Francisco
Anna Marie Pyle
Anna Marie Pyle Yale University
Sheila S. David
Sheila S. David University of California, Davis
Brian M. Zeglis
Brian M. Zeglis Hunter College
Walter J. Chazin
Walter J. Chazin Vanderbilt University
Duncan T. Odom
Duncan T. Odom University of Cambridge

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