2026 Roger Woodgate: Molecular Biology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Molecular Biology	84	877	782	462	404	205	23435

Overview

Roger Woodgate is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research contributions focus primarily on the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant emphasis on molecular biology as a subfield.

The main topics of their scientific work cover various aspects of DNA repair mechanisms, bacterial genetics and biotechnology, ubiquitin and proteasome pathways, antibiotic resistance in bacteria, DNA and nucleic acid chemistry, genomics and chromatin dynamics, and cancer therapeutics and mechanisms. These areas reflect a multidisciplinary approach within molecular biosciences.

The scientist has published extensively in notable journals, with frequent publications appearing in:

Nucleic Acids Research
DNA Repair
Journal of Molecular Biology
Molecular Microbiology
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Roger Woodgate's recent papers demonstrate ongoing research activity and include:

"USP7 Is a Master Regulator of Genome Stability," 2020, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
"Single-molecule live-cell imaging reveals RecB-dependent function of DNA polymerase IV in double strand break repair," 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
"DNA Polymerase ι Interacts with Both the TRAF-like and UBL1-2 Domains of USP7," 2020, Journal of Molecular Biology
"Investigating the composition and recruitment of the mycobacterial ImuA'-ImuB-DnaE2 mutasome," 2023, eLife
"Mysterious and fascinating: DNA polymerase ɩ remains enigmatic 20 years after its discovery," 2020, DNA Repair

The scientist often collaborates with a group of frequent coauthors, indicating consistent research partnerships. These colleagues include:

Nicholas W. Ashton
John P. McDonald
Alexandra Vaisman
Irina Bezsonova
Myron F. Goodman

Best Publications

The Y-Family of DNA Polymerases

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

1045
Citations
Y-family DNA polymerases and their role in tolerance of cellular DNA damage

Julian E. Sale;Alan R. Lehmann;Roger Woodgate

847
Citations
UmuD′2C is an error-prone DNA polymerase, Escherichia coli pol V

Mengjia Tang;Xuan Shen;Ekaterina G. Frank;Mike O’Donnell

765
Citations
Crystal structure of a Y-family DNA polymerase in action: a mechanism for error-prone and lesion-bypass replication.

Hong Ling;François Boudsocq;Roger Woodgate;Wei Yang

742
Citations
Identification of additional genes belonging to the LexA regulon in Escherichia coli

Antonio R. Fernández de Henestrosa;Tomoo Ogi;Sayura Aoyagi;David Chafin

679
Citations
Roles of E. coli DNA polymerases IV and V in lesion-targeted and untargeted SOS mutagenesis

Mengjia Tang;Phuong Pham;Xuan Shen;John-Stephen Taylor

567
Citations
What a difference a decade makes: Insights into translesion DNA synthesis

Wei Yang;Roger Woodgate

496
Citations
The Saccharomyces cerevisiae RAD30 gene, a homologue of Escherichia coli dinB and umuC, is DNA damage inducible and functions in a novel error-free postreplication repair mechanism.

John P. McDonald;Arthur S. Levine;Roger Woodgate

456
Citations
UmuD mutagenesis protein of Escherichia coli: Overproduction, purification, and cleavage by RecA

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

445
Citations
poliota, a remarkably error-prone human DNA polymerase.

Agnès Tissier;John P. McDonald;Ekaterina G. Frank;Roger Woodgate

439
Citations
Molecular analysis of antibiotic resistance gene clusters in vibrio cholerae O139 and O1 SXT constins.

Bianca Hochhut;Yasmin Lotfi;Didier Mazel;Shah M. Faruque

435
Citations
Eukaryotic DNA polymerases: proposal for a revised nomenclature.

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

426
Citations
Human DNA Polymerase η Promotes DNA Synthesis from Strand Invasion Intermediates of Homologous Recombination

Michael J. McIlwraith;Alexandra Vaisman;Yilun Liu;Ellen Fanning

415
Citations
A plethora of lesion-replicating DNA polymerases

Roger Woodgate

350
Citations
Translesion DNA Polymerases

Myron F. Goodman;Roger Woodgate

339
Citations
Sulfolobus solfataricus P2 DNA polymerase IV (Dpo4): an archaeal DinB-like DNA polymerase with lesion-bypass properties akin to eukaryotic polη

François Boudsocq;Shigenori Iwai;Fumio Hanaoka;Roger Woodgate

337
Citations
UmuC mutagenesis protein of Escherichia coli: purification and interaction with UmuD and UmuD'

Roger Woodgate;Malini Rajagopalan;Chi Lu;Harrison Echols

302
Citations
Misinsertion and bypass of thymine–thymine dimers by human DNA polymerase ι

Agnès Tissier;Ekaterina G. Frank;John P. McDonald;Shigenori Iwai

291
Citations
Controlling the subcellular localization of DNA polymerases ι and η via interactions with ubiquitin

Brian S Plosky;Antonio E Vidal;Antonio R Fernández de Henestrosa;Mary P McLenigan

280
Citations
Localization of DNA polymerases eta and iota to the replication machinery is tightly co-ordinated in human cells.

Patricia Kannouche;Antonio R. Fernández de Henestrosa;Antonio R. Fernández de Henestrosa;Barry Coull;Antonio E. Vidal

277
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Myron F. Goodman University of Southern California

Michael M. Cox University of Wisconsin–Madison

Fumio Hanaoka National Institute of Genetics

Antoine M. van Oijen Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute

Bryn A. Bridges University of Sussex

Wayne A. Hendrickson Columbia University

Christopher W. Lawrence University of Rochester

Thomas A. Kunkel National Institutes of Health

Mike O'Donnell Rockefeller University

Alan R. Lehmann University of Sussex

External Links

Personal website of Roger Woodgate

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