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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Samuel H. Wilson was affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research contributions spanned key areas in biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a focused interest in molecular biology, oncology, genetics, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

Their published works addressed a variety of topics including DNA repair mechanisms, DNA and nucleic acid chemistry, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, PARP inhibition in cancer therapy, RNA modifications and cancer, genomics and chromatin dynamics, and CRISPR and genetic engineering.

Notable publication venues where Wilson's work appeared included UNC Libraries, DNA Repair, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Emergency Medicine Journal, and Nature Communications.

Frequent collaborators in their research included William A. Beard, Julie K. Horton, L. Perera, Susan Nicolai, and Lee G. Pedersen.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Wilson were:

  • Enabling cross-cultural student voice during COVID-19: A collective autoethnography (2020), Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice
  • Genomic and evolutionary classification of lung cancer in never smokers (2021), Nature Genetics
  • RNA abasic sites in yeast and human cells (2020), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Oxidative DNA-protein crosslinks formed in mammalian cells by abasic site lyases involved in DNA repair (2020), DNA Repair
  • Mitochondrial dysfunction and DNA damage accompany enhanced levels of formaldehyde in cultured primary human fibroblasts (2020), Scientific Reports

Wilson received recognition as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Requirement of mammalian DNA polymerase-beta in base-excision repair.

    Robert W. Sobol;Julie K. Horton;Ralf Kühn;Hua Gu

  • Structures of ternary complexes of rat DNA polymerase beta, a DNA template-primer, and ddCTP.

    Huguette Pelletier;Michael R. Sawaya;Amalendra Kumar;Samuel H. Wilson

  • Crystal structures of human DNA polymerase beta complexed with gapped and nicked DNA: evidence for an induced fit mechanism.

    Michael R. Sawaya;Rajendra Prasad;Samuel H. Wilson;Joseph Kraut

  • Crystal structure of rat DNA polymerase beta: evidence for a common polymerase mechanism.

    Michael R. Sawaya;Huguette Pelletier;Amalendra Kumar;Samuel H. Wilson

  • Markers for gene expression in cultured cells from the nervous system.

    Samuel H. Wilson;Bruce K. Schrier;John L. Farber;Edward J. Thompson

  • Structure and mechanism of DNA polymerase β.

    William A Beard;Samuel H Wilson

  • AP endonuclease-independent DNA base excision repair in human cells

    Lee R Wiederhold;John B. Leppard;Padmini Kedar;Feridoun Karimi-Busheri

  • OGG1 initiates age-dependent CAG trinucleotide expansion in somatic cells

    Irina V. Kovtun;Yuan Liu;Magnar Bjoras;Arne Klungland

  • Mammalian Abasic Site Base Excision Repair: IDENTIFICATION OF THE REACTION SEQUENCE AND RATE-DETERMINING STEPS *

    Deepak K. Srivastava;Brian J. Vande Berg;Rajendra Prasad;James T. Molina

  • Passing the baton in base excision repair

    Samuel H. Wilson;Thomas A. Kunkel

  • The lyase activity of the DNA repair protein β-polymerase protects from DNA-damage-induced cytotoxicity

    Robert W. Sobol;Rajendra Prasad;Andrea Evenski;Audrey Baker

  • A role for p53 in base excision repair.

    Jianmin Zhou;Jinwoo Ahn;Samuel H. Wilson;Carol Prives

  • Specificity and mechanism of error-prone replication by human immunodeficiency virus-1 reverse transcriptase.

    K Bebenek;J Abbotts;J D Roberts;S H Wilson

  • HTLV-I trans-activator protein, tax, is a trans-repressor of the human beta-polymerase gene

    Kuan-Teh Jeang;Steven G. Widen;Oliver J. Semmes;Samuel H. Wilson

  • DNA Polymerase β Conducts the Gap-filling Step in Uracil-initiated Base Excision Repair in a Bovine Testis Nuclear Extract (∗)

    Rakesh K. Singhal;Rajendra Prasad;Samuel H. Wilson

  • Mammalian base excision repair and DNA polymerase beta.

    Samuel H Wilson

  • Crystal structures of human DNA polymerase beta complexed with DNA: implications for catalytic mechanism, processivity, and fidelity

    Huguette Pelletier;Michael R. Sawaya;William Wolfle;Samuel H. Wilson

  • Magnesium-induced assembly of a complete DNA polymerase catalytic complex.

    Vinod K. Batra;William A. Beard;David D. Shock;Joseph M. Krahn

  • In situ analysis of repair processes for oxidative DNA damage in mammalian cells

    Li Lan;Satoshi Nakajima;Yoshitsugu Oohata;Masashi Takao

  • Specific Interaction of DNA Polymerase β and DNA Ligase I in a Multiprotein Base Excision Repair Complex from Bovine Testis

    Rajendra Prasad;Rakesh K. Singhal;Deepak K. Srivastava;James T. Molina

Frequent Co-Authors

William A. Beard
William A. Beard National Institutes of Health
Rajendra Prasad
Rajendra Prasad Amity University
Robert W. Sobol
Robert W. Sobol University of South Alabama
Thomas A. Kunkel
Thomas A. Kunkel National Institutes of Health
Lars C. Pedersen
Lars C. Pedersen National Institutes of Health
Myron F. Goodman
Myron F. Goodman University of Southern California
Lee G. Pedersen
Lee G. Pedersen University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tamar Schlick
Tamar Schlick New York University
Katarzyna Bebenek
Katarzyna Bebenek National Institutes of Health
Edward L. Kuff
Edward L. Kuff National Institutes of Health

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