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116
Citations
43100
World Ranking
766
National Ranking
481

Overview

Samuel H. Wilson was affiliated with the Research Triangle Park Foundation in the United States. Their research contributions spanned the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as well as Medicine, with a notable focus on Molecular Biology, Oncology, Genetics, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

Their scientific work concentrated on several main 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.

Wilson's publication record included significant papers such as:

  • Genomic and evolutionary classification of lung cancer in never smokers, 2021, Nature Genetics
  • Enabling cross-cultural student voice during COVID-19: A collective autoethnography, 2020, Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice
  • 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

Frequent collaborators included:

  • William A. Beard
  • Julie K. Horton
  • L. Perera
  • Susan Nicolai
  • Lee G. Pedersen

Wilson published regularly in specific venues, notably:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • DNA repair
  • Emergency Medicine Journal
  • Nature Communications

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Different DNA polymerases are involved in the short- and long-patch base excision repair in mammalian cells.

    Paola Fortini;Barbara Pascucci;Eleonora Parlanti;Robert W. Sobol

  • 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

  • Regulation of Acetylcholinesterase in Neuroblastoma Cells

    Arthur J. Blume;F. Gilbert;S. Wilson;John L. Farber

  • Modulation of synapse formation by cyclic adenosine monophosphate

    Marshall W. Nirenberg;Samuel H. Wilson;Haruhiro Higashida;Andrej Rotter

  • Role of DNA polymerase beta in the excision step of long patch mammalian base excision repair.

    Grigory L. Dianov;Rajendra Prasad;Samuel H. Wilson;Vilhelm A. Bohr

  • FEN1 stimulation of DNA polymerase beta mediates an excision step in mammalian long patch base excision repair.

    Rajendra Prasad;Grigory L. Dianov;Vilhelm A. Bohr;Samuel H. Wilson

  • Mammalian base excision repair by DNA polymerases delta and epsilon.

    M Stucki;B Pascucci;E Parlanti;P Fortini

Frequent Co-Authors

William A. Beard
William A. Beard National Institutes of Health
Rajendra Prasad
Rajendra Prasad Amity University
Thomas A. Kunkel
Thomas A. Kunkel National Institutes of Health
Myron F. Goodman
Myron F. Goodman University of Southern California
Lars C. Pedersen
Lars C. Pedersen National Institutes of Health
Katarzyna Bebenek
Katarzyna Bebenek National Institutes of Health
Robert W. Sobol
Robert W. Sobol University of South Alabama
Olga I. Lavrik
Olga I. Lavrik Russian Academy of Sciences
Lee G. Pedersen
Lee G. Pedersen University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Eugenia Dogliotti
Eugenia Dogliotti Istituto Superiore di Sanità

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