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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Chemical Society
  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1998 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Sheila S. David is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research contributions mainly fall within the domain of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on Molecular Biology.

Their work explores several important scientific topics, including:

  • DNA Repair Mechanisms
  • DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Genetic factors in colorectal cancer

Among their recent scientific publications are the following papers:

  • "Structure, function and evolution of the Helix-hairpin-Helix DNA glycosylase superfamily: Piecing together the evolutionary puzzle of DNA base damage repair mechanisms" (2021) published in DNA Repair
  • "Structural snapshots of base excision by the cancer-associated variant MutY N146S reveal a retaining mechanism" (2023) published in Nucleic Acids Research
  • "Single molecule analysis indicates stimulation of MUTYH by UV-DDB through enzyme turnover" (2021) published in Nucleic Acids Research
  • "Structural Insights into the Mechanism of Base Excision by MBD4" (2021) published in Journal of Molecular Biology
  • "NEIL1 Recoding due to RNA Editing Impacts Lesion-Specific Recognition and Excision" (2022) published in Journal of the American Chemical Society

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • Carlos H. Trasviña-Arenas
  • Merve Demir
  • Chandrima Majumdar
  • Elizabeth R. Lotsof
  • Savannah G. Conlon

Publications often appear in prominent venues such as:

  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition

The scientist has been recognized with several professional honors, including:

  • Fellow of the American Chemical Society (2011)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2010)
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1998)

Best Publications

  • Base-excision repair of oxidative DNA damage

    Sheila S. David;Valerie L. O'Shea;Sucharita Kundu

  • Chemistry of Glycosylases and Endonucleases Involved in Base-Excision Repair

    Sheila S. David;Scott D. Williams

  • DNA-mediated charge transport for DNA repair

    Elizabeth M. Boon;Alison L. Livingston;Nikolas H. Chmiel;Sheila S. David

  • Single-turnover and pre-steady-state kinetics of the reaction of the adenine glycosylase MutY with mismatch-containing DNA substrates.

    Silvia L. Porello;and Aquiles E. Leyes;Sheila S. David

  • DNA-Bound Redox Activity of DNA Repair Glycosylases Containing [4Fe-4S] Clusters†

    Amie K. Boal;Eylon Yavin;Olga A. Lukianova;Valerie L. O'Shea

  • RNA editing changes the lesion specificity for the DNA repair enzyme NEIL1

    Jongchan Yeo;Rena A. Goodman;Nicole T. Schirle;Sheila S. David

  • Protein–DNA charge transport: Redox activation of a DNA repair protein by guanine radical

    Eylon Yavin;Amie K. Boal;Eric D. A. Stemp;Elizabeth M. Boon

  • Removal of hydantoin products of 8-oxoguanine oxidation by the Escherichia coli DNA repair enzyme, FPG.

    Michael D. Leipold;James G. Muller;Cynthia J. Burrows;Sheila S. David

  • A role for iron-sulfur clusters in DNA repair.

    Olga A Lukianova;Sheila S David

  • Superior removal of hydantoin lesions relative to other oxidized bases by the human DNA glycosylase hNEIL1.

    Nirmala Krishnamurthy;Xiaobei Zhao;Cynthia J. Burrows;Sheila S. David

  • A Substrate Recognition Role for the [4Fe-4S]2+ Cluster of the DNA Repair Glycosylase MutY†

    Silvia L. Porello;Michelle J. Cannon;Sheila S. David

  • Insight into the Functional Consequences of Inherited Variants of the hMYH Adenine Glycosylase Associated with Colorectal Cancer: Complementation Assays with hMYH Variants and Pre-steady-state Kinetics of the Corresponding Mutated E. coli Enzymes

    Nikolas H Chmiel;Alison L Livingston;Sheila S David

  • Specific Recognition of Substrate Analogs by the DNA Mismatch Repair Enzyme MutY

    Silvia L. Porello;Scott D. Williams;Heiko Kuhn;Mark L. Michaels

  • Efficient recognition of substrates and substrate analogs by the adenine glycosylase MutY requires the C-terminal domain

    Nikolas H. Chmiel;Marie Pierre Golinelli;Anthony W. Francis;Sheila S. David

  • Magnetization and electron paramagnetic resonance studies of reduced uteroferrin and its "EPR-silent" phosphate complex.

    E. P. Day;S. S. David;J. Peterson;W. R. Dunham

  • Anion binding to uteroferrin. Evidence for phosphate coordination to the iron(III) ion of the dinuclear active site and interaction with the hydroxo bridge

    Sheila S. David;Lawrence Que

  • Mutation versus repair: NEIL1 removal of hydantoin lesions in single-stranded, bulge, bubble, and duplex DNA contexts.

    Xiaobei Zhao;Nirmala Krishnamurthy;Cynthia J. Burrows;Sheila S. David

  • Recognition and removal of oxidized guanines in duplex DNA by the base excision repair enzymes hOGG1, yOGG1, and yOGG2.

    Michael D. Leipold;Hillary Workman;James G. Muller;Cynthia J. Burrows

  • Evidence that MutY is a monofunctional glycosylase capable of forming a covalent Schiff base intermediate with substrate DNA

    Scott D. Williams;Sheila S. David

  • NMR evidence for specific intercalation of .DELTA.-rh(phen)2.phi.3+ in [d(GTCGAC)2]

    Sheila S. David;Jacqueline K. Barton

  • Structure and potential mutagenicity of new hydantoin products from guanosine and 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine oxidation by transition metals.

    Cynthia J Burrows;James G Muller;Olga Kornyushyna;Wenchen Luo

Frequent Co-Authors

Jacqueline K. Barton
Jacqueline K. Barton California Institute of Technology
Cynthia J. Burrows
Cynthia J. Burrows University of Utah
Eric T. Kool
Eric T. Kool Stanford University
Lawrence Que
Lawrence Que University of Minnesota
Leemor Joshua-Tor
Leemor Joshua-Tor Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Bennett Van Houten
Bennett Van Houten University of Pittsburgh
Simon C. Watkins
Simon C. Watkins University of Pittsburgh
Keith O. Hodgson
Keith O. Hodgson Stanford University
Britt Hedman
Britt Hedman SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Julian Roy Sampson
Julian Roy Sampson Cardiff University

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