Thomas A. Kunkel

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyMedicine

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An author's DataRank is the sum of the DataRanks of all 2 indexed papers attributed to them. A prolific author with many moderate-impact papers can outrank one with a single high-impact paper.

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Papers

Driven by 34 papers. Top paper: “Microsatellite instability and mismatch repair defects in cancer cells”.

Microsatellite instability and mismatch repair defects in cancer cells

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis(1996)10.1016/0027-5107(95)00112-3

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1.9DataRank · unranked

44 citations

Asad Umar, Thomas A. Kunkel, David C. Thomas

Rapid and efficient site-specific mutagenesis without phenotypic selection.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(1985)10.1073/pnas.82.2.488

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1.3DataRank · unranked

7323 citations

Thomas A. Kunkel, T A Kunkel

Exonucleolytic proofreading by a mammalian DNA polymerase .gamma.

Biochemistry(1989)10.1021/bi00429a011

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0.644DataRank · unranked

72 citations

Dale W. Mosbaugh, Thomas A. Kunkel

How asymmetric DNA replication achieves symmetrical fidelity

Nature Structural & Molecular Biology(2021)10.1038/s41594-021-00691-6

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0.494DataRank · unranked

26 citations

Scott A. Lujan, Adam Burkholder, Jordan St. Charles, Joseph M. Dahl, Corinne E. Farrell +3 more

Instability throughout the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome resulting from Pms1 endonuclease deficiency

Nucleic Acids Research(2024)10.1093/nar/gkae616

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0.377DataRank · unranked

7 citations

Marta A. Garbacz, Sascha Emilie Liberti, Adam Burkholder, Thomas A. Kunkel, Scott A. Lujan

High fidelity DNA ligation prevents single base insertions in the yeast genome

Nature Communications(2024)10.1038/s41467-024-53063-1

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0.208DataRank · unranked

3 citations

Scott A. Lujan, Mercedes E. Arana, Adam Burkholder, Percy Tumbale, R. Scott Williams +2 more

Tracking replication enzymology in vivo by genome-wide mapping of ribonucleotide incorporation

UNC Libraries(2020)10.17615/1kpj-1p06

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0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

David C. Fargo, Adam Burkholder, Scott A. Lujan, Piotr A. Mieczkowski, Duncan J. Smith +5 more

Heterogeneous polymerase fidelity and mismatch repair bias genome variation and composition

UNC Libraries(2020)10.17615/1sxk-p977

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0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Scott A. Lujan, Dmitry A. Gordenin, Allan Clark, Ewa P. Malc, Anders R. Clausen +6 more

Genome-wide model for the normal eukaryotic DNA replication fork

UNC Libraries(2020)10.17615/vc05-kb93

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0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Stephanie A. Nick McElhinny, Scott A. Lujan, Michael A. Resnick, Dmitry A. Gordenin, Thomas A. Kunkel +2 more

Structural accommodation of ribonucleotide incorporation by the DNA repair enzyme polymerase Mu

UNC Libraries(2020)10.17615/4kxm-4z54

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0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

A.F. Moon, Dale A. Ramsden, John M. Pryor, Lars C. Pedersen, Katarzyna Bębenek +1 more

Catalytic mechanism of human DNA polymerase λ with Mg2+ and Mn2+ from ab initio quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical studies

UNC Libraries(2020)10.17615/fabw-yq04

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0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Miguel García–Díaz, Thomas A. Kunkel, L. Perera, Lee G. Pedersen, Katarzyna Bębenek +1 more

Eukaryotic Mismatch Repair in Relation to DNA Replication

UNC Libraries(2020)10.17615/r98e-vh63

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0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Dorothy A. Erie, Thomas A. Kunkel

Sustained active site rigidity during synthesis by human DNA polymerase μ

UNC Libraries(2020)10.17615/p4p6-d872

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0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Katarzyna Bębenek, A.F. Moon, Lars C. Pedersen, Thomas A. Kunkel, John M. Pryor +1 more

High-fidelity DNA ligation enforces accurate Okazaki fragment maturation during DNA replication

Nature Communications(2021)10.1038/s41467-020-20800-1

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0DataRank · unranked

53 citations

Percy Tumbale, Mercedes E. Arana, Julian A. Rana, R. Scott Williams, Thomas A. Kunkel +1 more

Ribonucleotide incorporation into DNA during DNA replication and its consequences

Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology(2021)10.1080/10409238.2020.1869175

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0DataRank · unranked

25 citations

Jessica S. Williams, Scott A. Lujan, Thomas A. Kunkel, Zhi-Xiong Zhou

The fidelity of DNA replication, particularly on GC-rich templates, is reduced by defects of the Fe–S cluster in DNA polymerase δ

Nucleic Acids Research(2021)10.1093/nar/gkab371

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0DataRank · unranked

12 citations

Margaret Dominska, Tony Zhang, Joseph M. Dahl, Elena I. Stepchenkova, Piotr A. Mieczkowski +6 more

Probing the mechanisms of two exonuclease domain mutators of DNA polymerase ϵ

Nucleic Acids Research(2021)10.1093/nar/gkab1255

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0DataRank · unranked

13 citations

Natalie Thomas, Maxwell Tracy, Brady L Hearn, L. Perera, Scott R. Kennedy +3 more

Structural Insights into the Specificity of 8-Oxo-7,8-dihydro-2′-deoxyguanosine Bypass by Family X DNA Polymerases

Genes(2021)10.3390/genes13010015

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0DataRank · unranked

4 citations

Thomas A. Kunkel, Lars C. Pedersen, Katarzyna Bębenek, Andrea M. Kaminski

Ribonucleotide Incorporation by Eukaryotic B-Family Replicases and Its Implications for Genome Stability

Annual Review of Biochemistry(2022)10.1146/annurev-biochem-032620-110354

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0DataRank · unranked

13 citations

Thomas A. Kunkel, Jessica S. Williams

Analysis of diverse double-strand break synapsis with Polλ reveals basis for unique substrate specificity in nonhomologous end-joining

Nature Communications(2022)10.1038/s41467-022-31278-4

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0DataRank · unranked

12 citations

Kishore K. Chiruvella, Dale A. Ramsden, Katarzyna Bębenek, Thomas A. Kunkel, Lars C. Pedersen +1 more

Molecular basis for processing of topoisomerase 1-triggered DNA damage by Apn2/APE2

Cell Reports(2022)10.1016/j.celrep.2022.111448

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0DataRank · unranked

6 citations

Jessica L. Wojtaszek, Denise C. Appel, J.M. Krahn, Bret D. Wallace, Evan Walsh +3 more

Pif1 family helicases promote mutation avoidance during DNA replication

Nucleic Acids Research(2022)10.1093/nar/gkac1127

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0DataRank · unranked

4 citations

Cindy Follonier, Scott A. Lujan, Adam Burkholder, Virginia A. Zakian, Thomas A. Kunkel +1 more

Extrinsic proofreading

DNA repair(2022)10.1016/j.dnarep.2022.103369

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0DataRank · unranked

5 citations

Thomas A. Kunkel, Zhi-Xiong Zhou

Mitochondrial DNA Enrichment for Sensitive Next-Generation Sequencing

Methods in molecular biology(2023)10.1007/978-1-0716-2922-2_28

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0DataRank · unranked

3 citations

Matthew J. Longley, Scott A. Lujan, Thomas A. Kunkel, William C. Copeland, Shilan Wu

Evidence that DNA polymerase δ proofreads errors made by DNA polymerase α across the Saccharomyces cerevisiae nuclear genome

DNA repair(2024)10.1016/j.dnarep.2024.103768

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0DataRank · unranked

3 citations

Zhi-Xiong Zhou, Scott A. Lujan, Adam Burkholder, Thomas A. Kunkel, Sarah A Marks

DNA polymerase λ Loop1 variant yields unexpected gain-of-function capabilities in nonhomologous end-joining

DNA repair(2024)10.1016/j.dnarep.2024.103645

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0DataRank · unranked

2 citations

Kishore K. Chiruvella, Dale A. Ramsden, Katarzyna Bębenek, Thomas A. Kunkel, Lars C. Pedersen +1 more

Evidence that transient replication errors initiate nuclear genome mutations

Nucleic Acids Research(2025)10.1093/nar/gkaf679

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0DataRank · unranked

4 citations

Zhi-Xiong Zhou, Thomas A. Kunkel, Scott A. Lujan

Molecular basis for RNA discrimination by human DNA ligase 1

Nucleic Acids Research(2025)10.1093/nar/gkaf299

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0DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Thomas J. Jurkiw, J.M. Krahn, Neha V Bokil, Suzanne J. Admiraal, Lars C. Pedersen +5 more

Nonhomologous end-joining uses distinct mechanisms to repair each strand of a double strand break

Nature Communications(2025)10.1038/s41467-025-66528-8

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0DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Kishore K. Chiruvella, Andrea M. Kaminski, Thomas A. Kunkel, Lars C. Pedersen, Dale A. Ramsden +1 more

End Processing in NHEJ by Polymerase λ and PNKP is coordinated during short-range synapsis

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.05.25.656038

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0DataRank · unranked

3 citations

Andrea M. Kaminski, Lars C. Pedersen, Tasmin Naila, Alan E. Tomkinson, Susan P. Lees‐Miller +3 more

DNA polymerase mu: An inflexible scaffold for substrate flexibility

DNA repair(2020)10.1016/j.dnarep.2020.102932

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0DataRank · unranked

5 citations

Katarzyna Bębenek, Lars C. Pedersen, Thomas A. Kunkel, Andrea M. Kaminski

Ultrasensitive deletion detection links mitochondrial DNA replication, disease, and aging

Genome biology(2020)10.1186/s13059-020-02138-5

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0DataRank · unranked

103 citations

Matthew J. Longley, Margaret H. Humble, Christopher A. Lavender, Adam Burkholder, Emma L. Blakely +8 more

Structural snapshots of human DNA polymerase μ engaged on a DNA double-strand break

Nature Communications(2020)10.1038/s41467-020-18506-5

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0DataRank · unranked

10 citations

John M. Pryor, Dale A. Ramsden, Thomas A. Kunkel, Lars C. Pedersen, Katarzyna Bębenek +1 more

Direct Visualization of Asymmetric Adenine Nucleotide-Induced Conformational Changes in MutLα

UNC Libraries(2020)10.17615/ad5k-3611

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0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Elizabeth J. Sacho, Dorothy A. Erie, Paul Modrich, Thomas A. Kunkel, Farid A. Kadyrov