Joshua A. Sommers

Also affiliated with National Institute on Aging

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyAgricultural and Biological Sciences

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Driven by 15 papers. Top paper: “FANCJ compensates for RAP80 deficiency and suppresses genomic instability induced by interstrand cross-links”.

FANCJ compensates for RAP80 deficiency and suppresses genomic instability induced by interstrand cross-links

Nucleic Acids Research(2020)10.1093/nar/gkaa660

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0.360DataRank · unranked

10 citations

Joshua A. Sommers, Arindam Datta, Sumeet U. Nayak, Marina A. Bellani, Olivia Yang +7 more

Mitochondrial genetic variation is enriched in G-quadruplex regions that stall DNA synthesis in vitro

Human Molecular Genetics(2020)10.1093/hmg/ddaa043

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60 citations

Katrina N. Estep, Joshua A. Sommers, Robert W. Maul, Ann Zenobia Moore, Stefania Bandinelli +16 more

WRN helicase safeguards deprotected replication forks in BRCA2-mutated cancer cells

Nature Communications(2021)10.1038/s41467-021-26811-w

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51 citations

Kajal Biswas, Joshua A. Sommers, Haley Thompson, Sanket Awate, Claudia M. Nicolae +6 more

DNA polymerase β outperforms DNA polymerase γ in key mitochondrial base excision repair activities

DNA repair(2021)10.1016/j.dnarep.2021.103050

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13 citations

Stephanie L. Baringer, Tomasz Kulikowicz, Joshua A. Sommers, Deborah L. Croteau, Robert M. Brosh +2 more

Biochemical analysis of DNA synthesis blockage by G-quadruplex structure and bypass facilitated by a G4-resolving helicase

Methods(2021)10.1016/j.ymeth.2021.12.005

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3 citations

Katrina N. Estep, Robert W. Maul, Robert M. Brosh, Joshua A. Sommers

RECON syndrome is a genome instability disorder caused by mutations in the DNA helicase RECQL1

Journal of Clinical Investigation(2022)10.1172/jci147301

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42 citations

Satpal S. Jhujh, Srijita Dhar, Joshua A. Sommers, Arindam Datta, Gabriel M. C. Longo +19 more

Biochemical analysis of SARS-CoV-2 Nsp13 helicase implicated in COVID-19 and factors that regulate its catalytic functions

Journal of Biological Chemistry(2023)10.1016/j.jbc.2023.102980

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39 citations

Lorin N. Loftus, Martin P. Jones, Rebecca A. Lee, Caitlin E. Haren, Adaira J Dumm +2 more

Discovery of a new hereditary RECQ helicase disorder RECON syndrome positions the replication stress response and genome homeostasis as centrally important processes in aging and age-related disease

Ageing Research Reviews(2023)10.1016/j.arr.2023.101887

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5 citations

Joshua A. Sommers, Satpal S. Jhujh, Tamar Harel, Grant S. Stewart, Robert M. Brosh +1 more

Phosphorylation-Dependent Association of WRN with RPA is Required for Recovery of Replication Forks Stalled at Secondary DNA Structures

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2023)10.1101/2023.08.08.552428

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1 citations

Pasquale Valenzisi, Federica Fratini, Tomasz Kulikowicz, Joshua A. Sommers, Flavia Di Feo +7 more

Purification and biochemical characterization of the G4 resolvase and DNA helicase FANCJ

Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology(2024)10.1016/bs.mie.2023.12.006

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1 citations

Joshua A. Sommers, Kathleen F. Fuchs, Yuliang Wu, Robert M. Brosh, Tomasz Kulikowicz

Phosphorylation-dependent WRN-RPA interaction promotes recovery of stalled forks at secondary DNA structure

Nature Communications(2025)10.1038/s41467-025-55958-z

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13 citations

Pasquale Valenzisi, Flavia Di Feo, Federica Fratini, Tomasz Kulikowicz, Joshua A. Sommers +8 more

SARS-CoV-2 point mutations are over-represented in terminal loops of RNA stem-loop structures that can be resolved by Nsp13 helicase in a unique manner with respect to nucleotide dependence

Nucleic Acids Research(2025)10.1093/nar/gkaf447

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5 citations

Andrew Y Zheng, Thomas Bütler, Tomasz Kulikowicz, Joe C George, Pierce T Bombard +4 more

DNA2 and MSH2 activity collectively mediate chemically stabilized G4 for efficient telomere replication

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.04.04.647332

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0 citations

Tingting Zhou, R. Steven Esworthy, Changxian Shen, Helen Liu, Jessica D. Hess +17 more

Repeat expansions confer WRN dependence in microsatellite-unstable cancers

Nature(2020)10.1038/s41586-020-2769-8

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200 citations

Sriram Sridharan, William J. Nathan, Anthony Tubbs, Edmond M. Chan, Elsa Callén +28 more

Discovery of thiacyanine dyes as a new class of potent coronavirus inhibitors that suppress viral RNA synthesis

Journal of Biological Chemistry(2025)10.1016/j.jbc.2025.110547

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0 citations

Valerie Altouma, Joshua A. Sommers, Adaira J Dumm, Debbie R. Kennedy, Hongjie Xia +14 more