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1983 • 27,328 citations

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1980 • 15,302 citations

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1977 • 12,015 citations

A general method applicable to the search for similarities in the amino acid sequence of two proteins

1970 • 11,049 citations

Identification of common molecular subsequences

1981 • 9,753 citations

Hybridization of denatured RNA and small DNA fragments transferred to nitrocellulose.

1980 • 8,711 citations

A membrane-filter technique for the detection of complementary DNA

1966 • 3,996 citations

Optimal computer folding of large RNA sequences using thermodynamics and auxiliary information

1981 • 3,596 citations

Number and evolutionary conservation of α- and β-tubulin and cytoplasmic β- and γ-actin genes using specific cloned cDNA probes

1980 • 1,884 citations

The structure and evolution of the human β-globin gene family

1980 • 1,398 citations

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1977 • 1,283 citations

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1983 • 1,220 citations

Magnesium precipitation of ribonucleoprotein complexes. Expedient techniques for the isolation of undegraded polysomes and messenger ribonucleic acid

1974 • 987 citations

Evolutionary conservation in the untranslated regions of actin mRNAs: DNA sequence of a human beta-actin cDNA

1984 • 973 citations

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1983 • 546 citations

The Complete Amino Acid Sequence of Actins from Bovine Aorta, Bovine Heart, Bovine Fast Skeletal Muscle, and Rabbit, Slow Skeletal Muscle

1979 • 534 citations

Transcripts of the six Drosophila actin genes accumulate in a stage- and tissue-specific manner

1983 • 459 citations

Mouse actin messenger RNAs. Construction and characterization of a recombinant plasmid molecule containing a complementary DNA transcript of mouse alpha-actin mRNA.

1981 • 438 citations

Human actin genes are single copy for alpha-skeletal and alpha-cardiac actin but multicopy for beta- and gamma-cytoskeletal genes: 3' untranslated regions are isotype specific but are conserved in evolution.

1983 • 393 citations

The actin genes of drosophila: Protein coding regions are highly conserved but intron positions are not

1981 • 322 citations

A fetal skeletal muscle actin mRNA in the mouse and its identity with cardiac actin mRNA

1982 • 295 citations

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1983 • 273 citations

Structure of a cDNA for the pro.alpha.2 chain of human type I procollagen. Comparison with chick cDNA for pro.alpha.2(I) identifies structurally conserved features of the protein and the gene

1983 • 252 citations

Nucleotide sequence divergence and functional constraint in mRNA evolution.

1980 • 249 citations

α-Skeletal and α-Cardiac Actin Genes Are Coexpressed in Adult Human Skeletal Muscle and Heart

1983 • 237 citations

Number and organization of actin-related sequences in the mouse genome

1983 • 232 citations

Nucleotide sequence of the rat skeletal muscle actin gene

1982 • 207 citations

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1982 • 183 citations

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1982 • 155 citations

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1979 • 150 citations

The terminal RNA stem-loop structure and 80 bp of spacer DNA are required for the formation of 3′ termini of sea urchin H2A mRNA

1983 • 137 citations

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1983 • 128 citations

Skeletal muscle actin mRNA. Characterization of the 3′ untranslated region

1981 • 102 citations

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1983 • 94 citations

Isolation and characterization of cDNA clones for human skeletal muscle α actin

1983 • 93 citations

Strong homology in promoter and 3′-untranslated regions of chick and rat α-actin genes

1983 • 84 citations

Isolation and characterization of human actin genes.

1981 • 80 citations

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1982 • 80 citations

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1983 • 74 citations

A modified pBR322 vector with improved properties for the cloning,recovery, and sequencing of blunt-ended DNA fragments

1982 • 67 citations

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1981 • 52 citations