IS elements as constituents of bacterial genomes

Deciphering the biology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from the complete genome sequence

1998 • 7,572 citations

The Complete Genome Sequence of Escherichia coli K-12

1997 • 7,325 citations

The complete genome sequence of the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori

1997 • 3,529 citations

The Minimal Gene Complement of Mycoplasma genitalium

1995 • 2,499 citations

Sequence Analysis of the Genome of the Unicellular Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. Strain PCC6803. II. Sequence Determination of the Entire Genome and Assignment of Potential Protein-coding Regions (Supplement)

1996 • 2,455 citations

Genomic sequence of a Lyme disease spirochaete, Borrelia burgdorferi

1997 • 2,082 citations

Sequence Analysis of the Genome of the Unicellular Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. Strain PCC6803. II. Sequence Determination of the Entire Genome and Assignment of Potential Protein-coding Regions

1996 • 2,046 citations

Complete Genome Sequence of the Methanogenic Archaeon, Methanococcus jannaschii

1996 • 2,043 citations

DNA Insertion Elements, Plasmids and Episomes

1978 • 1,294 citations

Insertion Sequences

1998 • 1,211 citations

Molecular basis of symbiosis between Rhizobium and legumes

1997 • 767 citations

Conserved sequence motifs in the initiator proteins for rolling circle DNA replication encoded by diverse replicons from eubacteria, eucaryotes and archaebacteria

1992 • 580 citations

DNA: Insertion Elements, Plasmids, and Episomes.

1977 • 530 citations

Resident aliens: the Tc1/ mariner superfamily of transposable elements

1999 • 463 citations

Bacterial insertion sequences.

1989 • 426 citations

TRANSPOSITIONAL RECOMBINATION: Mechanistic Insights from Studies of Mu and Other Elements

1992 • 393 citations

Sequence and Organization of pXO1, the Large Bacillus anthracis Plasmid Harboring the Anthrax Toxin Genes

1999 • 376 citations

The complete DNA sequence and analysis of the large virulence plasmid of Escherichia coli O157:H7

1998 • 345 citations

TARGET SITE SELECTION IN TRANSPOSITION

1997 • 290 citations

Integrating DNA: Transposases and Retroviral Integrases

1999 • 250 citations

MODERN THOUGHTS ON AN ANCYENT MARINERE: Function, Evolution, Regulation

1997 • 224 citations

The E. coli gene encoding heat stable toxin is a bacterial transposon flanked by inverted repeats of IS1

1979 • 178 citations

Structural Organization of Virulence-Associated Plasmids of Yersinia pestis

1998 • 166 citations

Sequence and analysis of the 60 kb conjugative, bacteriocin‐producing plasmid pMRC01 from Lactococcus lactis DPC3147

1998 • 165 citations

DNA Sequencing and Analysis of the Low-Ca²⁺-Response Plasmid pCD1 ofYersinia pestisKIM5

1998 • 151 citations

Distribution and Abundance of Insertion Sequences Among Natural Isolates of Escherichia coli

1987 • 150 citations

The aerobactin iron transport system genes in Shigella flexneri are present within a pathogenicity island

1999 • 147 citations

Insertion sequence-related genetic variation in resting Escherichia coli K-12.

1994 • 146 citations

Molecular mechanisms in retrovirus DNA integration

1997 • 145 citations

The selC‐associated SHI‐2 pathogenicity island of Shigella flexneri

1999 • 135 citations

Complete DNA Sequence and Detailed Analysis of the Yersinia pestis KIM5 Plasmid Encoding Murine Toxin and Capsular Antigen

1998 • 134 citations

Molecular biology of pseudomonads

1996 • 131 citations

Bacterial catabolic transposons

1999 • 124 citations

The pigmentation locus of Yersinia pestis KIM6+ is flanked by an insertion sequence and includes the structural genes for pesticin sensitivity and HMWP2

1994 • 120 citations

Snapshot of a Large Dynamic Replicon in a Halophilic Archaeon: Megaplasmid or Minichromosome?

1998 • 116 citations

New insertion sequences and a novel repeated sequence in the genome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv

1999 • 113 citations

Distribution of the insertion sequence IS1 in Gram-negative bacteria

1981 • 106 citations

The Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin gene is on a transposable element in type A human food poisoning strains

1997 • 105 citations

Repeated extragenic sequences in prokaryotic genomes: a proposal for the origin and dynamics of the RUP element in Streptococcus pneumoniae

1999 • 103 citations

Polynucleotidyl transfer reactions in site‐specific DNA recombination

1997 • 102 citations

Differential roles of the transposon termini in IS91transposition.

1994 • 100 citations

Catabolic transposons

1994 • 95 citations

Multiple copies of iso-insertion sequences of IS1 in Shigella dysenteriae chromosome

1981 • 91 citations

Organizational characteristics and information content of an archaeal genome: 156kb of sequence from Sulfolobus solfataricus P2

1996 • 87 citations

Current ReviewEvolution of Agrobacteria and Their Ti Plasmids - A Review

1992 • 85 citations

Nucleotide sequence of the afimbrial-adhesin-encoding afa-3 gene cluster and its translocation via flanking IS1 insertion sequences

1994 • 82 citations

Formation of the tandem repeat (IS30)2 and its role in IS30-mediated transpositional DNA rearrangements

1993 • 70 citations

Structural requirement for IS50-mediated gene transposition.

1983 • 68 citations

Transposition burst of the ISH27 insertion element family inHalobacterium halobium

1990 • 60 citations

Bacterial Interspersed Mosaic Elements (BIMEs) Are a Major Source of Sequence Polymorphism in Escherichia coli Intergenic Regions Including Specific Associations With a New Insertion Sequence

1997 • 58 citations

Genetic organization of the regions associated with surface polysaccharide synthesis in Vibrio cholerae O1, O139 and Vibrio anguillarum O1 and O2: a review1Published in conjunction with A Wisconsin Gathering Honoring Waclaw Szybalski on the occasion of his 75th year and 20 years of Editorship-in-Chief of Gene, 10–11 August 1997, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA.1

1998 • 57 citations

The insertion element IS1 is a natural constituent of coliphage P1 DNA

1978 • 56 citations

Completing the sequence of the Sulfolobus solfataricus P2 genome

1998 • 56 citations

Cloning and nucleotide sequence of different iso-IS231 elements and their structural association with the Tn4430 transposon in Bacillus thuringiensis

1987 • 55 citations

Structures of Homologous Composite Transposons Carrying cbaABC Genes from Europe and North America

1998 • 54 citations

The transposition frequency of IS1-flanked transposons is a function of their size

1982 • 54 citations

Terminal inverted repeats of insertion sequence IS30 serve as targets for transposition

1997 • 50 citations

A novel type of transposon generated by insertion element Is102 present in a psc101 derivative

1982 • 47 citations

Serotype 1a O-Antigen Modification: Molecular Characterization of the Genes Involved and Their Novel Organization in the Shigella flexneri Chromosome

1999 • 47 citations

Replicative and Conservative Transpositional Recombination of Insertion Sequences

1984 • 44 citations

Amino acid sequence homology between Piv, an essential protein in site-specific DNA inversion in Moraxella lacunata, and transposases of an unusual family of insertion elements

1994 • 39 citations

Three insertion sequences from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC6803 support the occurrence of horizontal DNA transfer among bacteria

1997 • 38 citations

IS911‐mediated intramolecular transposition is naturally temperature sensitive

1997 • 34 citations

Specificity of insertion of IS91, an insertion sequence present in α‐haemolysin plasmids of Escherichia coli

1989 • 34 citations

Isolation, characterization and transposition of an (IS2)2 intermediate

1996 • 34 citations

Characterization of the transposon carrying the STII gene of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli

1988 • 32 citations

MIC231, a naturally occurring mobile insertion cassette from Bacillus cereus

1999 • 32 citations

Junction sequences generated by ‘one-ended transposition’

1985 • 30 citations

MECHANISM OF IS1 TRANSPOSITION IN E. COLI: CHOICE BETWEEN SIMPLE INSERTION AND COINTEGRATION

1984 • 27 citations

TRANSPOSITION OF PLASMID-BORNE Tn10 ELEMENTS DOES NOT EXHIBIT SIMPLE LENGTH-DEPENDENCE

1985 • 26 citations

Time for a fresh look at the bacterial chromosome

1999 • 22 citations

Mutagenesis of the IS1 transposase: importance of a His-Arg-Tyr triad for activity

1995 • 21 citations

Intramolecular transposition of insertion sequence IS91 results in second‐site simple insertions

1999 • 20 citations

IS1-mediated mobility of the aerobactin system of pColV-K30 in Escherichia coli

1988 • 19 citations

Transposons as gene haulers

1998 • 18 citations

Transduction of certain genes by an autonomously replicating Bacillus thuringiensis phage

1991 • 18 citations

Identification and characterisation of IS1383, a new insertion sequence isolated from Pseudomonas putida strain H

1999 • 13 citations

TheSinorhizobium melilotiinsertion sequence (IS) elements ISRm102F34-1/ISRm7and ISRm220-13-5belong to a new family of insertion sequence elements

1999 • 13 citations

IS222, a new insertion element associated with the genome of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

1986 • 13 citations