One role for DNA methylation in vertebrate cells is strand discrimination in mismatch repair.

Selective extraction of polyoma DNA from infected mouse cell cultures

1967 • 5,357 citations

Molecular basis of base substitution hotspots in Escherichia coli

1978 • 1,185 citations

DNA methylation and the frequency of CpG in animal DNA

1980 • 1,146 citations

A fraction of the mouse genome that is derived from islands of nonmethylated, CpG-rich DNA

1985 • 668 citations

Escherichia coli mutator mutants deficient in methylation-instructed DNA mismatch correction.

1980 • 391 citations

Methyl-directed repair of DNA base-pair mismatches in vitro.

1983 • 344 citations

DNA methylation, biochemistry, and biological significance

1984 • 343 citations

Isolation of Mutants of an Animal Virus in Bacteria

1980 • 341 citations

Repair tracts in mismatched DNA heteroduplexes.

1976 • 300 citations

EFFECTS OF HIGH LEVELS OF DNA ADENINE METHYLATION ON METHYL-DIRECTED MISMATCH REPAIR IN ESCHERICHIA COLI

1983 • 294 citations

Defective simian virus 40 genomes: Isolation and growth of individual clones

1974 • 201 citations

Induced mutagenesis in dam − mutants of Escherichia coli: A role for 6-methyladenine residues in mutation avoidance

1978 • 198 citations

Progress in Environmental Mutagenesis

1981 • 163 citations

Identification of base mismatches recognized by the heteroduplex-DNA-repair system of Streptococcus pneumoniae

1982 • 141 citations

Asymmetrical distribution of CpG in an ‘average’ mammalian gene

1982 • 140 citations

Heat- and alkali-induced deamination of 5-methylcytosine and cytosine residues in DNA

1982 • 130 citations

How damaged is the biologically active subpopulation of transfected DNA?

1984 • 124 citations

Statistical characterization of nucleic acid sequence functional domains

1983 • 101 citations

Carcinogens induce targeted mutations in Escherichia coli

1982 • 93 citations

Methylation of simian virus 40 Hpa II site affects late, but not early, viral gene expression.

1982 • 85 citations

How Damaged is the Biologically Active Subpopulation of Transfected DNA?

1984 • 74 citations

DNA Methylation and Cellular Differentiation

1984 • 56 citations

Mutants of Simian Virus 40 with Base Substitutions at the Origin of DNA Replication

1979 • 15 citations