Transposition of group II intron al1 in yeast and invasion of mitochondrial genes at new locations

Origin of life: The RNA world

1986 • 2,500 citations

Self-splicing RNA: Autoexcision and autocyclization of the ribosomal RNA intervening sequence of tetrahymena

1982 • 2,241 citations

Comparative and functional anatomy of group II catalytic introns — a review

1989 • 768 citations

Direct solid phase sequencing of genomic and plasmid DNA using magnetic beads as solid support

1989 • 747 citations

On the origin of RNA splicing and introns

1985 • 483 citations

Group I introns as mobile genetic elements: Facts and mechanistic speculations — a review

1989 • 473 citations

Intron phylogeny: a new hypothesis

1991 • 361 citations

Intron phylogeny: a new hypothesis

1991 • 278 citations

Group I and group II introns.

1993 • 268 citations

Multiple exon-binding sites in class II self-splicing introns

1987 • 218 citations

A latent intron-encoded maturase is also an endonuclease needed for intron mobility

1989 • 205 citations

The mitochondrial plasmid of Podospora anserina: A mobile intron of a mitochondrial gene

1984 • 198 citations

Reverse self-splicing of the tetrahymena group I intron: Implication for the directionality of splicing and for intron transposition

1989 • 178 citations

An mRNA maturase is encoded by the first intron of the mitochondrial gene for the subunit I of cytochrome oxidase in S. cerevisiae

1983 • 170 citations

Infectious introns

1989 • 153 citations

Reverse transcriptase activity associated with maturase-encoding group II introns in yeast mitochondria

1993 • 141 citations

Mobile Introns and Intron-Encoded Proteins

1989 • 134 citations

Intron mobility in the T-even phages: High frequency inheritance of group I introns promoted by intron open reading frames

1989 • 134 citations

How were introns inserted into nuclear genes?

1989 • 131 citations

Group II twintron: an intron within an intron in a chloroplast cytochrome b-559 gene.

1991 • 98 citations

Reverse self-splicing of group II intron RNAs in vitro

1990 • 94 citations

Integration of group II intron bl1 into a foreign RNA by reversal of the self-splicing reaction in vitro

1990 • 88 citations

A rapid miniprep method for the preparation of yeast mitochondrial DNA

1991 • 84 citations

A site-specific deletion in mitochondrial DNA of Podospora is under the control of nuclear genes.

1991 • 69 citations

Mitochondrial introns aI1 and/or aI2 are needed for the in vivo deletion of intervening sequences

1989 • 51 citations

Two distinct mechanisms for deletion in mitochondrial DNA of Schizosaccharomyces pombe mutator strains

1988 • 40 citations

Fate of the junction phosphate in alternating forward and reverse self-splicing reactions of group II intron RNA

1991 • 17 citations

RNA-mediated gene conversion?

1985 • 12 citations