Linear Plasmids of the Bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi Have Covalently Closed Ends

Lyme Disease—a Tick-Borne Spirochetosis?

1982 • 2,831 citations

Isolation and cultivation of Lyme disease spirochetes.

1984 • 1,554 citations

Borrelia burgdorferi sp. nov.: Etiologic Agent of Lyme Disease

1984 • 657 citations

Lyme disease spirochetes and ixodid tick spirochetes share a common surface antigenic determinant defined by a monoclonal antibody

1983 • 443 citations

A circular DNA—Protein complex from adenoviruses

1973 • 311 citations

Variation in a major surface protein of Lyme disease spirochetes

1984 • 280 citations

Incompletely base-paired flip-flop terminal loops link the two DNA strands of the vaccinia virus genome into one uninterrupted polynucleotide chain

1982 • 279 citations

Transposition of structural genes to an expression sequence on a linear plasmid causes antigenic variation in the bacterium Borrelia hermsii

1985 • 246 citations

Characterization and localization of the naturally occurring cross-links in vaccinia virus DNA

1974 • 209 citations

Cleavage of Circular, Superhelical Simian Virus 40 DNA to a Linear Duplex by S ₁ Nuclease

1973 • 207 citations

Identification of a telomeric DNA sequence in Trypanosoma brucei

1984 • 190 citations

A Single Recombinant Plasmid Expressing Two Major Outer Surface Proteins of the Lyme Disease Spirochete

1985 • 149 citations

Genomic environment of T. brucei VSG genes: presence of a minichromosome

1982 • 143 citations

Organization of genes encoding two outer membrane proteins of the Lyme disease agent Borrelia burgdorferi within a single transcriptional unit

1986 • 116 citations

The phylogeny of the spirochetes

1984 • 114 citations

DNA-Protein Complex in Circular DNA from Phage ϕ29

1971 • 107 citations

Visualization of an inverted terminal repetition in vaccinia virus DNA.

1978 • 103 citations

Replication and resolution of cloned poxvirus telomeres in vivo generates linear minichromosomes with intact viral hairpin termini

1986 • 92 citations

Resolution of linear minichromosomes with hairpin ends from circular plasmids containing vaccinia virus concatemer junctions

1986 • 67 citations

Structural characterization of the Molluscum contagiosum virus genome

1977 • 54 citations

Terminal proteins and short inverted terminal repeats of the small Bacillus bacteriophage genomes.

1981 • 54 citations

Bacteriophage in the Ixodes dammini spirochete, etiological agent of Lyme disease

1983 • 45 citations