The synapsis event in the homologous pairing of DNAs: RecA recognizes and pairs less than one helical repeat of DNA.

Enzyme structure and mechanism

1977 • 2,935 citations

Construction of improved M13 vectors using oligodeoxynucleotide-directed mutagenesis

1983 • 2,609 citations

Extensive 3′-overhanging, single-stranded DNA associated with the meiosis-specific double-strand breaks at the ARG4 recombination initiation site

1991 • 525 citations

Pearson's marrow-pancreas syndrome. A multisystem mitochondrial disorder in infancy.

1990 • 456 citations

ENZYMES OF GENERAL RECOMBINATION

1987 • 333 citations

Integration of DNA fragments by illegitimate recombination in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

1991 • 324 citations

Biochemistry of Genetic Recombination: Energetics and Mechanism of DNA Strand Exchange

1991 • 259 citations

Stable DNA heteroduplex formation catalyzed by the Escherichia coli RecA protein in the absence of ATP hydrolysis.

1990 • 249 citations

Structure of helical RecA-DNA complexes

1986 • 244 citations

Selective Cleavage of Human DNA: RecA-Assisted Restriction Endonuclease (RARE) Cleavage

1991 • 201 citations

Conjugational recombination in E. coli: Myths and mechanisms

1991 • 180 citations

Nucleus-driven multiple large-scale deletions of the human mitochondrial genome: a new autosomal dominant disease.

1990 • 162 citations

Energetics of RecA-mediated recombination reactions

1990 • 132 citations

By searching processively RecA protein pairs DNA molecules that share a limited stretch of homology

1983 • 127 citations

Pairing of homologous DNA sequences by proteins: evidence for three-stranded DNA.

1990 • 122 citations

Visualization of RecA protein and its complexes with DNA by quick-freeze/deep-etch electron microscopy

1989 • 116 citations

Stable three-stranded DNA made by RecA protein.

1991 • 93 citations

Use of psoralen-modified oligonucleotides to trap three-stranded RecA-DNA complexes and repair of these cross-linked complexes by ABC excinuclease.

1988 • 92 citations

Topography of the interaction of recA protein with single-stranded deoxyoligonucleotides.

1986 • 92 citations

Formation of nascent heteroduplex structures by RecA protein and DNA

1982 • 81 citations

Properties of the high-affinity single-stranded DNA binding state of the Escherichia coli recA protein

1988 • 80 citations

recA protein from Escherichia coli. A very rapid and simple purification procedure: binding of adenosine 5'-triphosphate and adenosine 5'-diphosphate by the homogeneous protein

1982 • 77 citations

D-loop cycle. A circular reaction sequence which comprises formation and dissociation of D-loops and inactivation and reactivation of superhelical closed circular DNA promoted by recA protein of Escherichia coli.

1982 • 61 citations

Interaction of RecA protein with a photoaffinity analog of ATP, 8-azido-ATP: determination of nucleotide cofactor binding parameters and of the relationship between ATP binding and ATP hydrolysis

1986 • 54 citations

Asymmetry in the recA protein-DNA filament.

1991 • 36 citations

Formation of Joint DNA Molecules by Two Eukaryotic Strand Exchange Proteins Does Not Require Melting of a DNA Duplex

1989 • 33 citations

ATP-stimulated hydrolysis of GTP by recA protein: Kinetic consequences of cooperative recA protein-ATP interactions

1988 • 24 citations