Self-splicing introns in tRNA genes of widely divergent bacteria

Bacterial evolution.

1987 • 2,521 citations

Why genes in pieces?

1978 • 2,256 citations

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

1982 • 2,241 citations

Biological Nitrogen Fixation

1993 • 1,524 citations

Modelling of the three-dimensional architecture of group I catalytic introns based on comparative sequence analysis

1990 • 1,239 citations

In vitro splicing of the ribosomal RNA precursor of tetrahymena: Involvement of a guanosine nucleotide in the excision of the intervening sequence

1981 • 877 citations

Mitochondrial origins.

1985 • 606 citations

Proteobacteria classis nov., a Name for the Phylogenetic Taxon That Includes the "Purple Bacteria and Their Relatives"

1988 • 566 citations

Conserved sequences and structures of group I introns: building an active site for RNA catalysis — a review

1988 • 451 citations

Codon and amino-acid specificities of a transfer RNA are both converted by a single post-transcriptional modification

1988 • 442 citations

Biological Nitrogen Fixation

1993 • 339 citations

A thermodynamic study of unusually stable RNA and DNA hairpins

1991 • 288 citations

Speculations on the early course of evolution.

1986 • 284 citations

An Ancient Group I Intron Shared by Eubacteria and Chloroplasts

1990 • 277 citations

The recent origins of introns

1991 • 263 citations

Transcriptional regulation of the virA and virG genes of Agrobacterium tumefaciens

1988 • 232 citations

Bacterial Origin of a Chloroplast Intron: Conserved Self-Splicing Group I Introns in Cyanobacteria

1990 • 229 citations

Anticodon Switching Changes the Identity of Methionine and Valine Transfer RNAs

1988 • 227 citations

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

1989 • 178 citations

The yeast tRNATyr gene intron is essential for correct modification of its tRNA product

1983 • 152 citations

Evolution and relatedness in two aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase families.

1991 • 127 citations

Multiple self-splicing introns in bacteriophage T4: Evidence from autocatalytic GTP labeling of RNA in vitro

1986 • 113 citations

Structural and sequence elements important for recognition of Escherichia coli formylmethionine tRNA by methionyl-tRNA transformylase are clustered in the acceptor stem.

1991 • 108 citations

Compilation of tRNA sequences and sequences of tRNA genes

1991 • 88 citations

All human tRNA^Tyrgenes contain introns as a prerequisite for pseudouridine biosynthesis in the anticodon

1988 • 62 citations

Pseudouridine modification in the tRNA(Tyr) anticodon is dependent on the presence, but independent of the size and sequence, of the intron in eucaryotic tRNA(Tyr) genes.

1988 • 48 citations