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2000 • 193 citations

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2000 • 106 citations

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1997 • 98 citations

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1998 • 98 citations

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2000 • 87 citations

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1999 • 82 citations

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1998 • 77 citations

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2002 • 68 citations

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A New Heat Shock Protein That Binds Nucleic Acids

1999 • 59 citations

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1999 • 59 citations

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2000 • 55 citations

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2001 • 29 citations

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1998 • 25 citations

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2003 • 24 citations

Specific binding of a protein to a novel DNA element in the cyanobacterial small heat-shock protein gene

2002 • 21 citations

Small heat shock protein of a hyperthermophilic archaeum, Thermococcus sp. strain KS-1, exists as a spherical 24 mer and its expression is highly induced under heat-stress conditions

2001 • 18 citations

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1998 • 16 citations

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2001 • 8 citations