Something from nothing: the evolution and utility of satellite repeats

Isolation of a yeast centromere and construction of functional small circular chromosomes

1980 • 788 citations

ATP-dependent nucleosome disruption at a heat-shock promoter mediated by binding of GAGA transcription factor

1994 • 662 citations

Interphase chromosomes undergo constrained diffusional motion in living cells

1997 • 656 citations

Progress and Prospects in Evolutionary Biology: The Drosophila Model

1997 • 654 citations

Dynamic organization of DNA replication in mammalian cell nuclei: spatially and temporally defined replication of chromosome-specific alpha-satellite DNA sequences.

1992 • 478 citations

The case for epigenetic effects on centromere identity and function

1997 • 470 citations

Displacement of sequence-specific transcription factors from mitotic chromatin

1995 • 444 citations

Progress and Prospects in Evolutionary Biology

1997 • 433 citations

Association of the Origin Recognition Complex with Heterochromatin and HP1 in Higher Eukaryotes

1997 • 403 citations

Mapping simple repeated DNA sequences in heterochromatin of Drosophila melanogaster.

1993 • 345 citations

DNA Methylation Specifies Chromosomal Localization of MeCP2

1996 • 343 citations

Immunolocalization of CENP-A suggests a distinct nucleosome structure at the inner kinetochore plate of active centromeres

1997 • 336 citations

A functional neo-centromere formed through activation of a latent human centromere and consisting of non-alpha-satellite DNA

1997 • 319 citations

Assembly of CENP-A into Centromeric Chromatin Requires a Cooperative Array of Nucleosomal DNA Contact Sites

1997 • 295 citations

Time of replication of yeast centromeres and telomeres

1988 • 295 citations

Centromeres of mammalian chromosomes

1990 • 254 citations

Molecular Structure of a Functional Drosophila Centromere

1997 • 252 citations

Human centromeric DNAs

1997 • 241 citations

Simple sequences

1994 • 238 citations

Lens crystallins: gene recruitment and evolutionary dynamism

1993 • 228 citations

Neocentromere activity of structurally acentric mini-chromosomes in Drosophila

1998 • 193 citations

Marking of active genes on mitotic chromosomes

1997 • 170 citations

The Drosophila GAGA transcription factor is associated with specific regions of heterochromatin throughout the cell cycle.

1994 • 168 citations

Chromosoma Focus

1997 • 167 citations

Cell and molecular biology

1968 • 163 citations

Arabidopsis thaliana Centromere Regions: Genetic Map Positions and Repetitive DNA Structure

1997 • 161 citations

The GAGA factor is required in the early Drosophila embryo not only for transcriptional regulation but also for nuclear division

1996 • 160 citations

Transgene Repeat Arrays Interact With Distant Heterochromatin and Cause Silencing in cis and trans

1997 • 159 citations

The Eukaryote Genome in Development and Evolution

1987 • 156 citations

Chromatin: Ga-ga over GAGA factor

1995 • 155 citations

Heterochromatin: Molecular and Structural Aspects

1988 • 141 citations

Replication timing of DNA sequences associated with human centromeres and telomeres.

1990 • 126 citations

Islands of complex DNA are widespread in Drosophila centric heterochromatin.

1995 • 120 citations

Isolation, properties and cellular distribution of Dl, a chromosomal protein of Drosophila

1980 • 120 citations

Heterochromatin protein 1 distribution during development and during the cell cycle in Drosophila embryos

1995 • 116 citations

Dissecting the centromere of the human Y chromosome with cloned telomeric DNA

1994 • 96 citations

Autonomous Replication in Human Cells of Multimers of Specific Human and Bacterial DNA Sequences

1993 • 87 citations

Return of the H-word (heterochromatin)

1995 • 77 citations

The product of proliferation disrupter is concentrated at centromeres and required for mitotic chromosome condensation and cell proliferation in Drosophila.

1997 • 68 citations

Isolation and sequencing of cDNA clones encoding Drosophila chromosomal protein D1

1989 • 64 citations

Autonomous replication in human cells of multimers of specific human and bacterial DNA sequences.

1993 • 44 citations

Somatic instability of a Drosophila chromosome.

1992 • 37 citations

Slippery DNA runs on and on and on…

1995 • 32 citations

Intragenomic distribution and stability of transposable elements in euchromatin and heterochromatin of drosophila melanogaster: non-LTR retrotransposon

1997 • 23 citations

An apparently acentric marker chromosome originating from 9p with a functional centromere without detectable alpha and beta satellite sequences

1997 • 21 citations

Do specific nucleotide bases constitute the centromere?

1994 • 21 citations