The effects of nucleotide sequence changes on DNA secondary structure formation in Escherichia coli are consistent with cruciform extrusion in vivo.

Cruciform formation in a negatively supercoiled DNA may be kinetically forbidden under physiological conditions

1983 • 212 citations

Identification and genetic analysis of sbcC mutations in commonly used recBC sbcB strains of Escherichia coli K-12

1985 • 201 citations

DNA Gyrase and DNA Supercoiling

1979 • 175 citations

Viability of λ phages carrying a perfect palindrome in the absence of recombination nucleases

1983 • 166 citations

Effects of base sequence on the loop folding in DNA hairpins

1989 • 131 citations

Perfect palindromic lac operator DNA sequence exists as a stable cruciform structure in supercoiled DNA in vitro but not in vivo.

1983 • 122 citations

Instability of Palindromic DNA in Escherichia coli

1981 • 120 citations

Structure, Kinetics and Thermodynamics of DNA Hairpin Fragments in Solution

1983 • 116 citations

On the deletion of inverted repeated DNA in Escherichia coli: effects of length, thermal stability, and cruciform formation in vivo.

1991 • 114 citations

In vivo consequences of plasmid topology

1981 • 109 citations

A native cruciform DNA structure probed in bacteria by recombinant T7 endonuclease.

1987 • 105 citations

Torsionally tuned cruciform and Z-DNA probes for measuring unrestrained supercoiling at specific sites in DNA of living cells

1991 • 92 citations

Escherichia coli sbcC mutants permit stable propagation of DNA replicons containing a long palindrome

1988 • 91 citations

The three‐dimensional structure of a DNA hairpin in solution

1991 • 85 citations

Identification of sbcD mutations as cosuppressors of recBC that allow propagation of DNA palindromes in Escherichia coli K-12

1992 • 84 citations

Oligodeoxynucleotide folding in solution: loop size and stability of B-hairpins

1988 • 70 citations

Formation of (dA-dT)n cruciforms in Escherichia coli cells under different environmental conditions

1991 • 67 citations

The mechanism of cruciform formation in supercoiled DNA: initial opening of central basepairs in salt-dependent extrusion

1987 • 53 citations

Comparison of physical and genetic properties of palindromic DNA sequences

1985 • 49 citations

Effect of base composition at the center of inverted repeated DNA sequences on cruciform transitions in DNA.

1988 • 44 citations

Helix opening transitions in supercoiled DNA

1992 • 43 citations

Influence of DNA sequence and supercoiling on the process of cruciform formation

1988 • 40 citations

Large palindromes in the lambda phage genome are preserved in a rec+ host by inhibiting lambda DNA replication.

1987 • 28 citations

The SbcCD protein of Escherichia coli is related to two putative nucleases in the UvrA superfamily of nucleotide-binding proteins

1992 • 25 citations

In vivo loss of supercoiled DNA carrying a palindromic sequence

1986 • 22 citations

Conformational feasibility of a hairpin with two purines in the loop. 5'-d-GGTACIAGTACC-3'

1991 • 20 citations

The effects of central asymmetry on the propagation of palindromic DNA in bacteriophage lambda are consistent with cruciform extrusion in vivo.

1993 • 12 citations

₁H NMR of 5′CGCGTATATACGCG3′, a duplex and a four-membered loop

1991 • 8 citations