THE REGULATION OF TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION IN BACTERIA

Compilation and analysis ofEscherichia colipromoter DNA sequences

1983 • 2,228 citations

E. coli RNA polymerase interacts homologously with two different promoters

1980 • 911 citations

Nucleotide sequences that signal the initiation of transcription and translation inBacillus subtilis

1982 • 833 citations

The htpR gene product of E. coli is a sigma factor for heat-shock promoters

1984 • 593 citations

Genetic Regulation: The Lac Control Region

1975 • 523 citations

GENETIC CONTROL OF NITROGEN ASSIMILATION IN BACTERIA

1982 • 449 citations

Cascades of sigma factors

1981 • 445 citations

An operator at -280 base pairs that is required for repression of araBAD operon promoter: addition of DNA helical turns between the operator and promoter cyclically hinders repression.

1984 • 375 citations

Products of nitrogen regulatory genes ntrA and ntrC of enteric bacteria activate glnA transcription in vitro: evidence that the ntrA product is a sigma factor.

1985 • 352 citations

Repressor structure and the mechanism of positive control

1983 • 324 citations

Genetic control of heat-shock protein synthesis and its bearing on growth and thermal resistance in Escherichia coli K-12.

1982 • 322 citations

Rate-limiting steps in RNA chain initiation.

1980 • 308 citations

Positive regulatory gene for temperature-controlled proteins in Escherichia coli

1981 • 268 citations

Lac DNA, RNA Polymerase and Cyclic AMP Receptor Protein, Cyclic AMP, Lac Repressor and Inducer are the Essential Elements for Controlled Lac Transcription

1971 • 238 citations

Mechanism of CRP-cAMP activation of lac operon transcription initiation activation of the P1 promoter

1984 • 228 citations

Conformational change in the DNA associated with an unusual promoter mutation in a tRNA operon of Salmonella

1984 • 225 citations

Two RNA polymerase sigma factors from Bacillus subtilis discriminate between overlapping promoters for a developmentally regulated gene

1983 • 218 citations

A control element within a structural gene: The gal operon of Escherichia coli

1983 • 206 citations

Pleiotropic deficiency of carbohydrate utilization in an adenyl cyclase deficient mutant of Escherichia coli

1969 • 203 citations

Modulation of gene expression by drugs affecting deoxyribonucleic acid gyrase

1979 • 197 citations

Defining a bacteriophage T4 late promoter: Absence of a “−35” region

1984 • 192 citations

Change in the Template Specificity of RNA Polymerase during Sporulation of Bacillus subtilis

1969 • 184 citations

Positive control and autogenous regulation of the nifLA promoter in Klebsiella pneumoniae

1983 • 173 citations

Requirement for an upstream element for optimal transcription of a bacterial tRNA gene

1983 • 163 citations

A sporulation-induced sigma-like regulatory protein from b. subtilis

1981 • 162 citations

A modified RNA polymerase transcribes a cloned gene under sporulation control in Bacillus subtilis

1979 • 160 citations

Heat shock regulatory gene (htpR) of Escherichia coli is required for growth at high temperature but is dispensable at low temperature.

1984 • 159 citations

Transcription from a heat-inducible promoter causes heat shock regulation of the sigma subunit of E. coli RNA polymerase

1984 • 152 citations

Sequence determinants of promoter activity

1982 • 145 citations

The subtilisin E gene of Bacillus subtilis is transcribed from a sigma 37 promoter in vivo.

1984 • 145 citations

Novel RNA polymerase sigma factor from Bacillus subtilis.

1980 • 133 citations

Specific binding of CAP factor to lac promoter DNA

1975 • 125 citations

Evidence for two sites in the lac promoter region

1972 • 124 citations

Thermodynamic origins of specificity in the lac repressor-operator interaction

1985 • 121 citations

Starting and Stopping Sequences for the RNA Polymerase

1976 • 119 citations

Deletion analysis of a complex promoter for a developmentally regulated gene from Bacillus subtilis

1983 • 111 citations

Promoter for a developmentally regulated gene in Bacillus subtilis

1981 • 103 citations

Cyclic AMP receptor protein interacts with lactose operator DNA

1981 • 103 citations

DNA adenine methylation of GATC sequences appeared recently in the Escherichia coli lineage

1984 • 97 citations

A developmental gene product of Bacillus subtilis homologous to the sigma factor of Escherichia coli

1984 • 95 citations

Nucleotide sequences of two Bacillus subtilis promoters used by Bacillus subtilis sigma-28 RNA polymerase

1981 • 90 citations

Defining a bacteriophage T4 late promoter: bacteriophage T4 gene 55 protein suffices for directing late promoter recognition.

1984 • 83 citations

Nucleotide sequence of the early genes 3 and 4 of bacteriophage ø29

1982 • 83 citations

Synthesis of sigma 29, an RNA polymerase specificity determinant, is a developmentally regulated event in Bacillus subtilis

1985 • 81 citations

Starting and Stopping

1969 • 67 citations

lac Promoter mutations located downstream from the transcription start site

1980 • 64 citations

Bacteriophage SP01 regulatory proteins directing late gene transcription in vitro

1976 • 63 citations

Promoter recognition by sigma-37 RNA polymerase from Bacillus subtilis

1984 • 61 citations

T4 late transcripts are initiated near a conserved DNA sequence

1982 • 60 citations

Activation of Transcription by the Cyclic AMP Receptor Protein

1984 • 57 citations

The Cloning and Characterization of the glnF(ntrA) Gene of Klebsiella Pneumoniae: Role of glnF(ntrA) in the Regulation of the Nitrogen Fixation (nif) and other Nitrogen Assimilation Genes

1984 • 56 citations

Genes 55, alpha gt, 47 and 46 of bacteriophage T4: the genomic organization as deduced by sequence analysis.

1985 • 55 citations

Molecular Aspects of ara Regulation

1980 • 55 citations

Chromosomal location of a structural gene for the RNA polymerase sigma factor in Escherichia coli.

1977 • 48 citations

Effects of reduced amount of RNA polymerase sigma factor on gene expression and growth of Escherichia coli: Studies of the rpoD40 (Amber) mutation

1981 • 44 citations

Purification of a positive regulatory subunit from phage SP01-modified RNA polymerase

1977 • 43 citations

Regulation at the glnL -Operator-Promoter of the Complex glnALG Operon of Escherichia coli

1983 • 42 citations

Mutants of the lac promoter with large insertions and deletions between the CAP binding site and the −35 region

1984 • 41 citations

A new model for nitrogen control

1982 • 41 citations

Utilization of one promoter by two forms of RNA polymerase from Bacillus subtilis

1985 • 39 citations

A new mutation rpoD800, affecting the sigma subunit of E. coli RNA polymerase is allelic to two other sigma mutants

1980 • 38 citations

Effects of the mutant sigma allele rpoD800 on the synthesis of specific macromolecular components of the Escherichia coli K12 cell

1984 • 38 citations

Rifampin resistance mutation of Bacillus subtilis altering the electrophoretic mobility of the beta subunit of ribonucleic acid polymerase

1975 • 37 citations

Properties of lac P2 in vivo and in vitro

1985 • 30 citations

Regulation of hutUH operon expression by the catabolite gene activator protein-cyclic AMP complex in Klebsiella aerogenes

1984 • 29 citations

Evidence that nitrogen regulatory gene ntrC of Salmonella typhimurium is transcribed from the glnA promoter as well as from a separate ntr promoter

1984 • 29 citations

Lactose promoter mutation Pr115 activates an overlapping promoter within the lactose control region

1985 • 27 citations

Genetic mapping of catabolite-resistant mutants of Bacillus subtilis

1982 • 27 citations

lac Promoter mutation Pr115 generates a new transcription initiation point

1980 • 20 citations

Purification and Properties of Two RNA Polymerases from Sporulating Cells of Bacillus subtilis

1978 • 19 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations