The Murine αB-Crystallin/Small Heat Shock Protein Enhancer: Identification of αBE-1, αBE-2, αBE-3, and MRF Control Elements

Accurate transcription initiation by RNA polymerase II in a soluble extract from isolated mammalian nuclei

1983 • 11,902 citations

Transcriptional Regulation in Mammalian Cells by Sequence-Specific DNA Binding Proteins

1989 • 3,219 citations

Interactions between heterologous helix-loop-helix proteins generate complexes that bind specifically to a common DNA sequence

1989 • 1,876 citations

Alpha-crystallin can function as a molecular chaperone.

1992 • 1,822 citations

Transcription factor AP-2 mediates induction by two different signal-transduction pathways: Protein kinase C and cAMP

1987 • 1,391 citations

Myogenin, a factor regulating myogenesis, has a domain homologous to MyoD

1989 • 1,286 citations

A novel human muscle factor related to but distinct from MyoD1 induces myogenic conversion in 10T1/2 fibroblasts.

1989 • 919 citations

MyoD is a sequence-specific DNA binding protein requiring a region of myc homology to bind to the muscle creatine kinase enhancer

1989 • 861 citations

B Lineage—Specific Interactions of an Immunoglobulin Enhancer with Cellular Factors in Vivo

1985 • 859 citations

Cytoplasmic activation of human nuclear genes in stable heterocaryons

1983 • 839 citations

The MyoD DNA binding domain contains a recognition code for muscle-specific gene activation

1990 • 794 citations

Four small Drosophila heat shock proteins are related to each other and to mammalian alpha-crystallin.

1982 • 792 citations

LENS CRYSTALLINS: THE EVOLUTION AND EXPRESSION OF PROTEINS FOR A HIGHLY SPECIALIZED TISSUE

1988 • 770 citations

αB-crystallin is expressed in non-lenticular tissues and accumulates in Alexander's disease brain

1989 • 546 citations

αB subunit of lens-specific protein α-crystallin is present in other ocular and non-ocular tissues

1989 • 538 citations

Alpha B-crystallin is a small heat shock protein.

1991 • 526 citations

Enzyme/crystallins: Gene sharing as an evolutionary strategy

1989 • 403 citations

Expression of the murine alpha B-crystallin gene is not restricted to the lens.

1989 • 377 citations

Cell-type-specific contacts to immunoglobulin enhancers in nuclei

1985 • 341 citations

Cellular distribution of alpha B-crystallin in non-lenticular tissues.

1990 • 295 citations

MyoD binds cooperatively to two sites in a target enhancer sequence: occupancy of two sites is required for activation.

1990 • 294 citations

Isolation of cDNAs of scrapie-modulated RNAs by subtractive hybridization of a cDNA library.

1988 • 286 citations

Myogenin resides in the nucleus and acquires high affinity for a conserved enhancer element on heterodimerization.

1990 • 278 citations

alpha A-crystallin is expressed in non-ocular tissues

1992 • 251 citations

Lens-specific expression and developmental regulation of the bacterial chloramphenicol acetyltransferase gene driven by the murine alpha A-crystallin promoter in transgenic mice.

1985 • 242 citations

Immunoreactive αA crystallin in rat non-lenticular tissues detected with a sensitive immunoassay method

1991 • 220 citations

Evolution of eye lens crystallins: the stress connection

1989 • 209 citations

Hypertonic stress induces αB-crystallin expression

1992 • 187 citations

The Amino‐Acid Sequence of the αB₂ Chain of Bovine α‐Crystallin

1974 • 182 citations

αB-Crystallin is present in reactive glia in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

1992 • 165 citations

Lens crystallins. Innovation associated with changes in gene regulation.

1992 • 143 citations

Lens Proteins and Their Genes

1991 • 113 citations

Synapse Formation Between Two Clonal Cell Lines

1977 • 110 citations

Aberrant regulation of MyoD1 contributes to the partially defective myogenic phenotype of BC3H1 cells [published erratum appears in J Cell Biol 1990 Jun;110(6):2231]

1990 • 109 citations

Retention of lens specificity in long-term cultures of diploid rabbit lens epithelial cells

1986 • 107 citations

A highly conserved enhancer downstream of the human MLC1/3 locus is a target for multiple myogenic determination factors

1990 • 96 citations

Regulation of the murine αA-crystallin promoter in transgenic mice

1990 • 82 citations

Synthesis of α-crystallin by a cell line derived from the lens of a transgenic animal

1990 • 76 citations

Transcriptional activation of heat-shock genes in eukaryotes

1988 • 47 citations

Protein-DNA Interactions of the Mouse αA-Crystallin Control Regions

1993 • 42 citations