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Mark Ptashne

Active 1967–2013

110
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32,615
Citations
96
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Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 4,595 citing papers, 54.9% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 528 citing papers, 6.3% of this breakdownGermany: 502 citing papers, 6% of this breakdownFrance: 355 citing papers, 4.2% of this breakdownCanada: 272 citing papers, 3.3% of this breakdownJapan: 258 citing papers, 3.1% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 220 citing papers, 2.6% of this breakdownChina: 216 citing papers, 2.6% of this breakdownNetherlands: 149 citing papers, 1.8% of this breakdownIsrael: 105 citing papers, 1.3% of this breakdownAustralia: 102 citing papers, 1.2% of this breakdownSpain: 96 citing papers, 1.1% of this breakdown
0%54.9%Other 11.6%

Institutions

Fields

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology74.8%
  • Medicine8.8%
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences4.2%
  • Environmental Science3.6%
  • Immunology and Microbiology3.3%
  • Neuroscience2.4%
  • Other2.9%

Topics

  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics8.4%
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms6.7%
  • RNA Research and Splicing5.2%
  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology4.2%
  • Fungal and yeast genetics research3.7%
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering2.6%
  • Other69.2%

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  1. GAL4-VP16 is an unusually potent transcriptional activator

    Authors: Ivan Sadowski, Jun Ma, Steven J. Triezenberg, Mark Ptashne - Nature 1988 cited by 1,395

  2. Transcriptional activation by recruitment

    Authors: Mark Ptashne, Alexander Gann - Nature 1997 cited by 1,189

  3. How eukaryotic transcriptional activators work

    Authors: Mark Ptashne - Nature 1988 cited by 1,905

  4. A eukaryotic transcriptional activator bearing the DNA specificity of a prokaryotic repressor

    Authors: Roger Brent, Mark Ptashne - Cell 1985 cited by 693

  5. Negative effect of the transcriptional activator GAL4

    Authors: Grace Gill, Mark Ptashne - Nature 1988 cited by 687

  6. Gene regulation by proteins acting nearby and at a distance

    Authors: Mark Ptashne - Nature 1986 cited by 889

  7. A new class of yeast transcriptional activators

    Authors: Jun Ma, Mark Ptashne - Cell 1987 cited by 709

  8. Specific DNA binding of GAL4, a positive regulatory protein of yeast

    Authors: Edward Giniger, Susan M. Varnum, Mark Ptashne - Cell 1985 cited by 768

  9. Cooperative DNA binding of the yeast transcriptional activator GAL4.

    Authors: Edward Giniger, Mark Ptashne - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1988 cited by 221

  10. GAL4 activates transcription in Drosophila

    Authors: Janice A. Fischer, Edward Giniger, Tom Maniatis, Mark Ptashne - Nature 1988 cited by 526

  11. A Genetic Switch, Phage Lambda Revisited

    Authors: Mark Ptashne - 2004 cited by 491

  12. Interactions between DNA-bound repressors govern regulation by the λ phage repressor

    Authors: Alexander D. Johnson, Barbara J Meyer, Mark Ptashne - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1979 cited by 336

  13. GAL4 activates gene expression in mammalian cells

    Authors: Hitoshi Kakidani, Mark Ptashne - Cell 1988 cited by 359

  14. On the use of the word ‘epigenetic’

    Authors: Mark Ptashne - Current Biology 2007 cited by 338

  15. A Unified Nomenclature for Protein Subunits of Mediator Complexes Linking Transcriptional Regulators to RNA Polymerase II

    Authors: Henri-Marc Bourbon, Andrés Aguilera, Aseem Z. Ansari, Francisco J. Asturias, Arnold Berk, Stefan Björklund, T. Keith Blackwell, Tilman Borggrefe, Michael Carey, Marian Carlson, Joan Conaway, Ronald Conaway, Scott W. Emmons, Joseph D. Fondell, Leonard P. Freedman, Toshio Fukasawa, Claes M. Gustafsson, Min Han, Xi He, Paul K. Herman, Alan G. Hinnebusch, Steen Holmberg, Frank C. P. Holstege, Judith A. Jaehning, Young-Joon Kim, Laurent Kuras, Achim Leutz, John T. Lis, Michael Meisterernest, Anders M. Näär, Kim Nasmyth, Jeffrey D. Parvin, Mark Ptashne, Danny Reinberg, Hans Ronne, Ivan Sadowski, Hiroshi Sakurai, Matthias Sipiczki, Paul W. Sternberg, David J. Stillman, Randy Strich, Kevin Struhl, Jasper Q. Svejstrup, Simon Tuck, Fred Winston, Robert G. Roeder, Roger D. Kornberg - Molecular Cell 2004 cited by 279

  16. How different eukaryotic transcriptional activators can cooperate promiscuously

    Authors: Young-Sun Lin, Michael Carey, Mark Ptashne, Michael R. Green - Nature 1990 cited by 260

  17. Epigenetics: Core misconcept

    Authors: Mark Ptashne - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2013 cited by 212

  18. Cleavage of the lambda and P22 repressors by recA protein.

    Authors: Robert T. Sauer, Michael J. Ross, Mark Ptashne - Journal of Biological Chemistry 1982 cited by 148

  19. DNA recognition by GAL4: structure of a protein-DNA complex

    Authors: Ronen Marmorstein, Michael Carey, Mark Ptashne, Stephen C. Harrison - Nature 1992 cited by 677

  20. Separation of DNA Binding from the Transcription-Activating Function of a Eukaryotic Regulatory Protein

    Authors: Liam P. Keegan, Grace Gill, Mark Ptashne - Science 1986 cited by 627

  21. Activators and targets

    Authors: Mark Ptashne, Alexander Gann - Nature 1990 cited by 577

  22. Mechanism of action of the lexA gene product.

    Authors: Roger Brent, Mark Ptashne - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1981 cited by 423

  23. λ Repressor and cro—components of an efficient molecular switch

    Authors: Alexander D. Johnson, Anthony R. Poteete, Gail D. Lauer, Robert T. Sauer, Gary K. Ackers, Mark Ptashne - Nature 1981 cited by 387

  24. The carboxy-terminal 30 amino acids of GAL4 are recognized by GAL80

    Authors: Jun Ma, Mark Ptashne - Cell 1987 cited by 353