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The 50 Most-Frequently Cited Articles
in PNAS as of April 1, 2008 -- updated monthly

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1.  F. Sanger, S. Nicklen, A. R. Coulson
  DNA Sequencing with Chain-Terminating Inhibitors
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Dec 15, 1977; 74: 5463-5467.
(In "Journal_Article")   [Abstract]     [PDF]
 
2.  Harry Towbin, Theophil Staehelin, Julian Gordon
  Electrophoretic Transfer of Proteins from Polyacrylamide Gels to Nitrocellulose Sheets: Procedure and Some Applications
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Sep 15, 1979; 76: 4350-4354.
(In "Journal_Article")   [Abstract]     [PDF]
 
3.  Michael B. Eisen, Paul T. Spellman, Patrick O. Brown, David Botstein
  Cluster analysis and display of genome-wide expression patterns
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Dec 08, 1998; 95: 14863-14868.
(In "Genetics")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
4.  William R. Pearson, David J. Lipman
  Improved Tools for Biological Sequence Comparison
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Apr 15, 1988; 85: 2444-2448.
(In "Journal_Article")   [Abstract]     [PDF]
 
5.  George M. Church, Walter Gilbert
  Genomic Sequencing
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Apr 01, 1984; 81: 1991-1995.
(In "Journal_Article")   [Abstract]     [PDF]
 
6.  Virginia Goss Tusher, Robert Tibshirani, Gilbert Chu
  Significance analysis of microarrays applied to the ionizing radiation response
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Apr 24, 2001; 98: 5116-5121.
(In "Genetics")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
7.  Thomas A. Kunkel
  Rapid and Efficient Site-Specific Mutagenesis without Phenotypic Selection
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Jan 15, 1985; 82: 488-492.
(In "Journal_Article")   [Abstract]     [PDF]
 
8.  Kirill A. Datsenko, Barry L. Wanner
  One-step inactivation of chromosomal genes in Escherichia coli K-12 using PCR products
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Jun 06, 2000; 97: 6640-6645.
(In "Genetics")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
9.  Tong-Chuan He, Shibin Zhou, Luis T. da Costa, Jian Yu, Kenneth W. Kinzler, Bert Vogelstein
  A simplified system for generating recombinant adenoviruses
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Mar 03, 1998; 95: 2509-2514.
(In "Medical Sciences")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
10.  DT Dudley, L Pang, SJ Decker, AJ Bridges, AR Saltiel
  A Synthetic Inhibitor of the Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Cascade
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Aug 15, 1995; 92: 7686-7689.
(In "Article")   [Abstract]     [PDF]
 
11.  M Gossen, H Bujard
  Tight Control of Gene Expression in Mammalian Cells by Tetracycline-Responsive Promoters
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Jun 15, 1992; 89: 5547-5551.
(In "Article")   [Abstract]     [PDF]
 
12.  WS Pear, GP Nolan, ML Scott, D Baltimore
  Production of High-Titer Helper-Free Retroviruses by Transient Transfection
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Sep 15, 1993; 90: 8392-8396.
(In "Article")   [Abstract]     [PDF]
 
13.  James G. Herman, Jeremy R. Graff, Sanna Myöhänen, Barry D. Nelkin, Stephen B. Baylin
  Methylation-specific PCR: A novel PCR assay for methylation status of CpG islands
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Sep 03, 1996; 93: 9821-9826.
(In "Medical Sciences")   [Abstract]     [PDF]
 
14.  George G. J. M. Kuiper, Eva Enmark, Markku Pelto-Huikko, Stefan Nilsson, Jan-Åke Gustafsson
  Cloning of a novel estrogen receptor expressed in rat prostate and ovary
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Jun 11, 1996; 93: 5925-5930.
(In "Biochemistry")   [Abstract]     [PDF]
 
15.  JS Beckman, TW Beckman, J Chen, PA Marshall, BA Freeman
  Apparent Hydroxyl Radical Production by Peroxynitrite: Implications for Endothelial Injury from Nitric Oxide and Superoxide
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Feb 15, 1990; 87: 1620-1624.
(In "Article")   [Abstract]     [PDF]
 
16.  Michael A. Frohman, Michael K. Dush, Gail R. Martin
  Rapid Production of Full-Length cDNAs from Rare Transcripts: Amplification Using a Single Gene-Specific Oligonucleotide Primer
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Dec 01, 1988; 85: 8998-9002.
(In "Journal_Article")   [Abstract]     [PDF]
 
17.  GL Wang, B Jiang, EA Rue, GL Semenza
  Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1 is a Basic-Helix-Loop-Helix-PAS Heterodimer Regulated by Cellular O2 Tension
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Jun 06, 1995; 92: 5510-5514.
(In "Article")   [Abstract]     [PDF]
 
18.  Thomas R. Fuerst, Edward G. Niles, F. William Studier, Bernard Moss
  Eukaryotic Transient-Expression System Based on Recombinant Vaccinia Virus that Synthesizes Bacteriophage T7 RNA Polymerase
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Nov 01, 1986; 83: 8122-8126.
(In "Journal_Article")   [Abstract]     [PDF]
 
19.  Cheng Li, Wing Hung Wong
  Model-based analysis of oligonucleotide arrays: Expression index computation and outlier detection
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Jan 02, 2001; 98: 31-36.
(In "Statistics")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
20.  O Thastrup, PJ Cullen, BK Drobak, MR Hanley, AP Dawson
  Thapsigargin, a Tumor Promoter, Discharges Intracellular Ca2+ Stores by Specific Inhibition of the Endoplasmic Reticulum Ca2+-ATPase
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Apr 01, 1990; 87: 2466-2470.
(In "Article")   [Abstract]     [PDF]
 
21.  GP Dimri, X Lee, G Basile, M Acosta, G Scott, C Roskelley, EE Medrano, M Linskens, I Rubelj, O Pereira-Smith, M Peacocke, J Campisi
  A Biomarker that Identifies Senescent Human Cells in Culture and in Aging Skin in vivo
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Sep 26, 1995; 92: 9363-9367.
(In "Article")   [Abstract]     [PDF]
 
22.  Lloyd A. Greene, Arthur S. Tischler
  Establishment of a Noradrenergic Clonal Line of Rat Adrenal Pheochromocytoma Cells which Respond to Nerve Growth Factor
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Jul 15, 1976; 73: 2424-2428.
(In "Journal_Article")   [Abstract]     [PDF]
 
23.  Stanley B. Prusiner
  Prions
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Nov 10, 1998; 95: 13363-13383.
(In "Nobel")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
24.  A Nagy, J Rossant, R Nagy, W Abramow-Newerly, JC Roder
  Derivation of Completely Cell Culture-Derived Mice from Early-Passage Embryonic Stem Cells
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Sep 15, 1993; 90: 8424-8428.
(In "Article")   [Abstract]     [PDF]
 
25.  Stanley Tabor, Charles C. Richardson
  A Bacteriophage T7 RNA Polymerase/Promoter System for Controlled Exclusive Expression of Specific Genes
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Feb 15, 1985; 82: 1074-1078.
(In "Journal_Article")   [Abstract]     [PDF]
 
26.  David H. Figurski, Donald R. Helinski
  Replication of an Origin-Containing Derivative of Plasmid RK2 Dependent on a Plasmid Function Provided in trans
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Apr 15, 1979; 76: 1648-1652.
(In "Journal_Article")   [Abstract]     [PDF]
 
27.  Takashi Ito, Tomoko Chiba, Ritsuko Ozawa, Mikio Yoshida, Masahira Hattori, Yoshiyuki Sakaki
  A comprehensive two-hybrid analysis to explore the yeast protein interactome
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Apr 10, 2001; 98: 4569-4574.
(In "Genetics")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
28.  S Henikoff, JG Henikoff
  Amino Acid Substitution Matrices from Protein Blocks
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Nov 15, 1992; 89: 10915-10919.
(In "Article")   [Abstract]     [PDF]
 
29.  Jörg Schultz, Frank Milpetz, Peer Bork, Chris P. Ponting
  SMART, a simple modular architecture research tool: Identification of signaling domains
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA May 26, 1998; 95: 5857-5864.
(In "Colloquium")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
30.  P Kubes, M Suzuki, DN Granger
  Nitric Oxide: An Endogenous Modulator of Leukocyte Adhesion
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Jun 01, 1991; 88: 4651-4655.
(In "Article")   [Abstract]     [PDF]
 
31.  Hisataka Yasuda, Nobuyuki Shima, Nobuaki Nakagawa, Kyoji Yamaguchi, Masahiko Kinosaki, Shin-ichi Mochizuki, Akihiro Tomoyasu, Kazuki Yano, Masaaki Goto, Akihiko Murakami, Eisuke Tsuda, Tomonori Morinaga, Kanji Higashio, Nobuyuki Udagawa, Naoyuki Takahashi, Tatsuo Suda
  Osteoclast differentiation factor is a ligand for osteoprotegerin/osteoclastogenesis-inhibitory factor and is identical to TRANCE/RANKL
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Mar 31, 1998; 95: 3597-3602.
(In "Cell Biology")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
32.  Brydon L. Bennett, Dennis T. Sasaki, Brion W. Murray, Eoin C. O''Leary, Steve T. Sakata, Weiming Xu, Jim C. Leisten, Aparna Motiwala, Steve Pierce, Yoshitaka Satoh, Shripad S. Bhagwat, Anthony M. Manning, David W. Anderson
  SP600125, an anthrapyrazolone inhibitor of Jun N-terminal kinase
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Nov 20, 2001; 98: 13681-13686.
(In "Cell Biology")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
33.  James J. Russo, Roy A. Bohenzky, Ming-Cheng Chien, Jing Chen, Ming Yan, Dawn Maddalena, J. Preston Parry, Daniela Peruzzi, Isidore S. Edelman, Yuan Chang, Patrick S. Moore
  Nucleotide sequence of the Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (HHV8)
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Dec 10, 1996; 93: 14862-14867.
(In "Microbiology")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
34.  Therese Sørlie, Charles M. Perou, Robert Tibshirani, Turid Aas, Stephanie Geisler, Hilde Johnsen, Trevor Hastie, Michael B. Eisen, Matt van de Rijn, Stefanie S. Jeffrey, Thor Thorsen, Hanne Quist, John C. Matese, Patrick O. Brown, David Botstein, Per Eystein Lønning, Anne-Lise Børresen-Dale
  Gene expression patterns of breast carcinomas distinguish tumor subclasses with clinical implications
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Sep 11, 2001; 98: 10869-10874.
(In "Medical Sciences")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
35.  Luda Diatchenko, Yun-Fai Chris Lau, Aaron P. Campbell, Alex Chenchik, Fauzia Moqadam, Betty Huang, Sergey Lukyanov, Konstantin Lukyanov, Nadya Gurskaya, Eugene D. Sverdlov, Paul D. Siebert
  Suppression subtractive hybridization: A method for generating differentially regulated or tissue-specific cDNA probes and libraries
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Jun 11, 1996; 93: 6025-6030.
(In "Biochemistry")   [Abstract]     [PDF]
 
36.  Robert E. Campbell, Oded Tour, Amy E. Palmer, Paul A. Steinbach, Geoffrey S. Baird, David A. Zacharias, Roger Y. Tsien
  A monomeric red fluorescent protein
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Jun 11, 2002; 99: 7877-7882.
(In "Biochemistry")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
37.  Martin C. J. Maiden, Jane A. Bygraves, Edward Feil, Giovanna Morelli, Joanne E. Russell, Rachel Urwin, Qing Zhang, Jiaji Zhou, Kerstin Zurth, Dominique A. Caugant, Ian M. Feavers, Mark Achtman, Brian G. Spratt
  Multilocus sequence typing: A portable approach to the identification of clones within populations of pathogenic microorganisms
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Mar 17, 1998; 95: 3140-3145.
(In "Microbiology")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
38.  Barry Marc Forman, Jasmine Chen, Ronald M. Evans
  Hypolipidemic drugs, polyunsaturated fatty acids, and eicosanoids are ligands for peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors alpha  and delta
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Apr 29, 1997; 94: 4312-4317.
(In "Biochemistry")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
39.  Louis J. Ignarro, Georgette M. Buga, Keith S. Wood, Russell E. Byrns, Gautam Chaudhuri
  Endothelium-Derived Relaxing Factor Produced and Released from Artery and Vein is Nitric Oxide
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Dec 15, 1987; 84: 9265-9269.
(In "Journal_Article")   [Abstract]     [PDF]
 
40.  Pablo Tamayo, Donna Slonim, Jill Mesirov, Qing Zhu, Sutisak Kitareewan, Ethan Dmitrovsky, Eric S. Lander, Todd R. Golub
  Interpreting patterns of gene expression with self-organizing maps: Methods and application to hematopoietic differentiation
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Mar 16, 1999; 96: 2907-2912.
(In "Genetics")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
41.  BN Ames, MK Shigenaga, TM Hagen
  Oxidants, Antioxidants, and the Degenerative Diseases of Aging
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Sep 01, 1993; 90: 7915-7922.
(In "Article")   [Abstract]     [PDF]
 
42.  Michael Shtutman, Jacob Zhurinsky, Inbal Simcha, Chris Albanese, Mark D''Amico, Richard Pestell, Avri Ben-Ze''ev
  The cyclin D1 gene is a target of the beta -catenin/LEF-1 pathway
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA May 11, 1999; 96: 5522-5527.
(In "Cell Biology")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
43.  Fernando L. Rock, Gary Hardiman, Jackie C. Timans, Robert A. Kastelein, J. Fernando Bazan
  A family of human receptors structurally related to Drosophila Toll
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Jan 20, 1998; 95: 588-593.
(In "Developmental Biology")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
44.  DS Bredt, SH Snyder
  Isolation of Nitric Oxide Synthetase, a Calmodulin-Requiring Enzyme
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Jan 15, 1990; 87: 682-685.
(In "Article")   [Abstract]     [PDF]
 
45.  J Blenis
  Signal Transduction via the MAP Kinases: Proceed at Your Own RSK
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Jul 01, 1993; 90: 5889-5892.
(In "Article")   [Abstract]     [PDF]
 
46.  Alfred G. Knudson
  Mutation and Cancer: Statistical Study of Retinoblastoma
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Apr 15, 1971; 68: 820-823.
(In "Journal_Article")   [Abstract]     [PDF]
 
47.  Steven A. Kliewer, Scott S. Sundseth, Stacey A. Jones, Peter J. Brown, G. Bruce Wisely, Cecilia S. Koble, Pallavi Devchand, Walter Wahli, Timothy M. Willson, James M. Lenhard, Jürgen M. Lehmann
  Fatty acids and eicosanoids regulate gene expression through direct interactions with peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors alpha  and gamma
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Apr 29, 1997; 94: 4318-4323.
(In "Biochemistry")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
48.  JF Bazan
  Structural Design and Molecular Evolution of a Cytokine Receptor Superfamily
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Sep 15, 1990; 87: 6934-6938.
(In "Article")   [Abstract]     [PDF]
 
49.  Stefano Censini, Christina Lange, Zhaoying Xiang, Jean E. Crabtree, Paolo Ghiara, Mark Borodovsky, Rino Rappuoli, Antonello Covacci
  cag, a pathogenicity island of Helicobacter pylori, encodes type I-specific and disease-associated virulence factors
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Dec 10, 1996; 93: 14648-14653.
(In "Genetics")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
50.  Lewis C. Cantley, Benjamin G. Neel
  New insights into tumor suppression: PTEN suppresses tumor formation by restraining the phosphoinositide 3-kinase/AKT pathway
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Apr 13, 1999; 96: 4240-4245.
(In "Review")   [Abstract]     [Full Text]     [PDF]
 
  

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