| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The Heat-Shock Proteins | Annual Review of Genetics | 1988 | 4,976 |
| 2 | The Mechanisms of Vesicle Budding and Fusion | Cell | 2004 | 1,628 |
| 3 | Requirement of transcription factor PU.1 in the development of multiple hematopoietic lineages | Science | 1994 | 1,400 |
| 4 | Position effect at S. cerevisiae telomeres: Reversible repression of Pol II transcription | Cell | 1990 | 1,369 |
| 5 | Bcl-xL Regulates the Membrane Potential and Volume Homeostasis of Mitochondria | Cell | 1997 | 1,345 |
| 6 | Hsp104, Hsp70, and Hsp40 | Cell | 1998 | 1,301 |
| 7 | Hsp90 as a capacitor of phenotypic variation | Nature | 2002 | 1,280 |
| 8 | Remodeling of Yeast Genome Expression in Response to Environmental Changes | Molecular Biology of the Cell | 2001 | 1,206 |
| 9 | Directed Actin Polymerization Is the Driving Force for Epithelial Cell–Cell Adhesion | Cell | 2000 | 1,064 |
| 10 | Role of the chaperone protein Hsp104 in propagation of the yeast prion-like factor [psi+] | Science | 1995 | 1,018 |
| 11 | A Structural Scaffolding of Intermediate Filaments in Health and Disease | Science | 1998 | 936 |
| 12 | Initial interaction of herpes simplex virus with cells is binding to heparan sulfate | Journal of Virology | 1989 | 919 |
| 13 | Nucleated Conformational Conversion and the Replication of Conformational Information by a Prion Determinant | Science | 2000 | 912 |
| 14 | The FLP recombinase of yeast catalyzes site-specific recombination in the drosophila genome | Cell | 1989 | 908 |
| 15 | Organizing the cell cortex: the role of ERM proteins | Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology | 2010 | 884 |
| 16 | Protein disaggregation mediated by heat-shock protein Hspl04 | Nature | 1994 | 862 |
| 17 | A common human skin tumour is caused by activating mutations in β-catenin | Nature Genetics | 1999 | 849 |
| 18 | Reduced levels of hsp90 compromise steroid receptor action in vivo | Nature | 1990 | 807 |
| 19 | Mitotic Phosphorylation of Histone H3 Is Governed by Ipl1/aurora Kinase and Glc7/PP1 Phosphatase in Budding Yeast and Nematodes | Cell | 2000 | 800 |
| 20 | HSP104 required for induced thermotolerance | Science | 1990 | 783 |
| 21 | Intercellular adhesion, signalling and the cytoskeleton | Nature Cell Biology | 2002 | 781 |
| 22 | Creation of Low-Copy Integrated Transgenic Lines in Caenorhabditis elegans | Genetics | 2001 | 768 |
| 23 | Priming in Systemic Plant Immunity | Science | 2009 | 749 |
| 24 | A structural change in the kinesin motor protein that drives motility | Nature | 1999 | 745 |
| 25 | Stem Cells | Cell | 2000 | 738 |
| 26 | Modifiers of position effect are shared between telomeric and silent mating-type loci in S. cerevisiae | Cell | 1991 | 733 |
| 27 | TLC1: template RNA component of Saccharomyces cerevisiae telomerase | Science | 1994 | 732 |
| 28 | Sequence and analysis of chromosome 2 of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana | Nature | 1999 | 724 |
| 29 | Klf4 is a transcription factor required for establishing the barrier function of the skin | Nature Genetics | 1999 | 722 |
| 30 | Interaction of chlamydiae and host cells in vitro | Microbiological Reviews | 1991 | 714 |
| 31 | Conducting nanowires built by controlled self-assembly of amyloid fibers and selective metal deposition | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2003 | 712 |
| 32 | Peptide chips for the quantitative evaluation of protein kinase activity | Nature Biotechnology | 2002 | 700 |
| 33 | Getting under the skin of epidermal morphogenesis | Nature Reviews Genetics | 2002 | 686 |
| 34 | Transcriptional repression mediated by repositioning of genes to the nuclear lamina | Nature | 2008 | 675 |
| 35 | Subnuclear Compartmentalization of Immunoglobulin Loci During Lymphocyte Development | Science | 2002 | 671 |
| 36 | Point mutations in human keratin 14 genes of epidermolysis bullosa simplex patients: Genetic and functional analyses | Cell | 1991 | 657 |
| 37 | Macronuclear Genome Sequence of the Ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila, a Model Eukaryote | PLoS Biology | 2006 | 657 |
| 38 | A yeast prion provides a mechanism for genetic variation and phenotypic diversity | Nature | 2000 | 644 |
| 39 | Heat Shock Protein 101 Plays a Crucial Role in Thermotolerance in Arabidopsis | Plant Cell | 2000 | 634 |
| 40 | Genes encoding plastid acetyl-CoA carboxylase and 3-phosphoglycerate kinase of the Triticum/Aegilops complex and the evolutionary history of polyploid wheat | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2002 | 630 |
| 41 | Regulation of B Lymphocyte and Macrophage Development by Graded Expression of PU.1 | Science | 2000 | 627 |
| 42 | Epidermal differentiation: the bare essentials. | Journal of Cell Biology | 1990 | 619 |
| 43 | Support for the Prion Hypothesis for Inheritance of a Phenotypic Trait in Yeast | Science | 1996 | 618 |
| 44 | Self-Seeded Fibers Formed by Sup35, the Protein Determinant of [PSI+], a Heritable Prion-like Factor of S. cerevisiae | Cell | 1997 | 611 |
| 45 | A Role for Skin gamma delta T Cells in Wound Repair | Science | 2002 | 583 |
| 46 | Multilineage Transcriptional Priming and Determination of Alternate Hematopoietic Cell Fates | Cell | 2006 | 572 |
| 47 | Sortases and the Art of Anchoring Proteins to the Envelopes of Gram-Positive Bacteria | Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews | 2006 | 569 |
| 48 | The magical touch: Genome targeting in epidermal stem cells induced by tamoxifen application to mouse skin | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1999 | 548 |
| 49 | Rapidly maturing variants of the Discosoma red fluorescent protein (DsRed) | Nature Biotechnology | 2002 | 546 |
| 50 | Passage of Heme-Iron Across the Envelope of Staphylococcus aureus | Science | 2003 | 544 |
