| Bafilomycins: a class of inhibitors of membrane ATPases from microorganisms, animal cells, and plant cells | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1988 | 1.6K |
| The jun proto-oncogene is positively autoregulated by its product, Jun/AP-1 | Cell | 1988 | 1.1K |
| The Toll gene of Drosophila, required for dorsal-ventral embryonic polarity, appears to encode a transmembrane protein | Cell | 1988 | 824 |
| The Xenopus cdc2 protein is a component of MPF, a cytoplasmic regulator of mitosis | Cell | 1988 | 801 |
| The role of the cell adhesion molecule uvomorulin in the formation and maintenance of the epithelial junctional complex | Journal of Cell Biology | 1988 | 712 |
| A mutation in the age-1 gene in Caenorhabditis elegans lengthens life and reduces hermaphrodite fertility | Genetics | 1988 | 693 |
| Transcription by RNA polymerase III | Annual Review of Biochemistry | 1988 | 644 |
| The thyroid hormone receptor binds with opposite transcriptional effects to a common sequence motif in thyroid hormone and estrogen response elements | Cell | 1988 | 632 |
| Cellular determination in the Xenopus retina is independent of lineage and birth date | Neuron | 1988 | 588 |
| Retinoic acid and thyroid hormone induce gene expression through a common responsive element | Nature | 1988 | 548 |
| Directional selection and the evolution of breeding date in birds | Science | 1988 | 543 |
| Nuclear import can be separated into distinct steps in vitro: nuclear pore binding and translocation | Cell | 1988 | 529 |
| Cell lineage analysis reveals multipotency of some avian neural crest cells | Nature | 1988 | 515 |
| Activation of cell-specific expression of rat growth hormone and prolactin genes by a common transcription factor | Science | 1988 | 477 |
| Nucleosome loss activates yeast downstream promoters in vivo | Cell | 1988 | 417 |
| Extremely conserved histone H4 N terminus is dispensable for growth but essential for repressing the silent mating loci in yeast | Cell | 1988 | 413 |
| Evolution of a bacteria/plasmid association | Nature | 1988 | 358 |
| Firefly luciferase as a tool in molecular and cell biology | Analytical Biochemistry | 1988 | 316 |
| Identification of peroxisomal targeting signals located at the carboxy terminus of four peroxisomal proteins | Journal of Cell Biology | 1988 | 313 |
| The mutY gene: a mutator locus in Escherichia coli that generates G.C----T.A transversions | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1988 | 309 |
| UmuD mutagenesis protein of Escherichia coli: overproduction, purification, and cleavage by RecA | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1988 | 298 |
| Origin of the eukaryotic nucleus determined by rate-invariant analysis of rRNA sequences | Nature | 1988 | 295 |
| Morphological response of axotomized septal neurons to nerve growth factor | Journal of Comparative Neurology | 1988 | 291 |
| Basic processes underlying Agrobacterium-mediated DNA transfer to plant cells | Annual Review of Genetics | 1988 | 276 |
| Structure of an alternating-B DNA helix and its relationship to A-tract DNA | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1988 | 253 |
