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| Protease nexin-II, a potent antichymotrypsin, shows identity to amyloid beta-protein precursor | Nature | 1989 | 432 |
| Function of a bacterial activator protein that binds to transcriptional enhancers | Science | 1989 | 429 |
| Light guides. Directional energy transfer in a photosynthetic antenna | Journal of Biological Chemistry | 1989 | 391 |
| Retroviral integration: structure of the initial covalent product and its precursor, and a role for the viral IN protein | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1989 | 343 |
| Transcriptional activation by the v-myb oncogene and its cellular progenitor, c-myb | Cell | 1989 | 287 |
| Prevention of rapid intracellular degradation of ODC by a carboxyl-terminal truncation | Science | 1989 | 234 |
| Mitosis-specific phosphorylation of p60c-src by p34cdc2-associated protein kinase | Cell | 1989 | 229 |
| Oncogenic and nononcogenic human genital papillomaviruses generate the E7 mRNA by different mechanisms | Journal of Virology | 1989 | 227 |
| Nonrandom utilization of codon pairs in Escherichia coli | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1989 | 209 |
| Human immunodeficiency virus can infect CD4-negative human fibroblastoid cells | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1989 | 206 |
| How some T cells escape tolerance induction | Nature | 1989 | 200 |
| Identification of the latency-associated transcript promoter by expression of rabbit beta-globin mRNA in mouse sensory nerve ganglia latently infected with a recombinant herpes simplex virus | Journal of Virology | 1989 | 189 |
| Yeast TATA-box transcription factor gene | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1989 | 183 |
| Kinetoplastid mitochondria contain functional tRNAs which are encoded in nuclear DNA and also contain small minicircle and maxicircle transcripts of unknown function | Nucleic Acids Research | 1989 | 177 |
| The BCR-ABL oncogene transforms Rat-1 cells and cooperates with v-myc | Molecular and Cellular Biology | 1989 | 171 |
| Characterization of Large, Autotrophic Beggiatoa spp. Abundant at Hydrothermal Vents of the Guaymas Basin | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 1989 | 170 |
| Pea aphid symbiont relationships established by analysis of 16S rRNAs | Journal of Bacteriology | 1989 | 163 |
| Phycoerythrin fluorescence-based assay for peroxy radicals: a screen for biologically relevant protective agents | Analytical Biochemistry | 1989 | 147 |
| Peptide-specific prevention of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis. Neonatal tolerance induced to the dominant T cell determinant of myelin basic protein | Journal of Experimental Medicine | 1989 | 143 |
| Alternative forms of the BCR-ABL oncogene have quantitatively different potencies for stimulation of immature lymphoid cells | Molecular and Cellular Biology | 1989 | 142 |
| Massive natural occurrence of unusually large bacteria (Beggiatoa sp.) at a hydrothermal deep-sea vent site | Nature | 1989 | 140 |
| Limited diversity of T-cell receptor gamma-chain expression of murine Thy-1+ dendritic epidermal cells revealed by V gamma 3-specific monoclonal antibody | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1989 | 138 |
| The Azolla-Anabaena Symbiosis: Basic Biology | Annual Review of Plant Biology | 1989 | 128 |
| "Frizzy" aggregation genes of the gliding bacterium Myxococcus xanthus show sequence similarities to the chemotaxis genes of enteric bacteria | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1989 | 125 |
