David E. Pettijohn

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
61 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

David E. Pettijohn is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, David E. Pettijohn has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Molecular Biology, 19 papers in Genetics and 14 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in David E. Pettijohn's work include DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (27 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (18 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (16 papers). David E. Pettijohn is often cited by papers focused on DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (27 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (18 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (16 papers). David E. Pettijohn collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Denmark. David E. Pettijohn's co-authors include Philip C. Hanawalt, Richard R. Sinden, Steven Broyles, Oliver G. Stonington, Bjorn K. Lydersen, Ralph M. Hecht, Oswald Pfenninger, Carolyn M. Price, Paul J. Hagerman and Irwin L. Flink and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

David E. Pettijohn

61 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Evidence for repair-replication of ultraviolet damaged DNA in bacteria

1964 416 citations David E. Pettijohn, Philip C. Hanawalt Journal of Molecular Biology profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David E. Pettijohn United States	32	3.3k	1.4k	844	285	261	61	3.9k
Andrea Jeffrey United States	10	3.4k 1.0×	1.3k 1.0×	837 1.0×	133 0.5×	305 1.2×	10	4.4k
Richard A. Zakour United States	10	4.0k 1.2×	1.1k 0.8×	465 0.6×	500 1.8×	302 1.2×	11	5.4k
Umadas Maitra United States	38	3.4k 1.0×	781 0.6×	526 0.6×	164 0.6×	231 0.9×	102	3.7k
M M Gottesman United States	20	2.2k 0.7×	869 0.6×	756 0.9×	253 0.9×	760 2.9×	27	3.1k
Winston Salser United States	32	2.8k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	817 1.0×	93 0.3×	154 0.6×	71	3.9k
Hans‐Joachim Fritz Germany	27	2.8k 0.8×	948 0.7×	404 0.5×	146 0.5×	122 0.5×	62	3.3k
Albert Schmitz Switzerland	16	2.5k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	329 0.4×	130 0.5×	197 0.8×	21	3.1k
Jens Nyborg Denmark	34	4.4k 1.3×	943 0.7×	252 0.3×	309 1.1×	257 1.0×	80	4.9k
Arnold Revzin United States	22	2.9k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	349 0.4×	135 0.5×	143 0.5×	34	3.3k
Achilles Dugaiczyk United States	31	2.5k 0.7×	739 0.5×	211 0.3×	250 0.9×	278 1.1×	59	3.3k

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Stranahan, Patricia L., et al.. (1996). Cell-cell interactions influence oligosaccharide modifications on mucins and other large glycoproteins. Glycoconjugate Journal. 13(5). 741–747. 12 indexed citations

Cann, John, Oswald Pfenninger, & David E. Pettijohn. (1995). Theory of the mobility‐shift assay of nonspecific protein‐DNA complexes governed by conditional probabilities: The HU:DNA complex. Electrophoresis. 16(1). 881–887. 10 indexed citations

Pettijohn, David E., et al.. (1995). Increased DNA-bending Activity and Higher Affinity DNA Binding of High Mobility Group Protein HMG-1 Prepared without Acids. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 270(13). 7394–7398. 20 indexed citations

Oñate, Sergio A., et al.. (1994). The DNA-Bending Protein HMG-1 Enhances Progesterone Receptor Binding to Its Target DNA Sequences. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 14(5). 3376–3391. 180 indexed citations

Battifora, Hector, Hans Rahbek Sørensen, Parula Mehta, et al.. (1992). Tumor-associated antigen 43-9F is of prognostic value in squamous cell carcinoma of the lung. A retrospective immunohistochemical study. Cancer. 70(7). 1867–1872. 24 indexed citations

Stranahan, Patricia L., Randy B. Howard, Oswald Pfenninger, et al.. (1992). Mucin gel formed by tumorigenic squamous lung carcinoma cells has Le(a)-X oligosaccharides and excludes antibodies from underlying cells.. PubMed. 52(10). 2923–30. 19 indexed citations

Pettijohn, David E., et al.. (1987). Glycoproteins distinguishing non-small cell from small cell human lung carcinoma recognized by monoclonal antibody 43-9F. Lung Cancer. 3(3-4). 132–132. 39 indexed citations

Broyles, Steven & David E. Pettijohn. (1986). Interaction of the Escherichia coli HU protein with DNA. Journal of Molecular Biology. 187(1). 47–60. 284 indexed citations

Sinden, Richard R., Steven Broyles, & David E. Pettijohn. (1983). Perfect palindromic lac operator DNA sequence exists as a stable cruciform structure in supercoiled DNA in vitro but not in vivo.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 80(7). 1797–1801. 103 indexed citations

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Ness, Jeffrey Van, David E. Pettijohn, & A. Klug. (1983). Specific attachment of nuclear-mitotic apparatus protein to metaphase chromosomes and mitotic spindle poles: Possible function in nuclear reassembly. Journal of Molecular Biology. 171(2). 175–205. 14 indexed citations

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Sinden, Richard R., David E. Pettijohn, & Bertold Francke. (1982). Organization of herpes simplex virus type 1 deoxyribonucleic acid during replication probed in living cells with 4,5',8-trimethylpsoralen. Biochemistry. 21(18). 4484–4490. 22 indexed citations

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Hecht, Ralph M., et al.. (1977). Sedimentation properties of the bacterial chromosome as an isolated nucleoid and as an unfolded DNA fiber. Journal of Molecular Biology. 111(3). 257–277. 32 indexed citations

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Hamilton, Susan L. & David E. Pettijohn. (1976). Properties of condensed bacteriophage T4 DNA isolated from Escherichia coli infected with bacteriophage T4. Journal of Virology. 19(3). 1012–1027. 13 indexed citations

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Pettijohn, David E. & Abraham Worcel. (1976). Prokaryotic Dna In Nucleoid Structur. PubMed. 4(2). 175–202. 51 indexed citations

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Hecht, Ralph M., R.T. Taggart, & David E. Pettijohn. (1975). Size and DNA content of purified E. coli nucleoids observed by fluorescence microscopy. Nature. 253(5486). 60–62. 34 indexed citations

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Pettijohn, David E. & Ralph M. Hecht. (1974). RNA Molecules Bound to the Folded Bacterial Genome Stabilize DNA Folds and Segregate Domains of Supercoiling. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 38(0). 31–41. 151 indexed citations

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Stonington, Oliver G. & David E. Pettijohn. (1971). The Folded Genome of Escherichia coli Isolated in a Protein-DNA-RNA Complex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 68(1). 6–9. 222 indexed citations

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Pettijohn, David E., et al.. (1970). Chain Termination of Ribosomal RNA Synthesis in vitro. Nature. 228(5268). 235–239. 46 indexed citations

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Hanawalt, Philip C., et al.. (1968). Repair Replication of DNA in vivo. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 33(0). 187–194. 29 indexed citations

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Pettijohn, David E. & Philip C. Hanawalt. (1964). Isolation of partially density-labeled DNA molecules from bacteria. Journal of Molecular Biology. 8(1). 170–174. 31 indexed citations

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