Horace R. Drew

11.7k total citations · 8 hit papers
48 papers, 9.9k citations indexed

About

Horace R. Drew is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Horace R. Drew has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 9.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Ecology and 4 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Horace R. Drew's work include DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (33 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (26 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (13 papers). Horace R. Drew is often cited by papers focused on DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (33 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (26 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (13 papers). Horace R. Drew collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Horace R. Drew's co-authors include Richard E. Dickerson, Andrew Travers, C. R. Calladine, Richard M. Wing, Keiichi Itakura, Mary L. Kopka, Albert Fratini, Chris A. Broka, Sandra C. Satchwell and Shoji Tanaka and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Horace R. Drew

47 papers receiving 9.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Structure of a B-DNA dodecamer: conformation and dynamics.

1981 1.3k citations Horace R. Drew, Richard E. Dickerson et al. profile →
Structure of a B-DNA dodecamer

1981 804 citations Horace R. Drew, Richard E. Dickerson Journal of Molecular Biology profile →
Sequence periodicities in chicken nucleosome core DNA

1986 777 citations Horace R. Drew, Andrew Travers et al. Journal of Molecular Biology profile →
Structure of a B-DNA dodecamer

1981 765 citations Richard E. Dickerson, Horace R. Drew Journal of Molecular Biology profile →
Crystal structure analysis of a complete turn of B-DNA

1980 706 citations Horace R. Drew, Richard E. Dickerson et al. profile →
DNA bending and its relation to nucleosome positioning

1985 602 citations Horace R. Drew, Andrew Travers Journal of Molecular Biology profile →
Reversible bending and helix geometry in a B-DNA dodecamer: CGCGAATTBrCGCG.

1982 559 citations Mary L. Kopka, Horace R. Drew et al. profile →
The Anatomy of A-, B-, and Z-DNA

1982 542 citations Richard E. Dickerson, Horace R. Drew et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Horace R. Drew Australia	33	8.8k	1000	919	737	725	48	9.9k
Kenneth J. Breslauer United States	58	9.5k 1.1×	746 0.7×	531 0.6×	752 1.0×	879 1.2×	158	11.2k
Keiichi Itakura United States	47	8.6k 1.0×	958 1.0×	2.0k 2.2×	850 1.2×	588 0.8×	111	10.9k
Wilma K. Olson United States	51	9.0k 1.0×	1.3k 1.3×	800 0.9×	316 0.4×	924 1.3×	187	10.1k
Gary J. Quigley United States	41	7.1k 0.8×	633 0.6×	368 0.4×	769 1.0×	640 0.9×	58	8.0k
Simon E. V. Phillips United Kingdom	43	5.6k 0.6×	704 0.7×	691 0.8×	711 1.0×	1.3k 1.7×	151	8.4k
Juli Feigon United States	63	11.2k 1.3×	777 0.8×	510 0.6×	472 0.6×	636 0.9×	183	12.4k
Struther Arnott United States	53	7.3k 0.8×	819 0.8×	425 0.5×	321 0.4×	914 1.3×	125	10.3k
Richard Lavery France	52	10.4k 1.2×	1.4k 1.4×	670 0.7×	517 0.7×	1.3k 1.9×	199	11.6k
Loren Dean Williams United States	52	6.4k 0.7×	527 0.5×	563 0.6×	842 1.1×	761 1.0×	143	7.8k
Luis A. Marky United States	42	6.6k 0.8×	543 0.5×	369 0.4×	457 0.6×	494 0.7×	126	7.4k

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Mitchell, Susan M., Jason P. Ross, Horace R. Drew, et al.. (2014). A panel of genes methylated with high frequency in colorectal cancer. BMC Cancer. 14(1). 54–54. 131 indexed citations

Drew, Horace R., Linda J. Lockett, & Gerald W. Both. (2007). Increased complexity of wild-type adeno-associated virus–chromosomal junctions as determined by analysis of unselected cellular genomes. Journal of General Virology. 88(6). 1722–1732. 18 indexed citations

Drew, Horace R., et al.. (1999). RNA hairpin loops repress protein synthesis more strongly than hammerhead ribozymes. European Journal of Biochemistry. 266(1). 260–273. 5 indexed citations

Travers, Andrew & Horace R. Drew. (1997). DNA recognition and nucleosome organization. Biopolymers. 44(4). 423–433. 31 indexed citations

Drew, Horace R.. (1993). Reconstitution of Short-spaced Chromatin from the Histone Octamer and either HMG-14,17 or Histone H1. Journal of Molecular Biology. 230(3). 824–836. 13 indexed citations

Drew, Horace R.. (1991). Can one measure the free energy of binding of the histone octamer to different DNA sequences by salt-dependent reconstitution?. Journal of Molecular Biology. 219(3). 391–392. 27 indexed citations

Calladine, C. R., Christina M. Collis, Horace R. Drew, & Margaret R. Mott. (1991). A study of electrophoretic mobility of DNA in agarose and polyacrylamide gels. Journal of Molecular Biology. 221(3). 981–1005. 90 indexed citations

Drew, Horace R., et al.. (1990). 1 New Approaches to DNA in the Crystal and in Solution. Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive. 20. 1–56. 6 indexed citations

Collis, Christina M., Peter L. Molloy, Gerald W. Both, & Horace R. Drew. (1989). Influence of the sequence-dependent flexure of DNA on transcription inE.coli. Nucleic Acids Research. 17(22). 9447–9468. 68 indexed citations

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Drew, Horace R., Maxine J. McCall, & C. R. Calladine. (1988). Recent Studies of DNA in the Crystal. PubMed. 4(1). 1–20. 22 indexed citations

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Drew, Horace R. & Maxine J. McCall. (1987). Structural analysis of a reconstituted DNA containing three histone octamers and histone H5. Journal of Molecular Biology. 197(3). 485–511. 42 indexed citations

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Calladine, C. R. & Horace R. Drew. (1986). Principles of sequence-dependent flexure of DNA. Journal of Molecular Biology. 192(4). 907–918. 136 indexed citations

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Drew, Horace R., et al.. (1986). Echinomycin and distamycin induce rotation of nucleosome core DNA. Nucleic Acids Research. 14(17). 6785–6801. 58 indexed citations

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Drew, Horace R. & Andrew Travers. (1985). DNA bending and its relation to nucleosome positioning. Journal of Molecular Biology. 186(4). 773–790. 602 indexed citations breakdown →

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Drew, Horace R. & Andrew Travers. (1984). DNA structural variations in the E. coli tyrT promoter. Cell. 37(2). 491–502. 411 indexed citations

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Drew, Horace R.. (1984). Structural specificities of five commonly used DNA nucleases. Journal of Molecular Biology. 176(4). 535–557. 255 indexed citations

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Drew, Horace R., et al.. (1984). Sequence-specific binding of echinomycin to DNA: evidence for conformational changes affecting flanking sequences. Nucleic Acids Research. 12(12). 4865–4879. 162 indexed citations

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Dickerson, R.E., et al.. (1983). Helix Geometry and Hydration in A-DNA, B-DNA, and Z-DNA. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 47(0). 13–24. 53 indexed citations

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Drew, Horace R. & Richard E. Dickerson. (1982). A new model for DNA containing A.T and I.C base pairs.. The EMBO Journal. 1(6). 663–667. 28 indexed citations

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Rosenberg, John M., John Grable, Claire Frederick, et al.. (1981). Crystallographic analysis of EcoRI endonuclease–DNA complex. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography. 37(a1). C46–C46. 1 indexed citations

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