Robert L. Ratliff

8.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
79 papers, 7.0k citations indexed

About

Robert L. Ratliff is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert L. Ratliff has authored 79 papers receiving a total of 7.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 70 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Oncology and 9 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Robert L. Ratliff's work include DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (47 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (35 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (18 papers). Robert L. Ratliff is often cited by papers focused on DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (47 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (35 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (18 papers). Robert L. Ratliff collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Robert L. Ratliff's co-authors include Robert K. Moyzis, J. Meyne, Donald M. Gray, Larry L. Deaven, J R Wu, L. Scott Cram, Maria Dani, Matthew D. Jones, Struther Arnott and Rengaswami Chandrasekaran and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Robert L. Ratliff

78 papers receiving 6.6k citations

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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.

A highly conserved repetitive DNA sequence, (TTAGGG)n, present at the telomeres of human chromosomes.

1988 1.9k citations Robert K. Moyzis, Robert L. Ratliff et al. profile →
Conservation of the human telomere sequence (TTAGGG)n among vertebrates.

1989 668 citations Robert L. Ratliff, Robert K. Moyzis et al. profile →
Left-handed DNA helices

1980 449 citations Robert L. Ratliff et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert L. Ratliff United States	34	5.2k	1.6k	943	888	571	79	7.0k
Carl L. Schildkraut United States	50	7.8k 1.5×	972 0.6×	1.3k 1.4×	1.6k 1.8×	808 1.4×	120	9.6k
Daniela Rhodes United Kingdom	57	13.4k 2.6×	1.3k 0.8×	1.5k 1.6×	1.5k 1.7×	710 1.2×	118	14.7k
Ichiro Yahara Japan	62	7.0k 1.4×	684 0.4×	422 0.4×	622 0.7×	184 0.3×	133	10.5k
Arthur J. Zaug United States	36	6.5k 1.3×	2.0k 1.3×	453 0.5×	691 0.8×	768 1.3×	48	7.3k
Tom H. Stevens United States	71	11.3k 2.2×	1.1k 0.7×	1.2k 1.2×	510 0.6×	186 0.3×	136	14.1k
John M. Lucocq United Kingdom	51	6.4k 1.2×	824 0.5×	468 0.5×	411 0.5×	256 0.4×	128	9.7k
Jacques Demaille France	49	4.8k 0.9×	435 0.3×	342 0.4×	591 0.7×	189 0.3×	175	7.4k
John V. Kilmartin United Kingdom	44	5.7k 1.1×	989 0.6×	940 1.0×	296 0.3×	122 0.2×	60	7.5k
Daniel E. Gottschling United States	48	11.1k 2.1×	2.5k 1.6×	1.9k 2.0×	943 1.1×	315 0.6×	74	12.6k
Vernon M. Ingram United States	48	5.2k 1.0×	1.8k 1.1×	343 0.4×	1.1k 1.3×	335 0.6×	160	9.4k

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Paula, Stefan, et al.. (2009). Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of hydroquinone derivatives as novel inhibitors of the sarco/endoplasmic reticulum calcium ATPase. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 17(18). 6613–6619. 21 indexed citations

Ratliff, Robert L., et al.. (2008). Structure-based virtual screening for novel inhibitors of the sarco/endoplasmic reticulum calcium ATPase and their experimental evaluation. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 17(3). 1353–1360. 14 indexed citations

Li, Cai, et al.. (1998). Intercalated cytosine motif and novel adenine clusters in the crystal structure of the Tetrahymena telomere. Nucleic Acids Research. 26(20). 4696–4705. 42 indexed citations

Mariappan, S. V. Santhana, Paolo Catasti, Robert L. Ratliff, et al.. (1996). Solution Structures of the Individual Single Strands of the Fragile X DNA Triplets (GCC)n{middle dot}(GGC)n. Nucleic Acids Research. 24(4). 784–792. 60 indexed citations

Catasti, Paolo, Goutam Gupta, Angel E. Garcı́a, et al.. (1994). Unusual Structures of the Tandem Repetitive DNA Sequences Located at Human Centromeres. Biochemistry. 33(13). 3819–3830. 47 indexed citations

Gray, Donald M., Robert L. Ratliff, & Marilyn R. Vaughan. (1992). [19] Circular dichroism spectroscopy of DNA. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 211. 389–406. 210 indexed citations

Davis, Lloyd M., Frederic R. Fairfield, James H. Jett, et al.. (1991). Rapid DNA sequencing based upon single molecule detection. Genetic Analysis Biomolecular Engineering. 8(1). 1–7. 43 indexed citations

Antao, Vincent, Robert L. Ratliff, & Donald M. Gray. (1990). CD evidence that the alternating purine-pyrimidine sequence poly[d(A-C)•d(G-T)], but not poly[d(A-T).d(A-T)], undergoes an acid-induced transition to a modified secondary conformation. Nucleic Acids Research. 18(14). 4111–4122. 15 indexed citations

Gray, Donald M., Kenneth H. Johnson, Marilyn R. Vaughan, et al.. (1990). The vacuum UV CD bands of repeating DNA sequences are dependent on sequence and conformation. Biopolymers. 29(2). 317–323. 23 indexed citations

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Patrick, Michael H., et al.. (1990). A.cntdot.T and C.cntdot.C+ base pairs can form simultaneously in a novel multistranded DNA complex. Biochemistry. 29(3). 828–836. 34 indexed citations

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Antao, Vincent, Donald M. Gray, & Robert L. Ratliff. (1988). CD of six different conformational rearrangements of poly[(d(A-G)·d(C-T)] induced by low pH. Nucleic Acids Research. 16(2). 719–738. 57 indexed citations

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Ratliff, Robert L., et al.. (1988). Circular dichroism spectra of DNA oligomers show that short interior stretches of C.cntdot.C+ base pairs do not form in duplexes with A.cntdot.T base pairs. Biochemistry. 27(14). 5166–5174. 13 indexed citations

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Steely, H. Thomas, Donald M. Gray, & Robert L. Ratliff. (1986). CD of homopolymer DNA-RNA hybrid duplexes and triplexes containing A.T or A.U base pairs. Nucleic Acids Research. 14(24). 10071–10090. 64 indexed citations

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Gray, Donald M., Tao Cui, & Robert L. Ratliff. (1984). Circular dkhroism measurements show that C·C⁺base pairs can coexist with A·T base pairs between antiparallel strands of an oligodeoxynudeotide double-helix. Nucleic Acids Research. 12(19). 7565–7580. 45 indexed citations

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Walters, R.A. & Robert L. Ratliff. (1975). Lack of specific correlation of the deoxycytidine triphosphate pool level with rate of DNA synthesis. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Nucleic Acids and Protein Synthesis. 414(3). 221–230. 8 indexed citations

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Walters, R.A., Robert A. Tobey, & Robert L. Ratliff. (1973). Cell-cycle-dependent variations of deoxyribonucleoside triphosphate pools in chinese hamster cells. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Nucleic Acids and Protein Synthesis. 319(3). 336–347. 139 indexed citations

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Hayes, F. Newton, et al.. (1971). Polydeoxythymidylate as template for complementary enzymatic synthesis. FEBS Letters. 19(1). 15–18. 1 indexed citations

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Hayes, F. Newton, et al.. (1970). Thermal transitions in mixtures of polydeoxyribodinucleotides. Biopolymers. 9(9). 1105–1117. 51 indexed citations

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Ratliff, Robert L., John T. Matschiner, Edward A. Doisy, et al.. (1959). Bile Acids XII. A NEW METABOLITE OF DEOXYCHOLIC ACID. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 234(12). 3133–3136. 15 indexed citations

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Matschiner, John T., Robert L. Ratliff, Theodore A. Mahowald, et al.. (1958). BILE ACIDS. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 230(2). 589–596. 17 indexed citations

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