| Structures of phi29 DNA polymerase complexed with substrate: the mechanism of translocation in B‐family polymerases AJ Berman, S Kamtekar, JL Goodman, JM Lazaro, M de Vega, L Blanco, ... The EMBO journal 26 (14), 3494-3505, 2007 | 215 | 2007 |
| Insights into strand displacement and processivity from the crystal structure of the protein-primed DNA polymerase of bacteriophage φ29 S Kamtekar, AJ Berman, J Wang, JM Lázaro, M de Vega, L Blanco, ... Molecular cell 16 (4), 609-618, 2004 | 208 | 2004 |
| The ϕ29 DNA polymerase: protein‐primer structure suggests a model for the initiation to elongation transition S Kamtekar, AJ Berman, J Wang, JM Lázaro, M de Vega, L Blanco, ... The EMBO journal 25 (6), 1335-1343, 2006 | 137 | 2006 |
| A specific subdomain in φ29 DNA polymerase confers both processivity and strand-displacement capacity I Rodríguez, JM Lázaro, L Blanco, S Kamtekar, AJ Berman, J Wang, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102 (18), 6407-6412, 2005 | 117 | 2005 |
| Primer‐terminus stabilization at the 3′‐5′ exonuclease active site of phi29 DNA polymerase. Involvement of two amino acid residues highly conserved in proofreading DNA … M De Vega, JM Lazaro, M Salas, L Blanco The EMBO journal 15 (5), 1182-1192, 1996 | 103 | 1996 |
| Terminal protein-primed DNA amplification. L Blanco, JM Lázaro, M De Vega, A Bonnin, M Salas Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 91 (25), 12198-12202, 1994 | 102 | 1994 |
| Improvement of φ29 DNA polymerase amplification performance by fusion of DNA binding motifs M de Vega, JM Lázaro, M Mencía, L Blanco, M Salas Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107 (38), 16506-16511, 2010 | 87 | 2010 |
| An aspartic acid residue in TPR-1, a specific region of protein-priming DNA polymerases, is required for the functional interaction with primer terminal protein E Dufour, J Méndez, JM Lázaro, M de Vega, L Blanco, M Salas Journal of molecular biology 304 (3), 289-300, 2000 | 63 | 2000 |
| Mutational analysis of ø29 DNA polymerase residues acting as ssDNA ligands for 3′-5′ exonucleolysis M de Vega, JM Lázaro, M Salas, L Blanco Journal of molecular biology 279 (4), 807-822, 1998 | 54 | 1998 |
| Terminal protein-primed amplification of heterologous DNA with a minimal replication system based on phage Φ29 M Mencía, P Gella, A Camacho, M de Vega, M Salas Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (46), 18655-18660, 2011 | 50 | 2011 |
| The minimal Bacillus subtilis nonhomologous end joining repair machinery M de Vega PLoS One 8 (5), e64232, 2013 | 41 | 2013 |
| Editing of misaligned 3′-termini by an intrinsic 3′–5′ exonuclease activity residing in the PHP domain of a family X DNA polymerase B Banos, JM Lazaro, L Villar, M Salas, M de Vega Nucleic acids research 36 (18), 5736-5749, 2008 | 39 | 2008 |
| ø29 DNA polymerase residue Ser122, a single-stranded DNA ligand for 3′-5′ exonucleolysis, is required to interact with the terminal protein M de Vega, L Blanco, M Salas Journal of Biological Chemistry 273 (44), 28966-28977, 1998 | 35 | 1998 |
| Processive proofreading and the spatial relationship between polymerase and exonuclease active sites of bacteriophage ø29 DNA polymerase M de Vega, L Blanco, M Salas Journal of molecular biology 292 (1), 39-51, 1999 | 33 | 1999 |
| DNA-binding proteins essential for protein-primed bacteriophage Φ29 DNA replication M Salas, I Holguera, M Redrejo-Rodríguez, M De Vega Frontiers in molecular biosciences 3, 37, 2016 | 32 | 2016 |
| An invariant lysine residue is involved in catalysis at the 3′-5′ exonuclease active site of eukaryotic-type DNA polymerases M de Vega, T Ilyina, JM Lázaro, M Salas, L Blanco Journal of molecular biology 270 (1), 65-78, 1997 | 31 | 1997 |
| Characterization of a Bacillus subtilis 64-kDa DNA Polymerase X Potentially Involved in DNA Repair B Baños, JM Lázaro, L Villar, M Salas, M de Vega Journal of molecular biology 384 (5), 1019-1028, 2008 | 29 | 2008 |
| Enzymatic synthesis of structure-free DNA with pseudo-complementary properties G Lahoud, V Timoshchuk, A Lebedev, M de Vega, M Salas, K Arar, ... Nucleic acids research 36 (10), 3409-3419, 2008 | 28 | 2008 |
| Protein-primed replication of bacteriophage Φ29 DNA M Salas, M De Vega The Enzymes 39, 137-167, 2016 | 27* | 2016 |
| The bacteriophage φ29 DNA polymerase. M Salas, L Blanco, JM Lázaro, M de Vega IUBMB life 60 (1), 2008 | 27 | 2008 |
Andrea J. BermanAssociate Professor of Biological Sciences, University of PittsburghVerified email at pitt.edu
