| Termination factor for RNA synthesis. JW Roberts Nature 224 (5225), 1969 | 1159 | 1969 |
| Nature of the SOS-inducing signal in Escherichia coli: the involvement of DNA replication M Sassanfar, JW Roberts Journal of molecular biology 212 (1), 79-96, 1990 | 683 | 1990 |
| Escherichia coli recA gene product inactivates phage lambda repressor. JW Roberts, CW Roberts, NL Craig Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 75 (10), 4714-4718, 1978 | 425 | 1978 |
| Mechanism of intrinsic transcription termination and antitermination WS Yarnell, JW Roberts Science 284 (5414), 611-615, 1999 | 422 | 1999 |
| Proteolytic cleavage of bacteriophage lambda repressor in induction. JW Roberts, CW Roberts Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 72 (1), 147-151, 1975 | 418 | 1975 |
| E. coli recA protein-directed cleavage of phage λ repressor requires polynucleotide NL Craig, JW Roberts Nature 283 (5742), 26-30, 1980 | 403 | 1980 |
| E. coli transcription repair coupling factor (Mfd protein) rescues arrested complexes by promoting forward translocation JS Park, MT Marr, JW Roberts Cell 109 (6), 757-767, 2002 | 345 | 2002 |
| Function of nucleoside triphosphate and polynucleotide in Escherichia coli recA protein-directed cleavage of phage lambda repressor. NL Craig, JW Roberts Journal of Biological Chemistry 256 (15), 8039-8044, 1981 | 287 | 1981 |
| Function of E. coli RNA polymerase σ factor-σ70 in promoter-proximal pausing BZ Ring, WS Yarnell, JW Roberts Cell 86 (3), 485-493, 1996 | 262 | 1996 |
| Single molecule analysis of RNA polymerase elongation reveals uniform kinetic behavior K Adelman, A La Porta, TJ Santangelo, JT Lis, JW Roberts, MD Wang Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99 (21), 13538-13543, 2002 | 239 | 2002 |
| Promoter recognition as measured by binding of polymerase to nontemplate strand oligonucleotide MT Marr, JW Roberts Science 276 (5316), 1258-1260, 1997 | 214 | 1997 |
| Phage lambda gene Q antiterminator recognizes RNA polymerase near the promoter and accelerates it through a pause site EJ Grayhack, X Yang, LF Lau, JW Roberts Cell 42 (1), 259-269, 1985 | 202 | 1985 |
| Induction of SOS functions: regulation of proteolytic activity of E. coil RecA protein by interaction with DNA and nucleoside triphosphate EM Phizicky, JW Roberts Cell 25 (1), 259-267, 1981 | 200 | 1981 |
| The interface of ς with core RNA polymerase is extensive, conserved, and functionally specialized MM Sharp, CL Chan, CZ Lu, MT Marr, S Nechaev, EW Merritt, ... Genes & development 13 (22), 3015-3026, 1999 | 194 | 1999 |
| Activity of the Escherichia coli recA-gene product JW Roberts, CW Roberts, NL Craig, EM Phizicky Cold Spring Harbor symposia on quantitative biology 43, 917-920, 1979 | 188 | 1979 |
| Antitermination by bacteriophage λ Q protein JW Roberts, W Yarnell, E Bartlett, J Guo, M Marr, DC Ko, H Sun, ... Cold Spring Harbor symposia on quantitative biology 63, 319-326, 1998 | 186 | 1998 |
| Lysogenic induction JW Roberts, R Devoret Lambda II 13, 123-144, 1983 | 186 | 1983 |
| Purification of a RecA protein analogue from Bacillus subtilis. CM Lovett, JW Roberts Journal of Biological Chemistry 260 (6), 3305-3313, 1985 | 183 | 1985 |
| Base-specific recognition of the nontemplate strand of promoter DNA by E. coli RNA polymerase JW Roberts, CW Roberts Cell 86 (3), 495-501, 1996 | 174 | 1996 |
| Function of transcription cleavage factors GreA and GreB at a regulatory pause site MT Marr, JW Roberts Molecular cell 6 (6), 1275-1285, 2000 | 170 | 2000 |
