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Point Mutation

Known as: Mutation, Point, Mutations, Point, Point Mutations 
A small-scale mutation in which a single nucleotide is exchanged for another. Mutagenic chemicals and mistakes in DNA replication may result in point… 
National Institutes of Health

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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
DNA sensors using a ferrocene-oligonucleotide conjugate.
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
A preS mutation isolated from a patient with chronic hepatitis B infection leads to virus retention and misassembly.
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Point mutation flanking a CTL epitope ablates in vitro and in vivo recognition of a full-length viral protein.
CD8+ T cells (T(CD8+)) recognize viral Ags as short peptides (epitopes) displayed at the cell surface by MHC class I molecules… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Direct detection of multiple point mutations in mitochondrial DNA.
Mitochondrial defects can be caused by mutations in nuclear or mitochondrial DNA. Large deletion/duplication and point mutations… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Activation of retinoid receptors RARα and RXRα induces differentiation and apoptosis, respectively, in HL-60 cells
Induction of granulocytic differentiation in HL-60 myeloid leukemia cells by retinoids is followed by their death via apoptosis… 
Review
1994
Review
1994
Can we predict solar ultraviolet radiation as the causal event in human tumours by analysing the mutation spectra of the p53 gene?
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Genetic evidence for activation of the positive transcriptional regulator Xy1R, a member of the NtrC family of regulators, by effector binding.
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Sequence specificity of point mutations induced during passage of a UV-irradiated shuttle vector plasmid in monkey cells
A simian virus 40-based shuttle vector was used to characterize UV-induced mutations generated in mammalian cells. The small size… 
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Genetic effects of 5-azacytidine in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Highly Cited
1980
Highly Cited
1980
Translational analysis of the killer-associated virus-like particle dsRNA genome of S. cerevisiae: M dsRNA encodes toxin
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