selected publications
- Predicting β-lactam resistance using whole genome sequencing in Klebsiella pneumoniae: the challenge of β-lactamase inhibitors. Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease. 2020 Academic Article GET IT
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Group A Streptococcus AdcR Regulon Participates in Bacterial Defense against Host-Mediated Zinc Sequestration and Contributes to Virulence.
Infection and immunity.
2020
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Streptococcus pyogenes genes that promote pharyngitis in primates.
JCI insight.
2020
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Times cited: 9 -
Treatment of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Patients with Convalescent Plasma.
The American journal of pathology.
2020
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Times cited: 199 -
Clinical Utility of Reflex Ordered Testing for Molecular Biomarkers in Lung Adenocarcinoma.
Clinical lung cancer.
2020
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A Single Amino Acid Replacement in Penicillin-Binding Protein 2X in Streptococcus pyogenes Significantly Increases Fitness on Subtherapeutic Benzylpenicillin Treatment in a Mouse Model of Necrotizing Myositis.
The American journal of pathology.
2020
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Genetic heterogeneity of the Spy1336/R28-Spy1337 virulence axis in Streptococcus pyogenes and effect on gene transcript levels and pathogenesis.
PloS one.
2020
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Reduced In Vitro Susceptibility of Streptococcus pyogenes to β-Lactam Antibiotics Associated with Mutations in the pbp2x Gene Is Geographically Widespread.
Journal of clinical microbiology.
2020
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Times cited: 55 -
Genome-Wide Screens Identify Group A Streptococcus Surface Proteins Promoting Female Genital Tract Colonization and Virulence.
The American journal of pathology.
2020
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Times cited: 8 -
New Pathogenesis Mechanisms and Translational Leads Identified by Multidimensional Analysis of Necrotizing Myositis in Primates.
mBio.
2020
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Times cited: 21 -
Metal sensing and regulation of adaptive responses to manganese limitation by MtsR is critical for group A streptococcus virulence.
Nucleic acids research.
2019
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Times cited: 15 -
Polymorphisms in Regulator of Cov Contribute to the Molecular Pathogenesis of Serotype M28 Group A Streptococcus.
The American journal of pathology.
2019
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Times cited: 7 -
Integrated analysis of population genomics, transcriptomics and virulence provides novel insights into Streptococcus pyogenes pathogenesis.
Nature genetics.
2019
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Times cited: 51 -
Using Machine Learning To Predict Antimicrobial MICs and Associated Genomic Features for Nontyphoidal Salmonella.
Journal of clinical microbiology.
2019
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Times cited: 177 -
Gene fitness landscape of group A streptococcus during necrotizing myositis.
The Journal of clinical investigation.
2019
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Times cited: 32 -
RocA Has Serotype-Specific Gene Regulatory and Pathogenesis Activities in Serotype M28 Group A Streptococcus.
Infection and immunity.
2018
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Signaling by a Conserved Quorum Sensing Pathway Contributes to Growth Ex Vivo and Oropharyngeal Colonization of Human Pathogen Group A Streptococcus.
Infection and immunity.
2018
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Times cited: 12 -
Developing an in silico minimum inhibitory concentration panel test for Klebsiella pneumoniae.
Scientific reports.
2018
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Times cited: 116 -
Whole-Genome Sequencing of a Human Clinical Isolate of emm28 Streptococcus pyogenes Causing Necrotizing Fasciitis Acquired Contemporaneously with Hurricane Harvey.
Genome announcements.
2017
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Times cited: 9 -
Genome sequence analysis of emm89 Streptococcus pyogenes strains causing infections in Scotland, 2010-2016.
Journal of medical microbiology.
2017
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Times cited: 17 -
Whole-Genome Sequencing of a Human Clinical Isolate of the Novel Species Klebsiella quasivariicola sp. nov.
Genome announcements.
2017
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Times cited: 40 -
Leaderless secreted peptide signaling molecule alters global gene expression and increases virulence of a human bacterial pathogen.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
2017
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Times cited: 40 -
Next-Generation Sequencing Identifies Gene Mutations That Are Predictive of Malignancy in Residual Needle Rinses Collected From Fine-Needle Aspirations of Thyroid Nodules.
Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine.
2017
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Times cited: 14 -
Population Genomic Analysis of 1,777 Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae Isolates, Houston, Texas: Unexpected Abundance of Clonal Group 307.
mBio.
2017
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Times cited: 95 -
Increased Pilus Production Conferred by a Naturally Occurring Mutation Alters Host-Pathogen Interaction in Favor of Carriage in Streptococcus pyogenes.
Infection and immunity.
2017
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Times cited: 18 -
Contribution of Secreted NADase and Streptolysin O to the Pathogenesis of Epidemic Serotype M1 Streptococcus pyogenes Infections.
The American journal of pathology.
2016
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Times cited: 48 -
A prospective observational cohort study in primary care practices to identify factors associated with treatment failure in Staphylococcus aureus skin and soft tissue infections.
Annals of clinical microbiology and antimicrobials.
2016
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Times cited: 11 -
Genomic Landscape of Intrahost Variation in Group A Streptococcus: Repeated and Abundant Mutational Inactivation of the fabT Gene Encoding a Regulator of Fatty Acid Synthesis.
Infection and immunity.
2016
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Times cited: 20 -
Predictors of community-associated Staphylococcus aureus, methicillin-resistant and methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus skin and soft tissue infections in primary-care settings.
Epidemiology and infection.
2016
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Increased use of surgical energy promotes methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization in rabbits following open ventral hernia mesh repair.
Surgical endoscopy.
2016
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Times cited: 1 -
Intergenic Variable-Number Tandem-Repeat Polymorphism Upstream of rocA Alters Toxin Production and Enhances Virulence in Streptococcus pyogenes.
Infection and immunity.
2016
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Times cited: 18 -
Transcriptome Remodeling Contributes to Epidemic Disease Caused by the Human Pathogen Streptococcus pyogenes.
mBio.
2016
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Times cited: 44 -
Structural and functional analysis of RopB: a major virulence regulator in Streptococcus pyogenes.
Molecular microbiology.
2016
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Times cited: 23 -
Integrating Rapid Diagnostics and Antimicrobial Stewardship in Two Community Hospitals Improved Process Measures and Antibiotic Adjustment Time.
Infection control and hospital epidemiology.
2016
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Times cited: 47 -
Next-Generation Sequencing of Matched Primary and Metastatic Rectal Adenocarcinomas Demonstrates Minimal Mutation Gain and Concordance to Colonic Adenocarcinomas.
Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine.
2015
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Times cited: 9 -
Trading Capsule for Increased Cytotoxin Production: Contribution to Virulence of a Newly Emerged Clade of emm89 Streptococcus pyogenes.
mBio.
2015
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Times cited: 68 -
The majority of 9,729 group A streptococcus strains causing disease secrete SpeB cysteine protease: pathogenesis implications.
Infection and immunity.
2015
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Times cited: 32 -
A Single Amino Acid Replacement in the Sensor Kinase LiaS Contributes to a Carrier Phenotype in Group A Streptococcus.
Infection and immunity.
2015
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Times cited: 17 -
A molecular trigger for intercontinental epidemics of group A Streptococcus.
The Journal of clinical investigation.
2015
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Times cited: 103 -
Haemagglutinin mutations and glycosylation changes shaped the 2012/13 influenza A(H3N2) epidemic, Houston, Texas.
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin.
2015
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Phosphorylation events in the multiple gene regulator of group A Streptococcus significantly influence global gene expression and virulence.
Infection and immunity.
2015
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Times cited: 20 -
Comparative whole genome sequencing of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus sequence type 8 from primary care clinics in a Texas community.
Pharmacotherapy.
2015
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Times cited: 11 -
Natural variant of collagen-like protein a in serotype M3 group a Streptococcus increases adherence and decreases invasive potential.
Infection and immunity.
2015
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Times cited: 17 -
Adhesin competence repressor (AdcR) from Streptococcus pyogenes controls adaptive responses to zinc limitation and contributes to virulence.
Nucleic acids research.
2014
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Times cited: 48 -
A naturally occurring single amino acid replacement in multiple gene regulator of group A Streptococcus significantly increases virulence.
The American journal of pathology.
2014
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Times cited: 19 -
Absence of patient-to-patient intrahospital transmission of Staphylococcus aureus as determined by whole-genome sequencing.
mBio.
2014
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Times cited: 65 -
Clinical laboratory response to a mock outbreak of invasive bacterial infections: a preparedness study.
Journal of clinical microbiology.
2014
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Times cited: 20 -
PBP2a mutations causing high-level Ceftaroline resistance in clinical methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates.
2014
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Times cited: 109 -
Asymptomatic carriage of group A streptococcus is associated with elimination of capsule production.
Infection and immunity.
2014
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Times cited: 37 -
Integrating rapid diagnostics and antimicrobial stewardship improves outcomes in patients with antibiotic-resistant Gram-negative bacteremia.
The Journal of infection.
2014
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Times cited: 178 -
Improving positive blood culture removal time significantly decreases total processing time.
Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine.
2014
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Evolutionary pathway to increased virulence and epidemic group A Streptococcus disease derived from 3,615 genome sequences.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
2014
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Times cited: 205 -
Spread of virulent group A Streptococcus type emm59 from Montana to Wyoming, USA.
Emerging infectious diseases.
2014
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Times cited: 11 -
Molecular dissection of the evolution of carbapenem-resistant multilocus sequence type 258 Klebsiella pneumoniae.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
2014
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Times cited: 264 -
Identification of point mutations in clinical Staphylococcus aureus strains that produce small-colony variants auxotrophic for menadione.
Infection and immunity.
2014
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Times cited: 49 - Molecular characterization of an invasive phenotype of group A Streptococcus arising during human infection using whole genome sequencing of multiple isolates from the same patient. The Journal of infectious diseases. 2013 Academic Article GET IT
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Seasonal H3N2 influenza A virus fails to enhance Staphylococcus aureus co-infection in a non-human primate respiratory tract infection model.
Virulence.
2013
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Times cited: 21 -
Lung cancer biomarkers: present status and future developments.
Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine.
2013
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Times cited: 52 -
Natural variation in the promoter of the gene encoding the Mga regulator alters host-pathogen interactions in group a Streptococcus carrier strains.
Infection and immunity.
2013
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Times cited: 31 -
Evaluation of a miniature microscope objective designed for fluorescence array microscopy detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine.
2013
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Times cited: 5 -
Crystal structure of peroxide stress regulator from Streptococcus pyogenes provides functional insights into the mechanism of oxidative stress sensing.
The Journal of biological chemistry.
2013
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Times cited: 47 -
The proposed new classification of pulmonary adenocarcinoma and the conservation of small tissue samples for testing.
Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine.
2013
Editorial Article
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A genomic day in the life of a clinical microbiology laboratory.
Journal of clinical microbiology.
2013
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Times cited: 57 -
Integrating rapid pathogen identification and antimicrobial stewardship significantly decreases hospital costs.
Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine.
2012
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Times cited: 266 -
Strategy for rapid identification and antibiotic susceptibility testing of gram-negative bacteria directly recovered from positive blood cultures using the Bruker MALDI Biotyper and the BD Phoenix system.
Journal of clinical microbiology.
2012
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Times cited: 60 -
Genomic analysis of emm59 group A Streptococcus invasive strains, United States.
Emerging infectious diseases.
2012
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Times cited: 23 -
Bacterial genomics in infectious disease and the clinical pathology laboratory.
Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine.
2012
Review
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Full-genome dissection of an epidemic of severe invasive disease caused by a hypervirulent, recently emerged clone of group A Streptococcus.
The American journal of pathology.
2012
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Times cited: 59 -
Polymorphisms in regulator of protease B (RopB) alter disease phenotype and strain virulence of serotype M3 group A Streptococcus.
The Journal of infectious diseases.
2012
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Times cited: 25 -
An amino-terminal signal peptide of Vfr protein negatively influences RopB-dependent SpeB expression and attenuates virulence in Streptococcus pyogenes.
Molecular microbiology.
2011
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Times cited: 32 -
Distinct single amino acid replacements in the control of virulence regulator protein differentially impact streptococcal pathogenesis.
PLoS pathogens.
2011
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Times cited: 42 -
Rapidly progressive, fatal, inhalation anthrax-like infection in a human: case report, pathogen genome sequencing, pathology, and coordinated response.
2011
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Times cited: 38 -
Niche-specific contribution to streptococcal virulence of a MalR-regulated carbohydrate binding protein.
Molecular microbiology.
2011
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Times cited: 10 -
Naturally occurring single amino acid replacements in a regulatory protein alter streptococcal gene expression and virulence in mice.
The Journal of clinical investigation.
2011
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Times cited: 61 -
Virulence of serotype M3 Group A Streptococcus strains in wax worms (Galleria mellonella larvae).
Virulence.
2011
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Times cited: 74 -
Portable, battery-operated, low-cost, bright field and fluorescence microscope.
PloS one.
2010
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Times cited: 85 -
Lower respiratory tract infection in cynomolgus macaques (Macaca fascicularis) infected with group A Streptococcus.
Microbial pathogenesis.
2010
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A combination of independent transcriptional regulators shapes bacterial virulence gene expression during infection.
PLoS pathogens.
2010
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Times cited: 54 -
Lack of a major role of Staphylococcus aureus Panton-Valentine leukocidin in lower respiratory tract infection in nonhuman primates.
The American journal of pathology.
2010
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Times cited: 40 -
Decreased necrotizing fasciitis capacity caused by a single nucleotide mutation that alters a multiple gene virulence axis.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
2010
Academic Article
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Times cited: 91 -
Molecular pathogenesis of necrotizing fasciitis.
Annual review of pathology.
2010
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Times cited: 101 -
Prognostic impact of C-REL expression in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.
Journal of hematopathology.
2009
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The implication of identifying JAK2 ( V617F ) in myeloproliferative neoplasms and myelodysplastic syndromes with bone marrow fibrosis.
Journal of hematopathology.
2008
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Times cited: 12 -
Molecular mechanisms underlying group A streptococcal pathogenesis.
Cellular microbiology.
2008
Article
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Times cited: 83 -
Acute leukemia immunohistochemistry: a systematic diagnostic approach.
Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine.
2008
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Times cited: 25 -
Validation of the MycoAlign system for Mycobacterium spp. identification.
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease.
2007
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Times cited: 3 -
Polycythemia vera: new clinicopathologic perspectives.
Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine.
2006
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Times cited: 23 -
Detection of the JAK2(V617F) mutation in myeloproliferative disorders by melting curve analysis using the LightCycler system.
Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine.
2006
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Times cited: 31 -
C-erb-B2 (HER2/neu) expression in synovial sarcoma of the head and neck.
Head & neck.
2005
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Times cited: 28 -
Minimal structural elements of an inhibitory anti-ATF1/CREB single-chain antibody fragment (scFv41.4).
Hybridoma and hybridomics.
2003
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Times cited: 2 -
Molecular approaches to sarcoma therapy.
Sarcoma.
2002
Academic Article
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Times cited: 9 -
Phosphorylation of the EWS IQ domain regulates transcriptional activity of the EWS/ATF1 and EWS/FLI1 fusion proteins.
Oncogene.
2001
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Times cited: 27 -
Tumor cell viability in clear cell sarcoma requires DNA binding activity of the EWS/ATF1 fusion protein.
The Journal of biological chemistry.
1999
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Times cited: 25