David W. Mount

8.6k citations

121 papers · 7.3k · 2 hit papers · h-index 44

Impact in

Genetics top 0.2%
- Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
Molecular Biology top 1%
- DNA Repair Mechanisms
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry
- CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

Papers in

Molecular Biology 96
- DNA Repair Mechanisms 36
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 26
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms 26
- DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry 12
- Machine Learning in Bioinformatics 10
Genetics 58
- Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology 46

Co-authors: John W. Little (12 shared papers)K. Brooks Low (2 shared papers)Jennifer Hall (6 shared papers)L. Kevin Lewis (4 shared papers)Kenneth F. Wertman (3 shared papers)Greg R. Harlow (5 shared papers)Neil Willetts (1 shared paper)Kenneth R. Peterson (9 shared papers)
Journals: Cold Spring Harbor Protocols (21 papers)Journal of Bacteriology (19 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (10 papers)Nucleic Acids Research (8 papers)Virology (3 papers)
Partner nations: United States Canada Switzerland

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David W. Mount

117 papers receiving 6.5k citations

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The SOS regulatory system of Escherichia coli 1982 · 1.3k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

1982 Cell
1980 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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1	The SOS regulatory system of Escherichia coli Cell ·John W. Little, David W. Mount Hit paper breakdown →	1982	1335
2	Cleavage of the Escherichia coli lexA protein by the recA protease. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·John W. Little, Susan H. Edmiston, L Z Pacelli, David W. Mount Hit paper breakdown →	1980	466
3	Using the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) Cold Spring Harbor Protocols ·David W. Mount	2007	463
4	Penetration of the Stigma and Style Elicits a Novel Transcriptome in Pollen Tubes, Pointing to Genes Critical for Growth in a Pistil PLoS Genetics ·Yuan Qin, Alexander R. Leydon, Ann Manziello, Ritu Pandey, David W. Mount, Stojan Denic, Bane Vasić, Mark A. Johnson, Ravishankar Palanivelu	2009	281
5	Dominant Mutations ( lex ) in Escherichia coli K-12 Which Affect Radiation Sensitivity and Frequency of Ultraviolet Light-Induced Mutations Journal of Bacteriology ·David W. Mount, K. Brooks Low, Susan J. Edmiston	1972	272
6	Purified lexA protein is a repressor of the recA and lexA genes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·John W. Little, David W. Mount, Celeste Yanisch-Perron	1981	253
7	A mutant of Escherichia coli showing constitutive expression of the lysogenic induction and error-prone DNA repair pathways. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·David W. Mount	1977	203
8	Identification of High Affinity Binding Sites for LexA which Define New DNA Damage-inducible Genes in Escherichia coli Journal of Molecular Biology ·L. Kevin Lewis, Greg R. Harlow, Leslie A. Gregg‐Jolly, David W. Mount	1994	173
9	Genetic Analysis of Recombination-Deficient Mutants of Escherichia coli K-12 Carrying rec Mutations Cotransducible with thyA Journal of Bacteriology ·Neil Willetts, David W. Mount	1969	153
10	Sequence and mapping analyses of the herpes simplex virus DNA polymerase gene predict a C-terminal substrate binding domain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·J S Gibbs, Henry C. Chiou, Jennifer Hall, David W. Mount, M J Retondo, Sandra K. Weller, Donald M. Coen	1985	152
11	Identification of the recA ( tif ) gene product of Escherichia coli Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Lorraine J. Gudas, David W. Mount	1977	147
12	Nucleotide sequence binding specificity of the LexA repressor of Escherichia coli K-12 Journal of Bacteriology ·Kenneth F. Wertman, David W. Mount	1985	113
13	Dual role for Escherichia coli RecA protein in SOS mutagenesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Don G. Ennis, Bonnie S. Fisher, Susan H. Edmiston, David W. Mount	1985	110
14	Repair of UV damage in plants by nucleotide excision repair: Arabidopsis UVH1 DNA repair gene is a homolog of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Rad1 The Plant Journal ·Zongrang Liu, Gazi S. Hossain, María A. Islas‐Osuna, David L. Mitchell, David W. Mount	2000	103
15	Mutations in bacteriophage lambda affecting host cell lysis Virology ·Alan W. Harris, David W. Mount, C.R. Fuerst, Louis Siminovitch	1967	102
16	Inactivation and proteolytic cleavage of phage lambda repressor in vitro in an ATP-dependent reaction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Jeffrey W. Roberts, Charles W.M. Roberts, David W. Mount	1977	95
17	Mutations in bacteriophage lambda affecting particle morphogenesis Virology ·David W. Mount, Alan W. Harris, C.R. Fuerst, Louis Siminovitch	1968	87
18	Nucleotide sequence of the lexA gene of Escherichia coli K-12 Nucleic Acids Research ·Bruce E. Markham, John W. Little, David W. Mount	1981	83
19	Pathway Miner: extracting gene association networks from molecular pathways for predicting the biological significance of gene expression microarray data Bioinformatics ·Ritu Pandey, Raghavendra K. Guru, David W. Mount	2004	83
20	Suppression of lex Mutations Affecting Deoxyribonucleic Acid Repair in Escherichia coli K-12 by Closely Linked Thermosensitive Mutations Journal of Bacteriology ·David W. Mount, Anita C. Walker, Candace Kosel	1973	81

About David W. Mount

David W. Mount is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics, Ecology, Plant Science and Cancer Research, having authored 121 papers that have together received 7.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (46 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (36 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (26 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (26 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (17 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (12 papers), Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (10 papers) and Algorithms and Data Compression (8 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Genetics (3.4k citations), Molecular Biology (5.7k citations), Molecular Medicine (387 citations), Endocrinology (358 citations) and Cancer Research (649 citations). David W. Mount has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and Switzerland. Frequent co-authors include John W. Little, K. Brooks Low, Jennifer Hall, L. Kevin Lewis, Kenneth F. Wertman, Greg R. Harlow, Neil Willetts, Kenneth R. Peterson, Lorraine J. Gudas and Don G. Ennis. Their work appears in journals such as Cold Spring Harbor Protocols, Journal of Bacteriology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Virology.

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