| Nascent RNA sequencing reveals widespread pausing and divergent initiation at human promoters LJ Core, JJ Waterfall, JT Lis Science 322 (5909), 1845-1848, 2008 | 2303 | 2008 |
| Promoter-proximal pausing of RNA polymerase II: emerging roles in metazoans K Adelman, JT Lis Nature Reviews Genetics 13 (10), 720-731, 2012 | 1346 | 2012 |
| Getting up to speed with transcription elongation by RNA polymerase II I Jonkers, JT Lis Nature reviews Molecular cell biology 16 (3), 167-177, 2015 | 939 | 2015 |
| The RNA polymerase II molecule at the 5′ end of the uninduced hsp70 gene of D. melanogaster is transcriptionally engaged AE Rougvie, JT Lis Cell 54 (6), 795-804, 1988 | 860 | 1988 |
| Precise maps of RNA polymerase reveal how promoters direct initiation and pausing H Kwak, NJ Fuda, LJ Core, JT Lis Science 339 (6122), 950-953, 2013 | 838 | 2013 |
| Analysis of nascent RNA identifies a unified architecture of initiation regions at mammalian promoters and enhancers LJ Core, AL Martins, CG Danko, CT Waters, A Siepel, JT Lis Nature genetics 46 (12), 1311-1320, 2014 | 708 | 2014 |
| Defining mechanisms that regulate RNA polymerase II transcription in vivo NJ Fuda, MB Ardehali, JT Lis Nature 461 (7261), 186-192, 2009 | 701 | 2009 |
| PARP goes transcription WL Kraus, JT Lis Cell 113 (6), 677-683, 2003 | 699 | 2003 |
| The 4D nucleome project J Dekker, AS Belmont, M Guttman, VO Leshyk, JT Lis, S Lomvardas, ... Nature 549 (7671), 219-226, 2017 | 691 | 2017 |
| PR-Set7 is a nucleosome-specific methyltransferase that modifies lysine 20 of histone H4 and is associated with silent chromatin K Nishioka, JC Rice, K Sarma, H Erdjument-Bromage, J Werner, Y Wang, ... Molecular cell 9 (6), 1201-1213, 2002 | 690 | 2002 |
| NAD+-dependent modulation of chromatin structure and transcription by nucleosome binding properties of PARP-1 MY Kim, S Mauro, N Gévry, JT Lis, WL Kraus Cell 119 (6), 803-814, 2004 | 684 | 2004 |
| Breaking barriers to transcription elongation A Saunders, LJ Core, JT Lis Nature reviews Molecular cell biology 7 (8), 557-567, 2006 | 649 | 2006 |
| Transcriptional regulation of heat shock genes. A paradigm for inducible genomic responses. RI Morimoto, KD Sarge, K Abravaya Journal of Biological Chemistry 267 (31), 21987-21990, 1992 | 649 | 1992 |
| Genome-wide dynamics of Pol II elongation and its interplay with promoter proximal pausing, chromatin, and exons I Jonkers, H Kwak, JT Lis elife 3, e02407, 2014 | 624 | 2014 |
| Mechanical disruption of individual nucleosomes reveals a reversible multistage release of DNA BD Brower-Toland, CL Smith, RC Yeh, JT Lis, CL Peterson, MD Wang Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99 (4), 1960-1965, 2002 | 558 | 2002 |
| A rapid, extensive, and transient transcriptional response to estrogen signaling in breast cancer cells N Hah, CG Danko, L Core, JJ Waterfall, A Siepel, JT Lis, WL Kraus Cell 145 (4), 622-634, 2011 | 555 | 2011 |
| In vivo transcriptional pausing and cap formation on three Drosophila heat shock genes. EB Rasmussen, JT Lis Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 90 (17), 7923-7927, 1993 | 534 | 1993 |
| Germline transformation used to define key features of heat-shock response elements H Xiao, JT Lis Science 239 (4844), 1139-1142, 1988 | 526 | 1988 |
| Stable binding of Drosophila heat shock factor to head-to-head and tail-to-tail repeats of a conserved 5 bp recognition unit O Perisic, H Xiao, JT Lis Cell 59 (5), 797-806, 1989 | 525 | 1989 |
| Protein traffic on the heat shock promoter: parking, stalling, and trucking along J Lis, C Wu Cell 74 (1), 1-4, 1993 | 511 | 1993 |
