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D-Index
100
Citations
61288
World Ranking
523
National Ranking
289

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1986 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Harold Weintraub is affiliated with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in the United States. Their work is recognized within the scientific community, including election as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1986.

While specific details regarding their recent papers, frequent co-authors, publication venues, and book publications are not available, Weintraub's association with a leading cancer research institution suggests a focus on biomedical research.

The absence of listed main fields of study, subfields, and topics implies that explicit information on their research areas is not provided in this data set.

Their career includes recognition by a prestigious scientific body, indicating contributions that meet standards for significant scientific achievement.

Best Publications

  • Expression of a single transfected cDNA converts fibroblasts to myoblasts.

    Robert L. Davis;Harold Weintraub;Andrew B. Lassar

  • The protein Id: A negative regulator of helix-loop-helix DNA binding proteins

    Robert Benezra;Robert L. Davis;Robert L. Davis;Daniel Lockshon;David L. Turner

  • Interactions between heterologous helix-loop-helix proteins generate complexes that bind specifically to a common DNA sequence.

    Cornelis Murre;Patrick Schonleber McCaw;H. Vaessin;M. Caudy

  • Chromosomal subunits in active genes have an altered conformation

    Harold Weintraub;Mark Groudine

  • The myoD gene family: nodal point during specification of the muscle cell lineage

    Harold Weintraub;Robert Davis;Stephen Tapscott;Matthew Thayer

  • Expression of achaete-scute homolog 3 in Xenopus embryos converts ectodermal cells to a neural fate.

    David L. Turner;Harold Weintraub

  • Conversion of Xenopus ectoderm into neurons by NeuroD, a basic helix-loop-helix protein

    Jacqueline E. Lee;Stanley M. Hollenberg;Stanley M. Hollenberg;Lauren Snider;Lauren Snider;David L. Turner

  • The MyoD Family and Myogenesis: Redundancy, Networks, and Thresholds

    Harold Weintraub

  • Activation of muscle-specific genes in pigment, nerve, fat, liver, and fibroblast cell lines by forced expression of MyoD.

    H Weintraub;S J Tapscott;R L Davis;M J Thayer

  • Differences and similarities in DNA-binding preferences of MyoD and E2A protein complexes revealed by binding site selection

    TK Blackwell;H Weintraub

  • Functional activity of myogenic HLH proteins requires hetero-oligomerization with E12/E47-like proteins in vivo

    Andrew B. Lassar;Robert L. Davis;Woodring E. Wright;Tom Kadesch

  • Sequence-specific DNA binding by the c-Myc protein

    TK Blackwell;L Kretzner;EM Blackwood;RN Eisenman

  • MyoD1: A Nuclear Phosphoprotein Requiring a Myc Homology Region to Convert Fibroblasts to Myoblasts

    Stephen J. Tapscott;Robert L. Davis;Mathew J. Thayer;Pei Feng Cheng

  • MyoD is a sequence-specific DNA binding protein requiring a region of myc homology to bind to the muscle creatine kinase enhancer

    Andrew B. Lassar;Jean N. Buskin;Daniel Lockshon;Robert L. Davis

  • The MyoD DNA binding domain contains a recognition code for muscle-specific gene activation

    Robert L. Davis;Pei-Feng Cheng;Andrew B. Lassar;Harold Weintraub

  • Xenopus embryos regulate the nuclear localization of XMyoD.

    R. A. W. Rupp;L. Snider;H. Weintraub

  • An unwinding activity that covalently modifies its double-stranded RNA substrate.

    Brenda L. Bass;Harold Weintraub

  • Transcriptional regulation of hemoglobin switching in chicken embryos.

    M Groudine;M Peretz;H Weintraub

  • The helix-loop-helix gene E2A is required for B cell formation

    Yuan Zhuang;Philippe Soriano;Harold Weintraub

  • The detection of DNA-binding proteins by protein blotting

    Brian Bowen;Jay Steinberg;U.K. Laemmli;Harold Weintraub

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew B. Lassar
Andrew B. Lassar Harvard University
Mark Groudine
Mark Groudine Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Stephen J. Tapscott
Stephen J. Tapscott Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Robert L. Davis
Robert L. Davis University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Howard Holtzer
Howard Holtzer University of Pennsylvania
James M. Roberts
James M. Roberts Lumen Bioscience
Brenda L. Bass
Brenda L. Bass University of Utah
Woodring E. Wright
Woodring E. Wright The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Andrew Fire
Andrew Fire Stanford University
Yuan Zhuang
Yuan Zhuang Duke University

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