2026 Jay D. Gralla: Molecular Biology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Molecular Biology	58	2081	1032	131	12794

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World Ranking

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Molecular Biology

2081

1032

131

12794

Overview

Jay D. Gralla is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their work is situated within the academic and research environment provided by this institution.

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Best Publications

The bacterial enhancer-dependent sigma(54) (sigma(N)) transcription factor.

Martin Buck;María-Trinidad Gallegos;David J. Studholme;Yuli Guo

614
Citations
Free energy of imperfect nucleic acid helices. II. Small hairpin loops.

Jay Gralla;Donald M. Crothers

411
Citations
Cycling of ribonucleic acid polymerase to produce oligonucleotides during initiation in vitro at the lac UV5 promoter.

Agamemnon J. Carpousis;Jay D. Gralla

396
Citations
Changes in the linking number of supercoiled DNA accompany growth transitions in Escherichia coli.

V L Balke;J D Gralla

394
Citations
KMnO4 as a probe for lac promoter DNA melting and mechanism in vivo.

S Sasse-Dwight;J D Gralla

384
Citations
Polymerase II promoter activation: closed complex formation and ATP-driven start site opening

Weidong Wang;Michael Carey;Jay D. Gralla

338
Citations
DNA supercoiling promotes formation of a bent repression loop in lac DNA

James A. Borowiec;Li Zhang;Selina Sasse-Dwight;Jay D. Gralla

301
Citations
Probing the Escherichia coli glnALG upstream activation mechanism in vivo

Selina Sasse-Dwight;Jay D. Gralla

301
Citations
Interaction of RNA polymerase with lacUV5 promoter DNA during mRNA initiation and elongation. Footprinting, methylation, and rifampicin-sensitivity changes accompanying transcription initiation.

Agamemnon J. Carpousis;Jay D. Gralla

280
Citations
The acidic activator GAL4-AH can stimulate polymerase II transcription by promoting assembly of a closed complex requiring TFIID and TFIIA.

W Wang;J D Gralla;M Carey

208
Citations
Spacer mutations in the lac ps promoter.

James E. Stefano;Jay D. Gralla

188
Citations
DNA dynamic flexibility and protein recognition: Differential stimulation by bacterial histone-like protein HU

Yehuda Flashner;Jay D. Gralla

186
Citations
Escherichia coli promoter opening and −10 recognition: mutational analysis of σ70

Mike S. Fenton;Shun Jin Lee;Jay D. Gralla

179
Citations
Footprinting protein-DNA complexes in vivo.

Selina Sasse-Dwight;Jay D. Gralla

170
Citations
Free energy of imperfect nucleic acid helices. I. The bulge defect.

T.R. Fink;D.M. Crothers

152
Citations
All three elements of the lac ps promoter mediate its transcriptional response to DNA supercoiling.

James A. Borowiec;Jay D. Gralla

150
Citations
Rapid "footprinting" on supercoiled DNA

Jay D. Gralla

147
Citations
Converting Escherichia coli RNA Polymerase into an Enhancer-Responsive Enzyme: Role of an NH2-Terminal Leucine Patch in σ54

Jonathan T. Wang;Adeela Syed;Mingli Hsieh;Jay D. Gralla

135
Citations
Potassium glutamate as a transcriptional inhibitor during bacterial osmoregulation.

Jay D Gralla;David R Vargas

131
Citations
Promoter opening via a DNA fork junction binding activity.

Yuli Guo;Jay D. Gralla

129
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Agamemnon J. Carpousis Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

Weidong Wang National Institutes of Health

Moses V. Chao New York University

Hermann Bujard Heidelberg University

Michael Carey University of California, Los Angeles

Stephen T. Smale University of California, Los Angeles

James M. Berger Johns Hopkins University

Martin Buck Imperial College London

David J. Studholme University of Exeter

Julio Collado-Vides National Autonomous University of Mexico

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