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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1985 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

John Abelson is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their academic output includes research published in the journal RNA.

Among their recent papers is the article titled Christine Guthrie (1945-2022): a tribute from her trainees, published in 2022 in RNA.

  • Christine Guthrie (1945-2022): a tribute from her trainees, 2022, RNA

Frequent co-authors in Abelson's collaborations include:

  • Hiten D. Madhani
  • Corina Maeder

Their research has appeared primarily in the publication venue RNA.

  • RNA

In recognition of their contributions, John Abelson was made a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1985.

Best Publications

  • Isolation and sequence of the gene for actin in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    Ray Ng;John Abelson

  • Genetic regulation: the Lac control region.

    Robert C. Dickson;John Abelson;Wayne M. Barnes;William S. Reznikoff

  • Amber suppression: a nucleotide change in the anticodon of a tyrosine transfer RNA.

    Howard M. Goodman;John Abelson;Arthur Landy;S. Brenner

  • The "spliceosome": yeast pre-messenger RNA associates with a 40S complex in a splicing-dependent reaction

    Edward Brody;John Abelson

  • Spliceosome assembly in yeast.

    S C Cheng;J Abelson

  • Nicotinic receptor binding site probed with unnatural amino acid incorporation in intact cells

    Mark W. Nowak;Patrick C. Kearney;Jeffrey R. Sampson;Margaret E. Saks

  • Requirement of the RNA helicase-like protein PRP22 for release of messenger RNA from spliceosomes

    Jaime Arenas;John Abelson

  • Lariat structures are in vivo intermediates in yeast pre-mRNA splicing.

    Horst Domdey;Barbara Apostol;Ren-Jang Lin;Andrew Newman

  • Isolation and characterization of pre-mRNA splicing mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    Usha Vijayraghavan;John Abelson

  • RNA Processing and the Intervening Sequence Problem

    J Abelson

  • Transcription and processing of intervening sequences in yeast tRNA genes

    Gayle Knapp;Jacques S. Beckmann;Peter F. Johnson;Shella A. Fuhrman

  • Composition and functional characterization of the yeast spliceosomal penta-snRNP.

    Scott W. Stevens;Daniel E. Ryan;Helen Y. Ge;Roger E. Moore

  • Yeast mRNA splicing in vitro.

    Ren-Jang Lin;A. J. Newman;Soo-Chen Cheng;J. Abelson

  • Mechanism of action of a yeast RNA ligase in tRNA splicing

    Chris L. Greer;Craig L. Peebles;Peter Gegenheimer;John Abelson

  • An early hierarchic role of U1 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein in spliceosome assembly.

    Stephanie W. Ruby;John Abelson

  • Precise excision of intervening sequences from precursor tRNAs by a membrane-associated yeast endonuclease.

    Craig L. Peebles;Peter Gegenheimer;John Abelson

  • Prp43: An RNA helicase-like factor involved in spliceosome disassembly

    Jaime E. Arenas;John N. Abelson

  • The Yeast tRNA Splicing Endonuclease: A Tetrameric Enzyme with Two Active Site Subunits Homologous to the Archaeal tRNA Endonucleases

    Christopher R Trotta;Feng Miao;Eric A Arn;Scott W Stevens

  • Pre-mRNA splicing in yeast

    Stephanie W. Ruby;John Abelson

  • Duplicate genes for tyrosine transfer RNA in Escherichia coli

    R.L. Russell;J.N. Abelson;A. Landy;M.L. Gefter

Frequent Co-Authors

Christine Guthrie
Christine Guthrie University of California, San Francisco
John P. Grotzinger
John P. Grotzinger California Institute of Technology
Andrew H. Knoll
Andrew H. Knoll Harvard University
Jeffrey H Miller
Jeffrey H Miller University of California, Los Angeles
Melvin I. Simon
Melvin I. Simon California Institute of Technology
Woodward W. Fischer
Woodward W. Fischer California Institute of Technology
Nils G. Walter
Nils G. Walter University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Dennis A. Dougherty
Dennis A. Dougherty California Institute of Technology
Eric M. Phizicky
Eric M. Phizicky University of Rochester
Leroy Hood
Leroy Hood University of Washington

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