Jean de Villiers

A small segment of polyoma virus DNA enhances the expression of a cloned β-globin gene over a distance of 1400 base pairs

Jean de Villiers, Walter Schaffner · Nucleic Acids Research · 1981 · 339 citations · Full text

Polyoma virus DNA replication requires an enhancer

Jean de Villiers, Walter Schaffner, Chiara Tyndall et al. · Nature · 1984 · 249 citations

Viral Replication, Natural Sciences, Genetics +6

An SV40 “enhancer trap” incorporates exogenous enhancers or generates enhancers from its own sequences

Frank Weber, Jean de Villiers, Walter Schaffner · Cell · 1984 · 224 citations

Generates Enhancers, Systems Biology, Genetics +5

Transcriptional ‘enhancers’ from SV40 and polyoma virus show a cell type preference

Jean de Villiers, Laura Olson, Chiara Tyndall et al. · Nucleic Acids Research · 1982 · 178 citations · Full text

High frequency of homologous recombination in mammalian cells between endogenous and introduced SV40 genomes

Maria Jasin, Jean de Villiers, Frank Weber et al. · Cell · 1985 · 98 citations

Genome Instability, Mammalian Cells, Medicine +11