PUBLICATIONS

1. Ali S and Hasnain SE (2002) Molecular dissection of the human Y chromosome. Gene 283:1-10.

2. ¶Anto RJ, Mukhopadhyay A, Denning K and Aggarwal BB (2002) Curcumin (Diferuloylmethane) induces apoptosis through activation of caspase-8, BID cleavage and cytochrome C release: Its suppression by ectopic expression of Bcl-2 and Bcl-xL, Carcinogenesis (in press) (¶ on deputation/work done elsewhere).

3. Azim T, Bogaerts J, Yirrell DL, Banerjea AC, Sarker MS, Ahmed G, Amin NM, Rahman AS and Husain AM (2002) Injecting drug users in Bangladesh: prevalence of syphilis, hepatitis, HIV and HIV subtypes. AIDS 16:121-123.

4. *Bashamboo A and Ali S (2001) Minisatellite associated sequence amplification (MASA) of the hypervariable repeat marker 33.15 reveals a male specific band in humans. Mol Cell Probes 15:89-92 (* in press last year, since published).

5. Bhaskar S, Banavaliker JN, Bhardwaj K and Upadhyay PK (2002) A novel ultrasound-enhanced latex agglutination test for the detection of antibodies against Mycobacterium tuberculosis in serum. J Immunol Meth (in press).

6. Bhatia S, Mukhopadhyay S, Jarman E, Hall G, George A, Basu SK, Rath S, Lamb JR and Bal V (2002) Scavenger receptor-specific allergen delivery elicits IFN-g-dominated immunity and directs established Th2-dominated responses to a non-allergic phenotype J Allergy Clin Immunol 109:321-328.

7. Chattopadhyay M, Gangadharan G, Kapur V, Azfer MA, Prakash B and Ali S (2001) Satellite tagged transcribing sequences in the bubaline Bubalus bubalis genome undergo programmed modulation in the meiocytes: Possible implication in transcriptional inactivation. DNA Cell Biol 20:587-593.

8. Das M, Mukherjee SB and Shaha C (2001) Hydrogen peroxide induces apoptosis-like death in Leishmania donovani promastigotes. J Cell Sci 114:2461-2469.

9. Dhar R (2002) New dimensions to patents on genomics and proteomics. J Intellectual Property Rights 7:119-127.  

10. ¶Fiumara P, Snell V, Li Y, Mukhopadhyay A, Younes M, Gillenwater AM, Cabanillas F, Aggarwal BB and Younes A (2001) Functional expression of RANK in Hodgkin’s disease cell lines. Blood 98:2784-2790 (¶ on deputation/work done elsewhere).

11. *Gahlay GK, Srivastava N, Govind CK and Gupta SK (2002) Primate recombinant zona pellucida proteins expressed in Escherichia coli binds to spermatozoa. J Reprod Immunol 53:67-77 (* in press last year, since published).

12. Gangadharan S, Kapur V and Ali S (2001) GATA/GACA repeat sequences are transcribed in the normal fertile rat Rattus norvegicus but not in the infertile ones. Curr Sci 81:1-5.

13. Gaur D, Swaminathan S and Batra JK (2001) Interaction of human pancreatic ribonuclease with human ribonuclease inhibitor: Generation of inhibitor-resistant cytotoxic variants. J Biol Chem 276:24978-24984.

14. Goel M, Jain D, Kaur KJ, Kenoth R, Maiya BG, Swamy MJ and Salunke DM (2001) Functional equality in the absence of structural similarity: an added dimension to molecular mimicry. J Biol Chem 276:39277-39281.

15. *Goila R, Felix K and Banerjea AC (2001) MIP1-a promoter polymorphism in humans and monkeys: identification of two polymorphic regions characterized by insertion of unique sequences in monkeys. AIDS 15:1066-1068 (* in press last year, since published).

16. *Gupta A, Chandrasekhar S, Pal R, Ahlawat S and Om Singh (2001) High expression of human chorionic gonadotropin b-subunit using a synthetic vaccinia virus promoter. J Mol Endocrinol 26:281-287 (* in press last year, since published).

17. *Gupta A, Pal R, Ahlawat S, Bhatia P and Om Singh (2001) Enhanced immunogenicity of a contraceptive vaccine using diverse synthetic carriers. Vaccine 19:3384-3389 (* in press last year, since published).

18. Hemachand T, Gopalakrishnan B, Salunke DM, Totey SM and Shaha C (2002) Sperm plasma membrane associated glutathione S-transferases as gamete recognition molecules. J Cell Sci (in press).

19. ¶Jaffe H, Sharma P, Grant P and Pant HC (2001) Characterization of the phosphorylation sites of the squid (Loligo pealei) high molecular weight neurofilament protein from giant axon axoplasm. J Neurochem 76:1022-1031(¶ on deputation/work done elsewhere).

20. Jain D, Kaur KJ and Salunke DM (2001) Enhanced binding of a rationally designed peptide ligand of concanavalin A arises from improved geometrical complementarity. Biochemistry 40:12059-12066.

21. *Jain D, Kaur KJ and Salunke DM (2001) Plasticity in protein-peptide recognition: Crystal structures of two different peptides bound to concanavalin A. Biophys J 80:2912-2921 (* in press last year, since published).

22. Jain D, Nair DT, Swaminathan GJ, Abraham EG, Nagaraju J and Salunke DM (2001) Structure of the induced antibacterial protein from Tasar silkworm, Aantheraea mylitta: Implications to molecular evolution. J Biol Chem 276:41377-41382.

23. Jha BK, Salunke DM and Datta K (2002) Enhancement of ligand affinity of trimeric hyaluronan binding protein 1 (HABP1)/p32/gC1qR is facilitated by disulphide bond formation through cystein186. Eur J Biochem 269:298-306.

24. Kathuria S, Sriraman R, Nath R, Sack M, Pal R, Artsaenko O, Talwar GP, Fischer R and Finnern R (2002) Efficacy of plant produced recombinant antibodies against human chorionic gonadotropin. Hum Reprod (in press).

25. *Kaul R, Sivapurapu N, Afzalpurkar A, Srikant V, Govind CK and Gupta SK (2001) Immunocontraceptive potential of recombinant bonnet monkey (Macaca radiata) zona pellucida glycoprotein-C expressed in Escherichia coli and its corresponding synthetic peptide. Reproductive BioMedicine Online 2:33-39 (* in press last year, since published).

26. *Kaur KJ, Jain D, Goel M and Salunke DM (2001) Immunological implications of structural mimicry between a dodecapeptide and a carbohydrate moiety. Vaccine 19:3124-3130 (* in press last year, since published).

27. Kaur R, Sachdeva G and Vrati S (2002) Plasmid DNA immunization against Japanese encephalitis virus: Immunogenicity of membrane-anchored and secretory envelope protein. J Infect Dis 185:1-12.

28. Khan SR, Deutscher J, Vishwakarma RA, Monedero V and Bhatnagar NB (2001) The ptsH gene from Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis: characterization of a novel phosphorylation site on the protein HPr. Eur J Biochem 268:521-530.

29. Kondala Rao AVS and Shaha C (2001) Multiple glutathione S-transferase isoforms are present on male germ cell plasma membrane. FEBS Lett 507:174-180.

30. Koyama K, Hasegawa A and Gupta SK (2002) Prospect for immunocontraception using the NH2-terminal recombinant peptide of human zona pellucida protein-A (hZPA). Am J Reprod Immunol (in press).

31. Kumar R, Choudhury NR, Salunke DM and Datta K (2001) Evidence for clustered mannose as a new ligand for hyaluronan-binding protein 1 (HABP1) from human fibroblasts. J Biosci 26:325-332.

32. Kumarvelu J, Shanmugasundaram GK, Unwalla H, Ramamoorti N and Banerjea AC (2001) Genetic analyses of the promoter region of interleukin-10 gene in different species of monkeys: implications for HIV/AIDS progression. Genes & Immunity 2:404-407.

33. Mohmmed A, Sharma RS, Ali S and Babu CR (2001) Molecular diversity of the plasmid genotypes among Rhizobium gene pools of sesbanias from different habitats of a semi-arid region (Delhi). FEMS Microbiol Lett 205:171-178.

34. Mukherjee K, Parashuraman S, Raje M and Mukhopadhyay A (2001) SopE acts as an Rab5-specific nucleotide exchange factor and recruits non-prenylated Rab5 on Salmonella-containing phagosome to promote fusion with early endosomes. J Biol Chem 276:23607-23615.

35. Mukherjee P, Dani A, Bhatia S, Singh N, Rudensky AY, George A, Bal V, Mayor S and Rath S (2001) Efficient presentation of both cytosolic and endogenous transmembrane protein antigens on MHC class II is dependent on cytoplasmic proteolysis. J Immunol 167:2632-2641.

36. ¶Mukhopadhyay A, Bueso-Ramos C, Chatterjee D, Pantazis P and Aggarwal BB (2001) Curcumin downregulates cell survival mechanisms in human prostate cancer cell lines. Oncogene 20:5797-5809 (¶ on deputation/work done elsewhere).

37. ¶Mukhopadhyay A, Shishodia S, Fu X-Y and Aggarwal BB (2002) Lack of requirement of STAT1 for activation of NF-kB, c-jun N-terminal protein kinase, and apoptosis by TNFa. J Cellular Biochem (in press) (¶ on deputation/work done elsewhere).

38. ¶Mukhopadhyay A, Suttles J, Stout RD and Aggarwal BB (2001) Genetic deletion of the tumor necrosis factor receptor p60 or p80 abrogates ligand-mediated activation of nuclear factor-kB and of mitogen-activated protein kinases in macrophages. J Biol Chem 276:31906-31912 (¶ on deputation/work done elsewhere).

39. Mukhopadhyay S, Mohanty M, Mangla A, George A, Bal V, Rath S and Ravindran B (2002) Macrophage effector functions controlled by Bruton’s tyrosine kinase are more crucial for microfilarial clearance than the cytokine balance of T cell responses. J Immunol 168:2914-2921.

40. Nair DT, Singh K, Siddiqui Z, Nayak BP, Rao KVS and Salunke DM (2002) Epitope recognition by diverse antibodies suggests conformational convergence in an antibody response. J Immunol 168:2371-2382.

41. Nayak SK, Bagga S, Gaur D, Nair DT, Salunke DM and Batra JK (2001) Mechanism of specific target recognition and RNA hydrolysis by ribonucleolytic toxin restrictocin. Biochemistry 40:9115-9124.

42. Nijhara R, Jana SS, Goswami SK, Rana A, Majumdar SS, Kumar V and Sarkar DP (2001) Sustained activation of mitogen-activated protein kinases and activator protein 1 by the hepatitis B virus X protein in mouse hepatocytes in vivo. J Virol 75:10348-10358.

43. ¶Obiakor H, Sehgal D, Dasso JF, Bonner RF, Malekafzali A and Mage RG (2002) A comparison of hydraulic and laser capture microdissection methods for collection of single B cells, PCR and sequencing of antibody VDJ. Anal Biochem (in press) (¶ on deputation/work done elsewhere).

44. *Pal R and Om Singh (2001) Absence of corpus luteum rescue by chorionic gonadotropin in women immunized with a contraceptive vaccine. Fertil Steril 76:332-336 (* in press last year, since published).

45. ¶Qadri A and Ward ES (2001) Activation of a T cell hybridoma by an alloligand results in differential effects on IL-2 secretion and activation induced cell death. Eur J Immunol 31:3825-3832 (¶ on deputation/work done elsewhere).

46. *Raghuvanshi RS, Om Singh and Panda AK (2001) Formulation and characterization of immunoreactive TT biodegradable polymer particles. Drug Delivery 8:99-106 (* in press last year, since published).

47. Ramamoorti N, Kumarvelu J, Shanmugasundaram GK, Rani K and Banerjea AC (2001) High frequency of G to A transition mutation in the stromal cell derived factor-1 gene in India, a chemokine that blocks HIV-1 (X4) infection: multiple proteins bind to 3’-untranslated region of SDF-1 RNA. Genes & Immunity 2:408-410.

48. Rath A, Choudhury S, Hasegawa A, Koyama K and Gupta SK (2002) Antibodies generated in response to plsmid DNA encoding zona pellucida glycoprotein-B inhibit in vitro human sperm-egg binding. Mol Rep Dev (in press).

49. Ruhela D and Vishwakarma RA (2001) Efficient synthesis of the antigenic phospho-glycans of Leishmania parasite. Chem Commun (19) 2024-2025.

50. ¶Sehgal D, Obiakor H and Mage RG (2002) Distinct clonal diversification patterns in young rabbit appendix compared to antigen-specific splenic clones. J Immunol (in press) (¶ on deputation/work done elsewhere).

51. *Shahi S, Shanmugasundaram GK and Banerjea AC (2001) Ribozymes that cleave reovirus genome segment S1 also protects cells from pathogenesis caused by reovirus infection. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 98:4101-4106 (* in press last year, since published).

52. ¶Sharma P, Veeranna, Sharma M, Grant P, Amin ND, Ahn N, Kulkarni AB and Pant HC (2002) Amin phosphorylation of MEK1 by cdk5/p35 down-regulates the mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway. J Biol Chem 277:528-534 (¶ on deputation/work done elsewhere).

53. Shanmugasundaram GK, Sundaresan G, Shoeb F, Arumugam N, Kumarvelu J, Unwalla H, Chakraborti S and Banerjea AC (2001) Genetic analyses of cis-acting sequences controlling expression of HIV-1 coreceptor-CCR5 in rabbits and CXCR4 gene in monkeys. J Hum Virol 4:188-194.

54. Sivapurapu N, Upadhyay A, Hasegawa A, Koyama K and Gupta SK (2002) Native zona pellucida reactivity and in-vitro effect on human sperm-egg binding with antisera against bonnet monkey ZP1 and ZP3 synthetic peptides. J Reprod Immunol (in press).

55. *Sivaram MVS, Sudha R and Roy RP (2001) A role for a113 (GH1) amino acid residue in the polymerization of sickle hemoglobin: Evaluation of its inhibitory strength and interaction linkage with two fiber contact sites (a16/23) in the AB region of the a-chain. J Biol Chem 276:18209-18215 (* in press last year, since published).

56. Srivastava N, Santhanam R, Sheela P, Mukund S, Thakral SS, Malik BS and Gupta SK (2002) Evaluation of the immunocontraceptive potential of Escherichia coli expressed recombinant dog ZP2 and ZP3 in homologous animal model. Reproduction (in press).

57. Srivastava RK, Gupta S, Bhargava M, Kumar N, Upadhyay PK, and Puliyel JM (2001) An indigenous leukocyte esterase test along with Pandy’s test for the diagnosis of Bacterial meningitis. Ind Pediatrics 17:1281-1286.

58. ¶Taylor ML, Dastych J, Sehgal D, Sundstrom M, Nilsson G, Akin C, Mage RG and Metcalfe DD (2001) The Kit-activating mutation D816V enhances stem cell factor dependent chemotaxis. Blood 98:1195-1199 (¶ on deputation/work done elsewhere).

59. ¶Tsai SC, Miercke LJ, Krucinski J, Gokhale RS, Chen JC, Foster PG, Cane DE, Khosla C and Stroud RM (2001) Crystal structure of the macrocycle-forming thioesterase domain of the erythromycin polyketide synthase: versatility from a unique substrate channel. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 98:14808-14813 (¶ on deputation/work done elsewhere).

60. Unwalla H and Banerjea AC (2001) Inhibition of HIV-1 gene expression by novel macrophage-tropic-DNA-enzymes targeted to cleave HIV-1 TAT/Rev RNA. Biochem J 357:97-105.

61. Unwalla H and Banerjea AC (2001) Novel mono- & di-DNA-enzymes targeted to cleave TAT or TAT-Rev RNA inhibit HIV-1 gene expression. Antiviral Res 51:127-139.

62. Upadhyay PK (2001) Electroporation of the skin to deliver antigen by using a piezo ceramic gas igniter. Int J Pharma 217:249-253.

63. Upadhyay PK, Patra AK, Mukhopadhyay R and Panda AK (2001) Real time detection and quantification of inclusion bodies expressed in E. coli by impedance measurements. Biotechnol Lett 23:839-843.

64. Upadhyay RK, Agarwal HC and Dhar R (2002) Protein mediated cholesterol absorption in locusts Schistocerca gregaria (Forskal) and Locusta migratoria (Linn). Indian J Exp Biol B40:151-161.