PUBLICATIONS

PEER-REVIEWED RESEARCH PAPERS (1997-98)

  1. Abraham R, Choudhury A, Basu SK, Bal V and Rath S (1997) Disruption of T cell tolerance by directing a  self-antigen to macrophage-specific scavenger receptors. J Immunol 158: 4029-4035.
  2. Afzalpurkar A, Shibahara H, Hasegawa A, Koyama K and Gupta SK (1997) Immunoreactivity and in vitro effect on human sperm-egg binding of antibodies against peptides corresponding to bonnet monkey zona pellucida-3 glycoprotein. Human Reprod 12:2664-2670.
  3. Afzalpurkar A and Gupta SK (1997) Identification of epitopes of monoclonal antibodies to porcine zona  pellucida 3ß glycoprotein-a homologue of the mouse/human sperm receptor. Am J Reprod Immunol 38:26-32.
  4. Afzalpurkar A, Sacco AG, Yurewicz EC and Gupta SK (1997) Induction of native protein reactive antibodies by immunization with peptides containing linear B-cell epitopes defined by anti-porcine ZP3ß monoclonal antibodies. J Reprod Immunol 33:113-125.
  5. Ali S, Ansari S, Ehtesham NZ, Azfer MA, Homkar U, Gopal R and Hasnain SE (1998) Analysis of the evolutionarily conserved repeat motifs in the genome of the highly endangered central Indian barasingha Cervus duvauceli branderi. Gene (in press).
  6. Alok D, Pillai D and Garg LC (1997) Effect of D-Lys6 salmon GnRH- A aloneand in combination with   domperidone on the spawning of common carp during late spawning season. Aquaculture Int 5:369-374.
  7. Alok D, Krishnan T, Talwar GP and Garg LC (1998) Multiple induced spawnings of the Indian caffish, Heteropneustes fossilis (Bloch) within a prolonged spawning season. J World Aqua Soc (in press).
  8. Appa Rao KBC, Garg LC, Panda AK and Totey SM (1997) High-level expression of ovine growth hormone in Escherichia coli: single step purification and characterization. Protein Exp Purif 11:201-208.
  9. Awasthi AK. Jha PK, Ranjan A and Hasnain SE (1997) Monitoring recombinant baculovirus  replication in Spodoptera litura (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) larvae by using firefly luciferase gene as a reporter. Annals Entomol Soc (USA) 90:832-835.
  10. Ashok BT, Ahmad A, Qadri A and Ali A (1997) Anti-Ros monoclonal antibody as molecular  probe for oxidative DNA damage Biochem & Molecular Biol Internahonal 43:121.
  11. Bal HP and Batra JK (1997) Human pancreatic ribonuclease: Deletion of carboxyl-terminal  EDST extension       enhances ribonuclease activity and thermostability. Eur J Biochem 245:465-469.
  12. Bharel S, Gulati A, Abdin MZ, Srivastava PS, Vishwakarma RA and Jain SK (1998)  Biotransformation studies on artemisinin using natural and synthetic precursors. J. Nat Prod (in press).
  13. Chavali GB, Nagpal S, Majumdar SS, Om Singh and Salunke DM (1997) Helix-lpp-helix  motif in GnRH associated peptide is critical for negative regulation of  prolactin secretion. J. Mol Biol 272:731 -740.
  14. Dil-Afroze, Misra A, Sulaiman IM, Sinha S, Sarkar C, Mahapatra AK and Hasnain SE (1998) Genetic alterations in brain tumours identified by RAPD analysis. Gene 206:45-48.
  15. Ghosal S and Vishwakarma RA (1997) Tinocordiside, a new rearranged sesquiterpene glycoside from  Tinospora cordifolia. J Nat Prod 60:839-841.
  16. Gopalakrishnan B and Shaha C (1998) Inhibition of sperm glutathione S- transferase leads  to functional impairment due to membrane damage. FEBS Lett 422:296-300.
  17. Gopalakrishnan B, Aravinda S, Pawshe CH, Totey SM, Nagpal S, Salunke DM and Shaha C (1998) Studies on glutathione S-transferases important for sperm function: Evidence of catalytic activity-independent  functions. Biochem J 329:231-241.
  18. Grewal N, Nagpal S, Chavali GB, Majumdar SS, Pal R and Salunke DM (1997) Ligandinduced receptor dimerization may be critical for signal transduction by choriogonadotropin, Biophysics J 73:1190-1197.
  19. Gual C, Garza-Flores J, Menjivar M, Gutierrez-Nazar A, Pal R and Talwar GP (1997) Ability of an anti-luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone vaccine to inhibit gonadotropins in postmenopausal women. Fertil Steril 67:404-407.
  20. Gupta A, Chandrasekhar S, Pal R, Talwar GP and Om Singh (1998) Identification of a novel transmembrane  gene sequence and its use for cell surface targeting of ß-subunit of human chorionic gonadotropin. DNA  Cell Biol (in press)
  21. Gupta M, Satyaraj E, Durdik JM, Rath S and Bal V (1997) Differential regulation of T cell activation for primary versus secondary proliferative responses. J Immunol 158: 4113-4121.
  22. Gupta R, Kalia A, Rattan A, Kumar R and Gupta SK (1997) Comparative evaluation of two indigenously developed tests for rapid detection of group-A streptococci directly from throat swabs. Indian J Med Res 105:200-205.
  23. Gupta SK, Sharma M, Behra A, Bisht R and Kaul R (1997) Sequence of cDNA encoding bonnet monkey  (Macaca radiata) zona pellucida glycoprotein-ZP1 and its high level expression in E. coli. Biol Reprod 57:532-538.
  24. Gupta SK, Sengupta J, Bisht R, Bhatnagar A and Kaul R (1997) Human immunodefeciency virus type-1 p24 sequence from an Indian strain: expression in Escherichia coli and implications in diagnostics. Gene 190:27-30.
  25. Habib S and Hasnain SE (1997) A bifunctional baculovirus homologous region (hr1) sequence: enhancer and origin of replication functions reside within the same sequence element. Curr Sci 73:658-666.
  26. Husain S, Goila R, Shahi S and Banerjea AC (1998) First report of a healthy Indian heterozygous for 32 mutant of  HIV-1 co-receptor-CCR5 gene. Gene 207:141-147. 
  27. Husain S, Goila R, Shahi S and Banerjea AC (1998) Inheritance pattern of mutant human immunodeficiency virus type 1 coreceptor gene CCR5 in an Indian family. J Human Virol (in press).
  28. Jethanandani P, Santhanam R and Gupta SK (1997) Molecular cloning and expression in Escherichia coli of  cDNA encoding bonnet monkey (Macaca radiata) zona pellucida glycoprotein-ZP2. Mol Reprod Develop (in press).
  29. Kalsi G, Shamim M, Nataraju B, Datta RK and Gupta SK (1997) Monoclonal antibodies based rapid immunoassay for the detection of nuclear polyhedrosis virus infection in Bombyx mori l. Sericologia (in press).
  30. Kaul R, Afzalpurkar A and Gupta SK (1997) Expression of bonnet monkey (Macaca radiata) zona pellucida-3 (ZP3) in a prokaryotic system and its immunogenicity. Mol Reprod Develop 47:140-147.
  31. Khurana S, Raghunathan V and Salunke DM (1997) The variable domain glycosylation in a monoclonal antibody specific to GnRH modulates antigen binding. Biochem Biophys Res Comm 234:465-469.
  32. Krishnamurthy S, Chatterji U, Gupta V, Prasad R, Das P, Panwar S, Hasnain SE and Prasad R (1997)  Deletion of transmembrane domain (TM) 12 of CDR1, a multidrug transporter from Candida albicans, leads  to altered drug specificity. Yeast (in press).
  33. Kumaran S, Datta D and Roy RP (1997) Conformationally driven protease-catalyzed splicing of protein  segments: V8 protease-mediated synthesis of fragments derived from thermolysin and ribonuclease A. Protein Sci 6:2033-2041.
  34. Mattapallil MJ and Ali S (1998) Parentage assessment of an IVF calf from Bubalus bubalis by DNA fingerprinting. Gene 206:209-214.
  35. Mohapatra B, Verma. S, Shankar S and Suri A (1998) Molecular cloning of human testis mRNA specifically      expressed in haploid germ cells, having structural homology with the A-kinase anchoring proteins. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 244:540-545.
  36. Misra A, Pal R, Majumdar SS, Talwar GP and Om Singh (1997) Biphasic testosterone delivery profile observed with two different transdermal formulations. Pharm Res 14:1264-1268.
  37. Nacharaju P, Roy RP, White SP, Nagel RL and Acharya AS (1997) Inhibition of sickle ßs-chain-dependent polymerization by non-human ?-chains: A superinhibitory mouse-horse chimeric -chain. J Biol Chem 272:27869-27876.
  38. Nayak SK and Batra JK (1997) A single amino acid substitution in ribonucleolytic toxin restrictocin abolishes its specific substrate recognition activity. Biochemistry 36:13693-13699.
  39. Paik SY, Banerjea AC, Chen CJ, Ye Z, Harmison GG and Schubert M (1997) Defective HIV-1 provirus encoding a multitarget-ribozyme inhibits accumulation of spliced and unspliced HIV-1 mRNAs, reduces infectivity of viral progeny, and protects the cells from pathogenesis. Human Gene Ther 8:1115-1124.
  40. Pandey A and Totey SM (1998) Studies on ZFX/ZFY loci in buffalo (Bubalus bubalis): Potential for sex identification. Genetic Analysis and Biomolecular Engineering (in press).
  41. Pasare C, Moraffo V, Entringer M, Bansal P, George A, Bal V, Rath S and Durdik JM (1998) Presence of activated antigen-binding B cells during immunization enhances relative levels of interferon-g in  T cell responses. J Immunol 160:778-787.
  42. Pawshe CH, Appa Rao KBC and Totey SM (1998) Effect of insulin-like growth factor-I and its interaction  with gonadotropins on in vitro maturation and embryonic development, cell proliferation and biosynthetic activity of cumulus cells and granulosa cells in buffalo. Mol Reprod Dev 49:277-285.
  43. Qadri A (1997) Identification of specific recognition molecules on murine mononuclear phagocytes and B lymphocytes for Vi capsular polysaccharide modulation of MHC class II expression on stimulation with the polysaccharide Immunology 92:146-152. 
  44. Radu CG, Ober BO, Colantonio L, Qadri A and Ward ES (1998) Expression and characterisation of  recombinant soluble peptide: I-A complexes associated with murine experimental autoimmune diseases. J Immunology (in press). 
  45. Raghu P, Habib S, Hasnain SE and Hasan G (1997) Expression of the ligand binding domain of the Drosophila inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate (IP3) receptor using the baculovirus expression system as a strategy  to generate dominant negative phenotypes. Gene 190:151-156.
  46. Raghuvanshi R, Goyal S, Om Singh and Panda AK (1998) Stabilization of dichloromethane-induced  protein denaturation during microencapsulation. Pharm Dev Tech 3:1-8.
  47. Raikwar SP, Malik P, Om Singh and Vrati S (1997) Recombinant adenovirus synthesizing cell surface-anchored ßhCG induces bioneutralizing antibodies in rats. Gene 190:197-202.
  48. Rathore D and Batra JK (1997) Construction, expression and characterization of chimeric toxins containing       ribonucleolytic toxin restrictocin: intracellular mechanism of action. Biochem J 324:815-822.
  49. Rathore D and Batra JK (1997) Cytotoxic activity of ribonucleolytic toxin restrictocin-based chimeric toxin targeted to epidermal growth factor receptor. FEBS Lett 407:275-279.
  50. Rathore D, Nayak SK and Batra JK (1997) Overproduction of fungal ribotoxin ?-sarcin in E. coli: generation of an active immunotoxin. Gene 190:31-35.
  51. Rout PK and Vrati S (1997) Oral immunization with recombinant vaccinia expressing cell-surface-anchored  *hCG induces anti-hCG antibodies and T-cell proliferative response in rats. Vaccine 15:1503-1505.
  52. Roychaudhury R and Bapna JS (1997) Essential drugs and lower costs. World Health Forum 18:345-347.
  53. Sahai P and Vishwakarma RA (1997) Phospholipase-A2 mediated stereoselective synthesis of  (R)-2-lyso-       1-O-Alkyl-sn-Glycero-3-Phosphate and alkyl-acyl analogues: Application for synthesis of radiolabelled biosynthetic precursors of cell surface glycoconjugates of Leishmania donovani. J Chem Soc Perkin Trans 1 1845-1849.
  54. Santhanam R, Panda AK, Kumar VS and Gupta SK (1997) Dog zona pellucida glycoprotein-3 (ZP3): expression in Escherichia coli and immunological characterization. Protein Exp and Purif (in press).
  55. Shamim M, Ghosh D, Baig M, Nataraju B, Datta RK and Gupta SK (1997) Production of monoclonal  antibodies against Nosema bombycis and their utility for detection of Pebrine infection in Bombyx mori. J Immunoassay 18:357-370. 
  56. Shankar S, Mohapatra B and Suri A (1998) Cloning of a novel human testis mRNA specifically expressed in        testicular haploid germ cells, having unique palindromic sequences and encoding a leucine zipper dimerization motif. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 243:561-565.
  57. Singh M, Das SK, Suri S, Om Singh and Talwar GP (1998) Immunization of women with an hCG vaccine: regain of fertility and normality of progeny born. Am J Reprod Immunol (in press).
  58. Singh N, Bhatia S, Abraham R, Basu SK, George A, Bal V and Rath S (1998) Modulation of T cell cytokine profiles and peptide-MHC complex availability in vivo by delivery to scavenger receptors via antigen maleylation. J Immunol (in press). 
  59. Singh VK, Biswas S, Anand RK and Aggarwal SS (1998) Experimental auto immune uveitis as animal model for human posterior uveitis. Ind J Med Res 107:53-67.
  60. Tuteja R, Agarwal A, Vijayakrishnan L, Nayak BP, Gupta SK, Kumar V and Rao KVS (1997) B cell responses to a peptide epitope II. Multiple levels of selection during maturation of primary responses. Immun Cell Biol 75:245-252. 
  61. Upadhyay P (1997) A PC printer-port-based 12-Bit AC power controller. Electronic Design 45:100-102. 
  62. Vijayakrishnan L, Sarkar S, Roy RP and Rao KVS (1997) B cell responses to a peptide epitope IV: Subtle sequence changes in flanking residues modulate immunogenicity. J Immunol 159:1809-1819.
  63. Wang WH, Rath S, Durdik JM and Sen R (1998) Pentoxifylline inhibits Ig kappa gene transcription and        rearrangements in pre-B cells. J Immunol 160:1789-1795.
  64. Ward ES and Qadri A (1997) Biophysical and structural studies of TCRs and ligands: Implications for T cell signalling. Current Opinion in Immunology 9: 97-106.
  65. Yurewicz EC, Sacco AG, Gupta SK, Xu N and Gage DA (1997) Pig zona pellucida pZPB-pZPC heterocomplexes, but not subunit glycoproteins, bind with high affinity to boar sperm membrane vesicles. J Biol Chem (in press).
  66. Zamir LO, Balachandran S, Zheng YF, Nedia ME, Caron G, Nicolakakis A, Vishwakarma RA, Sauriol F and       Mamer O (1997) Rearrangement and acyl migration studies on 9-dihydro-13-acetylbaccatin-III, a major taxane from Texus canadensis. Tetrahedron 53:15991-16008.