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1. Development of a DNA Diagnostic Probe for the Detection of the Human Malarial Parasite Plasmodium falciparum. V S Francis, Kayyanathan, P Bhat, H Srinivasa & G Padmanaban. Indian Journal of Biochemistry & Biophysics, 1988: 25, 537-541.

2. Congo red mediated regulation of membrane proteins of Shigella flexneri 2a.. K. Sankaran, Vasanthi Ramachandran, Yerramilli V.B.K. Subrahmanyam, Shantha Rajarathnam, Shanmugam Elango and Raman K. Roy. Infection and Immunity, 1989: 57, 2364-2371.

3. Cloning and hyperexpression of a gene encoding the heat-stable toxin of Escherichia coli. (Recombinant DNA; T7 and tac promoters; precursor protein; nucleotide sequence; transcription; processing). P. Dwarakanath, Sandhya S. Visweswariah, Y.V.B.K. Subrahmanyam, G. Shanthi, H.M. Jagannatha and T.S. Balganesh. Gene, 1989: 81, 219-226.

4. Proteinase-like activity in the cytotoxic factor produced by T cellsduring dengue virus infection. M.Khanna, U.C.Chaturvedi, B.R.Srinivasa, K.R.Swaminathan, A.Mathur, Immunology, 1989: 67, 32-37.

5. Astra Research Centre, India- a unique experiment in strategic collaboration. Kumud Sampath. BioSpectra, 1990.

6. The primary structure of xylanase from Thermoascus aurantiacus. B.R. Srinivasa, K.R. Swaminathan, Chitra Ganapathy, R.P. Roy, S.k. Murthy, and P.J. Vithayathil.. Protein Sequence & Data Analysis, 1991: 4, 15-20.

7. Strongly goal-oriented biomedical research-Astra Research Centre India. J. Ramachandran. Current Science, 1991: 60 No. 9&10, 533-536.

8. Identification of carbohydrate structures as receptors for lacalised adherent enteropathogenic Escherichia coli. H.M. Jagannatha, Umender K. Sharma, Tara Ramaseshan, A. Surolia and T.S. Balaganesh. Microbial Pathogenesis, 1991: 11, 259-268.

9. Interaction of heat-stable enterotoxins with human colonic (T84) cells: modulation of the activation of guanylyl cyclase. Sandhya S. Visweswariah, G. Shanthi and T.S. Balganesh. Microbial Pathogenesis, 1992: 12, 209-218.

10. Neuroanatomy of Cysticercus Cellulosae (Ceatode) as revealed by acetylcholinesterase and nonspecific esterase histochemistry. S. Vasantha, B.V. Ravi Kumar, S.D. Roopashree, Sarala Das, and S.K. Shankar. Parasitology Research, 1992: 78, 581-586.

11. Nucleic acids: the leading edge. K. Ayyanathan. Current Science, 1992: 62 No. 6, 443-444.

12. Software Report: Molecular Graphics Software-Mogra. N.V. Ramana and Indira Ghosh, Computer & Graphics, 1993: 17 No. 4, 415-416.

13. Hysteresis And Statistical Errors In Free Energy Perturbation L To D Amino Acid Conversion. Olle Edholm And Indira Ghosh, Molecular Simulation, 1993: 10 No. 2-6, 241-253.

14. Cloning of the triosephosphate isomerase gene of Plasmodium falciparum and expression in Escherichia coli. Jamuna Ranie, Vidya P. Kumar and Hemalatha Balaram, Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, 1993: 61, 159-170.

15. Restriction and modification systems: Unrestricted frontiers. M. A. Mukund, Current Science, 1993: 65 No. 7, 509-510.

16. Insights into Plasmid biology. Umender K. Sharma, Current Science, 1993: 64 No. 5, 283-284.

17. The need for protection of intellectual property rights for indian inventions in biotechnology, S. Anand Kumar, Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research, 1993: 52, 304-307.

18. Designing a small peptide toxin using Molecular Dynamics. Indira Ghosh, Journal of Molecular Graphics, 1993: 11, 62.

19. Structural characterization of gelonin: Evidence for separate antigenic and cytotoxic domains. M.R. Sairam, B.R. Srinivasa and Jose Marcil, 1993: 31, 575-581.

20. Major histocompatibility complex class I-binding peptides are recycled to the cell surface after internalization. U.M. Abdel Motal, X. Zhou, A. Joki, A.R.Siddiqi, B.R.Srinivasa, K.Stenvall, J.Dahmen, M.Jondal, European Journal of Immunology, 1993: 23, 3224-3229.

21. Characterization and partial purification of the human receptor for the heat-stable enterotoxin. Sandhya S. Visweswariah, Vasanthi Ramachandran, Surabhi Ramamohan, Goutam Das And Janakiraman Ramachandran, Europena Journal of Biochemistry, 1994: 219, 727-736.

22. Structure, function & therapeutic potential of omega conopeptides: Novel blockers of neuronal calcium channels. J Ramachandran, Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Chem. Sci.)., 1994: 106 No. 6, 1383-1387.

23. Analysis of E.coli promoter structures using neural networks. Indu Mahadevan and Indira Ghosh. Nucleic Acids Research, 1994: 22 No. 11, 2158-2165.

24. Molecular dynamics study of the binding of phenylalanine stereoisomers to thermolysin. Indira Ghosh and Olle Edlholm, Biochemical Chemistry, 1994: 50, 237 - 248.

25. Cloning and sequence of a cDNA encoding a novel hybrid proline-rich protein associated with cytokinin-induced haustoria formation in Cuscuta reflexa. K. Subramaniam, Jamuna Ranie, B.R. Srinivasa, Achyut M. Sinha and S. Mahadevan, Gene, 1994: 141, 207-210.

26. Untapped Potetential, Kumud Sampath, Pharmaceutical Visions, 1994: 2 No. 3.

27. Virulent Shigella codes for a soluble apyrase: Identification, characterization and cloning of the gene. Tishina Bhargava, Santanu Datta, Vasanthi Ramachandran, Ramesh Ramakrishnan, Raman K. Roy, Krishnan Sankaran and Yerramilli V. B. K. Subrahmanyam. Current Science, 1995: 68 No. 3, 293-300.

28. A Non-radioactive DNA diagnostic procedure for the detection of malarial infection: general application to genome with repetitive sequences. Kasirajan Ayyanathan and Santanu Datta. Molecular and Cellular Probes, 1995: 9, 83-89.

29. Development of specific DNA probes and their usage in the detection of Plasmodium vivax infection in blood. K. Ayyanathan, V.S.N.K. Francis, S. Datta and G. Padmanaban, Molecular and Cellular Probes, 1995: 9, 239-246.

30. Expression and Characterization of the ponA (ORF I) Gene of Haemophilus influenzae: Functional Complementation in a Heterologous System. Umender K. Sharma, P. Dwarakanath, Nabanita Banerjee, C. Town, And T.S. Balganesh, Journal Of Bacteriology, 1995: 177 No. 23, 6745-6750.

31. A CD4+ T cell line-secreted factor, growth promoting for normal and leukemic B cells identified as thioredixin. Anders Rosen, Pia Lundman, Mats Carlsson, Kasibhatla Bhavani, Bachally r. Srinivasa, Gunila Kjellstrom, Kenneth Nelsson and Arne Holmgren, 1995: 7, 625-633.

32. Alternative forms of the human thioredoxin mRNA: identification and characterization. Jayashree Hariharan, Pratibha Hebbar, Jamuna Ranie, Philomena, Achuyt Mohan Sinha and Santanu Datta, Gene, 1996: 173, 265-270.

33. Identification and characterization of a generic DNA probe capable of detecting plasmodial infections in blood. K. Ayyanathan and S. Datta, Molecular and Cellular Probes, 1996: 10, 273-278.

34. Detection of virulent Shigella and enteroinvasive Escherichia coli by induction of the 43 kDa invasion plasmid antigen, ipaC. Rita Shamlal, Shantha Rajarathnam, Krishnan Shankaran, Vasanthi Ramachandran, Yerramilli V.B.K. Subrahmanyam, G. Balakrish Nair, Ragini Macaden, Raman K. Roy, FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology 1997: 17, 73-78.

35. Production of Recombinant Human Bile Salt Stimulated Lipase and Its Variant in Pichia pastoris. Anjali V. Sahasrabudhe, Suresh M. Solapure, Rajeev Khurana, Vepa Suryanarayan, Sudha Ravishankar, Sunitha M. DeSousa, and Goutam Das, Protein Expression And Purification, 1998: 14, 425-433.

36. Developmental selection of var gene expression in plasmodium falciparum. Qijun Chen, Victor Fernandez, Annika Sunstorm, Martha Schlichtherle, Santanu Datta. Per Hagblom and Mats Wahlgren, Nature, 1998: 394, 392-395.

37. Identification of Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1 (PfEMP1) as the rosetting ligand of the malaria parasite P.falciparum. Quijn Chen, Antonio Barragan, Victor Fernandez, Annika Sundstorm, Martha Schlichtherle, Anders Sahlen, Johan Carlson, Santanu Datta, amd Wats Wahlgren, Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1998: 187, 15-23.

38. Convergent synthesis of neoglycopeptides by coupling of 2-bromoethyl glycosides to cysteine and homocysteine residues in T cell stimulating peptides. Marita Bengtsson, Johan Broddefalk, Jan Dahmen, Krister Henriksson, Jan Kihlberg, Hans Lonn, B.R. Srinivasa and Kristina Stenvall, 1998: 15, 223-231.

39. Mechanism-Based Inhibitors: Development of a High Throughput Coupled Enzyme Assay to Screen for Novel Antimalarials. Jayashree Hariharan, Rajendra Rane, Kasirajan Ayyanathan, Philomena, Vidya Prasanna Kumar, Dwarakanath Prahlad and Santanu Datta, Journal of Biomolecular Screening, 1999: 4, 187-192.

40. Effect of mRNA secondary structure in the regulation of gene expression: Unfolding of stable loop causes the expression of Taq polymerase E.Coli. Mandyam Alasingachar Mukund, Tanmay Banerjee, Indira Ghosh and Santanu Datta, Current Science,1999: 76, 1486-1490.

41. Study of the interaction between Bacterphage T4 asiA and Eschercia Coli s70, using the Yeast two-hybrid system: Neutralization of asiA Toxicity to E.Coli cells by Coexpression of a Turncated s70 fragment, Umnder K. Sharma, Sudha Ravishankar, Radha Krishna Shandil, P.V.K. Praveen, and T.S. Balganesh, Journal of Bacteriology, 1999: 181, 5855-5859.

42. Rapid diagnosis of acute pyogenic meningitis by a combined PCR dot-blot assay, M.Balganesh, M. K. Lalitha and R. Nathaniel, Molecular and Cellular Probes (2000) 14, 61-69.

43. Novel Scintillation Proximity Assay for Measuring Membrane-Associated Steps of Peptidoglycan Biosynthesis in Escherchia Coli. B. Chandrakala, Bertha C. Elias, Upasana Mehra, N.S. Umapathy, P. Dwarakanath, T.S. Balganesh and Sunita M deSousa, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 2001: 45, 768-775

44. Use of variability in the stage-specific transcription levels of Plasmodium falciparum in the selection of target genes. Vidya Prasanna Kumar and Santanu Datta. Parasitology International 50 (2001) 165-173.

45. Proteins released during high toxin production in Clostridium difficile. Kakoli Mukherjee, Sture Karlsson, Lars G. Burman and Thomas Akerlund. Microbiology (2002), 148, 2245-2253.

46. Glycine and alanine dehydrogenase activities are catalyzed by the same protein in Mycobacterium smegmatis: upregulation of both activities under microaerophilic adaptation, Veeraraghavan Usha, Ramesh Jayaraman, Juan Carlos Toro, Sven E. Hoffner, and Kaveri S. Das. Can. J. Microbiol. 48: 7-13 (2002)

47. Mutational analysis of bacteriophage T4 AsiA: involvement of N- and C-terminal regions in binding to 70 of Escherichia coli in vivo, Umender K. Sharma, P. V. K. Praveen and T. S. Balganesh. Gene, 295(1):125-134 (2002)

48. Pharmacokinetics-pharmacodynamics of rifampin in an aerosol infection model of tuberculosis. R. Jayaram, S. Gaonkar, Parvinder Kaur, B.L. Suresh, B.N. Mahesh, R.Jayashree, Vrinda Nandi, Sowmya Bharat, R.K. Shandil, E.Kantharaj, V.Balasubramanian. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 47(7):2118-2124. (2003)

49. High-Throughput Screen for Inhibitors of Transglycosylase and/or Transpeptidase Activities of Escherichia coli Penicillin Binding Protein 1b, B. Chandrakala, Radha K. Shandil, Upasana Mehra, Sudha Ravishankar, Parvinder Kaur, Veeraraghavan Usha, Bina Joe, and Sunita M. deSousa. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 48 (1): 30-40 (2004)

50. Drug discovery for tuberculosis: Bottlenecks and path forward. T.S. Balganesh, V. Balasubramanian and S. Anand Kumar. Current Science. 86(1):167-176 (2004).

51. Isoniazid Pharmacokinetics-Pharmacodynamics in an Aerosol Infection Model of Tuberculosis. Ramesh Jayaram, Radha. K. Shandil, Sheshagiri Gaonkar, Parvinder Kaur, B. L. Suresh, B. N. Mahesh, R. Jayashree, Vrinda Nandi, Sowmya Bharath, E. Kantharaj, and V. Balasubramanian. Antimicrobail Agents and Chemotherapy, 48(8): 2951-2957 (2004)

52. Biochemical characterization of Plasmodium falciparum hypoxanthine-guanine-xanthine phosphorybosyltransferase: Role of histidine residue in substrate selectivity. Dhiman Sarkar, Indira Ghosh, Santanu Datta. Molecular & Biochemical Parasitology. (2004) In press

Patents

1. A New Method for the Diagnosis of Virulent Bacteria.
2. DNA Probes Specific for Plasmodium Vivax
3. A Novel Vector to Produce Biologically Important Peptides
4. A Novel Procedure for the Detection of Pathogens Using DNA Probes
5. Peptide-Carbohydrate Conjugates Generating T-Cell Immunity
6.Ganglioside Analogs
7. Virulence-specific Bacterial DNA Sequence
8. Novel Polypeptides
9. A DNA Molecule for Expression of Bile Salt-Stimulated Lipase (BSSL)
10. A method of identifying Ligands to RNA Polymerase Sigma 70 subunit
11. A Scintillation Proximity Assay for the Detection of Peptidoglycan Synthesis
12. New Use.
13. Novel Process
14. Mycobacterial Inhibitors
15. New Assay
16. Assay for Detection of Transferase Enzyme Activity in Drug Screening

Research papers available on request

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