ANNUAL REPORT - Department of Biotechnology

Brain Research Bull. (In Press) 2007.
6. Goswami, P. Dikshit, A. Mishra, N. Nukina and N. R. Jana. Expression of expanded polyglutamine
proteins suppresses the activation of transcription factor NF-kB. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 281,
37017-37024, 2006.
7. Dikshit, M. chatterjee, A. Goswami, A. Mishra and N. R. Jana. Aspirin induces apoptosis through the
inhibition of proteasome function. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 281, 29228-29235, 2006.
8. P. Dikshit, A. Goswami, A. Mishra, N. Nukina and N. R. Jana. Curcumin enhances the polyglutamineexpanded
truncated N-terminal huntingtin-induced cell death by promoting proteasomal malfunction.
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 342, 1323-1328, 2006.
9. Goswami, P. Dikshit, A. Mishra, S. Mulherkar, N. Nukina and N. R. Jana. Oxidative stress promotes
mutant huntingtin aggregation and mutant huntingtin-dependent cell death by mimicking proteasomal
malfunction. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 342, 184-190, 2006.
NATIONAL CENTRE FOR PLANT GENOME RESEARCH, NEW DELHI
1. Pandey, A., Choudhary, M. K., Bhushan D., Chattopadhyay, A., Chakraborty, S., Datta, A. and
Chakraborty, N (2006). The nuclear proteome of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) reveals predicted and
unexpected proteins. J. Proteome Res. 5: 3301-3311
2. Chakraborty, N., Ohta, M.O. and Zhu, J-K. (2006) Recognition of a PP2C interaction motif in several
plant protein kinases. In Methods in Molecular Biology. Ed. G. Moorhead. 365: 287-298
3. Bhushan, D, Pandey, A., Chattopadhyay, A., Choudhary, M.K., Chakraborty, S., Datta, A. and
Chakraborty, N. (2006) Extracellular matrix proteome of chickpea (Cicer arietinum) illustrates pathway
abundance, novel protein functions and evolutionary perspect. J. Proteome Res. 5: 1711-1720
4. Sethy NK, Shokeen B, Edwards KJ and Bhatia S (2006) Development of microsatellite markers and
analysis of intraspecific genetic variability in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L). Theor Appl Genet 112:1416-
1428
5. Sethy NK, Choudhary S, Shokeen B and Bhatia S (2006) Identification of microsatellite markers from
Cicer reticulatum: molecular variation and phylogenetic analysis. Theor Appl Genet 112:347-357
6. Choudhary S, Sethy NK, Shokeen B, Bhatia S (2006) Development of sequence-tagged microsatellite
site markers for chickpea (Cicer arietinum L). Mol. Ecol. Notes 6:93-95
7. Shokeen B, Sethy NK, Kumar S, Bhatia S (2006) Isolation and characterization of microsatellite markers
for analysis of molecular variation in the medicinal plant Madagascar Periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus
(L.) G. Don). Plant Science (in press)
8. Ashverya Laxmi, Laju K. Paul, Anirudha Roy Chaudhuri, Janny L. Peters and Jitendra P. Khurana (2006)
Arabidopsis cytokinin resistant mutant, cnr1, displays altered auxin response and sugar sensitivity.
Plant Molecular Biology, 62, 409-425.
9. Rakesh K. Shukla, Sumita Raha, Vineeta Tripathi and Debasis Chattopadhyay. (2006) Expression of
CAP2, and AP2-family transcription factor from Chickpea enhances growth and tolerance to dehydration
and salt stress in transgenic tobacco. Plant Physiology, 142:113-123
10. S. Biswas, M. Kaur Gupta, Debasis Chattopadhyay, C.K. Mukhopadhyay. (2006) Insulin induced
activation of Hypoxia inducible factor-1 requires generation of reactive oxygen species by NADPH
oxidase. Am. J. Physiol: Heart Circ. Physiol. (in press)
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