RECENT SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
  • P. Sreekanthreddy, Harish Srinivasan, Durairaj Mohan Kumar, Mamatha Nijaguna, S. Sridevi, M. Vrinda, A. Arivazhagan, Anandh Balasubramaniam, A.S. Hegde, B.A. Chandramouli, Vani Santosh, M.R.S. Rao, Puturu Kondaiah and Kumaravel Somasundaram. Identification of potential serum biomarkers of glioblastoma: Serum osteopontin levels correlate with poor prognosis. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention. 2010 (In Press)
  • Santosh, V., Arivazhagan, A., Sreekantha Reddy, P., Srinivasan ,H., Thota, B., Srividya, M.R., Vrinda, M., Sridevi, S., Shailaja, B.C., Samuel, C., Prasanna, K.V., Thennarasu, K., Balasubramaniam, A., Chandramouli, B.A., Hegde, .A.S., Somasundaram, K., Kondaiah, P., and Rao, M.R.S. Grade specific expression of IGFBP-2, -3 and -5 in astrocytomas: IGFBP3 emerges as a strong predictor of survival in patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention. 2010 (In Press)
  • Vimaleswaran KS,Radha V,Ghosh S,Majumder PP,Rao MR,Mohan V. A Haplotype at the UCP1 Gene Locus Contributes to Genetic Risk for Type 2 Diabetes in Asian Indians (CURES-72). Metab Syndr Relat Disord.2009 Nov 29.
    PMID: 19943796
  • Vimaleswaran KS,Radha V,Jayapriya MG,Ghosh S,Majumder PP,Rao MR,Mohan V. Evidence for an association with type 2 diabetes mellitus at the PPARG locus in a South Indian population. Metabolism. 2009 Oct 19.
    PMID: 19846173
  • Pradeepa MM,Nikhil G,Hari Kishore A,Bharath GN,Kundu TK,Rao MR. Acetylation of transition protein 2 (TP2) by KAT3B (p300) alters its DNA condensation property and interaction with putative histone chaperone NPM3. J Biol Chem.2009 Oct 23;284(43):29956-67
    PMID: 19710011
  • Kolthur-Seetharam U, Pradeepa MM, Gupta N, Narayanaswamy R, Rao MR. Spatiotemporal organization of AT- and GC-rich DNA and their association with transition proteins TP1 and TP2 in rat condensing spermatids. J Histochem Cytochem. 2009 Oct;57(10):951-62
    PMID: 19506090
  • Chathoth KT,Ganesan G,Rao MR. Identification of a novel nucleolin related protein (NRP) gene expressed during rat spermatogenesis. BMC Mol Biol.2009 Jul 1;10:64
    PMID: 19570216
  • Ganesan G,Rao SM. A novel noncoding RNA processed by Drosha is restricted to nucleus in mouse. RNA.2008 Jul;14(7):1399-410.
    PMID: 18515546
  • Pradeepa MM,Manjunatha S,Sathish V,Agrawal S,Rao MR. Involvement of importin- 4 in the transport of transition protein 2 into the spermatid nucleus. Mol Cell Biol.2008 Jul;28(13):4331-41.
    PMID: 17682055
  • Vimaleswaran KS,Radha V,Ramya K,Babu HN,Savitha N,Roopa V,Monalisa D,Deepa R,Ghosh S,Majumder PP,Rao MR,Mohan V. A novel association of a polymorphism in the first intron of adiponectin gene with type 2 diabetes, obesity and hypoadiponectinemia in Asian Indians. Hum Genet.2008 Jul;123(6):599-605
    PMID: 18465144
  • Reddy P.S., Umesh, S., Thota, B., Tandon, A., Pandey, P., Hegde, A.S., Balasubramaniam, A., Chandramouli, B.A., Santosh, V., Rao M.R.S., Kondaiah, P and Somasundram, K. PEBF1/NAmPRTase/Visfatin: A potential malignant astrocytoma/glioblsatoma serum marker with prognostic value. Cancer Biol Ther.2008 May;7(5):663-8.
    PMID: 18728403
  • Reddy SP,Britto R,Vinnakota K,Aparna H,Sreepathi HK,Thota B,Kumari A,Shilpa BM,Vrinda M,Umesh S,Samuel C,Shetty M,Tandon A,Pandey P,Hegde S,Hegde AS,Balasubramaniam A,Chandramouli BA,Santosh V,Kondaiah P,Somasundaram K,Rao MR. Novel glioblastoma markers with diagnostic and prognostic value identified through transcriptome analysis. Clin Cancer Res.2008 May 15;14(10):2978-87.
    PMID: 18483363
  • Jayashree, L and M.R.S.Rao Acheaute schute homolog 1 in glioma. Atlas of Genetics and CytogeneticsinOncologyandHematology,2007. Click Here
  • Gowda S,Kumaran M,Suma BS,Rao MR. Single nucleotide polymorphism analysis of the nucleotide excision repair genes XPC, XPA, and XPG in the Indian population. Hum Biol.2007 Oct;79(5):545-62.
    PMID: 18478970
  • Radha V,Vimaleswaran KS,Babu S,Deepa R,Anjana M,Ghosh S,Majumder PP,Rao MR,Mohan V. Lack of association between serum adiponectin levels and the Pro12Ala polymorphism in Asian Indians. Diabet Med.2007 Apr;24(4):398-402.
    PMID: 17335469
  • Shipra A,Chetan K,Rao MR. CREMOFAC--a database of chromatin remodeling factors. Bioinformatics.2006 Dec 1;22(23):2940-4.
    PMID: 17021159
  • Ramesh S,Bharath MM,Chandra NR,Rao MR. A K52Q substitution in the globular domain of histone H1t modulates its nucleosome binding properties. FEBS Lett.2006 Oct 30;580(25):5999-6006.
    PMID: 17052712
  • Vimaleswaran KS,Radha V,Anjana M,Deepa R,Ghosh S,Majumder PP,Rao MR,Mohan V. Effect of polymorphisms in the PPARGC1A gene on body fat in Asian Indians. Int J Obes (Lond).2006 Jun;30(6):884-91.
    PMID: 16446747
  • Radha V,Vimaleswaran KS,Babu HN,Abate N,Chandalia M,Satija P,Grundy SM,Ghosh S,Majumder PP,Deepa R,Rao SM,Mohan V. Role of genetic polymorphism peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma2 Pro12Ala on ethnic susceptibility to diabetes in South-Asian and Caucasian subjects: Evidence for heterogeneity. Diabetes Care.2006 May;29(5):1046-51.
    PMID: 16644635
  • Nishant KT,Rao MR. Molecular features of meiotic recombination hot spots. Bioessays.2006 Jan;28(1):45-56.
    PMID: 16369948
  • Nishant KT,Kumar C,Rao MR. HUMHOT: a database of human meiotic recombination hot spots. Nucleic Acids Res.2006 Jan 1;34(Database issue):D25-8.
    PMID: 16381857
  • Vimaleswaran KS,Radha V,Ghosh S,Majumder PP,Deepa R,Babu HN,Rao MR,Mohan V. Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma co-activator-1alpha (PGC-1alpha) gene polymorphisms and their relationship to Type 2 diabetes in Asian Indians. Diabet Med.2005 Nov;22(11):1516-21.
    PMID: 16241916
  • Somasundaram K,Reddy SP,Vinnakota K,Britto R,Subbarayan M,Nambiar S,Hebbar A,Samuel C,Shetty M,Sreepathi HK,Santosh V,Hegde AS,Hegde S,Kondaiah P,Rao MR. Upregulation of ASCL1 and inhibition of Notch signaling pathway characterize progressive astrocytoma. Oncogene.2005 Oct 27;24(47):7073-83.
    PMID: 16103883
  • Pradeepa MM,Rao MR. Chromatin remodeling during mammalian spermatogenesis: role of testis specific histone variants and transition proteins. Soc Reprod Fertil Suppl. 2007;63:1-10.
    PMID: 17566256
  • Ramprasad S,Radha V,Mathias RA,Majumder PP,Rao MR,Rema M. Rage gene promoter polymorphisms and diabetic retinopathy in a clinic-based population from South India. Eye (Lond).2007 Mar;21(3):395-401.
    PMID: 16440015
  • Bodhini D,Radha V,Deepa R,Ghosh S,Majumder PP,Rao MR,Mohan V. The G1057D polymorphism of IRS-2 gene and its relationship with obesity in conferring susceptibility to type 2 diabetes in Asian Indians Int J Obes (Lond).2007 Jan;31(1):97-102.
    PMID: 16652127
  • Nishant KT,Ravishankar H,Rao MR. Characterization of a mouse recombination hot spot locus encoding a novel non-protein-coding RNA. Mol Cell Biol.2004 Jun;24(12):5620-34.
    PMID: 15169920
  • Devgan V,Rao MR,Seshagiri PB. Impact of embryonic expression of enhanced green fluorescent protein on early mouse development. Biochem Biophys Res Commun.2004 Jan 23;313(4):1030-6.
    PMID: 14706646
  • Ullas KS,Rao MR. Phosphorylation of rat spermatidal protein TP2 by sperm-specific protein kinase A and modulation of its transport into the haploid nucleus. J Biol Chem.2003 Dec 26;278(52):52673-80.
    PMID: 14514679
  • Bharath MM,Chandra NR,Rao MR. Molecular modeling of the chromatosome particle.
  • Nucleic Acids Res.2003 Jul 15;31(14):4264-74.
    PMID: 12853645
  • Devgan V,Thomas M,Ullas KS,Rao MR,Seshagiri PB. Embryo culture-based generation of enhanced green fluorescent protein-transgenic mice.Biochem Biophys Res Commun.2003 Apr 18;303(4):994-1001.
    PMID: 12684032
  • Haldar D,Acharya S,Rao MR. A novel structure-specific endonuclease activity associated with polypyrimidine-tract binding (PTB) related protein from rat testis. Biochemistry.2002 Oct 1;41(39):11628-41.
    PMID: 12269805
  • Bharath MM,Chandra NR,Rao MR. Prediction of an HMG-box fold in the C-terminal domain of histone H1: insights into its role in DNA condensation. Proteins.2002 Oct 1;49(1):71-81.
    PMID: 12211017
  • Bharath MM,Ramesh S,Chandra NR,Rao MR. Identification of a 34 amino acid stretch within the C-terminus of histone H1 as the DNA-condensing domain by site-directed mutagenesis. Biochemistry.2002 Jun 18;41(24):7617-27.
    PMID: 12056893
  • Meetei AR,Ullas KS,Vasupradha V,Rao MR. Involvement of protein kinase A in the phosphorylation of spermatidal protein TP2 and its effect on DNA condensation. Biochemistry.2002 Jan 8;41(1):185-95.
    PMID: 11772016