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Ishita Shah

B.S., Biochemistry and Biotechnology (1998)
St. Xavier's College, Ahmedabad, India

M.S., Microbiology (2000) University of Baroda, India

ishah1@umbc.edu

Program

  Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology

Mentor

  Richard Wolf

Research

 

 

Publications

 
Griffith KL, Shah IM, Wolf RE Jr.
 

Proteolytic degradation of Escherichia coli transcription activators SoxS and MarA as the mechanism for reversing the induction of the superoxide (SoxRS) and multiple antibiotic resistance (Mar) regulons. Mol Microbiol. 2004 51:1801-1816 [PubMed listing] [PDF].

Griffith KL, Shah IM, Myers TE, O'Neill MC, Wolf RE Jr.
 

Evidence for "pre-recruitment" as a new mechanism of transcription activation in Escherichia coli: The large excess of SoxS binding sites per cell relative to the number of SoxS molecules per cell. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2002 291:979-986. [PubMed listing]

Vaidya RJ, Shah IM, Vyas PR, Chhatpar HS
 

Production of chitinase and its optimization from a novel isolate Alcaligenes xylosoxydans: potential in antifungal biocontrol. World J. Microbiol. Biotech. 200117:691-696.

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