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UMBC Biological Sciences
departmental publications
1999

Wood, T.I., K.L. Griffith, W.P. Fawcett, K.-W. Jair, T.D. Schneider, and R.E. Wolf, Jr. 1999. Interdependence of the position and orientation of SoxS binding sites in the transcriptional activation of the Class I subset of Escherichia coli superoxide-inducible promoters. Mol. Microbiol. 34:414-430. [Abstract]

Garganus, M., S.V. Nuzhdin, J. Leips, and T.F.C. Mackay.  1999.  High resolution mapping of quantitative trait loci for sternopleural bristle number in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 152:1585-1604.

Brewster R. and Dahmane N. (1999). Getting ahead of the organizer: anterior-posterior patterning of the forebrain. Bioessays 21:631-636. [Abstract]

Ray P.K., Das T., Subbulakshmi V, Ghosh A.K. Sa G, Sinha P. and Sengupta J. Immunopharmacologic Modulation of host response to increase therapeutic index of drugs. Immunopharmacology: stratigies for immunotherapy (S.N Upadhyay Ed.), Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi. 1999

Ogura T, Kinnamon SC (1999) IP3-independent release of Ca2+ from intracellular stores: A novel mechanism for transduction for bitter stimuli.  J Neurophys, 82, 2657-2666.  [Abstract]

Sinha P, Sengupta J and Ray P.K. Functional mimicry of Protein A of Staphylococcus aureus by a proteolytically cleaved fragment. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1999. Jun 24; 260(1): 111-116.

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Das T, Sa G, Sinha P and Ray P.K. Induction of cell proliferation and apoptosis: Dependence on the dose of the inducer. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1999. Jun 24; 260 (1): 105-110 [Abstract]

Lin, W. and Kinnamon, S.C. (1999).  Physiological evidence for ionotropic and metabotropic glutamate receptors in rat taste cells.  J Neurophysiol.  82:2061-69. 

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Leips, J. and J. Travis.  1999.  The relationship between life histories and population dynamics: a study of four natural populations of the least killifish, Heterandria formosa.   Journal of Animal Ecology 68:595-616.

Hua Lu and Thomas D. McKnight (1999) Tissue-specific expression of the beta-subunit of tryptophan synthase in Camptotheca acuminata, an indole alkaloid-producing plant. Plant Physiology 120: 43-51. [Abstract]

Sowers, K. A. and H. J. Schreier (1999). Gene transfer systems for the Archaea. Trends in Microbiology. 7:212-219 [Abstract]

Sinha P, GhoshAK, Das T, Sa G and Ray PK. Protein A of S aureus evokes Th1 type response in mice. Immunol Letters 1999; 67: 157-165 [Abstract]

Sinha P, Sengupta J, Ray PK. A minimized Fc binding peptide from protein A induces immunocyte proliferation and evokes Th1-type response in mice. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1999 Apr 29;258(1):141-7 [Abstract]

Ghosh AK, Sinha P, Das T, Sa G, Ray PK. S. aureus superantigen protein A expands CD4(+)/CD8(+)/CD19(+)/CD34(+) cells in mice: a potential immunorestorer. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1999 Mar 5;256(1):142-6 [Abstract]

Sengupta J, Sinha P, Mukhopadhyay C, Ray PK. Molecular modeling and experimental approaches toward designing a minimalist protein having Fc-binding activity of Staphylococcal protein A. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1999 Mar 5;256(1):6-12 [Abstract]

Sinha P, Naik S, Ayyagari A, Naik SR. Isoenzyme and molecular characterization of Entamoeba histolytica and Entamoeba dispar isolates from symptomatic and asymptomatic subjects. Indian J Gastroenterol 1999 Jan-Mar;18(1):18-21.
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Lin, W., Finger, T., Rossier B.C. and Kinnamon, S.C. (1999).  Epithelial Na+ channel subunits in rat taste cells:  Localization and regulation of aldosterone.  J Comp Neurol.  405 (3):406-20.

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Burchard. 1999. Beta-lactam antibiotic selection of non-swarming mutants of Flexibacter maritimus. Can. J. Microbiol. 45:786-790. 

Lundberg, B.E., R.E. Wolf, Jr., M.C. Dinauer, Y.Xu, and F.C. Fang. 1999. Glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase is required for Salmonella typhimurium virulence and resistance to reactive oxygen and nitrogen intermediates. Infect. Immun. 67:436-438. [Abstract]

Schreier, H. J., A. M. Romashko, K. A. Bidle and G. V. Patel (1999). Heterologous expression in the Archaea: Transcription from Pyrococcus furiosus gdh and mlrA promoters in Haloferax volcanii. Extremophiles, 3:11-19 [Abstract]

Amagai, S., Dooling, R.J., Shamma, S., Kidd, T.L., & Lohr, B. 1999. Detection of modulation in spectral envelopes and linear-rippled noises by budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 105: 2029-2035.