Anuradha Lohia
Reader, Biochemistry
PhD: IICB/Calcutta University/ 1986
 

1. Lohia, A., Chatterjee, A.N. and Das, J. (1984) Lysis of Vibrio cholerae cells: Direct isolation of the outer membrane by treatment with urea. J.Gen.Microbiol.130,2027-2033.

2. Lohia, A., Mazumdar, S., Chatterjee, A.N. and Das, J. (1985) Effect of changes in the osmolarity of the growth medium on Vibrio cholerae cells. J.Bacteriol. 163, 1158-1167.

3. Lohia, A., Haider, N. and Biswas, B.B. (1990) Characterisation of a repetitive DNA family from Entamoeba histolytica which contains Saccharomyces cerevisiae ARS consensus sequences.Gene, 96,197-213.

4. Sengupta, T.K., Chaudhuri, K., Mazumdar, S., Lohia, A., Chatterjee, A.N. and Das, J. (1992) Interaction of Vibrio cholerae cells with b-lactam antibiotics: Emergence of resistant cells at a high frequency. Antimicrob.Agents.Chemother.36,788-795.

5. Lohia, A. and Samuelson, J. (1993) Molecular cloning of a p34 cdc2 homologue from Entamoeba histolytica. Gene,127,203-207.

6. Lohia,A. and Samuelson, J. (1993) Molecular cloning of a ras homologue (rho) from Entamoeba histolytica.Mol.Biochem.Parasitol.58,177- 180.

7. Lohia, A. and  Samuelson, J. (1994).Molecular cloning of a protein serine/threonine kinase from Entamoeba histolytica. Biochem.Biophys.Acta 1222, 122-124.

8. Shen, P.S., Lohia, A. and Samuelson, J. (1994) Molecular cloning of ras and rap genes from Entamoeba histolytica.Mol.Biochem.Parasitol.64,111-120.

9.  Ray, S.S., Samuelson, J. and Lohia, A. (1994) Effect of serum starvation on the ras superfamily genes of  E.histolytica. Proceedings of DAE symposium on Stress and adaptive responses in Biological systems. pp 268-273.

10. Lohia, A. and Samuelson, J. (1996) Heterogeneity of E.histolytica genes encoding homologues of p21 rac. Gene 173, 205-208.

11. Ghosh, S., Lohia, A., Kumar, A., and Samuelson, J. (1996) Overexpression of P-Glycoprotein gene 1 by transfected Entamoeba histolytica confers emetine-resistance. Mol. Biochem. Parsitol. 82, 257-260.

12. Lohia, A., Ray, A. and Sinha, P. (1996) Isolation and sequence analysis of CEN5 mutations in yeast. J.Genet. 75, 173-180.

13. Ray, S.S., Gangopadhyay, S.S., Pande, G. and Lohia, A. (1997) Characterisation of cell division cycle regulating genes of Entamoeba histolytica using flow cytometry. Arch. Med. Res., 28,122-123.

14. Samuelson. J., Caplivski, D., Ramirez, K.S., Kretzinger, K., Descoteaux. S., Hernandez, G., Vargas, G., Mammo, R., Newton, O., Santos, J., Vega, H.D.L., Robbins, P., Ganguly, C., and Lohia, A.(1997) A proposal for a molecular biologic system for classifying isolates of Entamoeba histolytica and Entamoeba dispar. Arch. Med. Res. 28, 274-275.

15. Gangopadhyay, S.S., Ray, S.S., Sinha, P. and Lohia, A. (1997) Unusual Genome organisation in Entamoeba histolytica leads to two overlapping transcripts. Mol. Bioch. Parasitol.89, 73-83.

16. Ray, N., Poddar, A., Lohia, A. and Sinha, P. (1997) The mcm 17 mutation of yeast causes size dependent segregational defect of a minichromosome.  Current Genetics 32, 182-189.

17. Chakraborty, R., Deb, C., Lohia, A. and Roy, P. (1997) Cloning and characterisation of a high copy number novel insertion sequence from chemolithotropic Thiobacillus ferroxidans. Plasmid 38, 129-134.

18. Gangopadhyay, S.S., Ray, S.S., Kennady, K., Pande, G. and Lohia, A. (1997) Heterogeneity of DNA content in axenically growing Entamoeba histolytica HM1:IMSS clone A. Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 90, 9-20.

19. Ray, S.S., Gangopadhyay, S.S., Pande,G., Samuelson, J. and Lohia, A. ( 1997) Primary structure of Entamoeba histolytica g-tubulin and localisation of microtubule organising centres. Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 90, 331-336.

20. Mukhopadhyay, C. and Lohia, A. (1998) Homology modeling of Entamoeba histolytica ferredoxin. J. Biomol. Str. Dynam. 15, 663-672.

21. Lohia, A., Hait, N.C. and Majumder, A.L.(1999) L - myo -Inositol 1 -phosphate synthase from Entamoeba histolytica: characterisation of the gene and the enzyme. Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 98, 67-79.

22. Maji, A.K., Ghose, T.K. and Lohia, A. (1999) Use of AFLP DNA fingerprinting to differentiate pathogenic strains of Entamoeba histolytica J. Paras. Dis. 23, 77-79.

23. Ghosh,S., Frisardi,M., Ramirez-Avila, L., Descoteaux, S., Sturm-Ramirez, K., Alberto Newton-Sanchez, O., Ignacio Santos-Preciado,J., Ganguly, C., Lohia, A., Reed, S. and Samuelson, J. (2000) Molecular Epidemiology of Entamoeba spp.: Evidence of a Bottleneck (Demographic Sweep) and Transcontinental Spread of Diploid Parasites. J. Clin. Microbiol.38 3815-3821

24. Das, S and Lohia, A (2000) MCM proteins of Entamoeba histolytica. Arch. Med. Res. 31, 269-270.

25. Ganguly, A and Lohia A (2000) The Diaphanous protein from E.histolytica controls cell motility and cell division. Arch. Med. Res. 31, 137-138.
26. Ganguly, A and Lohia,  A (2001) The cell cycle of Entamoeba invadens during vegetative growth and differentiation.Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 112, 277-285.

27. Das,S and Lohia, A. (2002) De-linking of S phase and cytokinesis in the protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica-Cell. Microbiol. 4, 55-60.

28. Banerjee S, Das S and Lohia A (2002) Eukaryotic checkpoints are absent in the cell division cycle of Entamoeba histolytica-J.Biosci27, 553-558.

29. Banerjee S and Lohia A (2003) Molecular analysis of repetitive DNA elements from Entamoeba histolytica, which encode small RNAs and contain matrix/scaffold attachment recognition sequences-Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 126, 35-42.

30. Lohia A (2003) The cell cycle of Entamoeba histolytica-Mol. Cell. Biochem. 253: 217-222.

31. Roy,D and Lohia,A (2004) Sequence divergence of Entamoeba histolytica tubulin is responsible for its altered tertiary structure.-Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 319, 1010-1016.

32. Ghosh,SK, Sau, S., Lahiri,S., Lohia, A. and Sinha, P.(2004) The Iml3 protein of the budding yeast is required for the prevention of precocious sister chromatid separation in meiosis I and for sister chromatid disjunction in meiosis II. Curr Genet 46, 82-91.

33. Kaur, GK and Lohia, A (2004) Inhibition of gene expression with double strand RNA interference in Entamoeba histolytica-Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm.320, 1118-1122.

34. Das, S., Mukherjee, C., Sinha, P. and Lohia, A. (2005) Constitutive association of MCM 2-3-5 proteins with chromatin in Entamoeba histolytica.Cell. Microbiol. 7, 259-267.

35. Banerjee, S., Fisher, O., Lohia, A. and Ankri, S. (2005) Entamoeba histolytica DNA methyltransferase (Ehmeth) is a nuclear matrix protein that binds EhMRS2, a DNA that includes a scaffold /matrix attachment region (S/MAR).            Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 139, 91-97.

36. Loftus B, Anderson I, Davies R, Alsmark UC, Samuelson J, Amedeo P, Roncaglia P, Berriman M, Hirt RP, Mann BJ, Nozaki T, Suh B, Pop M, Duchene M, Ackers J, Tannich E, Leippe M, Hofer M, Bruchhaus I, Willhoeft U, Bhattacharya A, Chillingworth T, Churcher C, Hance Z, Harris B, Harris D, Jagels K, Moule S, Mungall K, Ormond D, Squares R, Whitehead S, Quail MA, Rabbinowitsch E, Norbertczak H, Price C, Wang Z, Guillen N, Gilchrist C, Stroup SE, Bhattacharya S, Lohia A, Foster PG, Sicheritz-Ponten T, Weber C, Singh U, Mukherjee C, El-Sayed NM, Petri WA Jr, Clark CG, Embley TM, Barrell B, Fraser CM, Hall N. (2005)     The genome of the protist parasite Entamoeba histolytica            Nature ,433, 865-868.

37.Majumder, S., Schmidt, G., Lohia, A.and Aktories, K. (2006)       EhRho1, a RhoA-like GTPase of Entamoeba histolytica Is modified by clostridial glucosylating cytotoxins. Appl Environ Microbiol. 72:7842-7848.

38. Ghosh Dastidar P., Majumder S. and Lohia A. (2007) Eh Klp5 is a divergent member of the kinesin 5 family that regulates genome content and microtubular assembly in Entamoeba histolytica.   Cell Microbiol. 9:316-28.

39. Lohia A (2006) Leishmania proteins can correct defects due to human mitochondrial mutations. J Biosci.31:507-508.

40. Lohia A, Mukherjee, C, Majumder, C and Ghosh Dastidar P (2007) Genome re-duplication and irregular segregation occur during the cell cycle of Entamoeba histolytica. Bioscience Reports 27:373-384.

41.Clark, CG, Hofer, M., Alsmark, CM, Saito-Nakano, Y, Ali, V, Marion, S, Weber, C, Mukherjee, C, Bruchhaus, I., Tannich, E., Leippe, M., Sicheritz-Ponten, T, Foster, PG,Noël,CJ, Hirt, RP,  Embley, TM, Samuelson, J.,Gilchrist, CA, Mann, BJ, Singh, U., Ackers, JP, Bhattacharya, S., Bhattacharya, A, Lohia, A., Guillén, N, Duchêne, M, Nozaki, T and Hall, N.  Structure and Content of the Entamoeba histolytica Genome (2007) Adv in Parasitol. 65:51-190.

42. Majumder, S. and Lohia. A (2008) Entamoeba histolytica encodes unique formins- a subset of which regulates DNA content and cell division. Infect Immun,  76:2368-2378

43. Dastidar P.G. and Lohia A (2008) Bipolar spindle frequency and genome content are inversely regulated by the activity of two N-type kinesins in Entamoeba histolytica. Cell Microbiol 10:1559-1571.

44. Mukherjee C., Clark CG and Lohia A (2008) Entamoeba shows reversible variation in ploidy under different growth conditions and between life cycle phases PLoS NTD 2(8):e281.

45. Mukherjee C, Majumder S, Lohia A.(2009) Inter-Cellular Variation in DNA Content of Entamoeba histolytica Originates from Temporal and Spatial Uncoupling of Cytokinesis from the Nuclear Cycle. PLoS Negl Trop Dis.3(4):e409.

46. Dam S, Lohia A (2010) Entamoeba histolytica sirtuin EhSir2a deacetylates tubulin 

and regulates the number of microtubular assemblies during the cell cycle. Cell. Microbiol. 

Feb 9th Epub ahead of print.

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