Dibyendu N. Sengupta
Reader, Botany
PhD: University of Kalyani (1981)

List of publications
  1. Ghosh, J.K., SenGupta, D.N. and Sen S.P. : Changes in Protein Patterns in the Leaves of Rice in Relation to the Initiation of Reproductive Phase I. The Photoperiod- sensitive cultivar Rupsail, Plant Biochemical Journal 7, 138-150, 1980.
  2. SenGupta, D.N., Sengupta, B. and Sen, S.P. : Changes in Protein Patterns in the Leaves of Rice in Relation to the Initiation of Reproductive Phase II. The Day-neutral cultivar IR-8, Plant Biochemical Journal 7, 151-158, 1980.
  3. SenGupta, D.N., Ghosh, J.K. and Sen, S.P. : RNA synthesis in Leaves During Initiation of Reproductive Phase in Rice : The Short-day Cultivar Rupsail, Plant & Cell Physiol. 22, 255-266, 1981.
  4. SenGupta, D.N. and Sen, S.P. : RNA Synthesis in Leaves During Initiation of Reproductive Phase in Rice : The Day-neutral Cultivar IR-8, Plant & Cell Physiol. 22, 267-273, 1981.
  5. SenGupta, D.N., Ghosh, J.K., Mitra, B. and Sen, S.P. : Influence of Light and Darkness on RNA Synthesis in Xanthium, Canadian J. Botany 59, 1910-1917, 1981.
  6. Sengupta, B., Nandi, A.S., Samanta, R.K., Pal, D., SenGupta, D.N. and Sen, S.P. : Nitrogen Fixation in Phyllosphere of Tropical Plants Occurrence of Phyllopshere Nitrogen-fixing Microorganisms in Eastern India and their Utility for the Growth and Nitrogen Nutrition of Host Plants, Annals of Botany 48, 705-716, 1981.
  7. SenGupta, D.N., Moitra, D. and Sen, S.P. : Phytochrome Controlled Leaching of Metabolites from Xanthium Leaf Discs During Photoperiodic Induction, Plant Sci. Lett. 23, 321-325, 1981.
  8. SenGupta, D.N. and Sen, S.P. : Phytochrome Regulation of Uptake Metabolites by Coconut Nuclei in vitro, Plant Sci. Lett. 23, 61-66, 1982.
  9. SenGupta, D.N., and Sen, S.P. : Phytochrome Regulation of RNA Synthesis in Isolated Coconut Nuclei, Plant and Cell Physiology 23, 1251-1258, 1982.
  10. Cobianchi, F., SenGupta, D.N., Zmudzka, B. and Wilson, S.H. : Structure of Rodent Helix-Destablizing Protein Revealed by cDNA Cloning, J. Biol. Chem. 261, 3356-3543, 1986.
  11. Zmudzka, B., SenGupta, D.N., Matsukage, A., Cobianchi, F., Kumar, P. and Wilson, S.H. : Structure of Rat DNA Polymerase Beta Revealed by Partial Amino Acid Sequencing and cDNA Cloning, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 83, 5106-5110, 1986.
  12. SenGupta, D.N., Zmudzka, B., Kumar, P., Cobianchi, F., Skowronski, J. and Wilson, S.H. : Sequence of Human DNA polymerase beta mRNA Obtained Through acDNA Cloning, Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 136, 341-347, 1986.
  13. SenGupta, D.N., Kumar, P., Zmudzka, B., Coughlin, S., Viswanathan, J.K., Robey, G.A., Parott, C., and Wilson, S.H. : Mammalian Alpha Polymerase : Cloning of Partial cDNA and Immunobinding of Catalytic Subunit in Crude Homogenate Protein Blots, Biochemistry, Feb.20, 956-963, 1987.
  14. Abott, J., SenGupta, D.N., Zmudzka, B., Widen, S., Notario, V., and Wilson, S.H. : Expression of Human DNA Polymerase Beta in E.coli and Characterization of the Recombinant Enzyme, Biochemistry 27, 901-909, 1988.
  15. Silverman, R.H., Jung, D., Kedar, V.P., Diffenbach, C., Nolan, N., and SenGupta, D.N. : Purification and Analysis of 2-5A Activated RNase, J. Biol. Chem. 263, 15094-15103, 1988.
  16. Abott, J., Sengupta, D.N., Zon, G. and Wilson, S.H. : Studies on the Mechanism of E.coli. DNA Polymerase I Large Fragment : Effect Of Template Sequence and Substrate Variation on Termination of Synthesis, J. Biol. Chem. 263, 15094-15103, 1988.
  17. SenGupta, D.N., and Silverman, R.H. : Activation of Interferon Regulated ds-RNA dependent enzymes by Human Immunodeficiency Virus I Leader RNA, Nucleic Acids Res. 17, 969-978, 1989.
  18. Diffenbach, C., SenGupta, D.N., Krause, D., Sawzak, D., and Silverman, R.H. : Gelsolin Accumulates During Differentiation of Murine PC-13 Embryonal Carcinoma Cells, J. Biol. Chem. 269, 13281-8, 1989.
  19. Sengupta, D.N., Berkhout, B., Gatignol, A., Zhou, A., and Silverman, R.H. : Direct Evidence for Translational Regulation by Leader RNA and Tat Protein of Human Immunodeficiency Virus 1, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 87, 7492-7496, Oct 1990.
  20. Chattopadhyay, S.K., SenGupta, D.N., Fredrickson, T.N., MorseIII, H.C. and Hartley, H.W. : B Lineage Cells are Targets for Infection and Expression of the Defective Virus Genome in MAIDS, Journal of Virology, Aug 4232-4241, 1991.
  21. Sanath Kumar, M., Ghosh, B., and SenGupta, D.N. Isolation of Mammalian Pol Beta Type DNA Polymerase in Shoot Tips of Germinated Seedlings of IR-8 Rice (Oryza sativa L.), Biochemistry and Molecular Biology International 39, 117-126, 1996.
  22. SenGupta, D.N., Sengupta, B., Zhou, A., Mitra, A., and Silverman, R. Expression of Mammalian Antiviral Enzymes from the 2-5A System in Transgenic Plants, J. Of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 5, 69-74, 1996.
  23. Mitra, A., Higgins, D., Langenberg, W.G., Nie, H., SenGupta, D., and Silverman, R. The human 2-5A system functions as an antiviral pathway in transgenic plants. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA, 93, 6780-6785, 1996.
  24. Chattopadhyay, M., Gupta, S., SenGupta, D.N. and Ghosh, B. Expression of Arginine decarboxylase in seedlings of Indica Rice (Oryza sativa L.) cultivars as affected by salinity stress. Plant Mol. Biol. 34,477-483,1997.
  25. Gupta, S., Chattopadhyay, M., Chatterjee,P, Ghosh, B.and SenGupta, D.N. Expression of Abscisic acid responsive element binding protein in salt-tolerant indica Rice (Oryza sativa L.cv.Pokkali), Plant Mol. Biol.,37,629-637,1998
  26. Chakraborty,P.,Chowdhury,I.,Gupta-Bhattacharya,S.,Gupta,S.,Sengupta,DN.,Chanda,S (1999) Clinicoimmunologic studies on Phoenix sylvestris Roxb.Pollen:an aeroallergen from Calcutta,India, Allergy,54,1-6.
  27. Sengupta,DN.,Banerjee,K. and Rouf,A (1999) Abiotic stress responsive elements,their bionding factors and their utilization for the improvement of tolerance to abiotic stress in Plants,J. Plant Biol.,26,179-185(review).
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