CURRENT PUBLICATIONS:
Bacterial redox protein azurin, tumor suppressor protein p53, and regression of cancer
Tohru Yamada, Masatoshi Goto, Vasu Punj, Olga Zaborina, Mei Ling Chen, Kazuhide Kimbara, Dibyen Majumdar, Elizabeth Cunningham, Tapas K. Das Gupta, and Ananda M. Chakrabarty. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Sciences, and Department of Surgical Oncology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.Induction of apoptosis in macrophages by Pseudomonas aeruginosa azurin: tumour-suppressor protein p53 and reactive oxygen species, but not redox activity, as critical elements in cytotoxicity
Masatoshi Goto, Tohru Yamada, Kazuhide Kimbara, John Horner, Martin Newcomb, T. K. Das Gupta, and A. M. Chakrabarty. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Department of Chemistry and Department of Surgical Oncology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USABacterial cupredoxin azurin as an inducer of apoptosis and regression in human breast cancer
Vasu Punj, Suchita Bhattacharyya, Djenann Saint-Dic, Chenthamarakshan Vasu, Elizabeth A Cunningham, Jewell Graves, Tohru Yamada, Andreas I. Constantinou, Konstantin Christov, Bethany White, Gang Li, Dibyen Majumdar, Ananda M. Chakrabarty and Tapas K. Das Gupta, Department of Surgical Oncology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Department of Surgery, and Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.The bacterial redox protein azurin induces apoptosis in J774 macrophages through complex formation and stabilization of the tumor suppressor protein p53
Tohru Yamada, Masatoshi Goto, Vasu Punj, Olga Zaborina, Kazuhide Kimbara, T.K. Das Gupta, and A.M. Chakrabarty. Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Department of Surgical Oncology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.Apoptosis or growth arrest : Modulation of tumor suppressor p53’s specificity by bacterial redox protein azurin
Tohru Yamada, Yoshinori Hiraoka, Masateru Ikehata, Kazuhide Kimbara, Benjamin S. Avner, T.K. Das Gupta, A.M. Chakrabarty. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Department of Surgical Oncology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA and Environment Biotechnology, Railway Technical Institute, Tokyo 185-8540 Japan.Modulation of mammalian cell growth and death by prokaryotic and eukaryotic cytochrome c
Yoshinori Hiraoka, Tohru Yamada, Masatoshi Goto, T.K. Das Gupta, A.M Chakrabarty. Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Department of Surgical Oncology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.Regulation of mammalian cell growth and death by bacterial redox proteins: Relevance to ecology and cancer therapy
Tohru Yamada, Yoshinori Hiraoka, T.K. Das Gupta, A.M. Chakrabarty. Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Department of Surgical Oncology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.Rusticyanin, a bacterial electron transfer protein, causes G1 arrest in J774 and apoptosis in human cancer cells
Tohru Yamada, Yoshinori Hiraoka, T.K. Das Gupta, A.M. Chakrabarty. Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Department of Surgical Oncology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.Internalization of bacterial redox protein azurin in mammalian cells: Entry domain and specificity
Tohru Yamada, Arsenio Fialho, Vasu Punj, Laura Bratescu, T.K. Das Gupta, A.M. Chakrabarty. Department of Microbiology & Immunology and Department of Surgical Oncology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.Human cytochrome c enters murine J774 cells and causes G1 and G2/M cell cycle arrest and induction of apoptosis
Yoshinori Hiraoka, Teresa Granja, Arsenio Fialho, Beatrix Ridley, T.K. Das Gupta, A.M. Chakrabarty, Tohru Yamada. Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Department of Surgical Oncology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA and Biological Sciences Research Group, Centre for Biological and Chemical Engineering, Instituto Superior Technico, Lisbon, Portugal.Internalization of bacterial redox protein azurin in mammalian cells: entry domain and specificity
Tohru Yamada, Arsenio Fialho, Vasu Punj, Laura Bratescu , T.K. Das Gupta, A.M. Chakrabarty. Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Department of Surgical Oncology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.Disrupting the entry barrier and attacking brain tumors: The role of the neisseria lipobox-containing H.8 epitope and the laz protein
Chang Soo Hong, Tohru Yamada, Wataru Hashimoto, Arsenio Fialho, T.K. Das Gupta, A.M. Chakrabarty. Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Department of Surgical Oncology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA and Biological Sciences Research Group, Centre for Biological and Chemical Engineering, Instituto Superior Technico, Lisbon, Portugal.Azurin, plasmodium falciparum malaria and HIV/AIDS: Inhibition of parasitic and viral growth by azurin
Anita Chaudhari, Arsenio Fialho, Deena Ratner, Phalguni Gupta, Chang Soo Hong, Soumen Kahali, Tohru Yamada, Katsuri Haldar, Sean Murphy, Wonhwa Cho, Virander Chauhan, T.K. Das Gupta, A.M. Chakrabarty. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Department of Chemistry and Department of Surgical Oncology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL, USA; Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; International Centre for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology, New Delhi, India.
Cupredoxin-cancer interrelationship: Azurin binding with EPhB2, interference in EphB2 tyrosine phosphorylation and inhibition of cancer growth
Anita Chaudhari, Magdy Mahfouz, Arsenio Fialho, Tohru Yamada, A.Teresa Granja, Yonghua Zhu, Wataru Hashimoto, Beatrix Schlarb-Ridley, Wonhwa Cho, T.K. Das Gupta, A.M. Chakrabarty. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Department of Surgical Oncology, and Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.Noncationic peptides obtained from azurin preferentially enter cancer cells
Brad N. Taylor, Rajeshwari R. Mehta, Tohru Yamada, Fatima Lekmine, Konstantin Christov, Ananda M. Chakrabarty, Albert Green, Laura Bratescu, Anne Shilkaitis, Craig W. Beattie, and Tapas K. Das Gupta. Department of Surgical Oncology and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
