Journal of Biosciences
March 2012(
Volume 37 No 1)


Sep 2011 JB

Development of leaf-blast-resistant finger millet through
genetic engineering. Finger millet plants were challenged
with
Pyricularia griseae spores; the transgenic plants (right)
exhibited high level of resistance to fungal infection and control
plants (left) were susceptible. (
See article by S Ignacimuthu and
S Antony Ceasar, pp 135–147.)


Editorial

Rare Disease Day, our Roma cousins and the power of one
Durgadas P Kasbekar

1
 
Commentary

Life in (and on) the rocks
Chakkiath Paul Antony, Charles S Cockell and Yogesh S Shouche

3--11
 
Series

What history tells us XXVII. A new life for allostery
Michel Morange

13--17
 
Brief communication

Sequence periodic pattern of HERV LTRs: A matrix simulation algorithm
Shihua Zhang, Jing Xu and Chaoling Wei

19--24
 
Articles

Accumulation of rare earth elements by siderophore-forming Arthrobacter luteolus isolated from rare earth environment of Chavara, India
ES Challaraj Emmanuel, T Ananthi, B Anandkumar and S Maruthamuthu

25--31
 

TP53 codon 72 polymorphism in pigmentary phenotypes
Kárita Antunes Costa and Lidia Andreu Guillo

33--39
 

Mitogen-activated protein kinases mediate Mycobacterium tuberculosis--induced CD44 surface expression in monocytes
Natarajan Palaniappan, S Anbalagan and Sujatha Narayanan

41--54
 

Aged mice have increased inflammatory monocyte concentration and altered expression of cell-surface functional receptors
Kelley Strohacker, Whitney L Breslin, Katie C Carpenter and Brian K Mcfarlin

55--62
 

High prevalence of oncogenic HPV-16 in cervical smears of asymptomatic women of eastern Uttar Pradesh, India: A population-based study
Shikha Srivastava, Sadhana Gupta and Jagat Kumar Roy

63--72
 

Cytotoxic effects of the novel isoflavone, phenoxodiol, on prostate cancer cell lines
Simon Mahoney, Frank Arfuso, Pierra Rogers, Susan Hisheh, David Brown, Michael Millward and Arun Dharmarajan

73--84
 

Differential expression of ZFX gene in gastric cancer
Parvaneh Nikpour, Modjtaba Emadi-Baygi, Faezeh Mohammad-Hashem, Mohamad Reza Maracy and Shaghayegh Haghjooy-Javanmard

85--90
 

Leptin regulates proliferation and apoptosis of colorectal carcinoma through PI3K/Akt/mTOR signalling pathway
Di Wang, Jian Chen, Hui Chen, Zhi Duan, Qimei Xu, Meiyan Wei, Lianghua Wang and Meizuo Zhong

91--101
 

Expression, purification and characterization of the interferon-inducible, antiviral and tumour-suppressor protein, human RNase L
Ankush Gupta and Pramod C Rath

103--113
 

Corticoadrenal activity in rats regulates betaine-homocysteine S-methyltransferase expression with opposite effects in liver and kidney
Osvaldo Fridman, AnalĂ­a V Morales, Laura E Bortoni, Paula C Turk-Noceto and Elio A Prieto

115--123
 

Transient expression of Human papillomavirus type 16 L2 epitope fused to N- and C-terminus of coat protein of Potato virus X in plants
Noemi Cerovska, Hana Hoffmeisterova, Tomas Moravec, Helena Plchova, Jitka Folwarczna, Helena Synkova, Helena Ryslava, Viera Ludvikova and Michal Smahel

125--133
 

Development of transgenic finger millet (Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.) resistant to leaf blast disease
S Ignacimuthu and S Antony Ceasar

135--147
 

Molecular cytogenetic identification of a novel dwarf wheat line with introgressed Thinopyrum ponticum chromatin
Guiling Chen, Qi Zheng, Yinguang Bao, Shubing Liu, Honggang Wang and Xingfeng Li

149--155
 
Reviews

Autophagy: A double-edged sword in Alzheimer’s disease
Ying-Tsen Tung, Bo-Jeng Wang, Ming-Kuan Hu,Wen-Ming Hsu, Hsinyu Lee, Wei-Pang Huang and Yung-Feng Liao

157--165
 

Recent advances in development of marker free transgenic plants: regulation and biosafety concern
Narendra Tuteja, Shiv Verma, Ranjan Kumar Sahoo, Sebastian Raveendar and IN Bheema Lingeshwara Reddy

167--197
 

 

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