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Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

1. Cdc6 knockdown inhibits human neuroblastoma cell proliferation
   Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, vol. 311, no. 1-2, pp. 189–197, 2008
2. Involvement of human CD44 during Cryptococcus neoformans infection of brain microvascular endothelial cells
   Cellular Microbiology, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 1313–1326, 2008
3. Infectomic Analysis of Gene Expression Profiles of Human Brain Microvascular Endothelial Cells Infected with Cryptococcus neoformans
   Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology, vol. 2008, Article ID 375620, 7 pages, 2008
4. Focal Point Theory Models for Dissecting Dynamic Duality Problems of Microbial Infections
   Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology, vol. 2008, Article ID 856314, 8 pages, 2008
5. The evolving role of infectomics in drug discovery
   Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery, vol. 2, no. 7, pp. 961–975, 2007
6. Identification and Characterization of CPS1 as a Hyaluronic Acid Synthase Contributing to the Pathogenesis of Cryptococcus neoformans Infection
   Eukaryotic Cell, vol. 6, no. 8, pp. 1486–1496, 2007
7. PSF is an IbeA-binding protein contributing to meningitic Escherichia coli K1 invasion of human brain microvascular endothelial cells
   Medical Microbiology and Immunology, vol. 196, no. 3, pp. 135–143, 2007
8. HIV-1 gp41 ectodomain enhances Cryptococcus neoformans binding to HBMEC
   Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, vol. 356, no. 4, pp. 899–905, 2007
9. Increased p21 expression and complex formation with cyclin E/CDK2 in retinoid-induced pre-B lymphoma cell apoptosis
   FEBS Letters, vol. 580, no. 15, pp. 3687–3693, 2006
10. Spatial distribution of nerve sprouting after myocardial infarction in mice
    Heart Rhythm, vol. 3, no. 6, pp. 728–736, 2006
11. CPS1, a Homolog of the Streptococcus pneumoniae Type 3 Polysaccharide Synthase Gene, Is Important for the Pathobiology of Cryptococcus neoformans
    Infection and Immunity, vol. 74, no. 7, pp. 3930–3938, 2006
12. Blood-brain Barrier Drug Discovery for Central Nervous System Infections
    Current Drug Targets - Infectious Disorders, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 65–72, 2005
13. Infectomics in the Discovery and Development of New Antimicrobial Agents
    Current Medicinal Chemistry - Anti-Infective Agents, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 57–67, 2004
14. Binding of Candida albicans enolase to plasmin(ogen) results in enhanced invasion of human brain microvascular endothelial cells
    Journal of Medical Microbiology, vol. 52, no. 8, pp. 615–622, 2003
15. Cryptococcus neoformans induces alterations in the cytoskeleton of human brain microvascular endothelial cells
    Journal of Medical Microbiology, vol. 52, no. 11, pp. 961–970, 2003
16. Retinoid-induced G1 Arrest and Differentiation Activation Are Associated with a Switch to Cyclin-dependent Kinase-activating Kinase Hypophosphorylation of Retinoic Acid Receptor alpha
    Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 277, no. 45, pp. 43369–43376, 2002
17. Enhanced Escherichia coli invasion of human brain microvascular endothelial cells is associated with alterations in cytoskeleton induced by nicotine
    Cellular Microbiology, vol. 4, no. 8, pp. 503–514, 2002
18. Infectomics: genomics and proteomics of microbial infections
    Functional & Integrative Genomics, vol. 1, no. 6, pp. 331–344, 2002
19. A novel genetic island of meningitic Escherichia coli K1 containing the ibeA invasion gene (GimA): functional annotation and carbon-source-regulated invasion of human brain microvascular endothelial cells
    Functional & Integrative Genomics, vol. 1, no. 5, pp. 312–322, 2001
20. Cellular mechanisms of microbial proteins contributing to invasion of the blood-brain barrier. MicroReview
    Cellular Microbiology, vol. 3, no. 5, pp. 277–287, 2001
21. Further Characterization of [ITAL]Escherichia coli[/ITAL] Brain Microvascular Endothelial Cell Invasion Gene [ITAL]ibeA[/ITAL] by Deletion, Complementation, and Protein Expression
    The Journal of Infectious Diseases, vol. 183, no. 7, pp. 1071–1078, 2001
22. Traversal of Candida albicans across Human Blood-Brain Barrier In Vitro
    Infection and Immunity, vol. 69, no. 7, pp. 4536–4544, 2001
23. MAT1-Modulated CAK Activity Regulates Cell Cycle G1 Exit
    Molecular and Cellular Biology, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 260–270, 2001
24. Loss Control of Mcm5 Interaction with Chromatin in cdc6-1 Mutated in CDC-NTP Motif
    DNA and Cell Biology, vol. 19, no. 7, pp. 447–457, 2000
25. The Essential Role of Saccharomyces cerevisiae CDC6 Nucleotide-binding Site in Cell Growth, DNA Synthesis, and Orc1 Association
    Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 274, no. 12, pp. 8291–8298, 1999
26. RNA Antisense Abrogation of MAT1 Induces G1 Phase Arrest and Triggers Apoptosis in Aortic Smooth Muscle Cells
    Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 274, no. 9, pp. 5564–5572, 1999
27. Saccharomyces cerevisiae Cdc6 Stimulates Abf1 DNA Binding Activity
    Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 273, no. 3, pp. 1298–1302, 1998
28. Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis Labeling Method to Study the Pattern of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Chromosomal DNA Synthesis During the G1/S Phase of the Cell Cycle
    Analytical Biochemistry, vol. 227, no. 1, pp. 32–39, 1995
29. Efficient induction and preparation of fusion proteins from recombinant phage λgt11 clones
    Trends in Genetics, vol. 10, no. 6, p. 183, 1994
30. Characteristics, Substrate Analysis, and Intracellular Location of Saccharomyces cerevisiae UMP Kinase
    Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, vol. 304, no. 1, pp. 197–204, 1993
31. Functional and structural conservation of Schizosaccharomyces pombe dTMP kinase gene
    Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Structure and Expression, vol. 1132, no. 2, pp. 222–224, 1992
32. Saccharomyces cerevisiae nucleoside-diphosphate kinase: Purification, characterization, and substrate specificity
    Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, vol. 291, no. 2, pp. 241–246, 1991
33. The gene product is associated with the yeast nuclear skeleton
    Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, vol. 172, no. 3, pp. 1324–1330, 1990