Publications(1990-99)

• S. K. Mahanty, P.Gupta, U. Banerjee, R. Fotedar and Prasad, R. Defective plasma membrane H+-ATPase of orthovanadate resistant mutants from Candida albicans, a pathogenic yeast. Biochem. Int. 22: 11-20 (1990). 

• K.Manoharan, Prasad, R. and S.G. Mukharjee. Senescence-Related lipid changes in Callus Cultures of Datura Innoxia. Phytochemistry. Vol. 29, No.8: 2529-2531 (1990). 

• P. Mishra and Prasad, R.Lipid composition of C. albicans. In: Candida albicans: Cellular and Molecular Biology (Prasad, R. ed.) Springer-Verlag, 128-143. (1991). 

• S. Anand and Prasad, R.Growth and respiration Characteristics of Candida albicans. In: Candida albicans: Cellular and Molecular Biology (Prasad, R. ed.) Springer-Verlag, 46-61 (1991). 

• Prasad, R.Plasma Membrane of C. albicans: Its Relevance to Transport Phenomenon..  In: Candida albicans: Cellular and Molecular Biology (Prasad, R. ed.) Springer-Verlag, 108-127 (1991). 

• P. Mishra and Prasad, R.Lipids of Candida albicans: Progress in Lipid research, Pergamon Press, 29, 65-85. (1991).  

• P. Mishra, B. Roy,  Prasad, R., H.K. Das. Amino acid transport in Azotobacter vinelandii: implications of nonavailability of amino acid auxotrophs. FEMS Microbiol. Letters 79: 41-44 (1991). 

• Prasad, R.  (R. Prasad.ed) Role of intracellular pH and nutrient transport in differentiation of Candida albicans In Proceeding of Mol. Biol. Yeast in relation to Biotech. Omega Scientific Press, 268-279 (1991). 

• P. Gupta, S.K. Mohanty, S. Ansari & Prasad, R.Isolation Purification and Kinetic Characterization of Plasma membrane H+-ATPase of Candida albicans. Biochem. Int. 24: 907-915 (1991).

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• Sanjoy Mahanty, Rajkishor Khaware, Shehnaz Ansari, Poonam Gupta and Prasad, R.Vanadate Resistant Mutants of Candida albicans Show Alterations in Phosphate Uptake. FEMS Letters, 84: 163 (1991).

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• P. Mishra, J. Bolard, and Prasad, R.Emerging role of lipids of Candida albicans, a pathogenic dimorphic yeast. (1991) Biochim Biophys. Acta. 1127: 1-14 (1992). 

• P. Gupta, S.K. Mahanty, S. Ansari and Prasad, R.Transport of Acidic Amino Acids in Candida albicans . J. Med. Vet. Mycol. 30: 27-34 (1992). 

• P. Gupta, Prasad, R.Levels of plasma membrane H+-ATPase do not change during growth and morphogenesis of Candida albicans. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 106: 65-170 (1993). 

• S. Ansari, P. Gupta, S.K. Mahanty and Prasad, R. The uptake of Amino Acids by erg mutants of Candida albicans. J. Med. Vet. Mycol. Volume 31(5): 377-386 (1993). 

• S. Ansari and Prasad, R. Effect of miconazole on the structure and function of plasma membrane of Candida albicans. FEMS Microbiol. Letts. 114: 93-98 (1993). 

• Prasad, R., D.F. Phillipes, A. Goffeau and E. Balzi. Molecular cloning and characterisation of a novel gene of Candida albicans, CDR1, conferring multiple resistance to drugs and antifungals. Current Genetics 27: 320 (1995). 

• Prasad, R. and A. Koul. Extraction and estimation of membrane lipids, In “Manual of Membrane Lipids” Springer Verlag  pp. 37-51 (1995). 

• Prasad, R., A. Koul, P.K. Mukherjee and M. Ghannoum. Lipids of Candida albicans , In " Lipids of Pathogenic Fungi", (Eds R. Prasad. and Ghannoum, M ), CRC Press pp. 105- 138  (1996). 

• A. Varma and Prasad, R. Characteristics of xylose uptake in Pichia stipitis and its hybrids, in Proceedings of National Academy Sciences (India) 66 (B) Spl. Issue., 65-75 (1996) . 

• Prasad, R., S. Krishna Murthy, V. Gupta and Prasad, R. Multiple drug resistance in Candida albicans, , Acta Biochimica Polonica Vol. 42(4) 497-504 (1995). 

• R. K. Khaware, A. Kaul & Prasad, R. High Membrane fluidity is related to NaCl stress in “Candida membranefaciens” 35, 875-880 (1995). 

• A. Kaul, J. Chandra & Prasad, R. Status of membrane lipids and amino acid transport in morphological mutants of Candida albicans, Biochem. Mol. Biol. Intl. Vol. 35(6) 1215-1222  (1995). 

• A. S. Abrahim, Prasad, R. and M. A. Ghannoum. Antifungals,. In "Lipids of Pathogenic Fungi", (Eds R. Prasad. and Ghannoum,M ), CRC, Press pp. 235-252 (1996). 

• Prasad, R. Structure and distribution of membrane lipids. In “Manual of Membrane Lipids” Springer Verlag  pp 1-15 (1996). 

• Prasad, R., S. Krishna Murthy, Ramasare Prasad, Vinita Gupta and Sneh Lata. Multidrug resistance: an emerging threat. Curr. Sci. 71(3), 205-213 (1996). 

• D. Jethwaney, Milan Hoefer, R.K. Khaware and Prasad, R. Functional reconstitution of a purified proline permease from Candida albicans: interaction with the antifungal Microbiology  143, 397-404  (1997). cispentacin 

• Prasad, R. Changing the transport of a cell. Crit.  Rev. Biotechnol. 17, 171-183 (1997) 

• P. K. Mukherjee and Prasad, R. Purified arginine permease of C. albicans is functionally active in a reconstituted system, Yeast 14: 335-345 (1998).

• Prasad, R., S. Krishna Murthy, Vinita Gupta and Sneh Lata The molecular aspects of multidrug resistance in Candida albicans Recent Trends in Mycoses, 65-72  (1998). 

• Krishnamurthy, S., Chatterjee, U. Gupta, V., Das, P., Snehlata, P., Hasnain, S. E. and Prasad, R. Deletion of Transmembrane Domain (TM) 12 of Cdr1 a Multidrug Transporter from Candida albicans, Leads to Altered Drug Specificity: Expression of a yeast multidrug transporter in Baculovirus expression system. Yeast 14, 535-550  (1998). 

• S. Krishnamurthy, Gupta, V., Snehlata, P. and Prasad, R. Characterisation of human steroid hormone transport mediated by Cdr1p, a multidrug transporter of Candida albicans, belonging to the ATP binding cassette super family.. FEMS Microbiol. Lett.,  158 (1), 69-74 (1998). 

• Gupta, V., A. Kaur, S. Krishnamurthy , Snehlata, P. and Prasad, R. Identification of seven mutant alleles of CaMDR1, a membrane facilitator of Candida albicans which confers multidrug resistance and its in vitro transcriptional  activation.. Current Genetics  34, 192-199  (1998). 

• S. Krishnamurthy, V. Gupta, R. Prasad, Snehlata, P. and Prasad, R. Expression of CDR1, a multidrug resistance gene of Candida albicans: transcriptional activation by heat shock, drugs and steroid hormones. FEMS Microbiol. Lett.,  160 (2), 191-197 (1998).

• Smriti Dogra, Shankarling Krishnamurthy, Vinita Gupta, Bharat, L. Dixit, C.M. Gupta, Dominique Sanglard and Prasad, R. Assymmetric distribution of phosphatidylethanolamine in C. albicans: possible mediation by CDR1, a multidrug transporter belonging to ATP binding cassette (ABC) superfamily. Yeast, 15 (2), 111-121 (1999). 

• Smriti, S. Krishnamurthy, and Prasad, R. Membrane fluidity affects function of CDR1p, a multidrug ABC transporter of Candida albicans. FEMS Microbiol. Lett., 173: 475-481 (1999). 

• Neeti Puri, S. Krishnamurthy, S. Habib, S. E. Hasnain, S. K. Goswami and Prasad, R. CDR1, A multidrug resistance gene from Candida albicans, contains multiple regulatory domains in its promoter and the distal AP-1 element mediates its induction by miconazole. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 180: 213-219  (1999).  

• Jaun P. Navarro-Avino, Prasad, R., Vicente J. Miralles, Rosa M. Benito and Ramon Serrano. A proposal for Nomenclature of aldehyde dehydrogenases in Saccharomyces cerevisieae and characterization of the stress-inducible ALD2 and ALD3 genes. Yeast 15:829-842. (1999).