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Selected Publications

1. Patacsil, D., Tran, A.T., Cho, Y.S., Suy, S., Saenz, F., Malyukova, I., Ressom, H., Collins, S.P., Clarke, R., Kumar, D. Gamma-Tocotrienol induced Apoptosis is Associated with Unfolded Protein Response in Human Breast Cancer Cells, 2010, J. Nutr. Biochem. (In Press)

2. Park H., Suy, S., Danner, M., Dailey, V., Zhang, Y., Li, H., Hyduke, D., Collins, B., Gagnon, G., Kallakury, B., Kumar, D., Brown, M., Fornace, A., Dritschilo, A., Collins, S. AMP-Activated Protein Kinase Promotes Human Prostate Cancer Cell Growth and Survival. Mol. Can. Therap., 2009; 9: 733-41.

3. Harkness, S., Bejleri, V., Kumar, D., Zeytinci, A., Petty, R., Dixon. F., Integrating Undergraduate Research Activities into a Campus-Wide Initiative. Book Chapter in "Broadening Participation in Undergraduate Research: Fostering Excellence and Enhancing the Impact" 2009 (In Press).

4. Kumar, D and Verma, M. Methods in Cancer Epigenetics and Cancer Epidemiology. Methods Mol Biol. 2009; 471:273-88.

5. Verma, M. and Kumar, D. Diagnosing cancer using histone modification analysis. In: Cancer Epigenetics (Tollefsbol, T. ed.). 2008. CRC Press, New York. Pp 347-457.

6. Verma, M. and Kumar, D. Application of mitochondrial genome information in cancer epidemiology. Clin Chim Acta. 2007, 383: 41-50

7. Verma, M., Naviaux R., Tanaka, M., Kumar, D., Franceschi C., and Singh, K. Mitochondrial DNA and Cancer Epidemiology. Cancer Res. 2007 67: 437-439

8. Boudreau, H.E., Broustas, C.G., Gokhale, P.C., Kumar, D., Mewani, R., Rone J.D., Haddad, B.R., Ahmad, I and Kasid U. Expression of BRCC3, a novel cell cycle regulated molecule, is associated with increased phosphor-ERK and cell proliferation. Int. J. Mol. Med, 2007, 19: 29.

9. Liang, L.R., Lu S., Wang, X., Lu, Y., Mandal, V., Patacsil, D and Kumar D. A Fuzzy-Set-Theory-Based Approach to Differential Gene Expression Data Analysis. BMC J. Bioinformatics 2006, 7 (Suppl 4): S7

10. Tian, S., Mewani, R., Kumar, D., Li, B., Danner, M., Ahmad, I., Rahman A., Notario, V., Dritschilo, A., Kasid, U.N., and Gokhale, P.C., Phosphorylation and stabilization of X-linked inhibitor of apoptosis (XIAP) by Raf-1 kinase. Int. J. Oncol, 2006, 29: 861-867

11. Dritschillo A., Huang C.H., Rudin C., Marshall J., Collins B., Steinberg J., Wanaski S., Dul J., Sherman J., Zhang C., Kumar D., Gokhale PC., Ahmad A., Ahmad I. and Kasid U., Phase I study of liposome-encapsulated c-raf Antisense Oligodeoxyribonucleotide (LErafAON) infusion during radiation therapy in patients with advanced malignancies. Clin. Cancer Res, 2006 12:1251-9)

12. Zhang C, Chakravarty D, Sakabe I, Mewani RR, Boudreau HE, Kumar D, Ahmad I, Kasid UN. Role of SCC-S2 in Experimental Metastasis and Modulation of VEGFR-2, MMP-1, and MMP-9 Expression. Mol Ther. 2006, 13:947-55.

13. Kumar D., Patel S., Whiteside TL and Kasid U. SCC-112 is a novel gene inducing apoptosis and a candidate tumor suppressor gene in human breast cancer and renal cell carcinoma. Gene 2004 328: 187-196.

14. Kumar D., Gokhale P., Broustas C., Chakravarty D., Ahmad I., Whiteside T.L., Kasid U. Over expression of SCC-S2 leads to increased cell growth and tumorigenicity in MDA-MB 435 breast cancer cells Oncogene, 2004 23: 612-616

15. Kumar D., Whiteside T.L., Kasid U. Identification of a novel TNF- inducible gene SCC-S2 containing consensus sequence of a death effector domain of FLICE inhibitory protein. J. Biol. Chem. 2000, 275: 2973-2978.

16. Waskar M., Kumar D., Kumar A. and Srivastava R., Isolation of a novel insertion sequence from Mycobacterium fortuitum using a trap vector based on the inactivation of lacZ reporter gene. Microbiology (UK) 2000, 146: 1157-62.