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Related to current research
Naseer, N*, Shapiro, Joshua A., Chander, M. 2014. RNA-Seq analysis reveals a six-gene SoxR regulon in Streptomyces coelicolor. PLOS One 9(8):e106181.
Sheplock, R.*, Recinos, D.A., Mackow, N.*, Dietrich, L.E.P., and Chander, M. 2013. Species-specific residues calibrate SoxR sensitivity to redox-active molecules. Mol. Microbiol. 87: 368-381.
Dela Cruz, R.*, Gao, Y.*, Penumetcha, S.*, Sheplock, R.*, Weng, K.*, and Chander, M. 2010. Expression of the Streptomyces coelicolor SoxR regulon is intimately linked with actinorhodin production. J. Bacteriol. 192: 6428-6438.
Chander, M., and Demple, B. 2004. Functional analysis of SoxR residues affecting transduction of oxidative stress signals into gene expression. J. Biol. Chem. 279: 41603-10.
Chander, M., Raducha-Grace*, L., and Demple, B. 2003. Transcription-defective soxR mutants of Escherichia coli: Isolation and in vivo characterization. J. Bacteriol. 185: 2441-50.
Other publications
Chander, M, Lee, A.*, Vallery, T.*, Thandar, M.*, Jiang, Y.*, Hsu, L. 2015. Mechanisms of very long abortive transcript (VLAT) release during promoter escape. Biochemistry 54(50): 7393-408.
Chander, M., Austin, K. M.*, Aye-Han,, N.-N.*, Sircar, P.*, and Hsu, L. M. 2007. An alternate mechanism of abortive release marked by the formation of very long abortive transcripts. Biochemistry 46: 12687-12699.
Tovar-Rojo, F., Chander, M., Setlow, B., and Setlow, P. 2002. The products of the spoVA operon are involved in dipicolinic acid uptake into developing spores of Bacillus subtilis. J. Bacteriol. 184: 584-7.
Jedrzejas, M.J., Chander, M., Setlow, P., and Krishnasamy, G. 2000. Mechanism of catalysis of the cofactor independent phosphoglycerate mutase from Bacillus stearothermophilus: crystal structure of the complex with 2-phosphoglycerate. J. Biol. Chem. 275: 23146-53.
Jedrzejas, M.J., Chander, M., Setlow, P., and Krishnasamy, G. 2000. Structure and mechanism of action of a novel phosphoglycerate mutase from Bacillus stearothermophilus. EMBO J. 19: 1419-31.
Chander, M., Setlow, P., Lamani, E., and Jedrzejas, M.J. 1999. Structural studies on a 2,3-diphosphoglycerate independent phosphoglycerate mutase from Bacillus stearhermophilus. J. Struct. Biol. 126: 156-65.
Chander, M., Setlow, B., and Setlow, P. 1998. The enzymatic activity of phosphoglycerate mutase from gram-positive endospore-forming bacteria requires Mn2+ and is pH sensitive. Can. J. Microbiol. 44: 759-67.
Loshon, C.A., Beary, K.E.*, Chander, M., and Setlow, P. 1994. Cloning and sequencing of the sspF (originally 0.3 kb) genes from Bacillus cereus and Bacillus megaterium. Gene.150: 203-4.