Peer reviewed

Publications during 2009-2011

1. Pillai MR, Hariharan R, Janki MBV, Lakshmi S, Chiplunkar SV, Patkar M, Tongaonkar H, Dinshaw K, Jayshree RS, Reddy BKM, Siddiqui M, Roychoudury S, Saha B, Abraham P, Gnanamony M, Peedicayil A, Subhashini J, Ram TS, Dey B, Sharma C, Jain SK, Singh N. Molecular variants of HPV – 16 associated with cervical cancer in Indian population. International Journal of Cancer 125: 91-103, 2009.
2. Reshmi G, Pillai MR. In Silico screening of novel inhibitors for HPV: A rational structure based approach (Docking Versus Pharmacophore Model Generation). Letters in Drug Design & Discovery 6: 494-501, 2009.
3. Sreekumar E, Issac A, Nair S, Hariharan R, Janki MB, Arathy DS, Regu R, Mathew T, Anoop M, Niyas KP, Pillai MR. Genetic characterization of 2006 – 2008 isolates of chikungunya virus from Kerala, South India, by whole genome sequence analysis. Virus Genes, 2009.
4. Hariharan I, Pillai MR. Genotypes of the human papillomavirus: relevance to Indian field trials of the vaccine. Indian Journal of Medical Research 130 (3): 247-260, 2009.
5. Hariharan R, Babu JM, Rema P, Pillai MR. Mutational analysis of Smad7 in human cervical cancer. Oncology Reports 21 (4): 1001-1004, 2009.
6. Klug SJ, Ressing M, Koenig J, Abba MC, Agorastos T, Brenna SM, Ciotti M, Das BR, Del Mistro A, Dybikowska A, Giuiliano AR, Gudleviciene Z, Gyllensten U, Haws AL, Helland A, Herrington CS, Hilesheim A, Humbey O, Jee SH, Kim JW, Madeleine MM, Menczer J, Ngan HY, Nishikawa A, Niwa Y, Pegoraro R, Pillai MR, Ranzani G, Rezza G, Rosenthal AN, Roychoudhury S, Saranath D, Schmitt VM, Sengupta S, Settheetham-Ishida W, Shirasawa H, Snijders PJ, Stoler MH, Suarez-Rincon AE, Szarka K, Tachezy R, Ueda M, van der Zee AG, von Knebel Doeberitz M, Wu MT, Yamashita T, Zehbe I, Blettner M. TP53 codon 72 polymorphism and cervical cancer: a pooled analysis of individual data from 49 studies. Lancet Oncology 10 (8): 772-784, 2009.
7. Krishnan A, Nair AS, Pillai MR. Loss of cks1 homeostasis deregulates cell division cycle. Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine 14: 154-164, 2010.
8. Chandra V, Reshmi G, Pillai SS,Pillai MR, Nair AS.MTar: comprehensive computational microRNA target prediction architecture for human transcriptome. BMC Bioinformatics; 11 Suppl 1:S2, 2010.
9. Pillai MR, Janki MBV, Jissa VT, Lakshmi S, Chiplunkar SV, Patkar M, Tongaonkar H, Reddy BKM, Chakka KN, Siddiqui M, Roychoudury S, Abraham P, Peedicayil A, Gnanamony M, Subhashini J, Ram TS, Dey B, Singh N, Singh A, Jain SK, Jayshree RS. Region-wise distribution of high-risk human papillomavirus types in squamous cell carcinomas of the cervix in India. International Journal of Gynecological Cancer 20 (6): 1046-1051, 2010.
10. Santhi WS, Pillai MR. Molecular markers in the identification of potentially malignant lesions and minimal residual disease in oral cavity. Kerala Dental Journal 33: 11-15, 2010.
11. Richard V, Pillai MR. The stem cell code in oral epithelial tumorigenesis: The cancer stem cell shift hypothesis. Biochim Biophys Acta - Cancer Reviews1806 (2): 146-162, 2010.
12. Shukla S, Bharti AC, Mahata S, Hussain S, Hedau S, Sharma R, Pillai MR, Krishna S, Chiplunkar S, Tongaonkar H, Das BC. Application of a multiplex PCR to cervical cells collected by a paper smear for the simultaneous detection of all mucosal human papillomaviruses and typing of HR HPV types 16 and 18. Journal of Medical Microbiology 59 (11): 1303-1310, 2010.
13. Ramshid PK, Jagadeeshan S, Krishnan A, Mathew M, Nair AS, Pillai MR. Synthesis and In Vitro evaluation of some Isatin – Thiazolidinone hybrid analogues as anti – proliferative agents. Medicinal Chemistry 6 (5): 306-312, 2010.
14. Reshmi G, Chandra V, Janki MB V, Saneesh Babu PS, Santhi WS, Ramachandran S, Lakshmi S, Nair AS, Pillai MR. Identification and analysis of novel microRNAs from Fragile Sites of Human Cervical Cancer: Computational and Experimental Approach. Genomics 97:333-340, 2011.
15. Reshmi G, Chandra V, Jijith VS, Pillai MR. IntmiR - a Complete Catalogue of Intronic miRNAs of Human and Mouse. Bioinformation 5 (10): 458-459, 2011.
16. Shankar S, Pillai MR. Translating cancer research by synthetic biology. Molecular Biosystems 2011 (in press).
17. Reshmi G, Sona Charles, Pillai MR. Comprehensive Patterns in microRNA Regulationof Transcription Factors during Tumor Metastasis. Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 112:2210-2217.
18. Diana David, Lakshmy M Rajappan, Krishna Balachandran, Jissa V Thulaseedharan, Asha S Nair and Pillai MR. Prognostic significance of STAT3 and phosphorylated STAT3 in human soft tissue tumors – a clinicopathological analysis. Journal of Experimental and Clinical Cancer Research 2011, 30:56
19. G. Reshmi, Ramachandran Surya, V.T. Jissa, P.S. Saneesh Babu, N.R. Preethi, W.S. Santhi, P.G. Jayaprakash and Pillai MR. C – T variant in a miRNA target site of BCL2 is associated with increased risk of Human Papillomavirus related cervical cancer – An in silico approach. Genomics 98: 189 – 193, 2011
20. Da-Qiang Li, Suresh Pakala, Sirigiri Divijendra Natha Reddy, Kazufumi Ohshiro, Lei Wang, Yanping Zhang, Ignacio Moreno de Alborán,Pillai MR , Jeyanthy Eswaran, Rakesh Kumar. TP53-independent bidirectional autoregulatory mechanism of MTA1-ARF in oncogenesis.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) – 2011 (in press).
21. Janki MB, Prathibha R, Jijith VS, Hariharan R, Pillai MR. A miR- centric view of head and neck cancers. Biochim Biophys Acta - Cancer Reviews - 2011 (in press).
22. Santhi Achuthan, T.R. Santhoshkumar, Jem Prabhakar, S.Asha Nair and Pillai MR. Drug induced senescence generates chemoresistant stem like cells with low reactive oxygen species. Journal of Biological Chemistry 2011 (in press)