M. Bazlur Rashid, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology
Natural Sciences Division
M. Bazlur Rashid, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology
Natural Sciences Division
Work: (281) 283-3756; Fax (281-283-3709)
E-mail: rashid@uhcl.edu
Ph.D.
(Molecular Genetics) 1994
Osaka University Medical School, Osaka, Japan.
MD
(Medicine) 1986
Dhaka
Medical College, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Ruth
L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award fellow, 2000
Japanese Govt. Scholarship
(Ministry of Education, Science & Culture, Japan), 1989
Bangladesh National Board
Scholarship for Medical Education, 1980
Training/Employment
National
Research Service Award Fellow 03/00- 01/03
Dept. of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Post-doctoral
Research Associate 09/94- 02/00
Cellular
Biology, University of Georgia
Medical
Officer/ Assistant Surgeon 06/87-06/89
Ministry
of Health, Bangladesh
Intern
04/86-05/87
Dhaka
Medical College Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Regulation and
localization of proteins/enzymes aiming towards vaccine development or
chemotherapy
Cloning of novel genes to
study roles in pathophysiology in human diseases
Universal expression of genes in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes
Mechanism of DNA replication
GRANTS
UHCL Faculty Research Support Fund: Generation of phosphorytable ubiquitin as a marker of ubiquitination, April 2003
UHCL Faculty Research Support Fund: Regulation of human inducible nitric oxide synthase. September 2004
UHCL Faculty Research Support Fund: Regulation of human inducible nitric oxide synthase by protien-protien interaction. December 2006.
Rashid MB, Stanton JD and Mensa-Wilmot K, 2002. Cysteine-less GPI-phospholipase C is Inhibited Competitively by a Sulfhydryl Reagent: Glyco-mimicry by para-Chloromercuriphenylsulfonate (Biochem J. Aug 15; 366(Pt 1): 281-8)
Ghosh DK, Rashid MB,
Crane B, Taskar V, Mast M, Misukonis MA, Weinberg JB, Eissa NT, 2001.
Characterization of key residues in the subdomain encoded by exons 8 and 9
of human inducible nitric oxide synthase: a critical role for Asp-280 in
substrate binding and subunit interactions. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. Aug
28; 98(18): 10392-7
Rashid MB and Mensa-Wilmot
K, 2000. A novel kanamycin/neomycin phsophotransferase cassette increases
transformation efficiency of E. coli. Biotechniques (January)
Rashid MB, Russell M and Mensa-Wilmot K, 1999. Roles of Gln81 and Cys80 in Catalysis by GPI-Phospholipase C from Trypanosoma brucei. Eur J Biochem. Sep 15; 264(3): 914-920.
Teilhet M, Rashid MB, Hawk A, Al-Qahtani A and Mensa-Wilmot K, 1998. Effect of short 5’ UTR on protein synthesis in two biological kingdoms. Gene 222: 91-97.
Rashid MB, Shirahige K, Ogasawara N and Yoshikawa H, 1994. Anatomy of the stimulative sequences flanking the ARS consensus sequence of chromosome VI in S. cerevisiae. Gene 150: 213-220.
Yamazoe M, Shirahige K,
Rashid MB, Kaneko Y. Nakayama T, Ogasawara N, Yoshikawa H, 1994 A protein
which binds preferentially to single-stranded core sequence of
autonomously replicating sequence is essential for respiratory function in
mitochondria of S. cerevisiae. J Biol Chem. 269: 15244-15252.
Shirahige K, Iwasaki T, Rashid MB, Ogasawara N and Yoshikawa H,1993. Location and characterization of autonomously replicating sequences from chromosome VI of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol Cell Biol 13: 5043-5056.
Presentations/Abstract
American Thoracic Society, San Francisco, CA. May'01; Characterization of Key residues in the region of exons 8-9 of human iNOS: Asp280 is critical for substrate binding and subunit interactions
FASEB Experimental Biology, Orlando, FL. Mar'01; Characterization of Key residues in the region of exons 8-9 of human iNOS.
Molecular Parasitology Meeting X, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA Sep'99. Contribution of non-covalent interactions to inhibition of GPI-Phospholipase(s) C by a sulfhydryl reagent: identification of a putative target for p-CMPS inhibition of GPI-PLC from T. brucei.
Molecular Parasitology Meeting IX, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA. Sep'98; Possible roles of Gln81 and Cys80 in Catalysis by GPI-Phospholipase C from T. brucei.
Cellular Biology Departmental Seminar, University of Georgia, Athens, GA. Jan'96; Anatomy of the autonomously replicating sequences in S. cerevisiae.
Annual Molecular Biology Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, Dec'93; Study of the stimulative sequences of ARSs on chromosome VI of S. cerevisiae.
