DR. RANJANA SRIVASTAVA
 


Scientist G
& Scientist- in- Charge

Microbiology Division
 
 
Educational Qualifications M.Sc., Ph.D.
Date of Birth 5 April, 1951
E mail drranjana@yahoo.com
 
AREA OF RESEARCH SPECIALIZATION
 

Micobial and Molecular Genetics, vaccine
research, Biotechnology

 
PRESENT AREA OF ACTIVITY
 

Pathogenesis of Virulence Factors of Cholera Bacteria and Biology of Latent Mycobacteria

 
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
 
V. Srivastava, A. Jain, B.S. Srivastava BS and R. Srivastava. 2008.Selection of genes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis upregulated during residence in lungs of infected mice.Tuberculosis (Edinb).88, 171.
Mohammad Saquib, Manish K. Gupta, Ram Sagar, Yenamandra S. Prabhakar , Arun K. Shaw, Rishi Kumar, Prakash R. Maulik, Anil Gaikwad, Sudhir Sinha, Anil K. Srivastava, Vinita Chaturvedi, Ranjana Srivastava and Brahm S. Srivastava. 2007. C-3 Alkyl /Arylalkyl-2,3-dideoxy hex-2-enopyranosides as antitubercular agents: Synthesis, Biological Evaluation and QSAR study. J. Med. Chem., 2007, 50, 2942.
V. Srivastava, C. Rouanet, R. Srivastava, B. Ramalingam, C. Locht and B.S. Srivastava. 2007. Macrophage specific M. tuberculosis genes identified by green fluorescent protein and kanamycin resistance selection. Microbiology 153 (Pt 3) 659-66. 48.
P. Akhtar, S. Srivastava, Anil Srivastava, Mukesh Srivastava, Brahm S. Srivastava, Ranjana Srivastava 2006. Rv3303c of Mycobacterium tuberculosis protects tubercle bacilli against oxidative stress in vivo and contributes to virulence in mice. Microbes and infection 8, 2855.
Ravi K. Asthana,, Arunima Srivastava, Akhilesh P. Singh, Deepali, Sureshwar P. Singh, Gopal Nath, Ranjana Srivastava and Brahm S. Srivastava. 2006. Identification of an antimicrobial entity from the cyanobacterium Fischerella sp. isolated from bark of Azadirachta indica (Neem) tree . J. Applied Phycology 18 (1), 33.
Ranjana Srivastava, D. Kumar, M.N. Waskar, M. Sharma, V.M. Katoch and B.S. Srivastava. 2006. Identification of a repetitive sequence belonging to a PPE gene of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and its use in diagnosis of tuberculosis . J. Med. Microbiol. 55, 1071.
Synthesis and antitubercular activities of bis-glycosylated diamino alcohols. R.P. Tripathi, V. K. Tiwari, N. Tewari, D. Katiyar, N. Saxena, S. Sinha, A. Gaikwad, A. K. Srivastava, V. Chaturvedi, Y. K. Manju, R. Srivastava, B. S. Srivastava. 2005. Bioorg Med Chem. 13, 5668.
R.P.S. Parti, S. Srivastava, R. Gachhui, K.K. Srivastava, Ranjana Srivastava. 2005. Murine infection model for Mycobacterium fortuitum. Microbes and Infection. 7, 349
M. Zampini, C. Pruzzo, V.P. Bondre, R. Tarsi, M. Cosmo, A. Bacciaglia, A. Chabbra, R. Srivastava, B.S. Srivastava.. 2005. Vibrio cholerae persistence in aquatic environments and colonization of intestinal cells: involvement of a common adhesion mechanism. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 244 , 267.
D. Katiyar, V.K. Tiwari, N. Tiwari, S.S. Verma, S. Sinha, A. Gaikwad, A. Srivastava, V., Chaturvedi, R. Srivastava, B.S. Srivastava and R.P. Tripathi 2005. Synthesis of antimycobacterial activity of Glosylated Aminesand Amino Alcohols.. Eur. J. Med. Chem.40, 351.
Synthesis of Galactopyranosyl Amino Alcohols as a new class of Antitubercular and antifungal agents. 2004. N. Tewari, V. K. Tiwari, R. P. Tripathi, A. Gaikwad, S. Sinha, P. K. Shukla, R. Srivastava and B. S. Srivastava, Bio. Med. Chem.Lett. 12, 329.
Gautam Panda, Shagufta , Jitendra Kumar Mishra, Vinita Chaturvedi, Anil K. Srivastava, Ranjana Srivastava and Brahm S. Srivastava 2004. Diaryloxy methano phenanthrenes: a new class of antituberculosis agents..Biorg. Med. Chem. 12 . 5269.
P. Prem Raj, S. Srivastava, S. K. Jain, B. S. Srivastava, R. Srivastava.. 2003. Protection by live Mycobacterium habana cvaccine against Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv challenge in mice. Indian J. Med. Res. 117, 139.
A. Mishra, A., R. Srivastava, C. Pruzzo, B.S. Srivastava. 2003. Mutation in tcpR gene (Vc0832) of Vibrio cholerae O1 causes loss of tolerance to high osmolarity and affects colonization and virulence in infant mice. J. Med. Microbiol. 52, 1.
D. Katiyar, V.K. Tiwari, R.P. Tripathi, A. Srivastava, V. Chaturvedi, R. Srivastava. 2003. Synthesis an antimycobacterial activity of 3,5-disubstituted thiadiazine thiones. Bioorg. Med. Chem. 11, 4369.
D.K. Deb, P. Dahiya, K.K. Srivastava, R. Srivastava. B.S. Srivastava. 2002. Selective identification of new therapeutic targets of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by IVIAT approach. Tuberculosis 82, 175.
R.P. Tripathi, R. Tripathi, V.K. Tiwari, L. Bala, S. Sinha, S.A. Srivastava, R. Srivastava, B.S. Sivastava. 2002. Synthesis of Glycosylated ?-amino acids as new class of antitubercular agents. Eur. J. Med. Chem , 2002, 37, 773.
Rashmi Pathak, A. K. Shaw, A. P. Bhaduri, K. V. G. Chandrasekhar, A. Srivastava, K. K. Srivastava, V. Chaturvedi, Ranjana Srivastava, Brahm S. Srivastava, S. Arora and S. Sinha. 2002. Higher acyclic nitrogen containing deoxy sugar derivatives: a new lead in the generation of antimycobacterial chemotherapeutics. Biorg. Med. Chem. 10, 1695
Rashmi Pathak, C. S. Pant, Arun K. Shaw, A. P. Bhaduri, A. N. Gaikwad, S. Sinha, A. Srivastava, K. K. Srivastava, V. Chaturvedi, Ranjana Srivastava and Brahm S. Srivastava. 2002. Baylis-Hillman Reaction: Convenient ascending syntheses and biological evaluation of Acyclic Deoxy monosaccharides as potential antimycobacterial agents. Biorg. Med. Chem. 10, 3187.
D.K. Deb, K. K. Srivastava, R. Srivastava, R. B.S. Srivastava. 2000. Bioluminescent Mycobacterium aurum expressing firefly luciferase for rapid and high throughput screening of antimycobacterial drugs in vitro and in infected macrophages. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 279, 457.
R. Srivastava, B.S.. 2000. Tuberculosis vaccines: a critical role for T-cells. Curr. Opinion Anti-inflammatory & Immunomodulatory Investigational Drugs 2 (2), 100.
M. Waskar, D. Kumar, A. Kumar, R. Srivastava. 2000. Isolation of a novel insertion sequence from Mycobacterium fortuitum using a trap vector based on inactivation of a lacZ reporter gene. Microbiology, 146, 1157.
R. Srivastava, B.S. Srivastava. 2000. Tuberculosis vaccines. IDrugs, 3, 408.
R. Srivastava, D.K. Deb, K.K. Srivastava, C. Locht, B. S. Srivastava. 1998. Green fluorescent protein as a reporter in rapid screening of antituberculosis compounds in vitro and in macrophages. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun.. 253, 431.
D. Kumar, B.S. Srivastava, R. Srivastava. 1998. Genetic rearrangements leading to disruption of heterologous gene expression in mycobacteria: An observation with ?-galactosidase in Mycobacterium smegmatis. Vaccine, 16, 1212.
A. Shukla, M.P. Dubey, R. Srivastava, B.S. Srivastava .1998. Differential expression of proteins during healing of cutaneous wounds in experimental and normal and chronic models. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 244, 434.
V.P. Bondre, R. Srivastava, V.B. Sinha, B.S. Srivastava. 1997. Screening of TnphoA mutants of Vibrio cholerae 0139 for identification of antigens involved in colonization. J. Med. Microbiol. 46, 1007.
R. Srivastava, D. Kumar, B. S. Srivastava.1997. Recombinant Mycobacterium aurum expressing Escherichia coli ?-galactosidase in high through put screening of antituberculosis drugs. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 240, 536.
R. Srivastava, D. Kumar, P Subramaniam, B.S. Srivastava. 1997. alpha- galactosidase reporter system in mycobacteria and its application in rapid antimycobacterial drug screening. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 235, 602.
D. Kumar, R. Srivastava, B. S. Srivastava.1995. Epidemiology of tuberculosis by molecular tools. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., India, 65 (B), II, 113.
D. Kumar, B.S. Srivastava, N. B. Singh, R. Srivastava. 1996. Identification of a 25 kDa protein of Mycobacterium bovis BCG to distinguish BCG from Mycobacterium tuberculosis. J. Clin. Microbiol. 34, 224.
R. Srivastava, G. Prasanna Kumar, K.K. Srivastava. 1995. Genetic construction of a cellulolytic Escherichia coli. Gene 164, 185.
S.N. Singh, R. Srivastava, V.B. Sinha, B.S. Srivastava. 1994. A 53 kDa protein of Vibrio cholerae classical strain 0395 involved in intestinal colonization. Microbial Pathogenesis 17, 69.
K. Krishna Kumar, R, Srivastava, V.B. Sinha, J. Mechalski, J.B. Kaper, B.S.Srivastava. 1994. recA mutations reduce adherence and colonization of classical and el tor strains of Vibrio cholerae. Microbiology 140, 1217.
R. Srivastava, A.K. Srivastava. 1993. Characterization of a bacterial xylanase resistant to repression by glucose and xylose. Biotech. Lett. 15, 847.
V.B. Sinha, A. Jacob, R. Srivastava ,J.B. Kaper, B.S. Srivastava. 1993. Identification of the flagellar antigens of Vibrio cholerae el tor and their role in protection. Vaccine, 11, 372A.
A. Jacob, V.B. Sinha, R. Srivastava, M.K. Sahib, J.B. Kaper, B.S. Srivastava. 1993. Identification of a 33 kDa antigen associated with an adhesive and colonizing strain of Vibrio cholerae el tor and its role in protection. Vaccine, 11, 376.
C.K.M. Tripathi, S.S. Ali, R. Srivastava. 1992. Characterization of xylanase activity of Streptomyces wedmorensis. Ind. J. Exptl. Biol. 30, 741.
R. Srivastava, S. S. Ali, B.S. Srivastava. 1991. Cloning of xylanase gene of Streptomyces flavogriseus in Escherichia coli and bacteriophage lambda induced lysis for the release of cloned enzyme. FEMS Microbiol Lett. 78, 201.
R. Srivastava, R. Bharti, A.K. Srivastava. 1990. Characterization of a novel cellobiase from Bacillus subtilis and expression of its structural gene in Escherichia coli. Biotech. Lett. 12, 541.
A.W. Kerrebroeck, R. Srivastava, S.A. Gerbi. 1989. Isolation and characterization of ribosomal DNA variants from Sciara coprophila. J. Mol. Biol. 210, 1.
R. Srivastava, V.B. Sinha, B.S. Srivastava 1989 . Chromosomal; transfer and in vivo cloning of genes in Vibrio cholerae using RP4::mini-Mu. Gene 75, 253.