Publications

  • Govind Rao and R. Mutharasan. Alcohol Production by Clostridium acetobutylicum Induced by Methyl Viologen. Biotech. Lett. 1986. 8:893-896.
  • Govind Rao, P. J. Ward and R. Mutharasan. Manipulation of End-Product Distribution in Strict Anaerobes.   Annals N. Y.  Acad. Sci. 1987. 506:76-83.
  • Govind Rao and R. Mutharasan. Altered Electron Flow in Continuous Cultures of Clostridium acetobutylicum Induced by Viologen Dyes.  Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 1987. 53:1232-1235.
  • Govind Rao and R. Mutharasan. Altered Electron Flow in a Reducing Environment in Clostridium acetobutylicum. Biotech. Lett. 1988.  10:129-132.
  • Govind Rao and R. Mutharasan. Directed Metabolic Flow with High Butanol Yield and Selectivity  in Continuous Cultures of  Clostridium acetobutylicum. Biotech. Lett. 1988. 10:313-318.
  • E. L. Winter, Govind Rao and T. W. Cadman. Relationship Between Culture Redox Potential and Culture Fluorescence in Corynebacterium glutamicum. Biotech. Techniques. 1988. 2:233-236.
  • Govind Rao and R. Mutharasan. NADH Levels and Solventogenesis in Clostridium acetobutylicum: New Insights Through Culture Fluorescence. Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 1989. 30:59-66.
  • S.J. Coppella and Govind Rao. Practical Considerations in the Measurement of Culture Fluorescence. Biotechnol. Prog. 1990. 6:398-401.
  • Ewa Gajewski, Govind Rao, Zeena Nackerdien and Miral Dizdaroglu. Modification of DNA Bases in Mammalian Chromatin by Radiation -generated Free Radicals. Biochemistry. 1990. 29:7876-7882.
  • Miral Dizdaroglu, Govind Rao, Barry Halliwell and Ewa Gajewski. Damage to DNA Bases in Mammalian Chromatin by Hydrogen Peroxide in the Presence of Ferric and Cupric Ions. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 1991. 285:317-324.
  • Miral Dizdaroglu, Zeena Nackerdien, B. C. Chao, Ewa Gajewski and Govind Rao. Chemical Nature of in vivo DNA Base Damage in Hydrogen Peroxide Treated Mammalian Cells. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 1991. 285: 388-390.
  • Zeena Nackerdien, Govind Rao, Marco Cacciuttolo, Ewa Gajewski and Miral Dizdaroglu. Chemical Nature of DNA-Protein Cross-Links Produced in Mammalian Chromatin by Hydrogen Peroxide in the Presence of Ferric and Cupric Ions. Biochemistry. 1991. 30: 4873-4879.
  •  Zeena Nackerdien, Kazimierz S. Kasprzak, Govind Rao, Barry Halliwell and Miral Dizdaroglu. Nickel(II) and Cobalt(II) Dependent Damage by Hydrogen Peroxide to the DNA Bases in Isolated Human Chromatin. Cancer Research. 1991. 51:5837-5842.
  • Simon C. W. Kwong and Govind Rao. The Utility of Culture Redox Potential for Identifying Metabolic State Changes in the Amino Acid Fermentation. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 1991. 38: 1034-1040.
  • Simon C. W. Kwong and Govind Rao. Effect of Reducing Agents in an Aerobic Amino Acid Fermentation. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 1992. 40:851-857.
  • Simon C. W. Kwong, Lisa Randers and Govind Rao. Consistency Evaluation of Batch Fermentations Based on On-line NADH  Fluorescence. Biotechnol Prog. 1992. 8:410-412.
  • Simon C. W. Kwong, Lisa Randers and Govind Rao. Online Assessment of Metabolic Activities Based on Culture Redox Potential and Dissolved Oxygen Profiles During Aerobic Fermentation.  Biotechnol. Prog.1992. 8:576-579.
  • Marco Cacciuttolo, Loc Trinh, Janice Lumpkin and Govind Rao. Hyperoxia Induces DNA Damage in Mammalian Cells.  Free Radic. Biol. and Med. 1993. 14:267-276.
  • Simon C. W. Kwong, Lisa Randers and Govind Rao. On-line Detection of Substrate Exhaustion Using NAD(P)H Fluorescence. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 1993. 59:604-606.
  • Steven Altman, Lisa Randers and Govind Rao. Comparison of Trypan Blue Exclusion and Fluorimetric Assays for Mammalian Cell Viability Determination. Biotechnol. Prog.1993. 9:671-674.
  • Simon C. W. Kwong and Govind Rao. Metabolic Monitoring by Using the Rate of Change of NAD(P)H Fluorescence. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 1994. 44:453-459.
  • Shabbir Bambot, Raja Holavanahali, Joseph Lakowicz, Gary Carter and Govind Rao. Phase Fluorometric Sterilizable Optical Oxygen Sensor. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 1994. 43:1139-1145.
  • S. Bambot, R. Holavanahali, Joseph Lakowicz, Gary Carter and Govind Rao. Optical oxygen sensor using fluorescence lifetime measurement.  Oxygen Transport to Tissue XVI (M.C. Hogan, O Mattheiu-Costello, D.C. Poole and P.D Wagner Eds.) Plenum Publishing Corporation. New York. 1994. 361:195-206.
  • Steven Altman, Tomasz Zastawny, Lisa Randers, Zhanglin Lin, Janice Lumpkin, José Remacle, Miral Dizdaroglu and Govind Rao. tert-Butyl Hydroperoxide Mediated DNA Base Damage in Cultured Mammalian Cells. Mut. Res. 1994. 306: 35-44.
  • Phillip S. Tsai, Govind Rao and James E. Bailey. Improvement of E. coli Microaerobic Oxygen Metabolism by Vitreoscilla Hemoglobin: New Insights from NAD(P)H Fluorescence and Culture Redox Potential.  Biotechnol. Bioeng. 1995. 47:347-354.
  • Tomasz Zastawny, Steven Altman, Lisa Randers-Eichhorn, Rapti Madurawe, Janice Lumpkin, Miral Dizdaroglu and Govind Rao. DNA Base Modifications and Membrane Damage in Cultured Mammalian Cells Treated with Iron Ions. Free Rad. Biol. and Med. 1995. 18:1013-1022.
  • Jose Remacle, Martine Raes, Olivier Toussaint, Patricia Renard and Govind Rao. Low Levels of Reactive Oxygen Species as Modulators of Cell Function. Mut. Res. 1995. 316:103-122.
  • Shabbir Bambot, Jeffrey Sipior, Joseph Lakowicz and Govind Rao. Lifetime-Based Optical Sensing of pH Using Resonance Energy Transfer in Sol-Gel Sensors. Sensors and Actuators B (Chemical). 1995. 22:181-188.
  • Shabbir Bambot, Joseph Lakowicz and Govind Rao.  Potential Applications of Lifetime-Based Phase-Modulation Fluorimetry for Bioprocess and Clinical Sensing. Trends in Biotechnology. 1995. 13:106-116.
  • Jeffrey Sipior, Shabbir Bambot,  Romauld M., Gary Carter, Joseph Lakowicz and Govind Rao. A Lifetime-Based Optical CO2 Gas Sensor with Blue or Red Excitation and Stokes or Anti-Stokes Detection. Anal. Biochem. 1995. 227:309-318.
  • Shabbir Bambot, Romauld M., Gary Carter, Jeffrey Sipior, Ewald Terpetschnig, Joseph Lakowicz and Govind Rao. Sensing Oxygen Through Skin Using a Red Diode-laser and Fluorescence Lifetimes.  Biosensors & Bioelectronics. 1995. 10:643-652.
  • Qing Chang, Jeffrey Sipior, Joseph Lakowicz and Govind Rao. A Lifetime-Based Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer Sensor for Ammonia.  Anal. Biochem. 1995. 232:92-97.
  • Steven Altman, Tomasz Zastawny, Lisa Randers-Eichhorn, Marco A. Cacciuttolo, Steven A. Akman, Miral Dizdaroglu and Govind Rao. Formation of DNA-Protein Cross-Links in Cultured Mammalian Cells Upon Treatment with Iron Ions. Free Rad. Biol. and Med. 1995. 19:897-902.
  • Raja Holavanahali, Romauld M., Gary M. Carter, Govind Rao, Jeffrey Sipior, Joseph R. Lakowicz and John Bierlein. A Directly-Modulated Diode Laser Frequency-Doubled in a KTP Waveguide as an Excitation Source for CO2 and O2 Phase Fluorometric Sensors. J. Biomed. Optics. 1996. 1:124-130.
  • L. Randers-Eichhorn, R. A. Bartlett, J. Sipior, D. D. Frey, G. Carter and Govind Rao. Fluorescence Lifetime-based Sensors: Oxygen Sensing and Other Biomedical Applications. In Laser-Tissue Interaction VII. 1996. Steven L Jacques (Ed.) Proc. SPIE 2681, 147-158.