• Daniella Ishimaru, Lisa Zuraw, Sivakumar Ramalingam, Tapas K. Sengupta, Sumita Bandyopadhyay, Adrian Reuben, Daniel J. Fernandes and Spicer, EK, Mechanism of regulation of bcl-2 mRNA by nucleolin and AUF1, submitted, 2010
• Demarse, NA, Ponnusamy, S, Spicer, EK, Apohan, E, Baatz, JE, Ogretmen, B, Davies, C. Direct Binding of Glyceraldehyde 3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase to Telomeric DNA Protects Telomeres against Chemotherapy-Induced Rapid Degradation. J Mol Biol, 394, 789-803, 2009
• Soundararajan S, Wang, L, Sridharan, V, Chen W, Courtenay-Luck N, Jones, D, Spicer, EK, Fernandes DJ. Plasma membrane nucleolin is a receptor for the anticancer aptamer AS1411 in MV4-11 leukemia cells. Mol Pharmacol, 76, 984-991, 2009
• Ishimaru, D, Ramalingam, S, Sengupta, R, Bandyopadhyay, S, Dellis, S, Tholanikunnel,B, Fernandes, DJ and Spicer, EK. Regulation of Bcl-2 Expression by HuR in HL60 Leukemia Cells and A431 Carcinoma Cells. Molecular Cancer Res 9 (8), 1354 – 1366, 2009
• Soundararajan, S., Chen, W., Spicer, E.K., Courtenay-Luck, N. and Fernandes, D.J. “The nucleolin targeting aptamer As1411 destabilizes bcl-2 mRNA in human breast cancer cells”. Cancer Research, 68 (7) 2358-2365, 2008.
• Bandyopadhyay, S., Sengupta, T.K. and Spicer, E.K. “PMA induces stabilization of oncostatin M mRNA in human lymphoma U937 cells”. Biochem. J., 410, 177-186, 2008.
• Otake, Y., Soundararajan, S., Sengupta, T.K., Kio, E.A., Smith, J.C., Pineda-Roman, M., Stuart, R.K., Spicer, E.K. and Fernandes, D.J. “Overexpression of nucleolin in chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells induces stabilization of bcl-2 mRNA". Blood, 109: 3069-3075, (2007).
  
• Bose, S.K., Sengupta, T.K., Bandyopadhyay, S. and Spicer, E.K. “Identification of Ebp1 as a component of cytoplasmic bcl-2 mRNP complexes". Biochem. J., 396: 99-107, (2006)
  
• Otake, Y., Sengupta, T.K., Bandyopadhyay, S., Spicer, E.K., and Fernandes, D.J. (2005) Retinoid-Induced Apoptosis in HL-60 cells is Associated with Decreased Stabilization of bcl-2 mRNA by Nucleolin.  Molecular Pharmacology, 67, 319 -326
  
• Yang, W., White, B., Spicer, E.K., and Hildebrandt, J. (2004) Complex haplotype structure of the human GNAS gene identifies a recombination hot spot centered on a SNP associated with hypertension. Pharmacogenetics 14: 1-7.
  
• Otake, Y., Sengupta, T.K., Bandyopadhyay, S., Spicer, E.K. and Fernandes, D.J. (2004) Drug-induced destabilization of Bcl-2 mRNA: A new Approach for Inducing Apoptosis in Tumor Cells.  Current Opinions in Investigational Drugs 5(6): 616-622.
  
• Sengupta, T.K,., Bandyopadhyay, S., Fernandes, D. and Spicer, E.K. (2004) Identification of nucleolin as an AU-rich element binding protein involved in Bcl-2 mRNA stabilization. J. Biological Chemistry 279: 10855-10863.
  
• Bandyopadhyay, S., Sengupta, T.K., Fernandes, D. and Spicer, E.K. (2003) Taxol- and okadaic acid-induced destabilization of bcl-2 mRNA is associated with decreased binding of proteins to a bcl-2 instability element. Biochemical Pharmacology, 66: 1151-1162.
  
• Ullian, M.E., Gantt, B.J., Ford, A.K., Tholanikunnel, B.G., Spicer, E.K. and Fitzgibbon, W.R. (2003) Potential importance of glomerular citrate synthase activity in remant nephropathy. Kidney Int., 63(1): 156-164.
  
• Sengupta, T.K., Gordon, J., and Spicer, E.K. (2001) RegA proteins from phage T4 and RB69 have conserved helix-loop groove RNA binding motifs but different RNA binding specificities. Nucleic Acids Research, 29(5): 1175-1184.
  
• Gordon, J., Sengupta, T.K., Phillips, C.A., O'Malley, S.M., Williams, K.R., and Spicer, E.K. (1999) Identification of the RNA Binding Domain of T4 RegA Protein by Structure-based Mutagenesis. J. Biological Chemistry 274(45): 32265-32273.
  
• Goodrich, L.D., Lin, T-C., Spicer, E.K., Jones, C., and Konigsber, W.J. (1997) Residues at the carboxy terminus of T4 DNA polymerase are important determinants for interaction with the polymerase accessory proteins. Biochemistry 36(34): 10474-10481.
  
• Narasimhan, S., Armstrong, M., McClung, J.K., Richards, F.R., and Spicer, E.K. (1997) Prohibitin, a putative negative control element present in Pneumocystis carinii. J. Infection and Immunity 65(12): 5125-5130.
  
• Phillips, C.A., Gordon, J., and Spicer, E.K. (1996) Bacteriophage T4 regA protein binds RNA as a monomer, overcoming dimer interactions. Nucleic Acids Research 24: 4319-4326.