Chromatin and Disease: Now blame it on Epigenetics. Rakesh K. Mishra and Siddhartha Roy Current Science (perspective), in press, 2009

Divide and (epigenetic) rule: Chromatin Domains as Functional and Structural Units of Genomes (book chapter). Rakesh K. Mishra and Sanjeev Galande, Published by Indian National Academy of Sciences, New Delhi (INSA) platinum jubilee publication, 2009

Differentiation to Dedifferentiation: Induced pluripotent stem cells (book chapter). Narendra Pratap Singh and Rakesh K. Mishra. Recent Trends in Biotechnology, M P Singh (ed.), Nova Science Publishers, New York, 2009 (2009)

Polycomb Group of Genes and the Epigenetics of Aging (book chapter). Krishnaveni Mishra and Rakesh K. Mishra. Epigenetics of Aging , Tollefsbol, Trygve O. (Ed.) Springer (ISBN: 978-1-4419-0638-0), 2009, 350 pages. [Link to Table of contents]

Genome to Epigenome (book chapter). Rakesh K. Mishra. I.K. International Publishing House (ISBN: 978-93-80026-21-3), 2009, 222 pages.

Chromosomes to Genome (book). Rakesh K. Mishra (Editor). I.K. International Publishing House (ISBN: 978-93-80026-21-3), 2009, 222 pages.

A double-edged sword to force posterior dominance of Hox genes. Narendra Pratap Singh and Rakesh K. Mishra. BioEssays 30, 1058-1061, 2008. [PubMed ] [Full Text]

An intronic DNA sequence within the mouse Neuronatin gene exhibits biochemical characteristics of an ICR and acts as a transcriptional activator in Drosophila. Divya Tej Sowpatia, Devi Thiagarajana, Sudhish Sharmaa, Hina Sultanab, Rosalind Johnc, Azim Surani, Rakesh K. Mishra and Sanjeev Khosla. Mech. Dev. 125, 963-973, 2008. [PubMed ] [Full Text]

Epigenetic regulation of genes during development: A conserved theme from flies to mammals. Dasari Vasanthi and Rakesh K. Mishra. J. Genet. Genomics 35, 413-429, 2008. [PubMed ] [Full Text]

Transcriptional activation by GAGA factor is through its direct interaction with dmTAF3. Vivek S Chopra, Arumugam Srinivasan, Ram P Kumar, Krishnaveni Mishra, Denis Basquin, Mylène Docquier, Carole Seum, Daniel Pauli, Rakesh K. Mishra. Dev. Biol. 317, 660-670, 2008. [PubMed ] [Full Text]

Reptin and Pontin antagonistically function with PcG and TrxG complexes to mediate Hox gene control. Soda Diop, Karine Bertaux, Dasari Vasanthi, Ali Sarkeshik, Benjamin Goirand, Denise Aragnol, Nicholas S. Tolwinski, Michael D. Cole, Jacques Pradel, John R. Yates III, Rakesh K. Mishra, Yacine Graba and Andrew J. Saurin EMBO Reports 9, 260-266, 2008. [PubMed ] [FREE Full Text]

Chromatin Domain Boundaries: Defining the functional domains in genome. Hina Iqbal and Rakesh K. Mishra. Proc. Ind. Natl. Sci. Acad. 73, 239-253, 2007.

Involvement of Polycomb-Group Genes in Establishing HoxD Temporal Colinearity. Rakesh K. Mishra, Takumi Yamagishi, D. Vasanthi, Chiho Ohtsuka and Takashi Kondo. Genesis 45(9), 570-6, 2007. [PubMed ] [Full Text]

Boundary Element-Associated Factor 32B Connects Chromatin Domains to the Nuclear Matrix. Rashmi U. Pathak, Nandini Rangaraj, Satish Kallappagoudar, Krishnaveni Mishra, and Rakesh K. Mishra. Mol. Cell. Biol. 27 (No. 13), 2007. [PubMed ] [Full Text]

MiRacles in Hox gene regulation. Vivek S. Chopra and Rakesh K. Mishra. BioEssays. 28, 445-448, 2006. [PubMed ] [Full Text]

Efficient and specific targeting of Polycomb group proteins requires cooperative interaction between grainyhead and pleohomeotic. A Blastyak, Rakesh K Mishra, F Karch and H Gyurkovics Mol. Cell. Biol. 26, 1434-1444, 2006. [PubMed ] [Full Text]

Synergistic recognition of an epigenetic DNA element by Pleiohomeotic and a Polycomb core complex. Mohd-Sarip A, Cleard F, Mishra RK, Karch F, Verrijzer CP. Genes Dev. 2005 Aug 1;19(15):1755-60. [PubMed ] [Full Text]

To SIR with Polycomb: linking silencing mechanisms. Chopra VS and R K Mishra. Bioessays. 2005 Feb;27(2):119-21. [PubMed ] [Full Text]

The enhancer blocking activity of the Fab-7 boundary from the Drosophila Bithorax Complex requires GAGA factor binding sites. S Schweinsberg, K Hagstrom, P Schedl, RP Kumar, R K Mishra and F Karch. Genetics 2004 Nov;168(3):1371-84. [PubMed ] [ FREE Full Text]

Extreme Conservation of Non-Repetitive Non-Coding Regions Near HoxD Complex of Vertebrates ,Ch Sabarinadh, S Subramanian, A Tripathi ,and R K Mishra, BMC Genomics. 2004 Oct 6;5(1):75. [PubMed ] [FREE Full Text]

Bioinformatics and the Art of Sequence Analysis M K Basu and R K Mishra, Recent Advances in Biotechnology (N C Gautam and M P Singh, eds), Shree Publishers, New Delhi, PP. 21-41, 2004

Trl -GAGA Directly Interacts with lola like and Both are Part of the Repressive Complex of Polycomb Group of Genes ,K Mishra, V S Chopra, A Srinivasan and R K Mishra, Mech. Dev. 120, 681-689,2003. [PubMed ] [Full Text]

Genome-Wide Analysis of Bkm Sequences (GATA repeats): Predominant Association with Sex Chromosomes and Potential Role in Higher Order Chromatin Organization and Function (Discovery Note) ,S Subramanian, R K Mishra and L Singh , Bioinformatics 19, 681-685, 2003. [PubMed ] [FREE Full Text]

Extreme Conservation of Non-Repetitive Non-Coding Regions Near HoxD Complex of Vertebrates (Deposited Research Article) ,Ch Sabarinadh, S Subramanian and R K Mishra, Genome Biology 4, P2, 2003 [PubMed ] [FREE Full Text]

Genome-Wide Analysis of Microsatellite Repeats in Humans: Their Abundance and Density in Specific Genomic Regions, S Subramanian, R K Mishra and L Singh , Genome Biology 4, R13, 2003. [PubMed ] [FREE Full Text]

Triplet Repeats in Human Genome: Distribution and Their Association with Genes and Other Genomic Regions (Discovery Note),S Subramanian, V M Madgula, R George, R K. Mishra, M W Pandit, C S Kumar and L Singh , Bioinformatics 19, 549-552, 2003. [PubMed ] [FREE Full Text]

MRD: a microsatellite repeats database for prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes (Deposited Research Article) , S. Subramanian, V M Madgula, R George, R K Mishra, M W Pandit, C S Kumar and L Singh, Genome Biology 3, 11.1-11.13, 2002. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text]