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OTHER RESEARCH PROJECTS

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We have worked on several other research fields, such as cyanobacteria metabolism, plant development, yeast metabolism, biotechnology, nanotechnology, oncogenes, cell signaling, etc. The following are our publications in some of these fields:

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  1. Ballestero R.P., Esteve P., Perona R., Jiménez B. and Lacal J.C. (1991) Biological function of Aplysia californica rho gene. in “The superfamily of ras-related genes”. Edited by D.A. Spandidos. Plenum Press, New York. NATO-ASI series, Vol 220, pp. 237-242.

  2. Gonzalez M.I., Stucka R. Blazquez M.A., Feldmann H., and Gancedo C. (1992) Molecular cloning of CIF1, a yeast gene necessary for growth on glucose. Yeast 8(3): 183-92.

  3. Perona R., Ballestero R.P., Lacal J.C. (1993) The rho gene family. in “The ras superfamily of GTPases” Edited by Lacal, J.C. and McCormick, F. CRC Press,  Boca Raton. pp. 259-282.

  4. Perona R., Esteve P., Jim?ez B., Ballestero R.P., Ramon y Cajal, S. and Lacal, J.C. (1993). Tumorigenic activity of rho genes from Aplysia californica. Oncogene 8: 1285-1292.

  5. Jiménez B., Ballestero R.P. and Lacal J.C. (1994) Oncogenes y genes supresores (Oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes). in “Avances en ingenieria genetica  (advances in genetic engineering)”. Edited by Vicente, M.. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Madrid. pp 299-320.

  6. Seasholtz A.F., Gamm D.M., Ballestero R.P., Scarpetta M.A., Olsen S.R. and Uhler M.D. (1995). Differential expression of mRNAs for protein kinase inhibitor isoforms in mouse brain. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 92: 1734-1738.

  7. Chamakura K., Perez-Ballestero R., Luo Z., Bashir S., and Liu J. (2011) Comparison of Bactericidal Activities of Silver Nanoparticles with Common Chemical Disinfectants. Colloids Surf, B. 84: 88-96.

  8. Bashir S., Chamakura K., Perez-Ballestero R., Luo Z., and Liu J. (2011) Mechanism of Silver Nanoparticles as a Disinfectant, Int J Green Nanotechnol: Phys and Chem. 2011(3): 118-133.

  9. Liu J., Chamakura K., Perez-Ballestero R., Bashir, S. (2012) Historical overview of the first two waves of bactericidal agents and development of the third wave of potent disinfectants. In Nanomaterials for Biomedicine. Edited by Nagarajan R. ACS Symposium Series 1119, Oxford University Press. pp 129-154.

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