Bazlur Rashid, Ph.D.

Publications

• Islam, K.N., Islam, R.K., Nguyen, I., Magherahabed, Y., Pirzadah, H., & Rashid, M.B. (2025). Heart Failure in Black Populations: Epidemiology, Pathophysiology, and Treatment Disparities. Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-025-02371-3
• Prabhakara, K. S., Ganapathy, K., Islam, K.N., Thyagarajan, H.M., Tiwari, K.K., Parimi, R.L., & Rashid, M.B. (2024). Uncovering Novel Protein Partners of Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase in Human Testis. Biomolecules, 14(4), 388. https://doi.org/10.3390/biom14040388
• Rahman, S., Hassan, K.M.A., Rashid, M.B. (2018). MicroRNA Expression Patterns Responsible for Inducing Chemo-Resistance in Ovarian Cancer. Journal of Biomedicine, 3, 64-67. https://doi.org/10.7150/jbm.25976
• Hossain, S.A., and Rashid, M.B. (2012). Prospects of molecular biotechnology for crop cultivation in low-lying coastal areas. Emir. J. Food Agric. 24 (3): 230-233.
• Kolodziejski, P.J., Rashid, M.B. and Eissa, N.T. (2003, Nov. 25). Intracellular formation of "undisruptable" dimers of inducible nitric oxide synthase. Proc Natl Acad Sci U.S.A.;100(24):14263-8
• Rashid, M.B., Stanton, J.D. and Mensa-Wilmot, K. (2002, Aug. 15). Cysteine-less GPI-phospholipase C is Inhibited Competitively by a Sulfhydryl Reagent: Glyco-mimicry by para-Chloromercuriphenylsulfonate (Biochem J.; 366(Pt 1): 281-8)
• Ghosh, D.K., Rashid, M.B., Crane, B., Taskar, V., Mast, M., Misukonis, M.A., Weinberg, J.B., Eissa, N.T. (2001, Aug. 28). Characterization of key residues in the subdomain encoded by exons 8 and 9 of human inducible nitric oxide synthase: a critical role for Asp-280 in substrate binding and subunit interactions. Proc Natl Acad Sci U.S.A.; 98(18): 10392-7
• Rashid, M.B., and Mensa-Wilmot, K. (2000, January). A novel kanamycin/neomycin phosphotransferase cassette increases transformation efficiency of E. coli. Biotechniques
• Rashid, M.B., Russell, M., and Mensa-Wilmot, K. (1999, Sept. 15). Roles of Gln81 and Cys80 in Catalysis by GPI-Phospholipase C from Trypanosoma brucei. Eur J Biochem, 264(3): 914-920.
• Teilhet, M., Rashid, M.B., Hawk, A., Al-Qahtani, A. and Mensa-Wilmot, K. (1998). Effect of short 5' UTR on protein synthesis in two biological kingdoms. Gene 222: 91-97.
• Rashid, M.B., Shirahige, K., Ogasawara, N., and Yoshikawa, H. (1994). Anatomy of the stimulative sequences flanking the ARS consensus sequence of chromosome VI in S. cerevisiae. Gene 150: 213-220.
• Yamazoe, M., Shirahige, K., Rashid, M.B., Kaneko, Y., Nakayama, T., Ogasawara, N., Yoshikawa, H. (1994). A protein which binds preferentially to single-stranded core sequence of autonomously replicating sequence is essential for respiratory function in mitochondria of S. cerevisiae. J Biol Chem. 269: 15244-15252.
• Shirahige, K., Iwasaki, T., Rashid, M.B., Ogasawara, N., and Yoshikawa, H. (1993). Location and characterization of autonomously replicating sequences from chromosome VI of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol Cell Biol 13: 5043-5056.

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Research Projects

• Regulation and localization of proteins/enzymes aiming towards vaccine development or chemotherapy
• Cloning of novel genes to study roles in pathophysiology in human diseases
• Expression and characterization of chimeric proteins
• Mechanism of DNA replication

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Awards and Accomplishments

 Awards/Scholarships

• Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award fellow, 2000
• Monbusho Scholarship (Ministry of Education, Science & Culture, Japan), 1989
• Bangladesh National Board Scholarship for Medical Education, 1980

Grants

• UHCL Faculty Research Support Fund (2003-2010): $ 22,790 -PI
• NIH-NICHD AREA Grant: ‘New Human Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase-binding Proteins in Testis: Possible Role in Fertility’. $341,934 (2010-13) -PI

Book

Seung-Beom Hong, M. Bazlur Rashid and Lory Z. Santiago-Vázquez. Book manuscript “Methods of Biotechnology” published 2016 by Wiley-Blackwell. 

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