Suresh K. Alahari, PhD
Associate Professor

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Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
533 Bolivar Street
Clinical Sciences Research Building • Room 406
New Orleans, LA 70112
Phone: (504) 568-4734

Fax: (504) 568-6997
salaha@lsuhsc.edu

PhD - 1994
Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

Dr. Alahari obtained his Bachelor of Science in Biology and Master of Science in Human Genetics from India in 1983 and 1986 respectively. His Ph.D. in Molecular Biology was awarded by Drexel University, Philadelphia in the year 1994. From 1994 to 1998, Dr. Alahari did a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Since 1998, he has been a faculty member at the University of North Carolina and in 2004 joined the LSUHSC as Associate Professor of the Department of Biochemistry. During his tenure at the University of North Carolina, he discovered a novel protein that he termed, Nischarin. Dr. Alahari has published several papers describing the function of Nischarin. He has served on editorial review boards and study sections. In addition he availed visiting professorships at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and Rockefeller University, New York

• Biochemistry of cell adhesion
• The mechanism of action of Nischarin in tumor cell migration and invasion
  

Suppression of tumorigenicity 14 (ST14) gene is a target for miR- 27b, and the inhibitory effect of ST14 on cell growth is independent of miR- 27b regulation. Wang, Y., Rathinam. R., Walch, A., and Alahari, S K. Journal of Biological Chemistry (2009)

MicroRNA function in cancer; Oncogene or  a tumor suppressor. Shenouda, S.K. and Alahari S K Cancer and Metastasis reviews. (In Press) (2009)

Molecular mechanisms controlling E-cadherin expression in breast cancer Baranwal, S and Alahari S K Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 384: 6-11B 2009 Jun 19;384(1):6-11. (2009)

Ding Y, Milosavljevic T, Alahari S K. Nischarin inhibits LIM Kinase to regulate Cofilin phosphorylation and Cell Invasion. Mol Cell Biol. Mar 10 (2008)

Alahari S K, Reddig, P., Juliano, R.L. The integrin binding protein Nischarin regulates cell migration by inhibiting PAK. EMBO J, 23: 2777-2788 (2004)

Juliano, R.L., Reddig, P.J., Alahari S K, Edin, M.L., Howe, A.K., and Aplin, A.E., Integrin Regulation of Cell Signaling and Motility.Biochem., Society Transactions 32: 443-446 (2004)

Alahari S K and H. Nasrallah : A Membrane proximal region of alpha-5 integrin is essential for its interaction with Nischarin. Biochemical Journal 15: 449-457 (2004)

Alahari S K: Nischarin inhibits Rac induced migration and invasion of epithelial cells by affecting signaling cascades involving PAK. Exp. Cell Res. 288: 415-424 (2002)

Alahari SK, Reddig, P., Juliano, R.L. Biological aspects of signal transduction by cell adhesion receptors. Int. J. Cytology 220: 145-174 (2002)

Alahari S K,: Mapping of the gene for Nischarin, a novel integrin binding protein, to chromosome 3 by fluorescence in situ hybridization). Intl. J. Human Genetics 1: 271-274 (2001)

Alahari S K, Lee, J.L., and Juliano, R.L.: NISCHARIN, a novel protein that interacts with integrin alpha-5 subunit, and inhibits cell migration. J. Cell Biology 151: 1141-1154 (2000)

Methods for study of integrin regulation of receptor tyrosine kinase and G protein coupled receptor signaling to MAP kinases. Methods In Enzymology 333:151-163 (2001)

Shock, D.D., Naik, U.P., Brittain, J.E., Alahari, S K., Sondek, J., and Parise, L.V.: Calcium-dependent properties of CIB binding to the integrin alphaIIb cytoplasmic domain and translocation to the platelet cytoskeleton Biochemical Journal 342: 729-735 (1999)

DeLong, R.K., Hoon, Y., Alahari S K, Fisher, M., Short, S.M., Kole, R and Juliano, R. L.: Novel cationic amphiphiles as delivery reagents for antisense oligonucleotides. Nucleic Acids Research 27:3334-3341.(1999)

Hughes, J. A., Astriab,A., Yoo, H., Alahari S K, Liang, E., Sergueev, D., Shaw, B. and Juliano, R.L.: In Vitro Transport and delivery of oligonucleotides. Methods in Enzymology 313:343-359. (1999)

Juliano, R.L., Alahari S K, Yoo, H., Kole, R., and Cho, M. Antisense Pharmacodynamics: Critical issues in the transport & delivery of antisense oligonucleotides. Pharmaceutical Research 16: 494-502.(1999)

Alahari S K, Delong, R., Fisher, M.H., Dean, N. M. Viliet, P and Juliano, R.L. Novel chemically modified oligonucleotides provide potent inhibition of P-glycoprotein expression. J.Pharm.Exp. Therapeutics 286:419-428 (1998)

Howe.A., Aplin, A., Alahari S K, and Juliano, R.L.. Integrin signaling and cell growth Control.Current Opinion in Cell Biology 10: 220-231 (1998)

Aplin, A., Howe, A., Alahari, S K, and Juliano, R.L. Signal transduction and signal modulation by cell adhesion receptors: the role of integrins, cadherins, IG-CAMS and selectins. Pharmacological Reviews 50: 197-263 (1998)

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