*Corresponding Author in Selected Publications:

1. Rajasekhar VK, Rao LVM., Guha-Mukherjee S, and Sopory SK. (1981) Phytochrome control of chlorophyll and
carotenoid accumulation in Sorghum bicolor. Plant Cell Physiol. 22: 773-780.
2. Rao LVM, Rajasekhar VK, Guha-Mukherjee S, and Sopory SK. (1981) Phytochrome regulation of nitrite reductase - a
chloroplast enzyme - in etiolated maize leaves. Plant Cell Physiol. 22: 577-582.
3. Disa S, Gupta A, Rajasekhar VK, Guha-Mukherjee S, and Sopory SK (1982) Rhythmicity in nitrate reductase activity in
wheat embryos during germination. New Phytol. 92: 495-499.
4. Rao LVM, Rajasekhar VK, Sopory SK, and Guha-Mukherjee S. (1983) Studies on the involvement of RNA synthesis and
polyribosome formation in phytochrome mediated nitrate reductase induction in excised maize leaves. Plant Sci. Lett. 29:
207-213.
5. Rajasekhar VK, Guha-Mukherjee S, and Sopory SK. (1983) Time dependence of phytochrome mediated carotenoid and
chlorophyll synthesis in Sorghum bicolor. Ann. Bot. 52: 159-163.
6. Rajasekhar VK, Guha-Mukherjee S, and Sopory SK. (1983) The effects of delta-aminoleulinic acid and inhibitors of RNA
and protein synthesis on phytochrome mediated chlorophyll accumulation in Sorghum bicolor. J. Expt. Bot. 34: 1444-1454.
7. Rajasekhar VK and Sopory SK. (1985) Effects of phytochrome on carotenogenesis in Sorghum bicolor. Biochem.
Physiol. Pflanz. 180: 193-199.
8. Bagga S, Rajasekhar VK, Guha-Mukherjee S, and Sopory SK. (1985) Enhancement in the formation of shoot initials by
phytochrome in stem callus cultures of Brassica oleracea var Botrytis. Plant Science 38: 61-64.
9. Rajasekhar VK and Sopory SK. (1985) Phytochrome control of acid and alkaline phosphatases in etiolated shoot apices of
Sorghum bicolor. Plant Cell Physiol, 26: 753-757.
10. Rajasekhar VK and Sopory SK. (1985) The blue light effect and its interaction with phytochrome in the control of nitrite
reductase activity in Sorghum bicolor Willd. New Phytol. 101: 251-258.
11. Rajasekhar VK and Sopory SK. (1986) Phytochrome control of chloroplast development. Biochem. Physiol. Pflanz. 181:
431-457.
12. Rajasekhar V. K., and Mohr H. (1986) Appearance of nitrite reductase in cotyledons of the mustard (Sinapis alba L.)
seedling as affected by nitrate, phytochrome and photooxidative damage of plastids. Planta 168: 369-376.
13. Oelmuller R, Levitan I, Bergfeld R, Rajasekhar VK, and Mohr H. (1986) Expression of nuclear genes as affected by
treatments acting on plastids. Planta 168: 482-492.
14. Rajasekhar VK and Mohr H. (1986) Effect of ammonium and nitrate on growth and appearance of nitrate reductase and
nitrite reductase in dark and light grown mustard seedlings. Planta 169: 594-599.
15. Rajasekhar VK and Sopory SK. (1986) Specific and sequential effects by phytochrome during chloroplast development in
Sorghum bicolor. Biochem. Physiol. Pflanz. 181: 585-595.
16. Rajasekhar VK and Mohr H. (1987) Appearance of nitrite reductase (NIR) and nitrate reductase (NR) in cotyledons of the
mustard (Sinapis alba L.) seedling as affected by nitrate, ammonium, phytochrome and photooxidative damage of plastids.
In: Inorganic Nitrogen Metabolism. pp 253-256. WR Ullrich et al., eds. Springer-Verlag, Berlin
17. *Rajasekhar VK and Oelmuller R. (1987) Regulation of induction of nitrate reductase and nitrite reductase in higher
plants. Physiol. Plant. 71: 517-521.
18. Rajasekhar VK, Gowri G, and Campbell WH. (1988) Phytochrome mediated light regulation of nitrate reductase
expression in squash cotyledons. Plant Physiol. 88: 242-244.
19. *Rajasekhar VK (1991) Regulation of nuclear gene expression for plastidogenesis as affected by developmental stage of
plastids. Biochem. Physiol. Pflanzen 187: 257-271.
20. Rajasekhar VK, Sun E, Meeker R, Wu B-W, and Tewari KK. (1991) Highly purified pea chloroplast RNA polymerase
transcribes both rRNA and mRNA genes. Eur. J. Biochem. 195: 215-228.
21. Nielsen BL, Rajasekhar VK, and Tewari KK. (1991) Pea chloroplast DNA primase: characterization and role in initiation
of replication. Plant Mol. Biol. 16: 1019-1034.
22. Rajasekhar VK and Mulligan RM. (1993) RNA editing in plant mitochondria: The alpha phosphate is retained during Cto-U conversion in mRNAs. Plant Cell 5: 1843-1852.
23. *Rajasekhar VK and Tewari KK. (1995) Analysis on the extent of relatedness between highly purified pea chloroplast
functional RNA polymerase and E. coli RNA polymerase. J. Plant Physiol. 145: 427-436.
24. Shirasu K, Nakajima H, Rajasekhar V. Dixon RA, and Lamb C. (1997) Salicylic acid potentiates an agonist-dependent
gain control that amplifies pathogen signals in the activation of defense mechanisms. Plant Cell 9: 261-270.
25. *Rajasekhar VK, Lamb C, and Dixon RA (1999) Early events in the signal pathway for the oxidative burst in soybean
cells exposed to avirulent Pseudomonas syringae pv glycinea. Plant Physiol. 120: 1137-1146.
26. *Rajasekhar VK, Viale A, Socci NC, Wiedmann M, Hu X, and Holland EC. (2003) Oncogenic Ras and Akt signaling
contribute to glioblastoma formation by differential recruitment of existing mRNAs to polysomes. Mol. Cell 12:889-901.
27. *Rajasekhar VK and Holland EC. (2004) Postgenomic global analysis of translational control induced by oncogenic
signaling. Oncogene 23: 3248-3264.
28. Begemann M, Uhrbom L, Rajasekhar VK, Fuller GN, and Holland EC. (2004) Dissecting gliomagenesis using glialspecific transgenic mouse models. Zhang, W and Fuller, GN Eds. The Jones and Bartlett series on Molecular
Neurooncology and Cancer Genomics: Genomic and Molecular Neurooncology. pp233-278. Jones and Bartlett
Publishers.

29. Begemann M, Rajasekhar VK, Fuller GN, and Holland EC. (2004) Genetic modelling of glioma formation in mice. AliOsman, F, Ed. Brain Tumors. pp55-89. Humana Press.
30. *Rajasekhar VK and Vemuri M. (2005) Molecular insights into the function, fate, and prospects of stem cells. Stem Cells
23: 12121220.
31. Mamane Y, Petroulakis E, Martineau Y, Sato TA, Larsson O, Rajasekhar VK, and Sonenberg N. (2007) Epigenetic
activation of a subset of mRNAs by eIF4E explains its effects on cell proliferation. PLoS One 2:e242.
32. *Rajasekhar VK and Begemann M. (2007) Concise review: Roles of polycomb group proteins in development and
disease: a stem cell perspective. Stem Cells 25: 2498-510.
33. *Rajasekhar VK. (2007) Analytical methods in cancer stem cells. Methods in Molecular Biology 407: 83-95.
34. *Rajasekhar VK, Dalerba P, Passegu E, Lagasse E, Najbauer J. (2008) The 5th International Society for Stem Cell
Research (ISSCR) Annual Meeting, June 2007. Stem Cells 2: 292-298.
35. Santhanam AN, Bindewald E, Rajasekhar VK, Larsson O, Sonenberg N, Colburn NH, and Shapiro BA. (2009) Role of
3'UTRs in the translation of mRNAs regulated by oncogenic eIF4E-a computational inference. PLoS One 4: e4868.
36. *Rajasekhar VK. (2009). Polycomb group protein homeostasis in stem cell identity A hypothetical appraisal.
Rajasekhar, V.K. and Vemuri, M.C., Eds. Regulatory Networks in Stem Cells. Pp285-292. Humana Press.-Senior Editor.
37. *Rajasekhar VK, Studer L, Gerald W, Socci ND, Scher HI. (2011) Tumour-initiating stem-like cells in human prostate
cancer exhibit increased NF-B signalling. Nat. Commun. 18,2: 162.
38. Schatz JH, Oricchio E, Wolfe AL, Jiang M, Linkov I, Maragulia J, Shi W, Zhang Z, Rajasekhar VK, Pagano NC, Porco JA
Jr, Teruya-Feldstein J, Rosen N, Zelenetz AD, Pelletier J, Wendel HG (2011) Targeting cap-dependent translation blocks
converging survival signals by AKT and PIM kinases in lymphoma. J Exp Med. 208: 1799-807.
39. *Surriga O, Rajasekhar VK, Ambrosini G, Dogan Y, Huang R, Schwartz GK. (2013) Crizotinib, a c-Met inhibitor,
prevents metastasis in a metastatic uveal melanoma model. Mol Cancer Ther. 12:2817-26. -Co-First Author
40. Sansone P, Rajasekhar VK.,Bromberg J. A perspective on breast cancer malignant progression: From cancer stem cell
intratumor heterogeneity to metastasis initiating cells. Rajasekhar, V.K. Ed. Cancer Stem Cells. 2014: Pp285-292.
Humana Press -Editor
41. Tahmasebi S, Alain T, Rajasekhar VK, Zhang JP, Prager-Khoutorsky M, Khoutorsky A, Dogan Y, Gkogkas CG,
Petroulakis E, Sylvestre A, Ghorbani M, Assadian S, Yamanaka Y, Vinagolu-Baur JR, Teodoro JG, Kim K, Yang XJ,
Sonenberg N. Multifaceted regulation of somatic cell reprogramming by mRNA translational control. Cell Stem Cell. 2014:
14:606-16. -Co-Second Author
42. Wolfe AL, Singh K, Zhong Y, Drewe P, Rajasekhar VK, Sanghvi VR, Mavrakis KJ, Jiang M, Roderick JE, Van der
Meulen J, Schatz JH, Rodrigo CM, Zhao C, Rondou P, de Stanchina E, Teruya-Feldstein J, Kelliher MA, Speleman F, Porco
JA Jr, Pelletier J, Rtsch G, Wendel HG.RNA G-quadruplexes cause eIF4A-dependent oncogene translation in cancer.
Nature. 2014 Sep 4;513(7516):65-70.
43. Navaratnam J, Utheim TP, Rajasekhar VK, Shahdadfar A. Substrates for Expansion of Corneal Endothelial Cells towards
Bioengineering of Human Corneal Endothelium. J Funct Biomater. 2015 Sep 11;6(3):917-45.