Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

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Dayanidhi Raman, B.V.Sc., Ph.D.

Research Instructor of Cancer Biology

Contact Information:

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
2220 Pierce Ave, 432 PRB
Nashville, TN 37232-6840
615-936-3332
Fax: 615-936-2911

Research Specialty:

GPCR-mediated cell migration as related to tumor growth and metastasis

Publications:

• Raman, D, Neel, NF, Sai, J, Mernaugh, RL, Ham, AJ, Richmond, AJ Characterization of chemokine receptor CXCR2 interacting proteins using a proteomics approach to define the CXCR2 "chemosynapse". Methods Enzymol, 460315-30, 2009.
• Neel, NF, Barzik, M, Raman, D, Sobolik-Delmaire, T, Sai, J, Ham, AJ, Mernaugh, RL, Gertler, FB, Richmond, A VASP is a CXCR2-interacting protein that regulates CXCR2-mediated polarization and chemotaxis. J Cell Sci, 122(Pt 11), 1882-94, 2009.
• Sai, J, Raman, D, Liu, Y, Wikswo, J, Richmond, A Parallel Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase (PI3K)-dependent and Src-dependent Pathways Lead to CXCL8-mediated Rac2 Activation and Chemotaxis. J Biol Chem, 283(39), 26538-47, 2008.
• Hanson, SM, Cleghorn, WM, Francis, DJ, Vishnivetskiy, SA, Raman, D, Song, X, Nair, KS, Slepak, VZ, Klug, CS, Gurevich, VV Arrestin mobilizes signaling proteins to the cytoskeleton and redirects their activity. J Mol Biol, 368(2), 375-87, 2007.
• Ao, M, Franco, OE, Park, D, Raman, D, Williams, K, Hayward, SW Cross-talk between paracrine-acting cytokine and chemokine pathways promotes malignancy in benign human prostatic epithelium. Cancer Res, 67(9), 4244-53, 2007.
• Vishnivetskiy, SA, Raman, D, Wei, J, Kennedy, MJ, Hurley, JB, Gurevich, VV Regulation of arrestin binding by rhodopsin phosphorylation level. J Biol Chem, 282(44), 32075-83, 2007.
• Raman, D, Baugher, PJ, Thu, YM, Richmond, A Role of chemokines in tumor growth. Cancer Lett, 256(2), 137-65, 2007.
• Ueda, Y, Neel, NF, Schutyser, E, Raman, D, Richmond, A Deletion of the COOH-terminal domain of CXC chemokine receptor 4 leads to the down-regulation of cell-to-cell contact, enhanced motility and proliferation in breast carcinoma cells. Cancer Res, 66(11), 5665-75, 2006.
• Song, X*, Raman, D*, Gurevich, EV, Vishnivetskiy, SA, Gurevich, VV (* - First authors) Visual and both non-visual arrestins in their "inactive" conformation bind JNK3 and Mdm2 and relocalize them from the nucleus to the cytoplasm. J Biol Chem, 281(30), 21491-9, 2006.
• Sutton, RB, Vishnivetskiy, SA, Robert, J, Hanson, SM, Raman, D, Knox, BE, Kono, M, Navarro, J, Gurevich, VV Crystal Structure of Cone Arrestin at 2.3A: Evolution of Receptor Specificity. J Mol Biol, 2005.
• Raman, D, Osawa, S, Gurevich, VV, Weiss, ER The interaction with the cytoplasmic loops of rhodopsin plays a crucial role in arrestin activation and binding. J Neurochem, 84(5), 1040-50, 2003.
• Osawa, S, Raman, D, Weiss, E R Heterologous expression and reconstitution of rhodopsin with rhodopsin kinase and arrestin. Methods Enzymol, 315411-22, 2000.
• Raman, D, Osawa, S, Weiss, ER Binding of arrestin to cytoplasmic loop mutants of bovine rhodopsin. Biochemistry, 38(16), 5117-23, 1999.
• Shi, W, Sports, CD, Raman, D, Shirakawa, S, Osawa, S, Weiss, ER Rhodopsin arginine-135 mutants are phosphorylated by rhodopsin kinase and bind arrestin in the absence of 11-cis-retinal. Biochemistry, 37(14), 4869-74, 1998.
• Weiss, ER, Raman, D, Shirakawa, S, Ducceschi, MH, Bertram, PT, Wong, F, Kraft, TW, Osawa, S The cloning of GRK7, a candidate cone opsin kinase, from cone- and rod-dominant mammalian retinas. Mol Vis, 427, 1998.