Selected Publications

1. Rahman M Mizanur, Verna Frasca, Subramanyam Swaminathan, Sina Bavari, Robert

G. Webb, Leonard A. Smith and S. Ashraf Ahmed. C-Terminal region of the catalytic
domain of type A botulinum neurotoxin stimulate catalysis by facilitating product release.
J. Biol. Chem. 2013 (in press; doi:10.1074/jbc.M113.451286)
2. Kwang-Seuk Ko, Rahman M. Mizanur, Joy Jackson, Lin Liu, and Nicola L. B. Pohl. A
Mass-differentiated library strategy for functional proteomic identification of sugar
nucleotidyltransferase activities from cell lysates. Anal. Biochem. 2013 (accepted for
publication)
3. Rahman M. Mizanur, John Gorbet, Subramanyam Swaminathan, and S. Ashraf Ahmed.
Inhibition of catalytic activities of botulinum neurotoxin protease domains of serotypes
A, B and E by acetate, sulfate and calcium. Int. J. Biochem. Mol. Biol. 3, 313-21, 2012
4. Herman Fennell, Abdulquadri Olawin, Rahman Mizanur, Ken Izumori, Jin-Gui Chen,
and Hemayet Ullah: Arabidopsis scaffold protein Rack1A modulates rare sugar D-allose
regulated gibberellin signaling. Plant. Signal. Behav. 7, 1407-1410, 2012
5. Gulden-Camci Unal, Rahman M. Mizanur, Yonghai Chai, Nicola L Pohl: Synthesis of a
3-deoxy-D-manno-octulosonic acid (KDO) building block from D-glucose via
fermentation. Org. Biomol. Chem. 10, 5856-5860, 2012 (selected as Hot Article)
6. Mohammad N Amin, Wei Huang, Rahman M. Mizanur and Lai-Xi Wang: Convergent
synthesis of homogenous Glc1Man9GlcNAc2-protein and derivatives as ligands of
molecular chaperones in protein quality control. J. Am. Chem Soc. 133, 14404-14417,
2011
7. Elizabeth Palaima, Nancy Leymarie, Dave Stroud, Rahman M. Mizanur, Jonathan
Hodgkin, Maria J. Gravato-Nobre, Catherine E. Costello and John F. Cipollo: The
Caenorhabditis elegans bus-2 mutant reveals a new class of O-glycans affecting bacterial
resistance. J. Biol. Chem. 285, 17662-17672, 2010
8. Chao-Ming Tsai, Ewa Jankowska-Stevens, Rahman M. Mizanur, John F. Cipollo: The
fine structure of Neisseria meningitidis lipooligosaccharide from the M986 strain and
three of its variants. J. Biol. Chem. 284, 4616-4625, 2009
9. Rahman M. Mizanur and Nicola L. B. Pohl: Phosphomannose isomerase/GDP-mannose
pyrophosphorylase from Pyrococcus furiosus: a thermostable biocatalyst for the synthesis
of guanidinediphosphate-activated and mannose-containing sugar nucleotides. Org.
Biomol. Chem, 7, 2135-2139, 2009
10. Rahman M. Mizanur* and Nicola L Pohl*: Bacterial CMP-sialic acid synthetases:
production, properties and application (invited review). Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 80,
757-765, 2008 (*corresponding author)
11. Rahman M. Mizanur and Nicola L. Pohl: A thermostable promiscuous glucose-1-
phosphate uridyltransferase from Helicobacter pylori for the synthesis of nucleotide
sugars. J. Mol. Cat. B: Enzymatic. 50, 13-19, 2008
12. Yang Yu, Rahman M. Mizanur and Nicola L. Pohl: Glycosidase activity profiling for
bacterial identification by a chemical proteomics approach. Biocat. Biotrans. 26, 25-31,
2008
13. Rahman M. Mizanur, Amanda K. K. Griffin and Nicola L. Pohl: Recombinant
production and biochemical characterization of a hyperthermostable α-
glucan/maltodextrin phosphorylase from Pyrococcus furiosus. Archaea. 2, 169-176, 2007
14. Rahman M. Mizanur and Nicola L. Pohl: Cloning and characterization of a heat-stable
CMP-N-acylneuraminic acid synthetase from Clostridium thermocellum. Appl.
Microbiol. Biotechnol. 76: 827-834, 2007
15. Rahman M. Mizanur, Firoz A. Jaipuri and Nicola L. Pohl: One step synthesis of labeled
sugar nucleotides for protein O-GlcNAc modification studies by chemical function
analysis of an archaeal protein. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127, 836-837, 2005
16. Rahman M. Mizanur, Corbin J. Zea and Nicola L. Pohl: Unusually broad substrate
tolerance of a heat-stable archaeal sugar nucleotidyltransferase for the synthesis of sugar
nucleotides. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126, 15993-15998, 2004
17. Rahman M. Mizanur, Corbin J. Zea and Nicola L. Pohl: Mass spectrometry assay for
the discovery of the chemical function of sugar nucleotidyltransferase from a
hyperthermophilic archaeon. Proceedings of the International Society of Rare Sugars,
Japan, p53-59, 2004
18. Ishrat Sultana, Rahman M. Mizanur, Kei Takeshita, Goro Takada, and Ken Izumori:
Direct production of D-arabinose from D-xylose by a coupling reaction using
immobilized D-xylose isomerase, D-tagatose 3-epimerase and D-arabinose isomerase. J.
Biosc. Bioeng. 95, 342-347, 2003
19. Mahbuba Rahman, Rahman M. Mizanur*, Sirajul Islam Khan, Mohammad Rubayet
Hassan, and Mohammad Sirajul Islam: Influence of temperature on the chemotaxis of
Vibrio cholerae 0139 towards Anabaena sp. Online J. Biol. Sci. 3, 237-246, 2003
(*corresponding author)
20. Rahman M. Mizanur*, Mohammad Sirajul Islam, Sirajul Islam Khan and Zeaur Rahim:
The chemotactic response of Vibrio cholerae 0139 to the mucilaginous sheath of blue-
green algae is mediated by a combination of multiple sheath components. Microbes and
Environments. 17, 18-25, 2002 (*corresponding author)
21. Ishrat Sultana, Rahman M. Mizanur*, Shakhawat Hossain Bhuiyan and Md. Majibur
Rahman: Influence of different physico-chemical stresses on growth and survivality of
Shigella dysenteriae and Shigella flexneri. Online J. Biol. Sci. 2, 53-57, 2002
(*corresponding author)
22. Ishrat Sultana, Rahman M. Mizanur*, Shakhawat Hossain Bhuiyan and Md. Majibur
Rahman: Survivality and virulence of Shigella sonnei and Shigella boydii in different
physico-chemical stress conditions. Online J. Biol. Sci. 2, 196-201, 2002
(*corresponding author)
23. Rahman M. Mizanur, Goro Takata and Ken Izumori: Cloning and characterization of a
novel gene encoding L-ribose isomerase from Acinetobacter sp. strain DL-28 in
Escherichia coli. Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 1521, 141-145, 2001
24. Rahman M. Mizanur, Kei Takeshita, Hiroshi Moshino, Goro Takada and Ken Izumori:
Production of L-erythrose via L-erythrulose from erythritol using microbial and
enzymatic reactions. J. Biosc. Bioeng. 92, 237-241, 2001
25. Rahman M. Mizanur*, Sirajul Islam Khan, Mohammad Sirajul Islam, Ishrat Sultana,
Zeaur Rahim and M. J. Albert: Role of chemotaxis in the attachment of Vibrio cholerae
0139 with different aquatic flora and fauna. Pak. J. Biol. Sci., 4, 1395-1399, 2001
(*corresponding author)