Gunasekaran

Role of HPIP, a cytoplasmic Gunasekaran

Master's Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject Chemistry - Bio-chemistry, grade: 9.12, - (University of Hyderabad), course: Medical Biotechnology - Protein Biochemistry, language: English, comment: Grade 9.12 indicates my overall grade point average (OGPA) to a maximum credit of 10.00 in post graduate programme - the dissertation work was awarded letter grade "A+" by the academic Institute. This dissertation work has been completed under the kind guidance of my mentor Dr. at Department of Biochemistry, University of Hyderabad , abstract: Cancer being a complex disease is well implicated to deregulated activity of numerous cellular proteins ultimately accounting for functions of cell division and survival etc. Molecular oncological evidences point microtubules and their associated proteins called MAPs as one of the most vital proteins to elicit tumour malignancy at the cellular level. In this dissertation, a MAP protein called HPIP has been investigated for its role in polymerization of cytoskeleton, microtubules and cancer disease progression. Preliminary lines of experiment conducted under in vitro conditions enabled us to interpret HPIP as a factor promoting the polymerization of microtubules, the head apparatus for chromosomal congression and segregation during real time cell division.