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Pushpa Mittra Bharagava Fonds (PMB) Azim Premji University Archives Finding Aid - Pushpa Mittra Bharagava Fonds (PMB) Generated by Access to Memory (AtoM) 2.5.3 Printed: August 06, 2020 Language of description: English Fonds and series level descriptions based on Rules for Archival Description Azim Premji University Archives PES Campus, Pixel Park, B Block Hosur Road, beside NICE Road, Electronic City Bengaluru Asia India 560100 Telephone: +91 18008432001 Email: [email protected] https://azimpremjifoundation.org/library http://3.20.188.151/index.php/archives-of-pushpa-mitra-bharagava Pushpa Mittra Bharagava Fonds Table of contents Summary information ...................................................................................................................................... 6 Administrative history / Biographical sketch .................................................................................................. 6 Scope and content ........................................................................................................................................... 7 Notes ................................................................................................................................................................ 7 Access points ................................................................................................................................................... 8 Collection holdings .......................................................................................................................................... 8 PMB-POP, Print on Paper (1960-2017) ....................................................................................................... 8 PMB-POP-1, Articles (1960-2017) ............................................................................................................ 9 PMB-POP-1-001, Intracellular and Intercellular organisation in relation to Biochemical function (1960-2017) ............................................................................................................................................ 11 PMB-POP-1-002, Uptake of Escherichia coli RNA by Rat Liver Cells in Suspension (1969) ............ 12 PMB-POP-1-003, The role and present status of biotechnology in India: A commentary (1991) ........ 14 PMB-POP-1-004, Antibacterial activity of seminalplasmin, a basic protein from bovine seminal plasma (1986) ..................................................................................................................................................... 15 PMB-POP-1-005, Bacteriolytic Activity of Seminalplasmin (1987) .................................................... 17 PMB-POP-1-006, Effect of Acid Precipitation on the Solubility & the Electrophoretic Characteristics of Plasma Proteins (1963) ......................................................................................................................... 18 PMB-POP-1-007, Effect of Seminalplasmin, an Antimicrobial Protein from Bovine Semen, on Growth and Macromolecular Synthesis in Candida albicans (1985) ................................................................. 20 PMB-POP-1-008, Possible Relationship Between Regulation of Uptake of Essential Nutrients and Regulation of Cell Division in Higher Organisms (1975) .................................................................... 22 PMB-POP-1-009, Studies on Egg White Lysozyme: Effect of Trichloroacetic Acid (1968) ............... 23 PMB-POP-1-010, Effect of Acids on Proteins (1960) ......................................................................... 24 PMB-POP-1-011, A note on agricultural security (July 2007) ............................................................ 26 PMB-POP-1-012, A possible role of permeability controls in regulation of cell division (1974) ........ 27 PMB-POP-1-013, Further evidence for a positive role of acrosome in the uptake of labelled amino acids by bovine and avian spermatozoa (1962) ............................................................................................. 29 PMB-POP-1-014, Harvard@Dhenkanal (6 November 2006) ............................................................... 30 PMB-POP-1-015, Incorporation of radioactive amino-acids in the proteins of bull spermatozoa (1957) ..................................................................................................................................................... 31 PMB-POP-1-016, Isolation & characterization of newly synthesized RNA & protein in mature bovine spermatozoa & effect of inhibitors on these syntheses (1973) ............................................................. 33 PMB-POP-1-017, Knowledge for national development ..................................................................... 34 PMB-POP-1-018, Look at the way they soil the field ! (1984) ............................................................ 35 Azim Premji University Archives Page 2 Pushpa Mittra Bharagava Fonds PMB-POP-1-019, Paradise lost or gained? ........................................................................................... 37 PMB-POP-1-020, Education in values: a commentary (2001) ............................................................. 38 PMB-POP-1-021, Position of science & technology in the hierarchy of problems (1989) .................. 39 PMB-POP-1-022, Possible relationship between regulation of uptake of essential nutrients and regulation of cell division in higher organisms (1975) ........................................................................ 41 PMB-POP-1-023, Protein and nucleic acid metabolism of spermatozoa (1964) .................................. 42 PMB-POP-1-024, Regulation of cell division and malignant transformation through control of uptake of essential nutrients. Demonstration of the presence in rat liver of a new type of protein inhibitor of transport of such nutrients (1979) ......................................................................................................... 43 PMB-POP-1-025, Role of knowledge in achieving food security in India .......................................... 45 PMB-POP-1-026, School education in India ........................................................................................ 46 PMB-POP-1-027, Science is science and art is art, but... The twain shall certainly meet (1987) ......... 48 PMB-POP-1-028, Seminalplasmin—an antimicrobial protein from bovine seminal plasma which acts in E. coli by specific inhibition of rRNA synthesis (1979) ...................................................................... 49 PMB-POP-1-029, Seminalplasmin is a potent inhibitor of E. coli RNA polymerase in vitro (1979) ..................................................................................................................................................... 50 PMB-POP-1-030, Seminalplasmin, a new protein inhibitor of microbial growth and of transcription from bovine seminalplasma, and two other proteins of seminalplasma ............................................... 52 PMB-POP-1-031, Some recommendations for revamping of our higher education ............................ 53 PMB-POP-1-032, Symmetry assymetry beauty and science ................................................................ 54 PMB-POP-1-033, Transcription and translation in bovine spermatozoa and their control by factors present in seminal plasma ..................................................................................................................... 56 PMB-POP-1-034, Transcription and translation in bovine spermatozoa (1972) .................................. 57 PMB-POP-1-035, Antifertiiity factors of mammalian seminal fluid (1987) ........................................ 59 PMB-POP-1-036, Bacteriolytic activity of seminalplasmin (1987) ..................................................... 60 PMB-POP-1-037, Immunological identification of seminalplasmin in tissue extracts of sex glands of bull (1984) ............................................................................................................................................. 61 PMB-POP-1-038, Is the "soluble" phase of cells structured? (1985) ................................................... 63 PMB-POP-1-039, Isolates of arthrobacter from the soils of Schirmacher Oasis, Antarctica (1989) ..................................................................................................................................................... 64 PMB-POP-1-040, Isolation and characterization of autolysis-defective mutants of Escherichia coli that are resistant to the lytic activity of seminalplasmin (1989) .................................................................. 65 PMB-POP-1-041, Isolation and identification of micrococcus roseus and planococcus sp. from Schirmacher Oasis, Antarctica (1988) .................................................................................................. 67 PMB-POP-1-042, Isolation, characterization and possible mode of action of antiseminalplasmin,a new protein that inhibits the antimicrobial activity of seminalplasmin (1984) ............................................ 68 PMB-POP-1-043, Some aspects of the Chemical and Cellular Composition of Rat Liver (1962) ....... 70 Azim Premji University Archives Page 3 Pushpa Mittra Bharagava Fonds PMB-POP-1-044, Uptake of Exogenous RNA by Rat-liver Parenchymal Cells in Suspension Prepared by the Collagenase Method (1983) ....................................................................................................... 71 PMB-POP-1-045,
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