PROF. RENA BALZAN
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY
Karyotype Instability in Tissue Cultures Derived from the Mesocotyl of
Zea mays Seedlings. (1978) Caryologia, 31, 75 - 87.
Heredity: A fact that can be tampered with? (1978) Hyphen, 1, 26 - 29.
Genetics: The Science of the Future. (1988) Future Generations Newsletter,
3, 1-10.
Cloning and expression of an iron superoxide
dismutase gene with a mitochondrial targeting presequence in Escherichia
coli and in yeast. Balzan, R., Touati, D., Hunter, G.J., Bannister,
W.H. and Bannister, J.V. (1994) In Frontiers of Reactive Oxygen Species
in Biology and Medicine (Asada, K. and Yoshikawa, T., eds.),
Excerpta Medica, Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, 275-276.
Discrimination between iron and manganese superoxide dismutases from
amino acid sequence data. Bannister, J.V., Balzan, R., Hunter, G.J.
and Bannister, W.H. (1994) In Frontiers of Reactive Oxygen Species
in Biology and Medicine (Asada, K. and Yoshikawa, T., eds.), Excerpta Medica,
Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, 111-114.
Escherichia coli iron superoxide dismutase targeted to the mitochondria
of yeast cells protects the cells against oxidative stress. Rena Balzan,
William H. Bannister, Gary J. Hunter, and Joseph V. Bannister. (1995) Proc.
Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 92, 4219-4223.
Oxidative Stress: A potential hazard for living organisms. Rena Balzan
and W. H. Bannister (1997) Life Chemistry Reports, 15, 3-14.
Prokaryotic iron superoxide dismutase replaces cytosolic copper, zinc superoxide
dismutase in protecting yeast cells against oxidative stress. Dolores R.
Agius, William H. Bannister and Rena Balzan (1998) Biochemistry
and Molecular Biology International, 44, 41-49.
Studies on Oxidative Stress: Activity levels of antioxidant enzymes in
copper, zinc superoxide dismutase - deficient yeast cells expressing cloned
Escherichia coli iron superoxide dismutase in "Superoxide Dismutases:
Recent Advances and Clinical Applications", Dolores R. Agius, N. Vassallo,
W.H. Bannister and Rena Balzan (1999) Editions Mel Paris, Paris, France.
Cloned prokaryotic iron superoxide dismutase protects yeast cells against
oxidative stress depending on mitochondrial location. Rena Balzan,
Dolores R. Agius and William H. Bannister (1999) Biochem. Biophys.
Res. Commun. (Vol. 256 pgs. 63-66).
Stimulation of Yeast 3-Phosphoglycerate Kinase Gene Promoter by Paraquat.
Neville Vassallo, Dolores R. Galea, William H. Bannister, Rena Balzan (2000)
Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commum (Vol. 270, No 3 pgs 1036-1040).
Aspirin commits yeast cells to apoptosis depending on carbon source. Rena
Balzan, Karen Sapienza, Dolores R. Galea, Neville Vassallo, Hank Frey and
William H. Bannister. (2004) Microbiology, 150, 109-115.
Sapienza, K. and Balzan, R. (2004) IUBMB Life 56, 509-511.
Metabolic aspects of aspirin-induced apoptosis in yeast. Sapienza K, Balzan R. (2005) FEMS Yeast Res. 5(12), 1207-1213.
Mitoferrin is essential for erythroid iron assimilation. Shaw, G.C., Cope, J.J., Li, L., Corson, K., Hersey, C., Ackermann, G.E., Gwynn, B., Lambert, A.J., Wingert, R.A., Traver, D., Trede, N.S., Barut, B.A., Zhou, Y., Minet, E., Donovan, A., Brownlie, A., Balzan, R., Weiss, M.J., Peters, L.L., Kaplan, J., Zon, L.I., Paw, B.H. (2006) Nature, 440, 96-100.
Sapienza, K. and Balzan, R. (2007) Aspirin and Apoptosis In: New Research on Aspirin and Health (Millwood, C. L., ed.), Nova Science Publishers, New York, pp. 37-70.