Selected Publications
Akhter S: “Evaluation of current diagnosis of UTI vs surveillance criteria based diagnosis” Annual IDWeek Scientific Conference, San Diego, CA : 2017.
Wallace KN, Akhter S, Smith EM, Lorent K, Pack M: Intestinal growth and differentiation in zebrafish Mechanisms of development 122 (2): 157-73,2005.
Akhter S, Kovbasnjuk O, Li X, Cavet M, Noel J, Arpin M, Hubbard AL, Donowitz M: Na(+)/H(+) exchanger 3 is in large complexes in the center of the apical surface of proximal tubule-derived OK cells American journal of physiology 283 (3): C927-40,2002.
Cavet ME, Akhter S, Murtazina R, Sanchez de Medina F, Tse CM, Donowitz M: Half-lives of plasma membrane Na(+)/H(+) exchangers NHE1-3: plasma membrane NHE2 has a rapid rate of degradation American journal of physiology 281 (6): C2039-48,2001.
Donowitz M, Janecki A, Akhter S, Cavet ME, Sanchez F, Lamprecht G, Zizak M, Kwon WL, Khurana S, Yun CH, Tse CM: Short-term regulation of NHE3 by EGF and protein kinase C but not protein kinase A involves vesicle trafficking in epithelial cells and fibroblasts Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 915 (1): 30-42,2000.
Janecki AJ, Janecki M, Akhter S, Donowitz M: Quantitation of plasma membrane expression of a fusion protein of Na/H exchanger NHE3 and green fluorescence protein (GFP) in living PS120 fibroblasts The journal of histochemistry and cytochemistry 48 (11): 1479-92,2000.
Janecki AJ, Janecki M, Akhter S, Donowitz M: Basic fibroblast growth factor stimulates surface expression and activity of Na(+)/H(+) exchanger NHE3 via mechanism involving phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase The Journal of biological chemistry 275 (11): 8133-42,2000.
Akhter S, Cavet ME, Tse CM, Donowitz M: C-terminal domains of Na(+)/H(+) exchanger isoform 3 are involved in the basal and serum-stimulated membrane trafficking of the exchanger Biochemistry 39 (8): 1990-2000,2000.
Cavet ME, Akhter S, de Medina FS, Donowitz M, Tse CM: Na(+)/H(+) exchangers (NHE1-3) have similar turnover numbers but different percentages on the cell surface The American journal of physiology 277 (6 Pt 1): C1111-21,1999.
Weinman EJ, Steplock D, Zhang X, Akhter S, Shenolikar S: Molecular cloning of the cDNA and promoter sequences for the mouse sodium-hydrogen exchanger regulatory factor Biochimica et biophysica acta 1447 (1): 71-6,1999.
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