Dr. Smita S Patel MD
Hospitalist
1000 Ochsner Blvd Covington LA, 70433Rating
5/5
About
Dr. Smita Patel is a hospitalist practicing in Covington, LA. Dr. Patel specializes in the comprehensive medical care of hospitalized patients. As a hospitalist, Dr. Patel manages the clinical problems of hospitalized patients and the acutely ill, while working to improve the performance of the hospital. Dr. Patel works in collaboration with all of the different doctors that are working with the patient. Hospitalists are involved in the diagnosis, treatment and medical procedures of patients.
Education and Training
Saba University / School of Medicine MD
Saba University School of Medicine 1998
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The intercalating beta-hairpin of T7 RNA polymerase plays a role in promoter DNA melting and in stabilizing the melted DNA for efficient RNA synthesis.
- Kinetic and thermodynamic basis of promoter strength: multiple steps of transcription initiation by T7 RNA polymerase are modulated by the promoter sequence.
- Helicase from hepatitis C virus, energetics of DNA binding.
- The +2 NTP binding drives open complex formation in T7 RNA polymerase.
- T7 DNA helicase: a molecular motor that processively and unidirectionally translocates along single-stranded DNA.
- Kinetic pathway of dTTP hydrolysis by hexameric T7 helicase-primase in the absence of DNA.
- The energetics of consensus promoter opening by T7 RNA polymerase.
- ATP binding modulates the nucleic acid affinity of hepatitis C virus helicase.
- Kinetics of transcription initiation at lacP1. Multiple roles of cyclic AMP receptor protein.
- Fluorescence methods for studying the kinetics and thermodynamics of transcription initiation.
- T7 lysozyme represses T7 RNA polymerase transcription by destabilizing the open complex during initiation.
- Nucleotide binding induces conformational changes in Escherichia coli transcription termination factor Rho.
- The functional interaction of the hepatitis C virus helicase molecules is responsible for unwinding processivity.
- The DNA-unwinding mechanism of the ring helicase of bacteriophage T7.
- A Brownian motor mechanism of translocation and strand separation by hepatitis C virus helicase.
Treatments
- Heart Disease
- Heart Failure
- Pain
- Vascular Disease
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