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Structural and Related Studies on Mycobacterial RecA and LexA
(2018-06-18)
Genetic material of bacteria is subject to damage due to multitudinous factors, both extrinsic and intrinsic in origin. Mechanisms for the maintenance of genomic integrity are thus essential for a bacterium to survive. ...
Structural and Functional Analysis of Proteins involved in Microbial Stress Tolerance and Virulence
(2018-08-11)
The genus Salmonella consists of pathogenic gram negative organisms which infect intestines of birds, animals and humans. They are the causative agents of salmonellosis which is characterised by diarrhoea, nausea, fever ...
Computational Analyses of Protein Structure and Immunogen Design
(2018-08-20)
The sequence of a polypeptide chain determines its structure which in turns determines its function. A protein is stabilized by multiple forces; hydrophobic interaction, electrostatic interactions and hydrogen bond formation ...
Synergistic Influence of Gene Architecture and Promoter Structure on Transcription in Plants : An in silico Analysis
Understanding the structural organisation of genome and insightful information of gene has helped in exploring the regulation and expression of the gene at a molecular and cellular level. In eukaryotes, the gene regulation ...
Substrate Specificity Determinants of Class III Nucleotide Cyclases
(2018-07-31)
Cyclic AMP and cyclic GMP (cAMP and cGMP) are important second messengers in key signal-transduction pathways that mediate various physiological functions in bacteria and eukaryotes. Adenylyl Cyclases (ACs) and Guanylyl ...
The Role of DNA Structural Features of Eukaryotic Promoter Sequences in Transcription Regulation
(2018-09-04)
Understanding the molecular structure of DNA was considered as greatest achievement in modern biology. It helped in understanding fundamental cellular processes such as replication of DNA, nature of the ...
Structure- Function Studies on Triosephosphate Isomerase : Some Old Questions, Some New Insights
This thesis describes biophysical, kinetic, structural, and sequence conservation analysis of the glycolytic enzyme triosephosphate isomerase (TIM). TIM catalyses the diffusion limited isomerization of D-glyceraldehyde-3-phospahte ...
HIV-1 Immunogen Design : Envelope Protein Minimization, Stabilization and Glycan Removal
Effective vaccines exist for a number of viral diseases. However, despite much effort, there is no successful vaccine against the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV-1). The envelope glycoprotein (Env) of HIV-1 gp120, the ...
Theta-band Spectral Selectivity and Gamma-range Coincidence Detection in Spike Initiation Dynamics of Hippocampal Pyramidal Neurons
In the pursuit to understand information processing in the brain, a general question that is often posed is: What is the neuron encoding? This is addressed by assessing feature selectivity in sensory neurons, which informs ...
Rational Elicitation of Cold Sensitive Phenotypes
Conditional gene expression and conditional mutants provide a means to modulate the expression of specific genes and to control the activity of their protein products in vivo, so as to be able to study their effects on the ...