Browsing by Advisor "Srinivasan, N"
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Analysis Of Protein Evolution And Its Implications In Remote Homology Detection And Function Recognition
(2009-07-22)One of the major outcomes of a genome sequencing project is the availability of amino acid sequences of all the proteins encoded in the genome of the organism concerned. However, most commonly, for a substantial proportion ... -
Analysis, Modelling and Prediction of Protein-Protein Interfaces and Application to Biological Problems
Proteins play crucial roles in many biological processes like signalling, catalysis of metabolic processes, immune systems, and transporting molecules. To perform this wide range of functions, proteins interact with other ... -
Computational Analyses Of Proteins Encoded In Genomes Of Pathogenic Organisms : Inferences On Structures, Functions And Interactions
(2015-02-04)The availability of completely sequenced genomes for a number of organisms provides an opportunity to understand the molecular basis of physiology, metabolism, regulation and evolution of these organisms. Significant ... -
Computational studies on interacting proteins with special reference to toxin-antitoxin systems
Proteins interact with other proteins to maintain functional homeostasis of the cell by tightly regulating cellular processes. Hence, it becomes important to understand not only the downstream effects of protein-protein ... -
Computational Studies on Structures and Functions of Single and Multi-domain Proteins
(2018-05-25)Proteins are essential for the growth, survival and maintenance of the cell. Understanding the functional roles of proteins helps to decipher the working of macromolecular assemblies and cellular machinery of living ... -
Development and application of sequence-based approaches for recognition and functional characterization of protein kinases
Protein kinases, the third most populous protein family, are a major class of enzymes that regulate a wide range of cellular processes by phosphorylating multiple cellular proteins. There are many conserved sequence motifs ... -
Development And Applications Of Computational Methods To Aid Recognition Of Protein Functions And Interactions
(2011-10-03)Protein homology detection has played a central role in the understanding of evolution of protein structures, functions and interactions. Many of the developments in protein bioinformatics can be traced back to an initial ... -
Development of quantitative RNA sequencing methods to understand RNA variant diversity.
The advent of next-generation sequencing (NGS) has accelerated biological research by providing the opportunity to connect genome level sequence information to function. One key application of NGS has been analysis of gene ... -
Dynamics of Protein Kinases : Its Relationship to Functional Sites and States
(2018-05-22)A cell is a highly complex, ordered, and above all, a robust system. It copes with in-trennel and external uncertainties like heterogeneous stimuli, errors in processing and execution, and changes within and outside the ... -
Functionally Interacting Proteins : Analyses And Prediction
(2016-05-04)Functional interaction of proteins is a broad term encompassing many different types of associations that are observed amongst proteins. It includes direct non-covalent interactions where the interacting proteins physically ... -
Genome-Wide And Structural Analyses Of Protein Kinase Superfamily
(2010-04-12)A signal transduction process refers to chain of highly regulated biochemical steps which results in the transfer of signal in response to a stimulus in the extracellular environment to the intracellular compartments such ... -
Genome-wide and structural analyses of signalling proteins with special reference to protein kinases
The work done in the dissertation involves genome?wide sequence analysis on the Plasmodium falciparum proteins with a broad objective of understanding further the functional diversity and evolution. P. falciparum is one ... -
Inferences on Structure and Function of Proteins from Sequence Data : Development of Methods and Applications
(2018-07-23)Structural and functional annotation of sequences of putative proteins encoded in the newly sequenced genomes pose an important challenge. While much progress has been made towards high throughput experimental techniques ... -
Integration of sequences, structures, dynamics to study functional divergence in homologous proteins and their assemblies
Functions of proteins are governed by their sequences, structures, dynamics and assembly. Modulation of these factors during evolution renders functional divergence in related proteins that have originated from the common ... -
Multi-faceted modular interactions in proteins
All living systems are composed of plethora of biomolecules. There are various types of biomolecules such as proteins, DNA, RNA, carbohydrates and metabolites. All the reactions in a biological system involve interactions ... -
Multi-scale Modelling of Immune Response and Disease Spread: Methods and Applications
Diseases are multi-scale processes, with the precise combination of events at different scales both qualitatively and quantitatively dictating the final phenotype. Recognising that immune response is a key determinant of ... -
Network models uncover key molecular perturbations in complex human diseases
Biological systems are complex networks of molecular components that function in a tightly controlled manner. Any form of perturbation in these components or their associated interactions affects the normal physiology of ... -
Plasticity Paradigms: Navigating Protein Conformational Dynamics and Phenotypic Variability in Biological Systems
The complex dynamics and responses of biological systems to environmental cues are shaped by their inherent plasticity and adaptability. This biological plasticity, operational at multiple levels - ranging from the molecular ...