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Pranlukast as an Allosteric Inhibitor of M.Tuberculosis Ornithine Acetyltransferase : Implication Towards Novel Combinatorial Therapy
Tuberculosis (TB) is a deadly disease responsible for the death of approximately 1.5 million people each year, with the highest being from developing nations. Tuberculosis affects mostly the lungs, and other parts of the ... -
Precursor Conotoxin Sequences From Conus Achatinus And Conus Monile
(2009-06-01)The numerous toxic peptides, called conotoxins (Olivera et al 1990, 1991), that marine cone snails produce and use for capturing prey, deterring predators and presumably for other biotic interactions, are known to target ... -
The Prediction Of Field Cricket Phonotaxis In Complex Acoustic Environments
(2010-09-24)Animals detect, recognize and localize relevant objects in noisy, multi-source environments. Female crickets locate potential mates in choruses of simultaneously calling males using acoustic signals, a behaviour termed ... -
Primary Microcephaly Gene MCPH1 Shows Signatures of Tumor Suppressors and is Regulated by miR-27a in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma
(2018-04-03)Autosomal recessive primary microcephaly (MCPH) is a congenital neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by a reduced occipital-frontal head circumference (OFC) of less than -3 SDs below the population mean for age and ... -
Probing Ligand Induced Perturbations In Protien Structure Networks : Physico-Chemical Insights From MD Simulations And Graph Theory
(2014-07-16)The fidelity of biological processes and reactions, inspite of the widespread diversity, is programmed by highly specific physico-chemical principles. This underlines our basic understanding of different interesting phenomena ... -
Probing Macromolecular Reactions At Reduced Dimensionality : Mapping Of Sequence Specific And Non-Specific Protein-Ligand lnteractions
(2015-09-03)During the past decade the effects of macromolecular crowding on reaction pathways is gaining in prominence. The stress is to move out of the realms of ideal solution studies and make conceptual modifications that consider ... -
Probing Protein Sequence-Function Relationships using Deep Mutational Scanning
Deep Mutational Scanning (DMS) approaches help elucidate sequence-function-phenotype relationships in proteins, which ultimately improves our understanding of residue (or nucleotide)-specific contributions to protein ... -
Probing the Role of Highly Conserved Residues in Triosephosphate Isomerase : Biochemical & Structural Investigations
(2018-05-23)Conserved residues in protein are crucial for maintaining structure and function, either by direct involvement in chemistry or indirectly, by being essential for folding, stability and oligomerisation and are mostly clustered ... -
Probing the Splicing and Enzymatic Function of Fission Yeast Prp16 – A DEAD Box RNA Helicase
Nuclear pre-mRNA splicing occurs at precisely conserved sequence elements at and around the splice sites which result in ligation of exons and release of intron as lariat. The Schizosaccharomyces pombe genome is an apt ... -
Processing Of DNA Recombination And Replication Intermediates By Mycobacterium Tuberculosis RuvA And RuvB Proteins
(2013-06-14)Homologous recombination (HR) is a highly conserved cellular process involved in the maintenance of chromosomal integrity and generation of genetic diversity. Biochemical and genetic studies have suggested that HR is ... -
Production Of Anticancer Drug Taxol And Its Precursor Baccatin III By Fusarium Solani And Their Apoptotic Activity On Human Cancer Cell Lines
(2013-06-24)Taxol (generic name paclitaxel), a plant‐derived antineoplastic agent, was originally isolated from the bark of the Pacific yew, Taxus brevifolia. Obtaining taxol from this source requires destruction of trees. It has ... -
Production of taxol from Lasiodiplodia theobromae and biochemical characterization of its 10-deacetylbaccatin III-10-O-acetyltransferase enzyme and evaluation of anticancer activity of enzymatically synthesized baccatin III
Taxol (paclitaxel) originally identified from the inner bark of Taxus brevifolia, is a clinically approved anticancer drug for the treatment of various kinds of cancer, particularly ovarian cancer, breast cancer and Kaposi's ... -
Promoter Prediction In Microbial Genomes Based On DNA Structural Features
(2013-02-25)Promoter region is the key regulatory region, which enables the gene to be transcribed or repressed by anchoring RNA polymerase and other transcription factors, but it is difficult to determine experimentally. Hence an ... -
Protein Engineering and Stabilization of HIV-1 Envelope Glycoprotein
(2018-05-09)A number of viral diseases such as Hepatitis B, small pox, measles, rubella and polio have effective vaccines to control or eradicate them. HIV-1 is a lentivirus which infects human immune cells and leads to the disease ... -
Protein Engineering of HIV-1 Env and Human CD4
(2018-05-01)Since, its discovery over three decades ago, HIV has wrecked havoc worldwide. According to the UNAIDS report 2011, at present 34 million people is living with HIV and AIDS vaccine with broadly neutralizing activity still ... -
Protein NMR Studies of E. Coli IlvN and the Protease-VPg Polyprotein from Sesbania Mosaic Virus
(2018-04-03)Acetohydroxyacid synthase is a multisubunit enzyme that catalyses the first committed step in the biosynthesis of the branched chain amino acids viz., valine, leucine and isoleucine. In order to understand the structural ... -
Protein Structure and Mutant Phenotype Prediction from Analysis of Mutant Libraries by Deep Sequencing
Proteins play a central role in all the biological processes. The immense diversity in protein structures and functions despite similar underlying composition is intriguing. The work presented in this thesis aims to provide ...