The genus Mycobacterium comprises some of the most devastating pathogens that infect humans. Mycobacterium tuberculosis causes tuberculosis in humans leading to high morbidity and mortality. The disease is especially ...

Branched chain amino acids are classified as essential amino acids since their biosynthetic routes or pathways are restricted only to micro-organisms, fungi and plants. Given their unique distribution, the enzymes of the ...

Malaria, caused by the parasite Plasmodium, continues to exact high global morbidity and mortality rate next only to tuberculosis. It causes 300-500 million clinical infections out of which more than a million people succumb ...

This thesis entitled ‘ Unusual Acylation Properties of Type II Fatty Acid Biosynthesis Acyl Carrier Proteins’ describes the discovery of self-acylation and malonyl transferase activity in acyl carrier proteins involved in ...

The journey of structural studies on lectins, starting with ConA in the 70s, has crossed many milestones. Lectins, multivalent carbohydrate-binding proteins of non-immune origin, specifically bind diverse sugar structures. ...

Computational structural biology Even with rapid advances in structure determination methods, there is a long gap to be bridged between the number of proteins that have been sequenced and the number whose three-dimensional ...

The Langmuir – Blodgett (LB) technique is about forming insoluble monolayer on the surface of aqueous solution and recently, it has emerged as one of the best method to study floating monolayer at the air – water interface. ...

Homologous genetic recombination, because of its fundamental roles in the maintenance of genome stability and evolution, is an essential cellular function common to all organisms. This process also plays important roles ...