Publications by members of Biophysics Division
1. Majumder D, Bandyopadhaya D, Chandra S, Mukherjee N & Banerjee S (2006) Lack of HLA-E surface expression is due to deficiency of HLA-E transcripts in the malignant hematopoietic cells of leukemic patients. Leuk Res. 30 (2), 242.
2. Dutta N, Gupta A, Majumder DN & Banerjee S (2006) Downregulation of locus specific Human Lymphocyte Antigen class I expression in Epstein Barr Virus associated Gastric cancer: Implications for viral induced immune evasion.Cancer 106(8), 1685
3. Sumathi Suresh & Dasgupta, D. Interaction of 3-hydroxybenzoate-6-hydroxylase with cibacron blue .Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry 2006; 21(1): 47–53
4. Kakali Sen, Samita Basu and Dhananjay Bhattacharyya (2006) Ab Initio Studies on Excited State Intramolecular Electron Transfer in 4-Amino-N-Methylphthalimide and 3- Amino-N-Methylphthalimide Int. J. Quantum Chem. 106, 913-927.
5. Jhuma Das, Shayantani Mukherjee, Abhijit Mitra and Dhananjay Bhattacharyya (2006) Non-Canonical Base Pairs and Higher Order Structures in Nucleic Acids: Crystal Structure Database Analysis J. Biomol. Struct. Dynam. (in press)
6. Debashree Bandyopadhyay and Dhananjay Bhattacharyya (2006) Estimation of Strength in different Extra Watson-Crick Hydrogen Bonds in DNA Double Helices through Quantum Chemical studies, Biopolymers (in press)
7. Banerjee A. and Sengupta P.K., “Encapsulation of 3-hydroxyflavone and fisetin in beta-cyclodextrins: Excited state proton transfer fluorescence and molecular mechanics studies”., Chem. Phys. Lett, 2006 (In press).
8. Banerjee A, Sengupta B., Chaudhuri S., Basu K. and Sengupta, P. K., “Encapsulation of Prodan in beta-cyclodextrin environments: A critical study via electronic spectroscopy and molecular mechanics”., J. Molecular Structure, 2006 (In press, available online).
9. Sengupta, P. K., Banerjee A and Sengupta B., “Exploring the interactions of therapeutically active plant flavonoids with biological targets: Insights from fluorescence spectroscopy”, (Invited review article) Photoelectrochemistry and Photobiology in the Environment, Energy & Fuel, Satoshi Kaneco* (Ed-in-Chief.), Research Signpost, India (In press, 2006).
10. A. Pal and A. K. Pal (2005) Radioprotection of turmeric extracts in bacterial systems, Acta Biologica Hungarica,56, 333 – 343.
11. Sibnath Ray, Malyasri Bhattacharyya & Abhijit Chakrabarti (2005) Conformational study of spectrin in presence of submolar concentrations of denaturants. J Fluorescence 15, 61-70.
12. Devaki A Kelkar, Amitabha Chattopadhyay, Abhijit Chakrabarti and Malyasri Bhattacharyya (2005) Effect of ionic strength on the organization and dynamics of tryptophan residues in erythroid spectrin : A fluorescence approach. Biopolymers, 77, 325-334.
13. Sheuli Dasgupta, Tapan K. Roy and Radha Bhattacharya (2005). Endosulfan treated Rhizobium sp. cells : A study. Annals of Microscopy, 5, 85-92
14. M.C. Blaise, D. Bhattacharyya, R. Sowdhamini and N. Pradan (2005) Structural consequences of D481N/K483Q mutation at glycine binding site of NMDA ionotropic glutamate receptors: a molecular dynamics study. J Biomol Struct Dynam. 22, 399-410.
15. Dhananjay Bhattacharyya, Kakali Sen and Shayantani Mukherjee (2005) Non-planar Amino Groups: Protein Structure Database Analysis and Ab Initio Quantum Chemical Studies on Model Systems Ind. J. Chem. A (Special Issue on Chemoinformatics and Computer Aided Drug Design) 45A, 58-67.
16. Das, S. and Dasgupta, D. (2005) Binding of (MTR)2Zn2+ complex to chromatin: a comparison with (MTR)2Mg2+ complex. J Inorg. Biochem. 99(3):707-15.
17. Das S, Devi PG, Pal S, Dasgupta D.(2005) Effect of complex formation between Zn2+ ions and the anticancer drug mithramycin upon enzymatic activity of zinc(II)-dependent alcohol dehydrogenase. J Biol. Inorg. Chem. 10(1):25-32.
18. Shayantani Mukherjee, Sudipta Majumdar and Dhananjay Bhattacharyya (2005) Role of Hydrogen Bonds in Protein-DNA Recognition: Effect of Non-planar Amino Groups, J. Phys. Chem. B 109, 10484-10492.
19. Soumalee Basu, Rabi Majumdar, Gourab K. Das and Dhananjay Bhattacharyya (2005) Energy Barriers and Rates of Tautomeric Transitions in DNA Bases: Ab initio Quantum Chemical Study Ind. J. Biochem. Biophys. 42, 378-385.
20. Sengupta, B., Banerjee, A. and Sengupta, P. K., (2005) “ Interactions of the plant flavonoid Fisetin with macromolecular targets: Insights from fluorescence spectroscopic studies”., J. Photochem. Photobiol B: Biology, 80 79-86.
21. Dutta N, Majumder D, Gupta A, Majumder DN & Banerjee S (2005) Analysis of human lymphocyte antigen class I expression in gastric cancer by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction. Hum Immunol. 66(2), 164.
22. Majumder D, Bandyopadhay D, Chandra S, Mukhopadhyaya A, Mukherjee N, Bandyopadhyaya S & Banerjee S (2005) HLA class Ia transcripts in human leukaemias. Immunogenetics. 57(8), 579.
23. Sengupta, B., Banerjee, A. and Sengupta, P. K., (2004) “Investigations on the binding and antioxidant properties of the plant flavonoid fisetin in model biomembranes’., FEBS Letters, 77 77-81.
24. Sengupta, B., Chaudhuri, S., Banerjee, A. and Sengupta, P. K. (2004), ‘Characterization of serotonin in protein and membrane mimetic environments: A spectroscopic study’., Chemistry and Biodiversity, 1 868-877.
25. Mir, M.A., Suman Das and Dasgupta D (2004) N-terminal tail domains of core histones in nucleosome block the access of anticancer drugs, mithramycin and daunomycin, to the nucleosomal DNA. Biophysical Chemistry 109: 121–135.
26. Mandal, T. K. and N. S Das (2004) Quinalphos induced oxidative stress and histoarchitectural alteration in rat testis, Toxicol. Int. 11, 93-102
27. Sibnath Ray and Abhijit Chakrabarti (2004) Membrane interaction of erythroid spectrin : Surface-density-dependent high affinity binding to phosphatidylethanolamine. Mol. Memb. Biol. 21, 93-100.
28. Mousumi Mandal and Abhijit Chakrabarti (2004) Effect of the glycosphingolipid, GM1 on localization of dibucaine in phospholipid vesicles : a fluorescence study. Chem. Phys. Lipids 130, 175-187.
29. Udayaditya Sen, Jhimli Dasgupta, Debi Choudhury, Poppy Datta, Abhijit Chakrabarti, Sudipa Basu Chakrabarty, Amit Chakrabarty and Jiban K. Dattagupta (2004) Crystal structures of HbA2 and HbE and modeling of hemoglobin delta4 : interpretations of the thermal stability and antisickling effect of HbA2 and identification of the ferrocyanide binding site in Hb. Biochemistry 43, 12477-12488.
30. Malyasri Bhattacharyya, Sibnath Ray, Shekhar Bhattacharya & Abhijit Chakrabarti (2004) Chaperone activity and Prodan binding at the self-associating domain of erythroid spectrin. J Biol Chem. 279, 55080-55088.
31. Basu U & Banerjee S (2004) An engineered EBV vector expressing human factor VIII and von Willebrand factor in cultured B-cells. J Gene Med. 6(7), 760
32. Sheuli Dasgupta, Tapan K. Roy and Radha Bhattacharya (2004). Effect of nitrogenous fertilizers on Rhizobium sp. cells. Annals of Microscopy, 4, 96-102
33. Shayantani Mukherjee and Dhananjay Bhattacharyya (2004) Effect of Phosphorothioate Chirality on the Grooves of DNA Double Helices: A Molecular Dynamics Study Biopolymers 73, 269-82.
34. Anjan K. Dasgupta, Rabi Majumdar and Dhananjay Bhattacharyya (2004) Characterization of non-planar peptide groups in protein crystal structures Ind. J. Biochem. Biophys. 42, 49-55
35. Kakali Sen, Samita Basu and Dhananjay Bhattacharyya (2004) QM/MM study of excited state electron transfer between pyrene and 4,4-Bis (dimethylamino)diphenylmethane with different solvent systems: role of hydrogen bonding within solvent molecules Inter. J. Quantum Chemistry 102, 368-378.
36. Sen, Ranjan and Dasgupta (2003), D. Simple fluorescence assays probing conformational changes of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase during transcription initiation. Methods Enzymol.; 370: 598-605.
37. Ghosh, U., Das, M and Dasgupta, D. (2003) Association of fluorescent probes 1-anilinonaphthalene-8-sulfonate and 4,4'-dianilino-1,1'-binaphthyl-5,5'-disulfonic acid with T7 RNA polymerase.Biopolymers. 2003; 72(4): 249-55. T7 RNA polymerase.Biopolymers.; 72(4): 249-559.
38. Mir, M.A., Sen, S , Das, S. and Dasgupta, D. (2003) Association of chromatin with anticancer antibiotics, mithramycin and chromomycinA3. Bioorg Med Chem. 11(13): 2791-801
39. Mir, M.A. and Dasgupta, D. (2003) Association of anticancer drug mithramycin with H1-depleted chromatin: a comparison with native chromatin. J Inorg Biochem. 94(1-2): 72-7
40. Sengupta, B. and Sengupta, P. K., (2003) ‘Binding of quercetin with human serum albumin: A critical spectroscopic study’, Biopolymers (Biospectroscopy), 72 427-434.
41. Sengupta, B. and Sengupta, P. K. (2003), ‘Perspectives on some newly emerging luminescence probes for proteins and biomembranes’. in Recent Trends in Biophysical Research, (ed. M. Maiti, G. S. Kumar, S. Das), publisher; Double A Work Station, Kolkata, 90-99.
42. Sengupta, B., Banerjee, A. and Sengupta, P. K., (2003) “Protein-flavonol interactions: Insights from spectroscopic studies”, Proc. International Seminar on Frontiers of Basic & Applied Molecular Biology, Kolkata, 26-31.
43. Sibnath Ray and Abhijit Chakrabarti. (2003)Erythroid spectrin in miceller detergents. Cell Motil. Cytoskeleton 54, 16-28.
44. Dilip Debnath, Shekhar Bhattacharya and Abhijit Chakrabarti. (2003) Phospholipid assisted folding of a denatured heme protein : Effect of phosphatidylethanolamine. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 301 979-984.
45. Jhimli Dasgupta, Udayaditya Sen, Debi Choudhury, Poppy Datta, Abhijit Chakrabarti, Sudipa Basu Chakrabarty, Amit Chakrabarty and J. K. Dattagupta. (2003) Crystallization and preliminary X-ray structural studies of Hemoglobin A2 and Hemoglobin E, isolated from the blood samples of beta-thalassemic patients. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 303 619-623.
46. Poppy Datta, Sudipa Basu Chakrabarty, Amit Chakrabarty and Abhijit Chakrabarti. (2003) Interaction of erythroid spectrin with hemoglobin variants : Implications in beta-Thalassemia. Blood Cells Mol Dis. 30 248-253.
47. Mousumi Mandal, Abhijit Chakrabarti and Soumen Basak (2003) Photophysical study of local anesthetics in reverse micelles. J Fluorescence 13, 307-314.
48. Amitabha Chattopadhyay, Satinder S Rawat, Devaki A Kelkar, Sibnath Ray and Abhijit Chakrabarti (2003) Organization and dynamics of tryptophan residues in erythroid spectrin : Novel structural features of denatured spectrin revealed by the wavelength-selective fluorescence approach. Protein Sci. 12, 2389-2403.
49. S. K. Maji, D. Haldar, D. Bhattacharyya, A. Banerjee (2003) Conformational heterogeneity of a turn mimetic pseudo-peptide: comparison of crystal state, solution and theoretically derived structures J. Mol. Struct. 646, 111-123
50. Debashree Bandyopadhyay and Dhananjay Bhattacharyya (2003) Different Modes of Interaction between hydrated magnesium ion and DNA functional groups: Database analysis and ab initio studies J. Biomol. Struct. Dynam. 21, 447-458
51. Rahul Banerjee, Malabika Sen, Dhananjay Bhattacharya and Partha Saha (2003) The Jigsaw Puzzle Model: Search for Conformational Specificity in Protein Interiors J. Mol. Biol. 333, 211-226.
52. Chakrabarti, S. , Bhattacharyya, B. & Dasgupta, D. (2002) Interaction of Mithramycin and Chromomycin A3 with d(TAGCTAGCTA)2: Role of Sugars in Antibiotic-DNA Recognition, Jl. of Phys. Chem. (B) 106(26): 6947 – 6953.
53. Sengupta, B. and Sengupta, P. K., (2002) ‘The interaction of quercetin with human serum albumin: A fluorescence spectroscopic study’, Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun., 299 400-403.
54. Sengupta, B., Guharay, J., Chakraborty, A. and Sengupta, P. K., (2002) ‘Low temperature luminescence behaviors of 7-azatryptophan, 5-hydroxytryptophan and their chromophoric moieties’, Spectrochim. Acta, Part A (Biomolecular Spectroscopy Section), 58 2005-2012.
55. Sengupta, B. and Sengupta, P. K., (2002) ‘Flavonols as novel fluorescence probes: perspectives and emerging frontiers’, Indian Photobiology Society News Letter 41, 54-60.
56. Sengupta, B. and Sengupta, P. K., (2002) ‘Studies on the interaction of quercetin with bovine serum albumin: A fluorescence spectroscopic approach’, Proc. National Seminar on Recent Advances in Molecular Physiology, Kalyani, 151-155.
57. Mousumi Mandal and Abhijit Chakrabarti. (2002) The tertiary amine local anesthetic, Dibucaine binds to the membrane skeletal protein, spectrin. FEBS Lett. 532 396-400.
58. Debashree Bandyopadhyay and Dhananjay Bhattacharyya (2002) Effect of flanking residues on CA and AA dinucleotides: Some rationale J. Biomol. Struct. Dynam. 19, 659-667
59. Chakrabarti, S, & Dasgupta, D. (2001) Differential Interactions of Antitumor Antibiotics, Chromomycin A3 and Mithramycin, with d(TATGCATA)2 in the Presence of Mg2+. Biopolymers 62(3), 131-40.
60. Mir, M.A. & Dasgupta, D. (2001) Interaction of antitumor drug, mithramycin, with chromatin. Biochem Biophys Res Commun., 280(1):68-74.
61. Jishage M, Dasgupta D, Ishihama A. (2001) Mapping of the Rsd Contact Site on the Sigma 70 Subunit of Escherichia coli RNA Polymerase. J Bacteriol., 183(9):2952-2956.
62. Chakrabarti, S., Bhattacharyya, D & Dasgupta, D. (2001) Structural Basis of DNA Recognition by anticancer antibiotics, chromomycin A3 and Mithramycin : Roles of minor groove width and ligand flexibility , Biopolymers, 56(2): 85-95.
63. Dasgupta, S., Dasgupta, D. Chakrabarti, A. and Nandy, P. (2001) Effect of diethylnitrosoamine on the anisotropy of the liposomal membranes, Ind. J. Phys. 75A(1), 29-31.
64. Mohd. Ayoub Mir & Dasgupta, D. (2001) Association of anticancer antibiotic Chromomycin A3 with the nucleosome: Role of core histone tail domains in the binding process, Biochemistry, 40(38), 111578 – 85.
65. Padmanabhan, U., Dasgupta, S., Biswas, B.B. and Dasgupta, D. (2001) High affinity association of myo – inositol trisphosphates with phytase and its effect upon the catalytic potential of the enzyme, Jl. Of Biol. Chemistry, 276(47), 43635 –44.
66. Sumathi, S. & Dasgupta, D. (2001) Interaction of 3-hydroxybenzoate with 3-hydroxybenzoate – 6-hydroxylase, Biotechnology Progress, 17(6):1026-1031.
67. Guharay, J., Sengupta, B. and Sengupta, P. K. (2001), ‘Protein - flavonol interaction: Fluorescence spectroscopic study’, Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics, 43 75-81.
68. K. Sen, S. Bandyopadhyay, D. Bhattacharyya and S. Basu (2001) Dielectric dependence of magnetic field effect: A tool for identification of exciplex and triplex J. Phys. Chem. 105, 9077-9084.
69. Abhijit Chakrabarti, Shekhar Bhattacharya, Sibnath Ray and Malyasri Bhattacharyya. (2001) Binding of a denatured heme protein and ATP to erythroid spectrin. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 282 1189-1193.
70. Barun Kanti Saha, Radha bhattacharya and Malay Chatterjee (2001) 1á,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3inhibits rat liver ultrastructural changes and the development of ã-glutamyltranspeptidase-positive foci diethylnitrosamine-initiated and streptozotocin-induced diabetes promoted hepatocarcinogenesis, Cell Biology and Function 19, 1-10.