Publications

2024

Kumar, N., Sharma, S., & Kaushal, PS., Cryo-EM structure of the mycobacterial 70S ribosome in complex with ribosomes hibernation promotion factor RafH (2024), Nat Commun 15(1):638.*

mycobacterial

Srinivasan, K., Banerjee, A., & Sengupta, J., Cryo-EM structures reveal the molecular mechanism of HflX-mediated erythromycin resistance in mycobacteria (2024), Structure, 32(9):1443-1453.e4.*

HflX

Yadav, S & Vinotkumar, KR., Factors affecting macromolecule orientations in thin films formed in cryo-EM (2024), Acta Cryst. D80, 535-550.

macromolecule

Premageetha, GT; Vinothkumar, KR., Bose, S., Exploring Advances in Single Particle CryoEM with Apoferritin: from Blobs to True Atomic Resolution (2024), Int J Biochem Cell Biol.169, 106536.

Apoferritin

Hussain, N., Apotikar, A., Shabareesh, P., Mukherjee, S., Burada, AP., Sikdar,     SK., Vinothkumar, KR., Penmatsa, A. Structural insights into pore dynamics of human Pannexin isoforms (2024), Nat Commun. 15, 2942.*

Pannexin

Mishra, R,K., Sharma, P., Khaja, FT., Uday,  AB.,  Hussain, T., Cryo-EM structure of wheat ribosome reveals unique features of the plant ribosomes (2024), Structure. 32(5):562-574.e3.*

ribosome

Jha, S., Bose, S., Vinothkumar KR. Modeling Ligands into Maps Derived from Electron Cryomicroscopy. (2024), J Vis Exp. Jul 19;209.

Ligands

Goyal, P.,  Dhanabalan, KV., Scalise, Maria Francesca., Friemann, Rosmarie., Indiveri, Cesare.,  Dobson, Renwick CJ Vinothkumar, K.R., Subramanian, Ramaswamy. Molecular determinants of Neu5Ac binding to a tripartite ATP independent periplasmic (TRAP) transporter. (2024), eLife13:RP98158

Neu5Ac
2023

Ahmad, M., Jha, B., Tiwari, S., Dwivedi, A., Pal, R., Bose, S., Parish, T., Vinothkumar, KR., Biswal, BK. Crystal and CryoEM structures of Mycobacterium enolase provide insights into 2-phosphoglycerate binding and catalysis (2023), IUcrJ:10: 738-753.

Mycobacterium

Srinivasachari, S., Tiwari, VR., Kharbanda, T., Sowdhamini, R., Subramanian, R. A dimer between monomers and hexamers-oligomeric variations in glucosamine-6-phosphate deaminsae family (2023), PLoS One 18(1): e0271654.

monomers

Bangera M, Dungdung A, Prabhu S, Sirajuddin M. Doublet microtubule inner junction protein FAP20 recruits tubulin to the microtubule lattice. (2023), Structure. Dec 7;31(12):1535-1544.e4

 

Gautam, S., Mahapa, A., Yeramala, L., Gandhi, A., Krishnan, S.,   Vinothkumar,   KR., Chatterji, D. Regulatory mechanisms of c-di-AMP synthase from Mycobacterium smegmatis revealed by a structure: Function analysis (2023), Prot. Sci. 32:e4568

smegmatis
2022

Bandyopadhyay, P., Pramanick, I., Biswas, R., Sabarinath, PS., Sreedharan,   S., Singh,S., Rajmani, RS., Laxman, S., Dutta, S., Singh, A. (2022), S-adenosyl methionine responsive cystathionine b-synthase modulates sulfurmetabolism and redox balance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (2022) , Sci .Adv. 8, eabo0097.*

methionine

Arya, CA., Ramanathan, G., Vinothkumar, KR., Subramanian, R. Dimethylformamidase with a unique iron center (2022), Encyclopedia of Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry

Encyclopedia

Singh, J., Raina, R., Vinothkumar, K.R., Anand, R. Decoding the Mechanism of  Specific RNA targeting by ribosomal methyltransferases (2022), ACS Chem Biol.,17(4):829-839.

methyltransferases

Chen, S., Li, J., Vinothkumar, K.R., Henderson, R. Interaction of human erythrocyte catalase with air–water interface in cryoEM (2022), Microscopy, 71(S1), i51-i59.

erythrocyte

Jijumon, AS., Bodakuntla, S., Genova, M., Bangera, M., Sackett, V., Besse, L., Maksut, F., Henriot, V., Magiera, M., Sirajuddin, M., Janke, C. Lysate-based pipeline to characterize microtubule-associated proteins uncovers unique microtubule behaviour (2022),  Nat. Cell Biol.24, 253-267.

Lysate
2021

Nasrallah, C., Cannone, G., Briot, J., Rottier, K., Berizzi, AE., Huang, CY., Quast,RB., Hoh, F., Baneres, JL., Malhaire, F., Berto, L., Dumazer, A., Font-Ingles, J.,Gomes-Santacana, X., Catena, J., Kniazeff, J., Goudet, C., Llebaria, A., Pin, JL., Vinothkumar, K.R., Lebon, G. Agonists and allosteric modulators promote signalling from different metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 conformations (2021), Cell Reports. 36, 109648.

allosteric

Vinothkumar, K.R., Expanding capabilities and infrastructure for cryo-EM  (2021), Nat. Methods 18, 431-432.

Expanding

Akbar, S., Bhakta, S., Sengupta, J. Structural insights into the interplay of protein biogenesis factors with the 70s ribosome (2021), Structure 29, 755-767.*

biogenesis

Menon, ND., Kumar, MS., Babu, TG., Bose, S., Vijayakumar, G., Baswe, M., Chatterjee, M., D’Silva, J., Shetty, K., Haripriyan, J., Kumar, A., Nair, S., Somanath, P., Nair, B., Nizet, V., Kumar, G. A Novel N4-like Bacteriophage Isolated from a wastewater Source in South India with activity against several multidrug-resistant clinical Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolates (2021),  msphere 6, e01215-20. *

wastewater

Vinothkumar, K.R., Arya, CA., Ramanathan, G., Ramaswamy, S. Comparison of CryoEM and X-ray structures of dimethylformamidase  (2021), Prog Biophy. Mol Bio. 160:66-78.

dimethylformamidase
2020

Arya, CA., Yadav, S., Fine, J., Casanal, A., Chopra, G., Ramanthan, G. Vinothkumar, K.R., Ramaswamy, S. A 2-Tyr-1-Carboxylate Mononuclear Iron Center is the Active Site of Dimethylformamidase (2020), Angew.Chem.Int.Ed.Engl. V59(39):16961-16966.

Dimethylformamidase

Kumari, A., Kesarwani, S., Javoor, MG., Vinothkumar, K.R., Sirajuddin, M. Structural insights into actin filament recognition by commonly used cellular  actin markers (2020), Embo J. V10:3058.

actin

Burada, AP., Vinnkota, R., Kumar, J. Cryo-EM structure of the ionotropic glutamate receptor GluD1 reveal a non-swapped architecture (2020), Nat. Stru. Mol. Biol. 27, 84-91. *

ionotropic

Burada, AP., Vinnkota, R., Kumar, J. The architecture of GluD2 ionotropic delta glutamate receptor elucidated by cryo-EM (2020), J.Stru.Biol. 107546. *

receptor
2019

Sathyanarayanan, N., Cannone, G., Gakhar, L., Katagihallimath, N., Sowdhamini,  R., Ramaswamy, S., Vinothkumar, K.R., Molecular basis for metabolite channeling in a ring opening enzyme of the phenylacetate degradation pathway (2019), Nat Commun. Sep 11;10(1):4127.

phenylacetate

Kumari, J., Vinnakota, R., Kumar J. Structural and Functional Insights into GluK3-kainate Receptor Desensitization and Recovery (2019), Sci.Rep.  Jul16;9(1):10254. *

GluK3

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