Publications by authors named "Akshay Kumar Ganguly"

Multimeric abnormalities in plasma von Willebrand factor (VWF) cause bleeding or clotting disorders. Electrophoretic analysis of multimers is used to detect such abnormalities but is qualitative, slow, and difficult to standardize. Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) is a good alternative but is affected by low selectivity and concentration bias.

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Enteric microbial pathogenesis, remarkably a complex process, is achieved by virulence factors encoded by genes located within regions of the bacterial genome termed pathogenicity islands. Salmonella pathogenicity islands (SPI) encodes proteins, that are essential virulence determinants for pathogen colonization and virulence. In addition to the well-characterized SPI-1 and SPI-2 proteins, which are required for bacterial invasion and intracellular replication, respectively, SPI-6 (formerly known as Salmonella enterica centisome 7 island [SCI]) encoding proteins are also known to play pivotal role in Salmonella pathogenesis.

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Prevalence of one or more partially folded intermediates during protein unfolding with different secondary and ternary conformations has been identified as an integral character of protein unfolding. These transition-state species need to be characterized structurally for elucidation of their folding pathways. We have determined the three-dimensional structure of an intermediate state with increased conformational space sampling under urea-denaturing condition.

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Alternative splicing confers a complexity to the mRNA landscape of apicomplexans, resulting in a high proteomic diversity. The Plasmodium falciparum Ser/Arg-rich protein 1 (PfSR1) is the first protein to be confirmed as an alternative splicing factor in this class of parasitic protists [1]. A recent study [2] showed a purine bias in RNA binding among cognate RNA substrates of PfSR1.

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Human TATA binding protein associated factor 2 N (TAF15) and Fused in sarcoma (FUS) are nucleic acid binding proteins belonging to the conserved FET family of proteins. They are involved in diverse processes such as pre-mRNA splicing, mRNA transport, and DNA binding. The absence of information regarding the structural mechanism employed by the FET family in recognizing and discriminating their cognate and non-cognate RNA targets has hampered the attainment of consensus on modes of protein-RNA binding for this family.

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Plasmodium falciparum infected erythrocytes display membrane knobs that are essential for their adherence to vascular endothelia and for prevention of clearance by the spleen. The knob associated histidine rich protein (KAHRP) is indispensable to knob formation and has been implicated in the recruitment and tethering of P. falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein-1 (PfEMP1) by binding to its cytoplasmic domain termed VARC.

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Human TATA binding protein associated factor 2 N (TAF15) is a RNA/DNA binding protein involved in many aspects of RNA and DNA metabolism. TAF15 contains an N-terminal transcriptional activation domain and C-terminal region comprising the RNA recognition motif (RRM) and RanBP2 type zinc finger domains with interspersed RGG motifs. In this study we report the complete backbone and side chain resonance assignments of human TAF15-RRM and backbone assignments of TAF15-RRM-RanBP2.

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