Publications

2009

• Divya Tiwari, Rajnish Kumar Singh, Kasturi Goswami, Sunil Kumar Verma, Balaji Prakash and Vinay Kumar Nandicoori. The N-terminal region of protein kinase G from Mycobacterium tuberculosis plays a regulatory role in modulating kinase activity and survival in the host macrophages. Journal of Biological Chemistry (2009) in press.

• Baskaran Anand; Parag Surana; Sagar Bhogaraju; Sushmita Pahari and Balaji Prakash^$. Circularly permuted GTPase YqeH binds 30S ribosomal subunit:  Implications for its role in ribosome assembly. Biochem.Biophys. Res. Commun. (2009), (in press).

• Sunil Kumar Verma, Mamta Jaiswal, Neeraj Kumar, Amit Parikh, Vinay Kumar Nandicoori, Balaji Prakash^$. Crystal structure of N-acetylglucosamine-1-phosphate uridyltransferase (GlmU) from Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a cubic space group. Acta Crystallographica. Section F. (2009) in press.

• Mathew Sajish, Sissy Kalayil, Sunil Kumar Verma, Vinay Kumar Nandicoori^$ and Balaji Prakash^$. The Significance of ExDD and RxKD Motifs Conservation in Rel Proteins. Journal of Biological Chemistry. (2009) in press

• Sushil Kumar Tomar, Neha Dhimole, Moon Chatterji and Balaji Prakash^$. Distinct GTP/GDP bound states of the tandem G-domains of Escherichia Coli EngA regulate ribosome binding. Nucleic Acids Research (2009) in press.

• Nikhil Jain, Neha Dhimole, Abu Rafay Khan, Debojyoti De, Sushil Kumar, Tomar, Mathew Sajish, Dipak Dutta, Pradeep Parrack and Balaji Prakash^$. E.coli HflX interacts with 50S ribosomal subunits in presence of nucleotides. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. (2009) 379 (2):201-5.

• Amit Parikh^*, Sunil Kumar Verma^*, Shazia Khan, Balaji Prakash^$ & Vinay Kumar Nandicoori^$. PknB mediated phosphorylation of a novel substrate, N-acetylglucosamine-1-phosphate uridyltransferase (GlmU), modulates its acetyltransferase activity. Journal of Molecular Biology. (2009) 386 (2):451-64.

2007

• Mathew Sajish, Divya Tiwari, Dimple Rananaware, Vinay Kumar Nandicoori^$ and Balaji Prakash^$. A Charge Reversal Differentiates (p)ppGpp Synthesis by Monofunctional and Bifunctional Rel Proteins. Journal of Biological Chemistry. (2007) 282, 34977-34983.

2006

· Baskaran Anand, Sunil Kumar Verma, Balaji Prakash^$ . Structural Stabilization of GTP binding domains in circularly permuted GTPases: Implications for RNA binding. Nucleic Acids Research. (2006) 34 , 2196-2205.

2005

· Rajeev Mishra, Sudheer Kumar Gara , Shambhavi Mishra, Balaji Prakash^$ . Analysis of GTPases carrying hydrophobic amino acid substitutions in lieu of the catalytic glutamine: Implications for GTP hydrolysis. Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics (2005) 59, 332-338.

2004

· Gerrit.J.K.Praefcke, Stephen Kloep, Utz Benscheid, Hanke Lilie , Balaji Prakash and Christian Herrmann. Identification of Residues in the Human Guanylate-binding Protein 1 Critical for Nucleotide Binding and Cooperative GTP Hydrolysis. J. Mol. Biol. (2004) 344, 257-269.

2003

· Holger Rehmann *, Balaji Prakash * , Eva Wolf * , Alma Rueppel, Johan de Rooij, Johannes. L. Bos & Alfred Wittinghofer. Structure and Regulation of the cAMP binding domains of Epac2. Nature. Struct. Biol. (2003) 10, 26-32. Cover Article.

2000

· Balaji Prakash^*, Louis Renault^*, Gerrit.J.K.Praefcke, Christian Herrmann^$ & Alfred Wittinghofer^$.Triphosphate structure of guanylate-binding protein 1 and implications for nucleotide binding and GTPase mechanism. EMBO Journal (2000) 19, 4555-4564.

· Balaji Prakash^*, Gerrit J.K.Praefcke^*, Louis Renault, Alfred Wittinghofer^$ & Christian Herrmann^$. Structure of human Guanylate-binding protein-1 representing a class of GTP-binding proteins with unique properties. Nature (2000) 403, 567-571.

1997

· Balaji Prakash , M.R.N.Murthy^$, Y N Sreerama, D Rajagopal Rao & Lalitha R Gowda^$. Studies on simultaneous inhibition of trypsin and chymotrypsin by horsegram Bowman-Birk inhibitor. Journal of Biosciences (1997) 22 (5), 545-554.

· Balaji Prakash & M.R.N.Murthy^$. Source and target enzyme signature in serine protease inhibitor active site sequences. Journal of Biosciences (1997) 22 (5), 555 -556 .

1996

· Balaji Prakash , S.Selvaraj, M.R.N.Murthy^$, Y.N.Sreerama, D.Rajagopal Rao & L.R.Gowda. Analysis of amino acid sequences of Plant Bowman-Birk Inhibitors. Journal of Molecular Evolution. (1996) 42, 560-569.

1994

· Balaji Prakash , M.R.N.Murthy^$, Y.N.Sreerama, P.R.Rama Sarma & D.Rajagopala Rao. Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction studies on a Trypsin/Chymotrypsin double headed inhibitor from horse gram seeds. Journal of Molecular Biology. (1994) 235, 364-366.

(* refers to equal contributors, $ to corresponding author)