Siddhartha Roy

Publication List Details

Period

1981 - 2007

Number

36

Co-Authors

Role of N and C-terminal Tails in DNA Binding and Assembly in Dps: Structural Studies of Mycobacterium smegmatis Dps Deletion Mutants (2007)

Roy, Siddhartha, Saraswathi, Ramachandran, Gupta, Surbhi, Sekar, K, Chatterji, Dipankar, Vijayan, M

Mycobacterium smegmatis Dps degrades spontaneously into a species in which 16 C-terminal residues are cleaved away. A second species, in which all 26 residues constituting the tail were deleted, was...

Specific Inhibition of p300-HAT Alters Global Gene Expression and Represses HIV Replication (2007)

Mantelingu, K, Reddy, Ashok BA, Swaminathan, V, Kishore, Hari A, Siddappa, Nagadenahalli B, Kumar, Pavan GV, ...

Reversible acetylation of histone and nonhistone proteins plays pivotal role in cellular homeostasis. Dysfunction of histone acetyltransferases (HATs) leads to several diseases including cancer,...

X-ray studies of crystalline complexes involving amino acids and peptides. XLIV. Invariant features of supramolecular association and chiral effects in the complexes of arginine and lysine with tartaric acid (2007)

Selvaraj, M, Thamotharan, S, Roy, Siddhartha, Vijayan, M

The tartaric acid complexes with arginine and lysine exhibit two stoichiometries depending upon the ionization state of the anion. The structures reported here are $DL$-argininium $DL$hydrogen...

Role of N and C-terminal Tails in DNA Binding and Assembly in Dps: Structural Studies of Mycobacterium smegmatis Dps Deletion Mutants (2007)

Roy, Siddhartha, Saraswathi, Ramachandran, Gupta, Surbhi, Sekar, K, Chatterji, Dipankar, Vijayan, M

Mycobacterium smegmatis Dps degrades spontaneously into a species in which 16 C-terminal residues are cleaved away. A second species, in which all 26 residues constituting the tail were deleted, was...

Specific Inhibition of p300-HAT Alters Global Gene Expression and Represses HIV Replication (2007)

Mantelingu, K, Reddy, Ashok BA, Swaminathan, V, Kishore, Hari A, Siddappa, Nagadenahalli B, Kumar, Pavan GV, ...

Reversible acetylation of histone and nonhistone proteins plays pivotal role in cellular homeostasis. Dysfunction of histone acetyltransferases (HATs) leads to several diseases including cancer,...

X-ray studies of crystalline complexes involving amino acids and peptides. XLIV. Invariant features of supramolecular association and chiral effects in the complexes of arginine and lysine with tartaric acid (2007)

Selvaraj, M, Thamotharan, S, Roy, Siddhartha, Vijayan, M

The tartaric acid complexes with arginine and lysine exhibit two stoichiometries depending upon the ionization state of the anion. The structures reported here are $DL$-argininium $DL$hydrogen...

Cloning, expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of peptidyl-tRNA hydrolase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis (2006)

Selvaraj, M, Singh, NS, Roy, Siddhartha, Sangeetha, R, Varshney, Umesh, Vijayan, M

Peptidyl-tRNA hydrolase catalyses the cleavage of the ester link between the peptide and the tRNA in peptidyl-tRNAs that, for various reasons, have dropped off the translating ribosomes. This enzyme...

X-ray studies of crystalline complexes involving amino acids and peptides. XLIII. Adipic acid complexes of L- and DL-lysine (2006)

Sharma, Alok, Thamotharan, S, Roy, Siddhartha, Vijayan, M

The asymmetric unit of the DL-lysine complex of adipic acid [bis(DL-lysinium) adipate], $2C_6H_1_5N_2O_2^+·C_6H_8O_4^2^-$, contains a zwitterionic singly charged lysinium cation and half a doubly...

X-ray studies of crystalline complexes involving amino acids and peptides. XLIII. Adipic acid complexes of L- and DL-lysine (2006)

Sharma, Alok, Thamotharan, S, Roy, Siddhartha, Vijayan, M

The asymmetric unit of the DL-lysine complex of adipic acid [bis(DL-lysinium) adipate], $2C_6H_1_5N_2O_2^+·C_6H_8O_4^2^-$, contains a zwitterionic singly charged lysinium cation and half a doubly...

Cloning, expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of peptidyl-tRNA hydrolase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis (2006)

Selvaraj, M, Singh, NS, Roy, Siddhartha, Sangeetha, R, Varshney, Umesh, Vijayan, M

Peptidyl-tRNA hydrolase catalyses the cleavage of the ester link between the peptide and the tRNA in peptidyl-tRNAs that, for various reasons, have dropped off the translating ribosomes. This enzyme...

X-ray studies on crystalline complexes involving amino acids and peptides. XLII. Adipic acid complexes of L- and DL-arginine and supramolecular association in arginine-dicarboxylic acid complexes (2005)

Roy, Siddhartha, Singh, Desh Deepak, Vijayan, M

The adipic acid complexes of DL-arginine and L-arginine are made up of zwitterionic, singularly positively charged arginium ions and doubly negatively charged adipate ions, with a 2:1 stoichiometry....

X-ray studies on crystalline complexes involving amino acids and peptides. XLII. Adipic acid complexes of L- and DL-arginine and supramolecular association in arginine-dicarboxylic acid complexes (2005)

Roy, Siddhartha, Singh, Desh Deepak, Vijayan, M

The adipic acid complexes of DL-arginine and L-arginine are made up of zwitterionic, singularly positively charged arginium ions and doubly negatively charged adipate ions, with a 2:1 stoichiometry....

X-ray Analysis of Mycobacterium smegmatis Dps and a Comparative Study Involving Other Dps and Dps-like Molecules (2004)

Roy, Siddhartha, Gupta, Surbhi, Das, Satyabrata, Sekar, K, Chatterji, Dipankar, Vijayan, M

The structure of the DNA binding protein from starved cells from Mycobacterium smegmatis has been determined in three crystal forms and has been compared with those of similar proteins from other...

X-ray Analysis of Mycobacterium smegmatis Dps and a Comparative Study Involving Other Dps and Dps-like Molecules (2004)

Roy, Siddhartha, Gupta, Surbhi, Das, Satyabrata, Sekar, K, Chatterji, Dipankar, Vijayan, M

The structure of the DNA binding protein from starved cells from Mycobacterium smegmatis has been determined in three crystal forms and has been compared with those of similar proteins from other...

Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of Mycobacterium smegmatis Dps (2003)

Roy, Siddhartha, Gupta, Surbhi, Das, Surbhi, Sekar, K, Chatterji, Dipankar, Vijayan, M

Three crystal forms of a DNA-binding protein from stationary phase cells (Dps) of Mycobacterium smegmatis have been grown. They are hexagonal, tetragonal and cubic. The structure of the cubic form,...

X-ray studies on crystalline complexes involving amino acids and peptides. XLI. Commonalities in aggregation and conformation revealed by the crystal structures of the pimelic acid complexes of L-arginine and DL-lysine (2003)

Saraswathi, NT, Roy, Siddhartha, Vijayan, M

The complexes of l-arginine and dl-lysine with pimelic acid are made up of singly positively charged zwitterionic amino acid cations and doubly negatively charged pimelate ions in a 2:1 ratio. In...

Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of Mycobacterium smegmatis Dps (2003)

Roy, Siddhartha, Gupta, Surbhi, Das, Surbhi, Sekar, K, Chatterji, Dipankar, Vijayan, M

Three crystal forms of a DNA-binding protein from stationary phase cells (Dps) of Mycobacterium smegmatis have been grown. They are hexagonal, tetragonal and cubic. The structure of the cubic form,...

X-ray studies on crystalline complexes involving amino acids and peptides. XLI. Commonalities in aggregation and conformation revealed by the crystal structures of the pimelic acid complexes of L-arginine and DL-lysine (2003)

Saraswathi, NT, Roy, Siddhartha, Vijayan, M

The complexes of l-arginine and dl-lysine with pimelic acid are made up of singly positively charged zwitterionic amino acid cations and doubly negatively charged pimelate ions in a 2:1 ratio. In...

Stochastic Simulation of Gene Expression in a Single Cell (2002)

Bose, Indrani, Karmakar, Rajesh, Roy, Siddhartha

In this paper, we consider two stochastic models of gene expression in prokaryotic cells. In the first model, sixteen biochemical reactions involved in transcription, translation and transcriptional...

A Cooperative Stochastic Model of Gene Expression (2001)

Roy, Siddhartha, Bose, Indrani, Manna, Subhrangshu Sekhar

Recent experiments at the level of a single cell have shown that gene expression occurs in abrupt stochastic bursts. Further, in an ensemble of cells, the levels of proteins produced have a bimodal...

Interaction of Gal repressor with inducer and operator: Induction of gal transcription from repressor-bound DNA

Chatterjee, Sumana, Zhou, Yan-Ning, Roy, Siddhartha, Adhya, Sankar

Gal repressor inhibits transcription from the gal promoter (P1) when it binds to the cognate operator (OE). The repression is relieved by the presence of the inducer d-galactose. Compared with its...

A “master” in base unpairing during isomerization of a promoter upon RNA polymerase binding

Lim, Heon Man, Lee, Hee Jung, Roy, Siddhartha, Adhya, Sankar

Isomerization of a closed to open complex of a promoter upon RNA polymerase binding involves base unpairing at the −10 region. After potassium permanganate sensitivity of unpaired thymine residues,...

Solvation change and ion release during aminoacylation by aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases

Banerjee, Rajat, Mandal, Amit Kumar, Saha, Rajesh, Guha, Soumi, Samaddar, Soma, Bhattacharyya, Anusree, ...

Discrimination between cognate and non-cognate tRNAs by aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases occurs at several steps of the aminoacylation pathway. We have measured changes of solvation and counter-ion...

Asynchronous basepair openings in transcription initiation: CRP enhances the rate-limiting step

Roy, Siddhartha, Lim, Heon Man, Liu, Mofang, Adhya, Sankar

The mechanism of isomerization (basepair openings) during transcription initiation by RNA polymerase at the galP1 promoter of Escherichia coli was investigated by 2-aminopurine (2,AP) fluorescence....

Switching DNA-binding specificity by unnatural amino acid substitution

Maiti, Atanu, Roy, Siddhartha

The specificity of protein–nucleic acid recognition is believed to originate largely from hydrogen bonding between protein polar atoms, primarily side-chain and polar atoms of nucleic acid bases....

Antagonists of Hsp16.3, a Low-Molecular-Weight Mycobacterial Chaperone and Virulence Factor, Derived from Phage-Displayed Peptide Libraries

Saha, Abhik, Sharma, Archna, Dhar, Amlanjyoti, Bhattacharyya, Bhabatarak, Roy, Siddhartha, Das Gupta, Sujoy K.

The persistence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a major cause of concern in tuberculosis (TB) therapy. In the persistent mode the pathogen can resist drug therapy, allowing the possibility of...

Interaction of Gal repressor with inducer and operator: Induction of gal transcription from repressor-bound DNA

Chatterjee, Sumana, Zhou, Yan-Ning, Roy, Siddhartha, Adhya, Sankar

Gal repressor inhibits transcription from the gal promoter (P1) when it binds to the cognate operator (OE). The repression is relieved by the presence of the inducer d-galactose. Compared with its...

A “master” in base unpairing during isomerization of a promoter upon RNA polymerase binding

Lim, Heon Man, Lee, Hee Jung, Roy, Siddhartha, Adhya, Sankar

Isomerization of a closed to open complex of a promoter upon RNA polymerase binding involves base unpairing at the −10 region. After potassium permanganate sensitivity of unpaired thymine residues,...

Solvation change and ion release during aminoacylation by aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases

Banerjee, Rajat, Mandal, Amit Kumar, Saha, Rajesh, Guha, Soumi, Samaddar, Soma, Bhattacharyya, Anusree, ...

Discrimination between cognate and non-cognate tRNAs by aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases occurs at several steps of the aminoacylation pathway. We have measured changes of solvation and counter-ion...

Asynchronous basepair openings in transcription initiation: CRP enhances the rate-limiting step

Roy, Siddhartha, Lim, Heon Man, Liu, Mofang, Adhya, Sankar

The mechanism of isomerization (basepair openings) during transcription initiation by RNA polymerase at the galP1 promoter of Escherichia coli was investigated by 2-aminopurine (2,AP) fluorescence....

Switching DNA-binding specificity by unnatural amino acid substitution

Maiti, Atanu, Roy, Siddhartha

The specificity of protein–nucleic acid recognition is believed to originate largely from hydrogen bonding between protein polar atoms, primarily side-chain and polar atoms of nucleic acid bases....

Antagonists of Hsp16.3, a Low-Molecular-Weight Mycobacterial Chaperone and Virulence Factor, Derived from Phage-Displayed Peptide Libraries

Saha, Abhik, Sharma, Archna, Dhar, Amlanjyoti, Bhattacharyya, Bhabatarak, Roy, Siddhartha, Das Gupta, Sujoy K.

The persistence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a major cause of concern in tuberculosis (TB) therapy. In the persistent mode the pathogen can resist drug therapy, allowing the possibility of...

Cloning, expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of peptidyl-tRNA hydrolase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Selvaraj, M., Singh, N. S., Roy, Siddhartha, Sangeetha, R., Varshney, Umesh, Vijayan, M.

The peptidyl-tRNA hydrolase from M. tuberculosis has been crystallized in three closely related forms, two orthorhombic and one monoclinic, and X-ray diffraction data have been collected from them.