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Chhabra, A. ; Haque, A. S. ; Pal, R. K. ; Goyal, A. ; Rai, R. ; Joshi, S. ; Panjikar, S. ; Pasha, S. ; Sankaranarayanan, R. ; Gokhale, R. S. (2012) Nonprocessive [2 + 2]e^- off-loading reductase domains from mycobacterial nonribosomal peptide synthetases Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109 (15). pp. 5681-5686. ISSN 0027-8424

Goyal, Aneesh ; Verma, Priyanka ; Anandhakrishnan, Madhankumar ; Gokhale, Rajesh S. ; Sankaranarayanan, Rajan (2012) Molecular basis of the functional divergence of fatty Acyl-AMP ligase biosynthetic Enzymes of mycobacterium tuberculosis Journal of Molecular Biology, 416 (2). pp. 221-238. ISSN 0022-2836

Mishra, Amita ; Suman, Shashi Kumar ; Srivastava, Shanti Swaroop ; Sankaranarayanan, Rajan ; Sharma, Yogendra (2012) Decoding the molecular design principles underlying Ca²⁺ binding to βγ-crystallin motifs Journal of Molecular Biology, 415 (1). pp. 75-91. ISSN 0022-2836

Kamal, Md. Zahid ; Ahmad, Shoeb ; Molugu, Trivikram Rao ; Vijayalakshmi, Amash ; Deshmukh, Mandar V. ; Sankaranarayanan, Rajan ; Rao, Nalam Madhusudhana (2011) In vitro evolved non-aggregating and thermostable lipase: structural and thermodynamic investigation Journal of Molecular Biology, 413 (3). pp. 726-741. ISSN 0022-2836

Mohanty, Debasisa ; Sankaranarayanan, Rajan ; Gokhale, Rajesh S. (2011) Fatty acyl-AMP ligases and polyketide synthases are unique enzymes of lipid biosynthetic machinery in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Tuberculosis, 91 (5). pp. 448-455. ISSN 1472-9792

Arora, Ashish ; Chandra, Nagasuma R. ; Das, Amit ; Gopal, Balasubramanian ; Mande, Shekhar C. ; Prakash, Balaji ; Ramachandran, Ravishankar ; Sankaranarayanan, Rajan ; Sekar, K. ; Tyagi, Anil K. (2011) Structural biology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis proteins: the Indian efforts Tuberculosis, 91 (5). pp. 456-468. ISSN 1472-9792

Premkumar, G. ; Sankaranarayanan, R. ; Jeeva, S. ; Rajarathinam, K. (2011) Cytokinin induced shoot regeneration and flowering of Scoparia dulcis L.(Scrophulariaceae)-an ethnomedicinal herb Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine, 1 (3). pp. 169-172. ISSN 2221-1691

Chennupati, Vijaykumar ; Datta, Debduti ; Rao, Mallireddy Ramakrishna Subba ; Boddapati, Neelima ; Kayasani, Mahesh ; Sankaranarayanan, Rajan ; Mishra, Mamata ; Seth, Pankaj ; Mani, Chandrasekaran ; Mahalingam, Sundarasamy (2011) Signals and pathways regulating nucleolar retention of novel putative nucleolar GTPase, NGP-1 (GNL-2) Biochemistry, 50 (21). pp. 4521-4536. ISSN 0006-2960

Puri, Vidhi ; Goyal, Aneesh ; Sankaranarayanan, Rajan ; Enright, Anton J. ; Vaidya, Tushar (2011) Evolutionary and functional insights into Leishmania META1: evidence for lateral gene transfer and a role for META1 in secretion BMC Evolutionary Biology, 11 (1). 334_1-334_16. ISSN 1471-2148

Hussain, Tanweer ; Kamarthapu, Venu ; Kruparani, Shobha P. ; Deshmukh, Mandar V. ; Sankaranarayanan, Rajan (2010) Mechanistic insights into cognate substrate discrimination during proofreading in translation PNAS, 107 (51). pp. 22117-22121. ISSN 0027-8424

Matharua, Navneet Kaur ; Hussaina, Tanweer ; Sankaranarayanana, Rajan ; Mishra, Rakesh K. (2010) Vertebrate homologue of Drosophila GAGA factor Journal of Molecular Biology, 400 (3). pp. 434-447. ISSN 0022-2836

Dubey, V. P. ; Pal, B. ; Srikantan, S. ; Pottabathini, S. ; De, P. K. ; Sankaranarayanan, R. (2010) Cloning, overexpression, purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of a female-specific lipocalin (FLP) expressed in the lacrimal glands of Syrian hamsters Acta Crystallographica Section F, 66 . pp. 509-512. ISSN 1744-3091

Sankaranarayanan, Ramasamy ; Cherney, Maia M. ; Garen, Craig ; Garen, Grace ; Niu, Chunying ; Yuan, Marshall ; James, Michael N. G. (2010) The molecular structure of ornithine acetyltransferase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis bound to ornithine, a competitive inhibitor Journal of Molecular Biology, 397 (4). pp. 979-990. ISSN 0022-2836

Aravind, Penmatsa ; Mishra, Amita ; Suman, Shashi Kumar ; Jobby, Maroor K. ; Sankaranarayanan, Rajan ; Sharma, Yogendra (2009) The βγ-crystallin superfamily contains a Universal motif for binding calcium Biochemistry, 48 (51). pp. 12180-12190. ISSN 0006-2960

Aparna, Gudlur ; Chatterjee, Avradip ; Sonti, Ramesh V. ; Sankaranarayanan, Rajan (2009) A cell wall degrading esterase of Xanthomonas oryzae requires a unique substrate recognition module for pathogenesis on rice The Plant Cell, 21 (6). pp. 1860-1873. ISSN 1040-4651

Roy, Sobhan ; Aravind, Penmatsa ; Madhurantakam, Chaithanya ; Ghosh, Ananta Kumar ; Sankaranarayanan, Rajan ; Das, Amit Kumar (2009) Crystal structure of a fungal protease inhibitor from Antheraea mylitta Journal of Structural Biology, 166 (1). pp. 79-87. ISSN 1047-8477

Aravind, Penmatsa ; Suman, Shashi Kumar ; Mishra, Amita ; Sharma, Yogendra ; Sankaranarayanan, Rajan (2009) Three-dimensional domain swapping in nitrollin, a single-domain βγ-crystallin from Nitrosospira multiformis, controls protein conformation and stability but not dimerization Journal of Molecular Biology, 385 (1). pp. 163-177. ISSN 0022-2836

Arora, Pooja ; Goyal, Aneesh ; Natarajan, Vivek T. ; Rajakumara, Eerappa ; Verma, Priyanka ; Gupta, Radhika ; Yousuf, Malikmohamed ; Trivedi, Omita A. ; Mohanty, Debasisa ; Tyagi, Anil ; Sankaranarayanan, Rajan ; Gokhale, Rajesh S. (2009) Mechanistic and functional insights into fatty acid activation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Nature Chemical Biology, 5 . pp. 166-173. ISSN 1548-7091

Aravind, Penmatsa ; Wistow, Graeme ; Sharma, Yogendra ; Sankaranarayanan, Rajan (2008) Exploring the limits of sequence and structure in a variant βγ-crystallin domain of the protein absent in melanoma-1 (AIM1) Journal of Molecular Biology, 381 (3). pp. 509-518. ISSN 0022-2836

Ahmad, Shoeb ; Zahid Kamal, Md. ; Sankaranarayanan, Rajan ; Madhusudhana Rao, N. (2008) Thermostable Bacillus subtilis lipases: in vitro evolution and structural insight Journal of Molecular Biology, 361 (2). pp. 324-340. ISSN 0022-2836

Kaushal, P. S. ; Sankaranarayanan, R. ; Vijayan, M. (2008) Water-mediated changes in the quaternary structure of hemoglobin Acta Crystallographica Section A, 64 . C370-C370. ISSN 0108-7673

Goyal, Aneesh ; Saxena, Priti ; Rahman, Ataur ; Singh, Parmit Kumar ; Kasbekar, Durgadas P. ; Gokhale, Rajesh S. ; Sankaranarayanan, Rajan (2008) Structural insights into biosynthesis of resorcinolic lipids by a type III polyketide synthase in Neurospora crassa Journal of Structural Biology, 162 (3). pp. 411-421. ISSN 1047-8477

Kaushal, P. S. ; Sankaranarayanan, R. ; Vijayan, M. (2008) Water-mediated variability in the structure of relaxed-state haemoglobin Acta Crystallographica Section F, 64 . pp. 463-469. ISSN 1744-3091

Satapathy, Ajit K. ; Pavankumar, Theetha L. ; Bhattacharjya, Sumana ; Sankaranarayanan, Rajan ; Ray, Malay K. (2008) ATPase activity of RecD is essential for growth of the Antarctic Pseudomonas syringae Lz4W at low temperature FEBS Journal, 275 (8). pp. 1835-1851. ISSN 1742-464X

Vijayalakshmi, L. ; Krishna, R. ; Sankaranarayanan, R. ; Vijayan, M. (2008) An asymmetric dimer of β-lactoglobulin in a low humidity crystal form - structural changes that accompany partial dehydration and protein action Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, 71 (1). pp. 241-249. ISSN 0887-3585

Rajakumara, Eerappa ; Acharya, Priyamvada ; Ahmada, Shoeb ; Sankaranaryanan, Rajan ; Rao, Nalam M. (2008) Structural basis for the remarkable stability of Bacillus subtilis lipase (Lip A) at low pH Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins & Proteomics, 1784 (2). pp. 302-311. ISSN 1570-9639

Sankaranarayanan, Ramasamy ; Cherney, Maia M. ; Cherney, Leonid T. ; Garen, Craig R. ; Moradian, Fatemeh ; James, Michael N. G. (2008) The crystal structures of ornithine carbamoyltransferase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis and its ternary complex with carbamoyl phosphate and L-norvaline reveal the enzyme's catalytic mechanism Journal of Molecular Biology, 375 (4). pp. 1052-1063. ISSN 0022-2836

Gokhale, Rajesh S. ; Sankaranarayanan, Rajan ; Mohanty, Debasisa (2007) Versatility of polyketide synthases in generating metabolic diversity Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 17 (6). pp. 736-743. ISSN 0959-440X

Aparna, G. ; Chatterjee, A. ; Jha, G. ; Sonti, R. V. ; Sankaranarayanan, R. (2007) Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic studies of LipA, a secretory lipase/esterase from Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae Acta Crystallographica Section F, 63 . pp. 708-710. ISSN 1744-3091

Subba Rao, M. R. K. ; Kumari, Gita ; Balasundaram, D. ; Sankaranarayanan, R. ; Mahalingam, S. (2006) A novellysine-rich domain and GTP binding motifs regulate the nucleolar retention of human guanine nucleotide binding protein, GNL3L Journal of Molecular Biology, 364 (4). pp. 637-654. ISSN 0022-2836

Roy, S. ; Aravind, P. ; Madhurantakam, C. ; Ghosh, A. K. ; Sankaranarayanan, R. ; Das, A. K. (2006) Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of a protease inhibitor from the haemolymph of the Indian tasar silkworm Antheraea mylitta Acta Crystallographica Section F, 62 . pp. 669-671. ISSN 1744-3091

Goyal, Aneesh ; Yousuf, Malikmohamed ; Arora, Pooja ; Gokhale, Rajesh S. ; Rajakumara, Eerappa ; Sankaranarayanan, Rajan (2006) Crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic studies of the N-terminal domain of FadD28, a fatty-acyl AMP ligase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis Acta Crystallographica Section F, 62 (4). pp. 350-352. ISSN 1744-3091

Aravind, P. ; Rajini, B. ; Sharma, Y. ; Sankaranarayanan, R. (2006) Crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic investigations on a βγ-crystallin domain of absent In melanoma 1 (AIM1), a protein from Homo sapiens Acta Crystallographica Section F, 62 . pp. 282-284. ISSN 1744-3091

Hussain, Tanweer ; Kruparani, Shobha P. ; Pal, Biswajit ; Dock-Bregeon, Anne-Catherine ; Dwivedi, Shweta ; Shekar, Megala R. ; Sureshbabu, Kotini ; Sankaranarayanan, Rajan (2006) Post-transfer editing mechanism of a D-aminoacyl-tRNA deacylase-like domain in threonyl-tRNA synthetase from archaea The EMBO Journal, 25 (17). pp. 4152-4162. ISSN 0261-4189

Sankaranarayanan, Rajan (2006) A type III PKS makes the DIFference Nature Chemical Biology, 2 . pp. 451-452. ISSN 1552-4450

Sankaranarayanan, R. ; Biswal, B. K. ; Vijayan, M. (2005) A new relaxed state in horse methemoglobin characterized by crystallographic studies Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, 60 (3). pp. 547-551. ISSN 0887-3585

Sachdev, M. ; Sankaranarayanan, R. ; Reddanna, P. ; Thangaraj, K. ; Singh, L. (2005) Major histocompatibility complex class I polymorphism in Asiatic lions Tissue Antigens, 66 (1). pp. 9-18. ISSN 0001-2815

Madhurantakam, Chaithanya ; Rajakumara, Eerappa ; Mazumdar, Pooja Anjali ; Saha, Baisakhee ; Mitra, Devrani ; Wiker, Harald G. ; Sankaranarayanan, Rajan ; Das, Amit Kumar (2005) Crystal structure of low-molecular-weight protein tyrosine phosphatase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis at 1.9-Å resolution Journal of Bacteriology, 187 (6). pp. 2175-2181. ISSN 0021-9193

Dwivedi, Shweta ; Kruparani, Shobha P. ; Sankaranarayanan, Rajan (2005) A D-amino acid editing module coupled to the translational apparatus in archaea Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, 12 (6). pp. 556-557. ISSN 1545-9993

Dwivedi, S. ; Kruparani, S. P. ; Sankaranarayanan, R. (2004) Cloning, expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic investigations of a unique editing domain from archaebacteria Acta Crystallographica Section D, 60 . pp. 1662-1664. ISSN 0907-4449

Acharya, Priyamvada ; Rajakumara, Eerappa ; Sankaranarayanan, Rajan ; Rao, Nalam M. (2004) Structural basis of selection and thermostability of laboratory evolved Bacillus subtilis lipase Journal of Molecular Biology, 341 (5). pp. 1271-1281. ISSN 0022-2836

Rukmini, R. ; Shanmugam, V. M. ; Saxena, P. ; Gokhale, R. S. ; Sankaranarayanan, R. (2004) Crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic investigations of an unusual type III polyketide synthase PKS18 from Mycobacterium tuberculosis Acta Crystallographica Section D: Biological Crystallography, 60 . pp. 749-751. ISSN 0907-4449

Rajakumara, E. ; Acharya, P. ; Ahmad, S. ; Shanmugam, V. M. ; Rao, N. M. ; Sankaranarayanan, R. (2004) Crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic investigations on several thermostable forms of a Bacillus subtilis lipase Acta Crystallographica Section D, 60 . pp. 160-162. ISSN 0907-4449

Sankaranarayanan, Rajan ; Saxena, Priti ; Marathe, Uttara B. ; Gokhale, Rajesh S. ; Shanmugam, Vellaiah M. ; Rukmini, Raju (2004) A novel tunnel in mycobacterial type III polyketide synthase reveals the structural basis for generating diverse metabolites Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, 11 . pp. 894-900. ISSN 1545-9993

Torres-Larios, Alfredo ; Sankaranarayanan, Rajan ; Reesa, Bernard ; Dock-Bregeona, Anne-Catherine ; Moras, Dino (2003) Conformational movements and cooperativity upon amino acid, ATP and tRNA binding in threonyl-tRNA synthetase Journal of Molecular Biology, 331 (1). pp. 201-211. ISSN 0022-2836

Caillet, Joël ; Nogueira, Teresa ; Masquida, Benoît ; Winter, Flore ; Graffe, Monique ; Dock-Brégeon, Anne-Catherine ; Torres-Larios, Alfredo ; Sankaranarayanan, Rajan ; Westhof, Eric ; Ehresmann, Bernard ; Ehresmann, Chantal ; Romby, Pascale ; Springer, Mathias (2003) The modular structure of Escherichia coli threonyl-tRNA synthetase as both an enzyme and a regulator of gene expression Molecular Microbiology, 47 (4). pp. 961-974. ISSN 0950-382X

Chatterjee, Subhadeep ; Sankaranarayanan, Rajan ; Sonti, Ramesh V. (2003) PhyA, a secreted protein of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae, is required for optimum virulence and growth on phytic acid as a sole phosphate source Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 16 (11). pp. 973-982. ISSN 0894-0282

Saraswathi, N. T. ; Sankaranarayanan, R. ; Vijayan, M. (2002) Effect of stabilizing additives on the structure and hydration of proteins: a study involving monoclinic lysozyme Acta Crystallographica Section D, 58 . pp. 1162-1167. ISSN 0907-4449

Torres-Larios, Alfredo ; Dock-Bregeon, Anne-Catherine ; Romby, Pascale ; Rees, Bernard ; Sankaranarayanan, Rajan ; Caillet, Joel ; Springer, Mathias ; Ehresmann, Chantal ; Ehresmann, Bernard ; Moras, Dino (2002) Structural basis of translational control by Escherichia coli threonyl tRNA synthetase Nature Structural Biology, 9 . pp. 343-347. ISSN 1072-8368

Sankaranarayanan, R. ; Moras, D. (2001) Solution to the double discrimination problem by the class II threonyl-tRNA synthetase Medicinal Chemistry Research, 10 (7-8). pp. 516-523. ISSN 1054-2523

Sankaranarayanan, R. ; Moras, D. (2001) The fidelity of the translation of the genetic code Acta Biochimica Polonica, 48 (2). pp. 323-335. ISSN 0001-527X

Dock-Bregeon, Anne-Catherine ; Sankaranarayana, Rajan ; Romby, Pascale ; Caillet, Joel ; Springer, Mathias ; Rees, Bernard ; Francklyn, Christopher S. ; Ehresmann, Chantal ; Moras, Dino (2000) Transfer RNA-mediated editing in threonyl-tRNA synthetase. The class II solution to the double discrimination problem Cell, 103 (6). pp. 877-884. ISSN 0092-8674

Arnez, John G. ; Sankaranarayanan, Rajan ; Dock-Bregeon, Anne-Catherine ; Francklyn, Christopher S. ; Moras, Dino (2000) Aminoacylation at the atomic level in class IIa aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, 17 (Sup1). pp. 23-27. ISSN 0739-1102

Sankaranarayanan, Rajan ; Dock-Bregeon, Anne-Catherine ; Rees, Bernard ; Bovee, Michael ; Caillet, Joel ; Romby, Pascale ; Francklyn, Christopher S. ; Moras, Dino (2000) Zinc ion mediated amino acid discrimination by threonyl-tRNA synthetase Nature Structural Biology, 7 . pp. 461-465. ISSN 1072-8368

Sankaranarayanan, R. ; Dock Bregeon, A.-C. ; Rees, B. ; Bovee, M. ; Caillet, J. ; Romby, P. ; Francklyn, C. ; Moras, D. (2000) Zinc ion mediated amino acid recognition by threonyl-tRNA synthetase Acta Crystallographica Section A, A56 . S93. ISSN 0108-7673

Sankaranarayanan, Rajan ; Dock-Bregeon, Anne-Catherine ; Romby, Pascale ; Caillet, Joel ; Springer, Mathias ; Rees, Bernard ; Ehresmann, Chantal ; Ehresmann, Bernard ; Moras, Dino (1999) The structure of threonyl-tRNA synthetase-tRNA^Thr complex enlightens its repressor activity and reveals an essential zinc ion in the active site Cell, 97 (3). pp. 371-381. ISSN 0092-8674

Yeole, B. B. ; Sankaranarayanan, R. ; Jussawalla, D. J. (1998) Long-term survival from uterine cervical cancer in Mumbai (Bombay), India International Journal of Cancer, 78 (3). pp. 394-395. ISSN 0020-7136

Prabu, Moses M. ; Sankaranarayanan, R. ; Puri, K. D. ; Sharma, V. ; Surolia, A. ; Vijayan, M. ; Suguna, K. (1998) Carbohydrate specificity and quaternary association in basic winged bean lectin: X-ray analysis of the lectin at 2.5 Å resolution Journal of Molecular Biology, 276 (4). pp. 787-796. ISSN 0022-2836

Suresh, S. ; Rani, P. G. ; Pratap, J. V. ; Sankaranarayanan, R. ; Surolia, A. ; Vijayan, M. (1997) Homology between jacalin and artocarpin from jackfruit (Artocarpus integrifolia) seeds. Partial sequence and preliminary crystallographic studies of artocarpin Acta Crystallographica Section D, 53 . pp. 469-471. ISSN 0907-4449

Vijayan, M. ; Sekar, K. ; Banerjee, R. ; Mahanta, S. K. ; Surolia, A. ; Sankaranarayanan, R. (1996) A threefold symmetric β-prism fold without internal sequence homology in the structure of the two-chain lectin jacalin Acta Crystallographica Section A, 52 . C174-C174. ISSN 0108-7673

Sankaranarayanan, Rajan ; Sekar, Kanakaraj ; Banerjee, Rahul ; Sharma, Vivek ; Surolia, Avadhesha ; Vijayan, Mamannamana (1996) A novel mode of carbohydrate recognition in jacalin, a Moraceae plant lectin with a β-prism fold Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, 3 (7). pp. 596-603. ISSN 1545-9993

Sankaranarayan, R. ; Puri, K. D. ; Ganesh, V. ; Banerjee, R. ; Surolia, A. ; Vijayan, M. (1993) Crystallization and preliminary X-ray studies of the basic lectin from winged bean (psophocarpus tetragonolobus) Journal of Molecular Biology, 229 (2). pp. 558-560. ISSN 0022-2836

Sankaranarayanan, R. ; Jayaraj, S. (1975) Sterility-inducing effects of antibiotics and Sulphanilamide on the gourd fruitfly, Dacus cucurbitae Coq. (Trypetidae, Diptera) Zeitschrift für Angewandte Entomologie, 79 (1-4). pp. 129-136. ISSN 0044-2240