Prof. Ramaswamy S - Publications
A list of the publications is available in google scholar - Ram's Publications OR Pubmed here.
Publications 2018:
Ramaswamy S. Reflections on current Ayurveda research. J Ayurveda Integr Med.2018 Dec 17;. doi: 10.1016/j.jaim.2018.11.001. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 30573323.
Haq SF, Shanbhag AP, Karthikeyan S, Hassan I, Thanukrishnan K, Ashok A, Sukumaran S, Ramaswamy S, Bharatham N, Datta S, Samant S, Katagihallimath N. A strategy to identify a ketoreductase that preferentially synthesizes pharmaceutically relevant (S)-alcohols using whole-cell biotransformation. Microb Cell Fact. 2018 Dec 3;17(1):192. doi: 10.1186/s12934-018-1036-2. PubMed PMID: 30509260; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6276252.
J. P. Kumar, H. Rao, V. Nayak and S. Ramaswamy (2018) Acta Cryst. F74. https://doi.org/10.1107/S2053230X18012992
Thanuja Gangi Setty, Jonathan C Mowers, Aaron G. Hobbs, Shubha P Maiya, Sanaa Syed, Robert S Munson Jr., Michael A Apicella and Ramaswamy Subramanian. (2018). Molecular characterization of the interaction of sialic acid with the periplasmic binding protein from Haemophilus ducreyi. Journal of Biological Chemistry. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.RA118.005151
Sanchari Banerjee, Pierre Montaville, Leonard M.G. Chavas and S. Ramaswamy. (2018). The New Era of Microcrystallography. Journal of Indian Institute of Science 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41745-018-0086-0.
Sneha Bairy, Lakshmi Narayanan Gopalan,Thanuja Gangi Setty, Sathya Srinivasachari, Lavanyaa Manjunath, Jay Prakash Kumar, Sai R Guntupalli, Sucharita Bose, Vinod Nayak, Swagatha Ghosh, Nitish Sathyanarayanan, Rhawnie Caing-Carlsson, Weixiao Yuan Wahlgren, Rosmarie Friemann, S. Ramaswamy and Muniasamy Neerathilingam (2018), Automation aided optimization of cloning, expression and purification of enzymes of the bacterial sialic acid catabolic and sialylation pathways enzymes for structural studies. Microbial Biotechnology, 11, 2, 420-428. https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.13041
Sabarinath Subramanian Peruvemba, Ponnusamy Babu, Dasaradhi Palakodeti and Ramaswamy Subramanian, (2018) Identification of multiple isomeric core chitobiose-modified high mannose and paucimannose N-glycans in the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea. J. Biol. Chem. 293: 6707-.6720.
Weixiao Wahlgren, Elin Dunevall, Rachel North, Aviv Paz, Mariafrancesca Scalise, Paola Bisignano, Johan Bengtsson-Palme, Parveen Goyal, Elin Claesson, Rhawnie Caing-Carlsson, Rebecka Andersson, Konstantinos Beis, Ulf Nilsson, Anne Farewell, Lorena Pochini, Cesare Indiveri, Michael Grabe, Ren Dobson, Jeff Abramson, S Ramaswamy, and Rosmarie Friemann (2018) Substrate-bound outward-open structure of a Na+-coupled sialic acid symporter reveals a new Na+ site. Nature Communications Nature Communicationsvolume 9, Article number: 1753.
Mishra Amrendra, Sriram Harshini, Tanvade Vivek, Kumar Rekha, Gopinath Ashok, Govindarajan Raman, Subramanian Ramaswamy and Sadasivam Subhashini (2018) Decreased Expression of Cell Adhesion Genes in Cancer Stem-like Cells Isolated from Primary Oral Squamous Cell Carcinomas, Tumor Biology 40 (5), 1010428318780859.
Rachel North, Weixiao Wahlgren, Daniela Remus, Mariafrancesca Scalise, Sarah Kessans, Elin Dunevall, Elin Claesson,Tatiana Soares da Costa, Matthew Perugini, Ramaswamy Subramanian, Jane Allison, Cesare Indiveri,Rosmarie Friemann and Renwick Charles Joseph Dobson (2018), The sodium sialic acid symporter from Staphylococcus aureus has altered substrate specificity. Front. Chem. - Chemical Biology 6, 233.
Lavanyaa Manjunath, Sai Rohit Guntupalli, Michael J Currie, Rachel A North, Renwick CJ Dobson, Vinod Nayak and Ramaswamy Subramanian* (2018), Crystal structure and kinetic analysis of N-acetylmannosamine-6-phosphate 2-epimerase from Fusobacterium nucleatum and Vibrio cholerae, Acta Crystallographica, Section -F 74: 7,431-440.
Publications in 2017:
Rachel A. North, Christopher R. Horne, James S. Davies, Daniela M. Remus, Andrew C. Muscroft-Taylor, Parveen Goyal, Weixiao Yuan Wahlgren, S. Ramaswamy, Rosmarie Friemann, Renwick C. J. Dobson (2017) Just a spoonful of sugar...”: import of sialic acid across bacterial cell membranes. Biophys Rev., https://doi.org/10.1007/s12551-017-0343-x.
Kumari A, Singh D, Ramaswamy S, Ramanathan G (2017) Structural and functional studies of ferredoxin and oxygenase components of 3-nitrotoluene dioxygenase from Diaphorobacter sp. strain DS2. PLoS ONE12(4): e0176398. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0176398.
Rhawnie Caing-Carlsson, Parveen Goyal, Amit Sharm Swagatha Ghosh, Thanuja Gangi Setty, Rachel A. North,f Rosmarie Friemanna, and S. Ramaswamy (2017) Crystal structure of N-acetylmannosamine kinase from Fusobacterium nucleatum. Acta Cryst Section F, Volume 73| Part 6| Pages 356-362. https://doi.org/10.1107/S2053230X17007439.
Bryce V. Plapp, Baskar Raj Savarimuthu, Daniel J. Ferraro, Jon K. Rubach, Eric N. Brown, and S. Ramaswamy (2017) Horse Liver Alcohol Dehydrogenase: Zinc Coordination and Catalysis, Biochemistry 56 (28), 3632-3646. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biochem.7b00446
Daniel J. Ferraro, Adam Okerlund, Eric Brown and S. Ramaswamy (2017) One enzyme, many reactions: structural basis for the various reactions catalyzed by naphthalene 1,2-dioxygenase. IUCrJ Volume 4| Part 5| Pages 648-656. https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052252517008223.
Rachel A. North, Christopher R. Horne, James S. Davies, Daniela M. Remus, Andrew C. Muscroft-Taylor, Parveen Goyal, Weixiao Yuan Wahlgren, S. Ramaswamy, Rosmarie Friemann and Renwick C. J. Dobson. “Just a spoonful of sugar...”: import of sialic acid across bacterial cell membranes.(2017). Biophys Rev . https://doi.org/10.1007/s12551-017-0343-x
OLDER STUFF:
Some of the fishy stuff published - http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/09/28/1525622113.full.pdf
Cockroach
http://www.lindau-nobel.org/the-story-behind-the-hype-cockroach-milk/
There are a whole bunch of other links that are not what we thought of our work - but different interpretations and extrapolations and freedom taken resulting from our work.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-3707802/Cockroach-milk-superfood-scientists-claim.html
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/08/06/488861223/cockroach-milk-yes-you-read-that-right
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http://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/are-cockroaches-the-new-cows/
If you want to know more - just search the web for "cockroach milk"
On Thulasi:
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/science/scientists-sequence-tulsi-genome-for-medicinal-properties/articleshow/48943216.cms
The older ones are there as well - but these give a glimpse of some recent fun stuff the lab has been involved in.