A. N. Lahiri Majumder

•           SB Saksena Medal Award from Indian National Science Academy ( 2008).
•           Elected Fellow, Indian National Science Academy (FNA, 2005)
•           Elected Fellow, Academy of Sciences, (FASc, 2005)
•           Elected Fellow, National Academy of Sciences (FNASc, 1996).
•           Elected Member, Guha Research Conference ( 2001)
•           Foundation Day Award, Bose Institute (1998).
•           Rockefeller Biotechnology Career Fellow  (1998-2003)
•           Parija Memorial Lecture Award  ( 2000 )
•           Sadakharaswamy Endowment Award, SBC(I)(1994-1995)
•           Career Development Award, UGC (1980-83).

Research interest and current activities :

 ·        Molecular mechanism of stress-tolerance in plants; Comparative genomic & proteomic approaches towards bioprospecting for stress-tolerant genes and their regulatory elements from wild sources.
·        Metabolic engineering of inositol/pinitol  biosynthesis for raising transgenic stress-tolerant crop plants .
·        Phylogenetic studies on inositol synthase: A genomic and proteomic approach.
·        Probing of active-site of eukaryotic inositol synthase : Biochemical & molecular studies.

Selected representative publications :

 1. Arun Lahiri Majumder, Anirban Chatterjee, Krishnarup Ghosedastidar , Manoj   Majee  Diversification and evolution of L-myo-inositol 1-phosphate synthase FEBS Letts,  553 ,3-10,  2003.

 2. Anirban Chatterjee, Manoj Majee,Shilpi Ghosh and Arun Lahiri Majumder       sll1722,an unassigned ORF of Synechocystis PCC6803 codes for L-myo-inositol1-phosphate synthase  Planta ,218 , 989-998, 2004 .

 3. Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya,Kridhnarup GhoshDastidar,Anirban Chattrjee,Manoj Majee   and  Arun Lahiri Majumder  Synechocystis Fe superoxide dismutase gene confers         oxidative stress tolerance to Escherichia coli.   Biochem. Biophys.Res.Commun. 316, 540-544, 2004.

 4. Manoj Majee, Sitakanta Pattnaik, Susmita Maitra , Krishnarup GhoseDastidar,         Anirban Chatterjee Nitai C.Hait,  Kali Pada Das and Arun Lahiri Majumder   A novel salt-tolerant L-myo-inositol 1-phosphate Synthase from Porteresia coarctata  (Roxb.) Tateoka, a halophytic wild rice : Molecular cloning, bacterial overexpression, characterization and functional introgression into tobacco conferring salt-tolerant phenotype.  J.Biol.Chem,  279, 28539-28552,2004

5.  Krishnarup Ghosh Dastidar, Susmita Maitra, Lily Goswami, Debjani Roy, Kali         Pada  Das, and  Arun Lahiri  Majumder  An insight into the molecular basis of salt-tolerance of L-myo-inositol 1-phosphate synthase (PcINO1 ) from  Porteresia coarctata (Roxb.) Tateoka, a halophytic wild rice  Plant Physiol. 140, 1279-1296, 2006

  6. Aparajita Das-Chatterjee, Lily Goswami, Susmita Maitra, Krishnarup         GhoshDastidar, Sudipta Ray and Arun Lahiri Majumder  Introgression of a novel salt-tolerant L-myo-inositol 1-phosphate synthase from Porteresia coarctata (Roxb.) Tateoka (PcINO1) confers salt-tolerance to evolutionary diverse organisms  FEBS Letts  580 , 3980–3988, 2006

   7 . Anirban Chatterjee , Krishnarup Ghosh Dastidar, Susmita Maitra , Aparajita Das-        Chatterjee, Hassan Dihazi ,  Klaus Eschrich  and  Arun Lahiri Majumder  sll1981, an acetolactate synthase homologue of Synechocystis sp. PCC6803,         functions as L- myo-inositol 1-  phosphate synthase       Planta , 224, 367-379, 2006 . 

8.  Krishnarup Ghosh Dastidar, Aparajita Chatterjee, Anirban Chatterjee and          Arun Lahiri Majumder   Evolutionary divergence of L-myo-inositol 1-phosphate synthase : Significance of a  “Core catalytic structure” Chapter 13, Pp 313-340 ;  In “Biology of Inositols and Phosphoinositides” ( Eds   A.L.Majumder &  B.B.Biswas ) ; Springer  (2006).

9..  Barunava Patra,  Krishnarup Ghosh Dastidar, Susmita Maitra, Jyotirmoy  Bhattacharyya and  Arun Lahiri Majumder          Functional identification of sll1383 from Synechocystis sp PCC 6803 as L-myo-inositol 1-phosphate  phosphatase ( EC 3.1.3.25 ) : molecular cloning, expression  and  characterization . Planta , 225, 1547-1558, 2007.

10.  Sonali Sengupta, Barunava Patra , Sudipta Ray and Arun Lahiri Majumder Inositol methyl transferase from a wild halophytic rice ,Porteresia coarctata Roxb  ( Tateoka) : regulation of pinitol synthesis under abiotic stress  Plant, Cell and Environment , 31, 1442-1459 , 2008 .

11..  Sonali Sengupta and Arun Lahiri Majumder  Insight into the salt-tolerance factors of a wild halophytic rice,  Porteresia  coarctata :  a physiological and proteomic approach.   Planta ( In press ) , DOI 10.1007/s00425-008-0878-y 

Contact

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