Pinakpani Chakrabarti
Proffesor, Biochemistry
PhD: Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 1981

1. Guharoy M and Chakrabarti P (2005). Conservation and relative importance of residues across protein-protein interfaces. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 102, in press.
2. Datta AB, Panjikar S, Weiss MS, Chakrabarti P and Parrack P (2005). Structure of  CII: implications for recognition of direct-repeat DNA by an unusual tetrameric organization. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 102, 11242-11247.
3. Saha RP, Bahadur RP and Chakrabarti P (2005). Inter-residue contacts in proteins and protein-protein interfaces and their use in characterizing the homodimeric interface. J. Proteome Res. (in press).
4. Rodier F, Bahadur RP, Chakrabarti P and Janin J (2005). Hydration of protein-protein interfaces. Proteins, 60, 36-45.
5. Pal L, Dasgupta B and Chakrabarti P (2005). 310-helix adjoining -helix and -strand: sequence, structural features and their conservation. Biopolymers, 78, 147-162.
6. Bhattacharyya R, Pal D and Chakrabarti, P (2004). Disulfide bonds, their stereospecific environment and conservation in protein structures. Protein Eng. Design Selection, 17, 795-808.
7. Bahadur RP, Chakrabarti P, Rodier F and Janin J (2004). A dissection of specific and non-specific protein-protein interfaces. J. Mol. Biol. 336, 943-955.
8. Dasgupta B, Pal L, Basu G and Chakrabarti P (2004). Expanded turn conformations: characterization and sequence-structure correspondence in -turns with implications in helix folding. Proteins, 55, 305-315.
9. Bhattacharyya R and Chakrabarti P (2003). Stereospecific interactions of proline residues in protein structures and complexes. J. Mol. Biol. 331, 925-940.
10. Bahadur RP, Chakrabarti P, Rodier F and Janin J (2003). Dissecting subunit interfaces in homodimeric proteins. Proteins, 53, 708-719.
11. Bhattacharyya R, Saha, R, Samanta, U and Chakrabarti P (2003). Geometry of interaction of histidine ring with other planar and basic residues. J. Proteome Res. 2, 255-263.
12. Pal L, Chakrabarti P and Basu G (2003). Sequence and structure patterns in proteins from an analysis of the shortest helices: implications for helix nucleation. J. Mol. Biol. 326, 273-291.
13. Chakrabarti P and Janin J (2002). Dissecting protein-protein recognition sites. Proteins Proteins, 47, 334-343.
14. Bhattacharyya B, Pal D and Chakrabarti P (2002). Secondary structures at polypeptide chain-termini and their features. Acta Cryst. D56, 1793-1802.
15. Samanta U, Bahadur RP and Chakrabarti P (2002). Quantifying the accessible surface area of protein residues in their local environment. Protein Engng. 15, 659-667.
16. Pal L, Basu G and Chakrabarti P (2002). Variants of 310-helices in proteins. Proteins, 48, 571-579.
17. Praveen T, Das T, Sureshan KM, Shashidhar MS, Samanta U, Pal D and Chakrabarti P (2002). Silver(I) oxide – silver halide mediated alcoholysis of O-benzoyl-myo-inositol 1,3,5-orthoformates: intramolecular assistance by the sulfonyl group. J.C.S., Perkin Trans. 2, 358-365.
18. Pal D and Chakrabarti P (2002). On residues in the disallowed region of the Ramachandran map. Biopolymers, 63, 195-206.
19. Bhattacharyya R, Samanta U and Chakrabarti P (2002). Aromatic-aromatic interactions in and around α-helices. Protein Engng. 15, 91-100.
20. Datta AB, Chakrabarti P, Subramanya HS and Parrack P (2001). Purification and crystallization of CII: an unstable transcription activator from phage . Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 288, 997-1000.
21. Pal D, Mahapatra P, Manna T, Chakrabarti P, Bhattacharyya B, Banerjee A, Basu G, Roy S (2001). Conformational properties of α-tubulin tail peptide: implications for tail-body interaction. Biochemistry, 40, 15512-15519.
22. Pal D and Chakrabarti P (2001). Non-hydrogen bond interactions involving the methionine sulfur atom. J. Biomol. Struct. Dyn. 19, 115-128.
23. Chakrabarti P and Pal D (2001). The interrelationships of side-chain and main-chain conformations in proteins. Prog. Biophys. Mol. Biol. 76, 1-102.
24. Samanta U and Chakrabarti P (2001). Assessing the role of tryptophan residues in the binding site. Protein Engng. 14, 7-15.
25. Pal D and Chakrabarti P (2000). Conformational similarity indices between different residues in proteins and-helix propensities. J. Biomol. Struct. Dyn. 18, 273-280.
26. Chakrabarti P, Puranik VG, Naskar JP, Hati S and Datta D (2000). New copper complexes of diacetyl hydrazone oxime and its acetone azine. Ind. J. Chem. 39A, 571-578.
27. Hazra BG, Basu S, Pore VS, Joshi PL, Pal D and Chakrabarti P (2000). Synthesis of 11-(4-dimethylaminophenyl)-17-hydroxy-17-(3-methyl-1-butynyl)-4,9-estradien-3-one and 11-(4-acetophenyl)-17-hydroxy-17-(3-methyl-1-butynyl)-4,9-estradien-3-one: two new analogs of mifepristone (RU-486). Steroids, 65, 157-162.
28. Pal D and Chakrabarti P (2000). -sheet propensity and its correlation with parameters based on conformation. Acta Cryst. D56, 589-594.
29. Pal D and Chakrabarti P (2000). Terminal residues in protein chains: residue preference, conformation and interaction. Biopolymers, 53, 467-475.
30. Samanta U, Pal D and Chakrabarti P (2000). Environment of tryptophan side-chains in proteins. Proteins, 38, 288-300.
31. Pal D and Chakrabarti P (1999). Cis peptide bonds in proteins: residues involved, their conformations, interactions and locations. J. Mol. Biol. 294, 271-288.
32. Maji M, Hossain M, Chatterjee M, Chattopadhyay SK, Puranik VG, Chakrabarti P and Ghosh S (1999). Synthesis, characterisation and reactivity of trans-[Ru(L)(PPh3)Br2]; L = 2-pyridyl-N-(2’-methylthiophenyl)methyleneimine. Crystal structure of trans-[Ru(L)(PPh3)Br2]. Polyhedron, 18, 3735-3739.
33. Samanta U, Chakrabarti P, Naskar JP, Haiti S and Datta D (1999). Structure and metal binding of an 1H-1,5-benzodiazepine. Ind. J. Chem. 38A, 553-557.
34. Samanta U, Pal D and Chakrabarti P (1999). Packing of aromatic rings against tryptophan residues in proteins. Acta Cryst. D55, 1421-1427.
35. Pal D and Chakrabarti P (1999). Graphical representation of salient conformational features of residues in protein. Protein Engng. 12, 523-526.
36. Pal D and Chakrabarti P (1999). Estimates of the loss of main-chain conformational entropy of different residues on protein folding. Proteins, 36, 332-339.
37. Chakrabarti P and Chakrabarti S (1998). CHO hydrogen bond involving proline residues in -helices. J. Mol. Biol. 284, 867-873.
38. Samanta U, Chakrabarti P and Chandrasekhar J (1998). Ab initio study of energetics of X-H (X = N,O and C) interactions involving a heteroaromatic ring. J. Phys. Chem. A 102, 8964-8969.
39. Chakrabarti P and Pal D (1998). Main-chain conformational features at different conformations of the side-chains in proteins. Protein Engng. 11, 631-647.
40. Pal D and Chakrabarti P (1998). Different types of interactions involving cysteine sulfhydryl group in proteins. J. Biomol. Struct. Dyn. 15, 1059-1072.
41. Praveen T, Samanta U, Das T, Shashidhar MS and Chakrabarti P (1998). Reactivity controlled by lattice interactions in crystal: intermolecular acyl transfer in ()-2,4-di-O-benzoyl-myo-inositol-1,3,5-orthoformate. J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 120, 3842-3845.
42. Samanta U, Puranik VG, Chakrabarti P, Thoniyot P and Shashidhar MS (1998). 2-O-Benzoyl-myo-inositol-1,3,5-orthoformate. Acta Cryst. C54, 1289-1291.
43. Naskar JP, Hati S, Datta D, Samanta U and Chakrabarti P (1998). The crystal structure of 2,3-dihydro-2,2,4-trimethyl-1H-1,5-benzodiazepinium perchlorate. Z. Krist. 213, 112-114.
44. Rajeev KG, Samanta U, Chakrabarti P, Shashidhar MS and Samuel AG (1998). Molecular association of 2,3-dihydro-2-alkyl-3-hydroxybenzisothiazole-1,1-dioxides: formation of novel bicyclic dimers containing 12/14 membered rings. J. Org. Chem. 63, 230-234.
45. Maurya MR, Jayaswal MN, Puranik VG, Chakrabarti P, Gopinathan S and Gopinathan C (1997). Dioxomolybdenum (VI) and dioxotungsten (VI) complexes of isomeric ONO donor ligands and the X-ray crystal structure of [MoO2(o-OC6H4CH=NCH2C6H4O)(MeOH)]2.MeOH. Polyhedron, 16, 3977-3983.
46. Surange SS, Kumaran G, Rajappa S, Pal D and Chakrabarti P (1997). Push-pull butadienes: evidence for a possible C-HS hydrogen bond in 4-(methylthio)-4-nitro-1-(pyrrolidin-1-yl)buta-1,3-diene. Helv. Chim. Acta, 80, 2329-2336.
47. Chakrabarti P and Pal D (1997). An eletrophile-nucleophile interaction in metalloprotein structures. Protein Sci. 6, 851-859.
48. Sur S, Ganesh S, Pal D, Puranik VG, Chakrabarti P and Sarkar A (1996). Stereodivergent C-C bond formation on arene-chromium template: endo-selectivity allylation by Hosomi-Sakurai reaction. J. Org. Chem. 61, 8362-8363.
49. Chakrabarti P and Samanta U (1995). CH/ interaction in the packing of the adenine ring in protein structures. J. Mol. Biol. 251, 9-14.
50. Joshi VS, Sathe KM, Nandi M, Chakrabarti P and Sarkar A (1995). Severe distortion of -allyl orientation in a molybdenum complex containing a sterically demanding ligand: crystal structure of hydrotris(3,5-dimethylpyrazolyl)boraoto-(-cinnamyl)-dicarbonyl molybdenum(II). J. Organomet. Chem. 485, C1-C5.
51. Chakrabarti P (1994). Conformational analysis of carboxylate and carboxamide side-chains bound to cations. J. Mol. Biol. 239, 306-314.
52. Chakrabarti P (1994). An assessment of the effect of helix dipole in protein strucrures. Protein Engng. 7, 471-474.
53. Chakrabarti P and Hsu BT (1994). Cation binding by the phenolate group in small molecules and proteins. Inorg. Chem. 33, 1165-1170.
54. Chakrabarti P (1994). Conformations of arginine and lysine side chains in association with anions. Int. J. Pept. Protein Res. 43, 284-291.
55. Chakrabarti P (1993). Anion binding sites in protein structures. J. Mol. Biol. 234, 463-482.
56. Chakrabarti P and Pal S (1993). Differences in the energies of interactions at the binding sites in protein structures. Chem. Phys. Lett. 201, 24-26.
57. Rees DC, Kim J, Georgiadis MM, Komiya H, Chirino AJ, Woo D, Schlessman J, Chan MK, Joshua-Tor L, Santillan G, Chakrabarti P and Hsu BT (1993). Crystal structures of the iron protein and molybdenum-iron protein of nitrogenase. In Molybdenum Enzymes, Cofactors, and Model Systems (edited by Stiefel EI, Coucouvanis D and Newton WE), ACS Symposium Series 535, Chapter 11, 170-185.
58. Ganesh S, Sathe KM, Nandi M, Chakrabarti P and Sarkar A (1993). Complete reversal of stereoselectivity in cyclopropanation of 2-arylidene-1-tetralone tricarbonylchromium complexes. J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun. 224-226.
59. Georgiadis MM, Komiya H, Chakrabarti P, Woo D, Kornuc JJ and Rees DC (1992). Crystallographic structure of the nitrogenase iron protein from Azotobacter vinelandii. Science, 257, 1653-1659.
60. Chakrabarti P (1991). Does helix dipole have any role in binding metal ions in protein structures? Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 290, 387-390.
61. Chakrabarti P (1990). Systematics in the interaction of metal ions with the main-chain carbonyl group in protein structures. Biochemistry, 29, 651-658.
62. Chakrabarti P (1990). Interaction of metal ions with carboxylic and carboxamide groups in protein structures. Protein Engng. 4, 49-56.
63. Chakrabarti P (1990). Geometry of interaction of metal ions with histidine residues in protein structures. Protein Engng. 4, 57-63.
64. Piontek K, Chakrabarti P, Schär HP, Rossmann MG and Zuber H (1990). Structure determination and refinement of Bacillus stearothermophilus lactate dehydrogenase. Proteins, 7, 74-92.
65. Georgiadis MM, Chakrabarti P and Rees DC (1990). Crystal structure of the nitrogenase iron protein from Azotobacter vinelandii. In Nitrogen Fixation: Achievements and Objectives (Gresshoff PM, Roth E, Stacy G and Newton WE, eds.), Chapman & Hill: New York, 111-116.
66. Chakrabarti P (1989). Geometry of interaction of metal ions with sulfur-containing ligands in protein strcutures. Biochemistry, 28, 6081-6085.
67. Chattopadhyaya R and Chakrabarti P (1988). Solving DNA structures by MERLOT. Acta Cryst. B44, 651-657.
68. Chakrabarti P, Bernard M and Rees DC (1986). Peptide bond distortions and the curvature of -helices. Biopolymers, 25, 1087-1093.
69. Rees DC, Howard JB, Chakrabarti P, Yeates T, Hsu BT, Hardman KD and Lipscomb WN (1986). Crystal structures of metallosubstituted carboxypeptidase A. Zinc Enzymes (Progress in Inorganic Biochemistry and Biophysics, Vol. 1, edited by Gray H and Bertini I), 155-166.
70. Chakrabarti P, Venkatesan K, Cameron TS, Demir T and Shaw RA (1985). Aromatic amines and their derivatives. Part 2. Synthesis, spectroscopic properties, and molecular and crystal structure of N-acetyl-4,N-dimethyl-6-(N-acetyl-p- toluidinomethyl)-aniline. J. Cryst. Spectros. Res. 15, 229-245.
71. Chakrabarti P and Dunitz JD (1982). Directional preferences of ether O-atoms towards alkali and alkaline earth cations. Helv. Chim. Acta, 65, 1482-1487.
72. Chakrabarti P and Dunitz JD (1982). Structural characteristics of the carboxylic amide group. Helv. Chim. Acta, 65, 1555-1562.
73. Chakrabarti P, Venkatesan K and Rao CNR (1981). Structure and bonding in N-methylacetamide complexes of alkali and alkaline earth metals. Proc. R. Soc. (Lond.), A375, 127-153.
74. Chakrabarti P, Venkatesan K, Singh UC and Rao CNR (1981). Systematic variation in bond lengths in peptides. Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 670, 134-137.
75. Chakrabarti P, Venkatesan K, Cameron TS, Demir T, Shaw RA (1981). Aromatic amines and their derivatives. Part 3. The synthesis and crystal structure of 4,4’,NN’-tetramethyl-NN’-dinitroso-2,2’-methylenedianiline. J. Chem. Soc. (Perkin I), 206-211.
76. Chakrabarti P, Banerjee DK and Venkatesan K (1981). The crystal and molecular structure of dl-17-hydroxy-8-androst-4-en-3-one (8- isotesto-sterone). Steroids, 37, 269-279.
77. Bhadbhade MM, Chakrabarti P, Banerjee DK and Venkatesan K (1981). X-ray crystallographic investigations of testosterones and 19-nor-testosterones. Proc. Indian Natn. Sci. Acad. 47A, 100-109.
78. Chakrabarti P and Venkatesan K (1981). The structure of 9b-methyl-3a,3b,5a,9a,9b,11a-perhydrophenanthro[2,1-b]furan-7-one. Acta Cryst. B37, 1142-1144.
79. Chakrabarti P, Seiler P, Dunitz JD, Schlüter AD and Szeimies G (1981). Experimental evidence for the absence of bonding electron density between inverted carbon atoms. J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 103, 7378-7380.

 

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