Education

Post-Doctoral and other positions

Thesis Supervision

Ph.D.

1. Ghildyal, Reena (1992) Identification and characterization of cell-surface molecules of Entamoeba histolytic using monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies. 

2. Prasad, Ramasare (1992) Identification and characterization of antigens from a few selected species of Mycobacteria.

3. Mittal, Vivek (1994) Molecular cloning and characterisation of repetitive DNA elements from Entamoeba histolytica.

4. Prasad, Jayendra (1994) Molecular cloning and analysis of an antigenic calcium binding protein from a pathogenic strain of Entamoeba histolytica.     

5. Sehgal, Devendra (1996) Characterization of the region upstream of the rRNA transcription units in the extrachromosomal circle of Entamoeba histolytica.

6. Yadava, Nagendra  (1998) Molecular analysis of the calcium-binding protein of Entamoeba histolytica.

7. Anand, Monika T (1998) Lipophosphoglycan of Entamoeba.

8. Sharma, Rachna (2001) Genome analysis of pathogenic Entamoeba histolytica and non-pathogenic Entamoeba dispar.

9. Arya, Ranjana (2001) Biosynthesis and transport of LPG-like molecules in Entamoeba histolytica.

10. Ghosh, Soma (2003) Studies on the nature of replication in the ribosomal DNA plasmid of Entamoeba histolytica.

11. Satish, S. (2003) Genome analysis and cell cycle of Entamoeba histolytica.

12. Sahoo, Nivedita. (2004) Functional analysis of calcium binding protein of Entamoeba histolytica.

Awards, Honours & Fellowships

1. National Science Talent Search Scholarship ( 1967-1976 )

2. Science Exhibition Award of Delhi University ( 1968, 1969 )

3. Robert McNamara Fellow of the World Bank ( 1985-1986 )

4. Rockefeller Biotechnology Career Development Award ( 1988-1990 )

5. Member Guha Research Conference (1992)

6. S.S. Bhatnagar award (1994)

7. Fellow, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi (2000)

Editor of Journal

1. Member, Editorial Board of "Parasitology International" (Elsevier Science).

2. Member, Editorial Board "J. Bioscience" (Indian Science Academy, Bangalore)

3. Guest editor, Special Issue on “Genome Analysis”, J. Bioscience, February 2002.

Grant Review Panel and Research Committee

1. CSIR committee on Animal Science and Biotechnology

2. International Programme Approval Committee of DBT

3. DBT task force on Bioinformatics & Infrastructure

4. DBT task force on Bioinformatics

5. Project Advisory Committee on Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology of DST

6. Research Advisory Committee of HRDG Group, CSIR

7. Standing Advisory Committee on Bioinformatics, DBT

8. Advisory Committee on S.S. Bhatnagar Award in Life Sciences

9. Coordinator Life Sciences CSIR-NET examination

10. Sectional Committee on Animal Sciences INSA

Association with Industry

1. Special Invited Member of the Northern Regional Council of CII, 2001

2. Consultant to  a) Dabur research Foundation b) Mascon Global Limited

Patent

1. Pandey, G.K., Reddy, V.S., Deswal, R., Bhattacharya, A. and Sopory, S.K. (2004)  “Transgenic plants with enhanced chlorophyll content and salt tolerance, U.S. Patent number 6,791,009.

Reviews & Symposia Proceedings

G. Mehta & A. Bhattacharya (1973) Recent áprogress in sesquiterpene synthesis: Part 1- acyclic, mono- and bicyclic sesquiterpenes. J. Sci. Ind. Res. 32, 118-127.

G. Mehta, A. Bhattacharya & S. Kapoor (1973)  Recent  progress in sesquiterpene ásynthesis: Part 2- tri & tetracyclic sesquiterpines. J. Sci. Ind. Res. 32, 191-197.

A. Bhattacharya & A. Datta (1975) Eukaryotic mRNA: Synthesis and turnover in yeast. Proceedings of symposium on structural and functional aspects of chromosomes. Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Bombay , pp 393-404.

A. Bhattacharya & G.S. Singhal (1975) In vitro activation of glucose oxidase by light. Proceedings of the symposium on singlet molecular oxygen. Bhabha Atomic Research Centre,  Bombay, pp 239-248.

S. Bhattacharya, A. Bhattacharya & L.S. Diamond (1989) Molecular   comparisons among Entamoeba histolytica using DNA and   protein profiles. In  "Progress in vaccinology" ed. by G.P. Talwar, Vol. 2, pp253-258, Springer-Verlag, New York.

A. Bhattacharya, S. Bhattacharya & D. Sehgal (1991) Molecular  basis of immune response against parasites. Curr. Sci. 60,  569-580.

S. Tiwari, A. Bhattacharya, S. Bhattacharya & R. Ramaswamy (1996) Gene identification in silico. Curr. Sci. 71, 12-24.

D. Sehgal, A. Bhattacharya & S. Bhattacharya (1996) Pathogenesis of infection by Entamoeba histolytica. J. Biosci. 21, 423-432.

Bhattacharya, A., Bhattacharya, S. & Ackers, J.P. (1999) Nontranslated polyadenylated ribonucleic acids from the protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica. Curr. Sci. 77, 564-567.

Clark, C.G., Espinosa Cantellano, M. & Bhattacharya, A. (2000) Entamoeba histolytica: An overview of the biology of the organism. In Amebiasis (Ed. Ravdin, J.I.), Imperial College Press, London.

Bhattacharya, S., Bhattacharya, A. & Petri, Jr., W.A. (2002) Examining Entamoeba. Trends in Parasitol.  18, 196-197.

Research Publications

A. Bhattacharya, M. Puri & A. Datta (1974) Induction of N-acetylglucosamine kinase in yeast. Biochem. J. 141, 593-597.

A. Bhattacharya, S. Bannerji & A. Datta (1974) Regulation of N-acetylglucosamine kinase synthesis in yeast. Biochem. Biophys. Acta  374, 384-391.

A. Bhattacharya & A. Datta (1977) Effect of cyclic AMP on RNA and protein synthesis in Candida albicans. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun.  77,  1438-1444.

A. Bhattacharya & B.K. Vonderhaar (1979) Thyroid hormone regulation of prolactin binding to mouse mammary gland. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 88,  1405-1411.

A. Bhattacharya & B.K. Vonderhaar (1979) Phospholipid  methylation stimulates lactogenic binding in mouse mammary gland. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA  76,  4489-4492.

A. Bhattacharya & B.K. Vonderhaar (1982) Interaction of concanavalin A with lactogenic receptors in isolated membranes. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 215,  425-432. 

A. Bhattacharya & B.K. Vonderhaar (1981) Membrane modification differentially affects the binding of the two lactogenic hormones- human growth hormone and ovine prolactin. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA  78,  5704-5707.

B.K. Vonderhaar,  A. Bhattacharya, T. Alhadi,  D.S. Liscia, E.M. Andrew,  J.K. Young,  E. Ginsburg,  M. Bhattacharya & T.M. Horn (1985) Isolation, characterization and regulation of the prolactin receptor. J. Dairy Sci. 68,  466-488.

A. Bhattacharya, M.E. Dorf & T.A. Springer (1981) A share alloantigenic determinant on Ia antigens encoded by the I-A  and I-E subregions. J. Immun. 127,  2488-2494.

R.N. Germain,  A. Bhattacharya,  M.E. Dorf & T.A. Springer (1982) A single monoclonal anti-Ia antibody inhibits antigen-specific T-cell proliferation controlled by distinct Ir genes mapping in the I-A and I-E sub-regions. J. Immun. 128, 1409-1415.

T.A. Springer, A. Bhattacharya, J.T. Cordoba & F. Sanchez-Madrid   (1982) Monoclonal antibodies specific for rat IgG1, IgG2a   and IgG2b subclasses and kappa chain monotypic and allotypic determinants. Reagent for use with rat monoclonal antibodies. Hybridoma  1,  257-254.

A. Bhattacharya, H. Band, S. Ramakrishna & G.P. Talwar (1983) Growth and maintenance of mammalian cell-lines in human cord serum.  Ind. J. Exp. Biol. 21, 99-102.

S. Bhattacharya, A. Bhattacharya, S. Trehan & G.P. Talwar (1984) Molecular cloning of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Ind. J. Biochem. Biophys. 21,  201-202.

A.K. Bamezai, A. Bhattacharya, A.H. Band, Suman & G.P. Talwar (1985) Diversity of antigenic determinants of porcine zona pellucida revealed by monoclonal antibodies. J. Biosci.  7,  105-113.

S. Sinha,  A. Bhattacharya,  A.H. Band, A. Gaur,  Suman, L.M. Srivastava & G.P.Talwar (1984) Characterization of antibodies to a placenta-specific antigen cross-reacting with a choriocarcinoma cell line.  Am. J. Reprod. Immun. Microbiol.  6,  112-116.

M.R. Mawal, S.A. Ranade, Y.R. Mawal, S.N. Ranadive, A. Bhattacharya & P.K. Ranjekar (1985) Novel application of quantitative immunoassay for screening seed globulins of cowpea  varieties. Biosci. Rep. 5,  673-681.

A.H. Band, A. Bhattacharya & G.P. Talwar (1986) Lack of Mycobacterium leprae specific uptake in schwann cells. Int. J. Leprosy  54,  71-78.

A.H. Band, S.D. Chitamber, A. Bhattacharya & G.P. Talwar (1986) Mechanism of phagocytosis of mycobacteria by schwann cells and their comparison with macrophages. Int. J. Leprosy  54,  294-299.

S.N. Ranadive, S. Bhattacharya,  M.K. Kale &  A. Bhattacharya (1986) Humoral immune response in tuberculosis:Initial characterisation of antigens by immunoprepitation of 125-I labelled antigens and sodium dodecyl sulfate acrylamide gel electrophoresis. Clin. Exp. Immun.  64,  277-284.

A. Bhattacharya,  S.N. Ranadive, M.K. Kale &  S.Bhattacharya (1986) Antibody-based enzyme linked immunosorbent assay for determination of immune complexes in clinical tuberculosis. Am. Rev. Resp. Dis.  134,  205-209.

S. Bhattacharya, S.N. Ranadive & A. Bhattacharya (1986) Expression of M. tuberculosis genes in E. coli. J. Biosci.  10,  277-281.

S. Bhattacharya,  S.N. Ranadive &  A. Bhattacharya   (1988) Distinction of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from other mycobacteria through DNA hybridisation. Ind. J. Med.  Res.  87,  144-155.

S. Babu, N.K. Jain, G. Prasad, S. Bhattacharya & A. Bhattacharya (1990) Characterisation of cell-wall derived polypeptide antigens from different species of mycobacteria. J. Med. Microbiol.  32,  263-269.

S. Bhattacharya, A. Bhattacharya & L.S. Diamond (1988) Comparison     of repeated DNA from strains of Entamoeba histolytica and  other Entamoeba. Mol. Biochem. Parasitol.  27,  257-262.

S. Bhattacharya, A. Bhattacharya, L.S. Diamond & T. Soldo (1989) Circular DNA of Entamoeba histolytica encodes ribosomal RNA.  J. Protozool.  36,  455-458.

A. Bhattacharya, S. Bhattacharya, M.P. Sharma &  L.S. Diamond (1990) Metabolic labeling of Entamoeba histolytica antigens: Characterisation of  28kDa intracellular antigen. Expt. Parasitol.  70,  255-263.

A. Bhattacharya, R. Ghildyal, S. Bhattacharya & L.S. Diamond (1990) Characterisation of monoclonal antibody that selectively recognizes  subset of Entamoeba histolytica isolates. Infect. Immun.  58,  3458-3461.

V. Mittal, S. Ramachandran,  D. Sehgal,  A. Bhattacharya  & S. Bhattacharya (1991)  Sequence  analysis of a DNA fragment  with yeast autonomously replicating sequence activity from the extrachromosomal ribosomal DNA circle of Entamoeba histolytica. Nucl. Acids Res. 19, 2777.                                                                       

S. Bhattacharya, A. Bhattacharya & L.S.Diamond (1992)  Entamoeba histolytica extra-chromosomal circular ribosomal DNA: Analysis of clonal variation in a hypervariable region. Exp. Parasitol. 74, 200-204.

J. Prasad, S. Bhattacharya & A. Bhattacharya (1992) Cloning and sequence analysis of a calcium binding protein gene from a  pathogenic strain of Entamoeba histolytica. Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 52, 137-140.

A. Bhattacharya, R. Ghildyal, J. Prasad, S. Bhattacharya &  L.S. Diamond (1992) Modulation of surface antigen of Entamoeba histolytica in response to bacteria. Infect. & Immun. 60, 1711-1713.

V. Mittal, D. Sehgal, A. Bhattacharya & S. Bhattacharya (1992) A second short repeat sequence detected in the downstream region of Entamoeba histolytica rRNA episome. Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 54, 97-100.

R. Prasad, M. Tola, S. Bhattacharya, M.P.Sharma & A.  Bhattacharya (1992) Recognition of Entamoeba histolytica  Lipophosphoglycan by strain-specific monoclonal antibody and human immune sera. Mol. Biochem. Parasitol.56, 279-288.

A. Bhattacharya, R. Prasad & D. Sacks ( 1992) Identification  and Partial Characterization of  Lipophosphogylcan-like molecule from a Pathogenic Strain of Entamoeba histolytica. Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 56, 161-168.

V.Mittal, A. Bhattacharya & S. hattacharya (1992) Organization of repeated sequences in the downstream to rRNA genes in the rDNA episome of Entamoeba histolytica. Arch. Med. Res. 23, 17-18.

S. Ramachandran, A. Bhattacharya‚ & S. Bhattacharya (1993) Nucleotide sequence analysis of the rRNA transcription unit of a pathogenic strain of Entamoeba histolytica HM-1:IMSS. Nucl. Acids Res. 21, 2011.

J. Prasad, S. Bhattacharya & A. Bhattacharya (1993) The calcium binding protein of Entamoeba histolytica expression in Escherichia coli and immunochemical characterizations. Cell. Mol. Biol. Res. 39, 167-175.

V. Mittal, A. Bhattacharya & S. Bhattacharya (1993) Molecular cloning and characterization of a species-specific multicopy DNA sequence from Entamoeba histolytica. Parasitology 103, 237-244.

D.Sehgal, A. Bhattacharya & S. Bhattacharya (1993) Analysis of a polymorphic locus present upstream of rDNA transcription units in the extrachromosomal circle of Entamoeba histolytica. Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 62, 129-130. 

D. Sehgal, V. Mittal, S. Ramachandran, S. K. Dhar,  A.Bhattacharya and  S. Bhattacharya (1994). Nucleotide sequence organization and analysis of the nuclear ribosomal DNA circle of the protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica. Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 67, 205-214.

G. Srivastava, M. Tola-Anand, S. Bhattacharya &  A. Bhattacharya (1995) Lipophosphoglycan is present in distinctly different form in different Entamoeba histolytica strains and absent in Entamoeba moshkovskii and Entamoeba invadens. J. Euk. Microbiol. 42, 617-622.

S.K. Dhar, N. Roy Choudhury, A. Bhattacharya & S. Bhattacharya (1995) A multitude of circular DNAs exist in the nucleus of Entamoeba histolytica. Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 70, 203-206.

S.K. Dhar, N.R. Chowdhury, V. Mittal, A. Bhattacharya & S. Bhattacharya (1996) Replication initiates at multiple dispersed sites in ribosomal DNA plasmid of protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica. Mol. Cell. Biol. 16, 2314-2324.

A. Azam, J. Paul, D. Sehgal, J. Prasad, S. Bhattacharya & A. Bhattacharya (1996) Identification of novel genes from Entamoeba histolytica by expressed sequence tag analysis. GENE 181, 113-116.

N. Yadava, M.R. Chandok, J. Prasad, S. Bhattacharya, S. Sopory, . & A. Bhattacharya. (1997) Characterization of EhCaBP, a calcium-binding protein of Entamoeba histolytica and its binding proteins. Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 84, 69-82.

S. Tiwari, S. Ramachandran, A. Bhattacharya, S. Bhattacharya & R. Ramaswamy (1997) Prediction of probable genes by fourier analysis of genomic sequences. CABIOS 13, 263-270.

B. Gopal, S. Bhattacharya, A. Bhattacharya, M.R.N. Murthy, A. Surolia (1997) Thermodynamics of metal ion binding and denaturation of a calcium binding protein from E. histolytica. Biochem. 36, 10910-10916.

A. Bhattacharya, MT Anand, J. Paul, N. Yadava & S. Bhattacharya (1998) Molecular changes in Entamoeba histolytica in response to bacteria. J. Euk. Microbiol. 45, 28S-33S.

S. Bhattacharya, I. Som & A. Bhattacharya (1998) Ribosomal plasmid of Entamoeba histolytica. Parasitol. Today 14, 181-185.

N. Sanan, Aneeta, A. Azam, A. Bhattacharya & S.K. Sopory (1998) Cloning of novel genes from Sorghum bicolor. J. Plant Biochem. Biotech. 7, 111-114.

Gopal, B., Krishna Rao, J.V., Thomas, C.J., Bhattacharya, A. , Bhattacharya, S., Murthy. M.R. & Surolia, A. (1998) Induction of a spectroscopically defined transition by guanidinium hydrochloride on a recombinant calcium binding protein from Entamoeba histolytica. FEBS Lett. 44, 71-76.

Gopal, B., Suma, R., Murthy, M.R.,  Bhattacharya, A. , and Bhattacharya, S. (1998) Crystallization and preliminary X-ray studies of a recombinant calcium binding protein from Entamoeba histolytica. Acta Crystallogr. D Biol. Crystallogr. 54, 1442-1445.

Sharma, R., Azam, A., Bhattacharya, S. & Bhattacharya, A. (1999) Identification of novel genes of nonpathogenic Entamoeba dispar by expressed sequence tag analysis. Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 99,  279-285.

Sahu, S.C., Atreya, H.S., Chauhan, S., Bhattacharya, A., Chary, K.V. & Govil, G. (1999) Sequence specific 1H, 13C and 15N assignments of a cacium binding protein from Entamoeba histolytica. J. Biomol. NMR, 14, 93-94.

Sahu, S.C., Bhattacharya, A., Chary, K.V. & Govil, G. (1999) Secondary structure of a cacium binding protein (CaBP) from Entamoeba histolytica. FEBS Lett. 459, 51-56.

Moorthy, A.K., Gopal, B., Satish, P.R., Bhattacharya, S., Bhattacharya, A., Murthy, M.R.N. & Surolia, A. (1999) Thermodynamics of target peptide recognition by calmodulin and a calmodulin analogue: Implication for the central linker. FEBS Lett. 461, 19-24.

Bagchi, A., Bhattacharya, A. & Bhattacharya, S. (1999)  Lack of a chromosomal copy of the circular rDNA plasmid of Entamoeba histolytica. Int. J. Parasitol.  29, 1775-1783.

Bhattacharya, A., Arya, R., Clarck, G. & Ackers, J.P. (2000) Absence of lipophosphoglycan-like glycoconjugates in Entamoeba dispar. Parasitol. 120, 31-35.

Bhattacharya, A., Satish, S., Bagchi, A. & Bhattacharya, S. (2000) The genome of Entamoeba histolytica, Int. J. Parasitol.  30,  401-410.

Bhattacharya, A.,  Bhattacharya, S., Joshi, A., Ramachandran, S. & Ramaswamy, R. (2000) Identification of parasitic genes by computational methods, Parasitol. Today, 16, 127-131.

R. Deswall, G.K. Pandey, M.R. Chandok, N.yadav, A. Bhattacharya & S.K. Sopory (2000) A novel protein kinase from Brassica juncea stimulated by a protozoan calcium binding protein: Purification and partial characterization. Eur. J. Biochem. 267, 3181-3188.

Sharma R, Bagchi A, Bhattacharya S, Bhattacharya A. (2000) Characterization of a retrotransposon-like repetitive DNA in Entamoeba histolytica. Arch Med Res. 31 (Suppl):S266-8.

Sahoo N, Chakrabarty P, Yadava N, Bhattacharya S, Bhattacharya A. (2000) Calcium binding protein of Entamoeba histolytica. Arch Med Res. 31(4 Suppl):S57-9.:                    

Som I, Azam A, Bhattacharya A, Bhattacharya S. (2000) Inter- and intra-strain variation in the 5.8S ribosomal RNA and internal transcribed spacer sequences of Entamoeba histolytica and comparison with Entamoeba dispar, Entamoeba moshkovskii and Entamoeba invadens. Int J Parasitol. 30, 723-8.

Sharma, R., Bagchi, A., Bhattacharya, A., Bhattacharya, S. (2001) Characterization of retrotrasposon-like elements from Entamoeba histolytica. Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 116, 45-53.

Lynn, AM, Jain, CK, Kosalal, K, Barman, P., Thakur, N., Batra, H., Bhattacharya, A. (2001) An automated annotation tool for genomic DNA sequences using GeneScan and BLAST. J. Genet. 80, 9-16.

Atreya, HS., Sahu, S.C., Bhattacharya, A., Chary, K.V. & Govil, G. (2001) NMR derived solution structure of an EF hand calcium binding protein from Entamoeba histolytica. Biochem., 40, 14392-14403.

Pandey, GK., Reddy, VS., Reddy, MK., Deswal, R., Bhattacharya, A., Sopory, SK. (2002) Transgenic tobacco expressing Entamoeba histolytica calcium binding protein exhibits enhanced growth and tolerance to salt stress. Plant Sci., 162, 41-47.

Reddi, H., Bhattacharya, A., Kumar, V. (2002) The  calcium binding protein of Entamoeba histolytica as a fusion partner for expression in Escherichia coli. Biotechnology & Applied Biochem. 36, 213-218.

Arya, R., Mehra, A., Viswakarma, R., Bhattacharya, S., Bhattacharya, A. (2003) Biosynthesis of Entamoeba histolytica proteoglycan in vitro. Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 26, 1-8.

Bhattacharya, S., Bakre, A., Bhattacharya, A. (2002) Mobile genetic elements in protozoan parasites. J. Genet. 81, 73-86.

Sahoo, N., Bhattacharya, S., Bhattacharya, A. (2003) Blocking the expression of a calcium binding protein of the protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica by tetracycline regulatable antisense RNA. Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 126, 281-284.

Ghosh, S., Satish, S., Tyagi, S., Bhattacharya, A., Bhattacharya, S. (2003) Differential use of multiple replication origins in the ribosomal DNA episome of the protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica  . Nucl. Acids Res.  31, 2035-2044.

Satish, S., Bakre, A., Bhattacharya, S. & Bhattacharya, A. (2003) Stress-dependent Expression of a Polymorphic, Charged Antigen in the Protozoan Parasite Entamoeba histolytica, Infect. Immun. 2003 Aug;71(8):4472-86.

Bhattacharya, A., Bhattacharya, S. & Ackers, J. (2003) Nontranslated polyadenylated RNAs from Entamoeba histolytica. Trends in Parasitol. 19, 286-289.

Chakrabarty, P., Sethi, D.K., Pathan, N., Kaur, K.J., Salunke, D.M., Bhattacharya, S. & Bhattacharya, A. (2004) Identification and characterization of EhCaBP2: a second member of the calcium binding protein family of  the protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica. J. Biol. Chem. 279, 12898-12908.

Mondal, P., Bagchi, A., Bhattacharya, A. & Bhattacharya, S. (2004) An Entamoeba histolytica LINE/SINE pair inserts at common target sites cleaved by the restriction enzyme-like LINE-encoded endonuclease. Euk. Cell, 3, 170-179.

Sahoo, N., Labruyere, E., Bhattacharya, S., Sen, P., Guillen, . & Bhattacharya, A. (2004) Calcium binding protein 1 of Entamoeba histolytica interacts with actin and is involved in dynamics of cytoskeleton. J. Cell Sci. 117, 3625-3634.

Loftus B, Anderson I, Davies R, Alsmark UC, Samuelson J, Amedeo P, Roncaglia P, Berriman M, Hirt RP, Mann BJ, Nozaki T, Suh B, Pop M, Duchene M, Ackers J, Tannich E, Leippe M, Hofer M, Bruchhaus I, Willhoeft U, Bhattacharya A, Chillingworth T, Churcher C, Hance Z,             Harris B, Harris D, Jagels K, Moule S, Mungall K, Ormond D, Squares R, Whitehead S, Quail MA, Rabbinowitsch E, Norbertczak H, Price C, Wang Z, Guillen N, Gilchrist C, Stroup SE, Bhattacharya S, Lohia A, Foster PG, Sicheritz-Ponten T, Weber C, Singh U, Mukherjee C,             El-Sayed NM, Petri WA Jr, Clark CG, Embley TM, Barrell B, Fraser CM, Hall N. (2005) The genome of the protist parasite Entamoeba histolytica. Nature. 433(7028), 865-8.

Gourinath S., Padhan N, Alam N, Bhattacharya A (2005) Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic analysis of calcium-binding protein-2 from Entamoeba histolytica and its complexes with strontium and the IQ1 motif of myosin V. Acta Cryst. F61, 417-420.

Bansal-Mutalik, R., Mustafi, S.M., Bhattacharya, A. & Chary, K.V. (2005) Sequence specific 1H, 13C and 15N resonance assignments of a novel calcium binding protein from Entamoeba histolytica. J. Biomol. NMR 31, 379-380.

Bakre, AA, Rawal K, Ramaswamy R, Bhattacharya A, Bhattacharya S. (2005) LINEs and SINEs of Entamoeba histolytica: Comparative analysis and genomic distribution.   Exp. Parasitol. 110, 196-202.

Nandi S, Mehra N, Lynn AM, Bhattacharya A. (2005) Comparison of theoretical proteome: Identification of COGs with conserved and variable pI within multimodal pI distribution. BMC Genomics 6, 116.

Bhattacharya A, Padhan N, Jain R, Bhattacharya S. (2006) Calcium binding proteins of Entamoeba histolytica. Arch. Med. Res. 37, 221-225.

Mandal PK, Rawal K, Ramaswamy R, Bhattacharya A, Bhattacharya S. (2006) Identification of insertion hot spots for non-LTR retrotransposons: computational and biochemical application to Entamoeba histolytica. Nucleic Acids Res. 34, 5752-5763

Hirata KK, Que X, Melendez-Lopez SG, Debnath A, Myers S, Herdman DS, Orozco E, Bhattacharya A, McKerrow JH, Reed SL. (2006)  A phagocytosis mutant of Entamoeba histolytica is less virulent due to deficient proteinase expression and release. Exp. Parasitol. 115, 192-199

Mehra A, Fredrick J, Petri WA Jr, Bhattacharya S, Bhattacharya A. (2006) Expression and function of a family of transmembrane kinases from the protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica. Infect Immun. 2006 Sep;74(9):5341-51.

Pandey, G.K.,  Pandey,  A., Reddy, V.S.,  Deswal, R., Bhattacharya, A.,  Upadhayay, K.C. &  Sopory, S.K. (2007) Antisense expression of a gene encoding a calcium-binding protein in a transgenic tobacco leads to altered morphology and enhanced chlorophyll. J. Biosci. 32(2) 251-260

Vishnoi, A., Roy, R. & Bhattacharya, A. (2007) Comparative analysis of bacterial genomes: identification of divergent regions in mycobacterial strains using an anchor-based approach. Nucleic Acids Res. 35, 3654-3667.

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