Priyatosh Ranjan
Designation: Assistant Professor
Name: Priyatosh Ranjan
Highest Educational Qualification: PhD
Institute name: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
Teaching Subjects: Structural Biology, Protein Biochemistry, and Protein Engineering.
Research areas of interest: Structural characterization of peptides and proteins involved in neurodegenerative disorders. Biophysical characterization of peptide-membrane interactions.
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Selected Publications:
1. Ranjan P, Kumar A. Perturbation in long-range contacts modulates kinetics of amyloid formation in α-Synuclein familial mutants. ACS Chemical Neuroscience 2017; 8:2235-2246.
2. Ranjan P, Ghosh D, Yarramala DS, Maji SK, Kumar A. Differential copper binding to Alpha-synuclein and its disease-associated mutants affect the aggregation and amyloid formation. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta General Subjects 2017; 1861:365-374.
3. Ranjan P, Kumar A. The Involvement of His50 during Protein Disulfide Isomerase binding is essential for inhibiting α-Syn fibril formation. Biochemistry 2016; 55:2677-2680.
4. Ganguly AK, Ranjan P, Kumar A and Bhavesh NS. Dynamic association of PfEMP1 and KAHRP in knobs mediates cytoadherence during Plasmodium invasion. Sci Rep.2015; 5:8617.
5. Ghosh D, Sahay S, Ranjan P, Salot S, Mohite GM, Singh PK, Dwivedi S, Carvalho E, Banerjee R, Kumar A, Maji SK. The newly discovered Parkinson’s disease associated Finnish mutation (A53E) attenuates the α-Syn aggregation. Biochemistry 2014; 53:6419-6421.
