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PUBLICATIONS

  1. Majumdar, S., Rastogi, H., Chowdhury P. K. Bridging soft interaction and excluded volume through subtle protein dynamics, J. Phys. Chem. B 2024 (ASAP Article)

  2. Rastogi H., Singh, A, Chowdhury P. K. Towards the energy landscape of adenylate kinase in crowded milieu: activity, conformation, structure and dynamics in sequence, Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 2023, 743, 109658(1-15). https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1hChgw0NSWxZ

  3. Siddhanta, S., Kuzmin, A., Pliss. A., Khare. S. K., Chowdhury, P. K., Ganguli, A., Prasad, P. Advances in Raman spectroscopy and imaging for biomedical research, Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2023, 15, 2, 318-384.

  4. Dixit, A., Chakraborty, A., Nath, J. R., Chowdhury, P. K., Kundu, B. Ocular protein Optineurin shows reversibility from unfolded states and exhibits chaperone-like activity, RSC Advances, 2023, 13, 6827 - 6837.

  5. Sapra, R., Gupta, M., Khare, K., Chowdhury, P. K., Haridas, V. Fluorescence by self-assembly: autofluorescent peptide vesicles and fibers, Analyst, 2023, 148, 973-984.

  6. Rastogi, H., Chowdhury, P. K. Correlating local and global dynamics of an enzyme in the crowded milieu. J. Phys. Chem B, 2022, 126, 17, 3208–3223.

  7. Gupta, M., and Chowdhury, P. K. Protein dynamics as a sensor for macromolecular crowding: Insights into mixed crowding. J. Mol. Liq. 2021, 37, 117969. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molliq.2021.117969

  8. Rastogi, H., Chowdhury, P. K. Understanding enzyme behavior in a crowded scenario through modulation in activity, conformation and dynamics, BBA-Proteins and Proteomics, 2021, 1869, 140699 (1- 14).

  9.  Dubey, P., Seit, S., Chowdhury, P. K., Ghosh, S. Effect of macromolecular crowders on the self-assembly process of silk fibroin, Macromol. Chem. Phys. 2020, 2000113(1-9).

  10. Mukherjee, S. K., Biswas, S., Rastogi, H., Dawn, A., Chowdhury, P. K. Influence of crowding agents on the dynamics of a multidomain protein in its denatured state: A solvation approach, European Biophsyics Journal, 2020, 49, 289-305.

  11. Sarmistha Saha, S., Kundu, J., Verma, R. J, Chowdhury, P. K. Albumin coated polymer nanoparticles loaded with plant extract derived quercetin for modulation of inflammation, Materialia, 2020, 9, 100605.

  12. Yadav, N., Chowdhury. P. K., Ganguli, A. K. Mechanistic insights into the growth of anisotropic nanostructures inside reverse micelles: A solvation perspective, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2019, 123, 5324-5336.

  13. Karmakar, S., Chakraborty, S., Gautam, S., Chowdhury, P. K. Exploring the potency of the naturally occurring polyphenol curcumin as a probe for protein aggregation in crowded environments, Int. J. Biol. Macromol. 2019, 141, 1088-1101

  14. Dubey, P., Chowdhury, P. K., Ghosh, S. Modulation of aggregation of silk fibroin by synergistic effect of the complex of curcumin and β-cyclodextrin, BBA Proteins Proteom. 2019, 1867, 416-425.

  15. Karmakar, S., Mukherjee, S. K., Lal, H., Biswas, S., Jani, P. P., Chowdhury, P. K. Crowder induced structural modulation of a multi-domain protein during its early stages of aggregation: A FRET-based and protein solvation study, Int. J. Biol. Macromol. 2019, 127, 563-574.

  16. Biswas, S., Kundu, J., Mukherjee, S. K., Chowdhury, P. K. Mixed macromolecular crowding: A protein and solvent perspective, ACS Omega, 2018, 3, 4316-4330.

  17. Mittal, M., Gautam, S., Chowdhury, P. K., Deep, S., Sapra, S. Role of tryptophan in protein-nanocrystals interaction: Energy or charge transfer, Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie, 2018, DOI:10.1515/zpch-2017-1088.

  18. Biswas, S., Mukherjee, S. K., Lal, H., Karmakar, S. Chowdhury, P. K. pH dependent domain dynamics of HSA controlled by protein based crowding agents, Chem. Phys. Lett. 2017, 688, 98-105.

  19. Singh, P., Chowdhury, P. K. Unravelling the intricacy of the crowded environment through tryptophan quenching in lysozyme, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2017, 121, 4687-4699.

  20. Biswal, D., Pramanik, N. R., Chakrabarti, S., Drew, M. G. B., Bithika Sarkar, B.,  Mannar R. Maurya, M. R., Sanjib K. Mukherjee, S. K. and Chowdhury, P. New polymeric, dimeric and mononuclear dioxidomolybdenum(VI) complexes with an ONO donor ligand: Crystal structures, DFT calculations, catalytic performance and protein binding study of the ligand, New J. Chem. 2017, 41, 4116-4137.

  21. Ojha, K., Debnath, T., Maity, P., Makkar, M. Nejati, S., Ramanujachary, K. V., Chowdhury, P. K., Ghosh, H. N., Ganguli, A. K. Exciton separation in CdS supraparticles upon conjugation with graphene sheets, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2017, 121, 6581–6588.

  22. Gautam, S., Karmakar, S., Batra, R., Sharma, P., Pradhan, P., Singh, J., Kundu, B., Chowdhury, P. K. Polyphenols in combination with β-cyclodextrin can inhibit and disaggregate α-synuclein amyloids under cell mimicking conditions: A promising therapeutic alternative, BBA Proteins Proteom. 2017, 1865, 589-603.

  23. Sappala, A. R., Kundu, J., Chowdhury, P. K., Haridas, V. Spontaneous vesiculation: A mechanistic insight from the study of hybrid peptide molecules, New J. Chem. 2016, 40, 9907-9911.

  24. Biswas, S., Mukherjee, S. K., Chowdhury, P. K. Crowder-induced rigidity in a multidomain protein: Insights from solvation, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2016, 120, 12501-12510.

  25. Biswas, S., Chowdhury, P. K. Correlated and anticorrelated domain movement of human serum albumin: A peek into the complexity of the crowded milieu. J. Phys. Chem. B, 2016, 120, 4897-4911.

  26. Kundu, J., Kar, U., Gautam, S., Karmakar, S., Chowdhury, P. K. Unusual effects of crowders on heme retention in myoglobin, FEBS Lett. 2015, 589, 3807-3815.

  27. Dubey, P., Murab, S., Karmakar, S., Chowdhury, P. K., Ghosh, S. Modulation of self-assembly process of fibroin: An insight for regulating the conformation of silk biomaterials, Biomacromolecules, 2015, 16, 3936-3944.

  28. Mukherjee, S. K., Gautam, S., Biswas, S., Kundu, J., Chowdhury P. K. Do macromolecular crowding agents exert only an excluded volume effect? A protein solvation study, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2015, 119, 14145-14156.

  29. Sharma, S., Yadav, N., Chowdhury, P. K, Ganguli, A. K. Controlling the microstructure of reverse micelles and their templating effect on shaping nanostructures, J. Phys. Chem. B 2015, 119, 11295-11306.

  30. Biswas, S., Chowdhury, P. K. Unusual domain movement in a multidomain protein in presence of macromolecular crowders, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2015, 17, 19820-19833.

  31. Malik, A., Kundu, J., Karmakar, S., Lai, S. Chowdhury, P. K. Interaction of ANS with human serum albumin under confinement: Important insights and relevance, J. Lumin. 2015, 167, 316–326.

  32. Gautam, S., Karmakar, S., Bose, A. and Chowdhury, P. K. β-cyclodextrin and curcumin, a potent cocktail for disaggregating and/or inhibiting amyloids: a case study with α-synuclein, Biochemistry, 2014, 53, 4081-4083.

  33. Singh, P. and Chowdhury P. K. Crowding-induced quenching of instrinsic tryptophans of serum albumins: a residue level investigation of different conformations, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2013, 4, 2610-2617.

  34. Sharma S., Pal, N., Chowdhury, P. K., Sen, S. and Ganguli A. K. Understanding growth kinetics of nanorods in microemulsion: A combined fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, dynamic light scattering and electron microscopy study, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 19677-19684.

  35. Malik A., Kundu J., Mukherjee S. K. and Chowdhury P. K. Myoglobin unfolding in crowding and confinement, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2012, 116, 12895-12904.

  36. Ojha, K. Chowdhury, P. K. and Ganguli, A. K. Fluorescence and CD studies of protein denaturation in the presence of sub-picomolar gold nanoparticles, Ind. J. Chem. 2012, 51A, 1561-1566.

  37. Chowdhury, P. K. Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy: a brief review of techniques and applications to biomolecules and biosystems, Journal of Proteins and Proteomics, 2011, 2, 145-169.

  38. Mukherjee, S., Waegele, M. M., Chowdhury, P., Guo, L. and Gai F. Effect of macromolecular crowding on protein folding dynamics at the secondary structure level, J. Mol. Biol. 2009, 393, 227-236.

  39. Guo L., Park J., Lee T, Chowdhury P., Lim, M and F. Gai. Probing the role of hydration in the unfolding transitions of carbonmonoxy myoglobin and apomyoglobin, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2009, 113, 6158-6163.

  40. Mukherjee S., Chowdhury P. and F. Gai. Effect of dehydration on the aggregation kinetics of two amyloid peptides, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2009, 113, 531-535.

  41. Glasscock J. M., Zhu Y, Chowdhury P, Tang J, F. Gai. Using an amino acid fluorescence resonance energy transfer pair to probe protein unfolding: application to the villin headpiece subdomain and the LysM domain, Biochemistry, 2008, 47, 11070-11076.

  42. Mukherjee S., Chowdhury P., Bunagan M. R. and F. Gai. Folding kinetics of a naturally occurring helical peptide: implication of the folding speed limit of helical proteins, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2008, 112, 9146-9150. 

  43. Guo L., Chowdhury P., Glasscock J. M. and F. Gai. Denaturation induced expansion and compaction of a multidomain protein: IgG, J. Mol. Biol. 2008, 384, 1029-1036.

  44. Guo L., Chowdhury P., Fang J. and F. Gai. Heterogeneous and anomalous diffusion inside lipid tubules, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2007, 111, 14244-14249.

  45. Mukherjee S., Chowdhury P. and F. Gai. Site-specific hydration status of an amphipathic peptide in AOT reverse micelles, Langmuir, 2007, 23, 11174-11179.

  46. Mukherjee S., Chowdhury P. and F. Gai. Infrared study of the effect of hydration on the amide I band and aggregation properties of helical peptides, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2007, 111, 4596-4602.

  47. Chowdhury P., Wang, W., Lavender, S., Bunagan, M. R., Klemke, J. W., Tang, J., Saven, J. G., Cooperman, B. S. and F. Gai. Fluorescence correlation spectroscopic study of serpin depolymerization by computationally designed peptides, J. Mol. Biol. 2007, 369, 462-473.

  48. Mukherjee S., Chowdhury P. and F. Gai. Tuning the cooperativity of the helix-coil transition by aqueous reverse micelles, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2006, 110, 11615-11619.

  49. Halder M., Chowdhury P. K., Das R., Mukherjee P., Atkins W. M. and J. W. Petrich. Interaction of glutathione S-transferase with hypericin: a photophysical study, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2005, 109, 19484-19489.

  50. Krishnamoorthy G., Webb S. P., Nguyen T., Chowdhury P. K., Halder M., Wills N. J., Carpenter S., Kraus G. A., Gordon M. S. and J. W. Petrich. Synthesis of hydroxy and methoxy perylene quinones, their spectroscopic and computational characterization, and their antiviral activity, Photochem. Photobiol. 2005, 81, 924-933.

  51. Chowdhury, P. K., Halder, M., Sanders, L., Calhoun, T., Anderson, J. L., Armstrong, D. W., Song, X. and J. W. Petrich. Dynamic solvation in room temperature ionic liquids, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2004, 108, 10245-10255.

  52. Das. K., Halder, M., Chowdhury, P. K., Park, J., Alexeev, Y., Gordon, M. S. and J. W. Petrich. Hypericin and its perylene quinone analogs: Probing structure, dynamics and interactions with the environment, Adv. Photochem. 2004, 28, 1-25.

  53. Chowdhury, P. K., Halder, M., Sanders, L., Arnold, R. A., Liu, Y., Armstrong, D. W., Kundu, S., Hargrove, M. H., Song, X. and J. W. Petrich. The complex of apomyoglobin with the fluorescent dye, coumarin 153. Photochem. Photobiol. 2004, 79, 440-446.

  54. Chowdhury P. K., Halder, M., Chowdhury, Prabir. K., Kraus, G. A., Desai, M. J., Armstrong, D. A., Casey, T. A., Rasmussen, M. A., and J. W. Petrich. Generation of fluorescent adducts of malondialdehyde and amino acids: towards an understanding of lipofuscin, Photochem. Photobiol. 2004, 79, 21-25.

  55. Halder, M., Das, K., Chowdhury, P. K., Kundu, S., Hargrove, M. S. and J. W. Petrich. A comparative femtosecond coherence study of the unligated monomeric hemeproteins myoglobin and leghemoglobin, J Phys. Chem. B, 2003, 107, 9933-9938.

  56. Chowdhury, P. K., Kundu, S., Halder, M., Das, K., Hargrove, M. S., J. W. Petrich. Effects of distal pocket mutations on the geminate recombination of NO with leghemoglobin on the picosecond time scale, J Phys. Chem. B, 2003, 107, 9122-9127.

  57. Ibarra, C. A., Chowdhury, P., Petrich, J. W., and W. M. Atkins. The anomalous pKa of Tyr-9 in glutathione s-transferase A1-1 catalyzes product release, J. Biol. Chem. 2003, 278, 19257-19265.

  58. Wen, J., Chowdhury, P., Fulton, D. B., Datta, A., Das, K., Andreotti, A. H., and J. W. Petrich. Does solvent influence the ground-state tautomeric population of hypericin? Photochem. Photobiol. 2003, 77, 5-9.

  59. Chowdhury, P., Gondry, M., Genet, R., Martin, Jean-Louis., Menez, A., Negrerie, M. and J. W. Petrich. Picosecond dynamics of a peptide from the acetylcholine receptor interacting with a neurotoxin probed by tailored tryptophan fluorescence, Photochem. Photobiol. 2003, 77, 151-157.

  60. Ashby, K. D., Wen, J., Chowdhury, P.; Casey, T. A., Rasmussen, M. A., and J. W. Petrich. Fluorescence of dietary porphyrins as a basis for real-time detection of fecal contamination on meat, J. Agric. Food Chem. 2003, 51, 3502-3507.

  61. Chowdhury, P. K., Das, K. Datta, A., Liu, W.-Z., Zhang, H.-Y. and J. W. Petrich. A comparison of the excited-state processes of nearly symmetrical perylene quinines: hypocrellin A and hypomycin B., J. Photochem. Photobiol. A, 2002, 154, 107-116.

  62. Wen, J., Chowdhury, P., Wills, N. J., Wannemuehler,Y., Park, J., Kesavan, S., Carpenter, S., Kraus, G. A., J. W. Petrich. Toward the molecular flashlight: preparation, properties, and photophysics of a hypericin-luciferin tethered molecule, Photochem. Photobiol. 2002, 76, 153-157.

  63. Kundu, S., Snyder, B., Das, K., Chowdhury, P., Park, J., Petrich, J. W. and M. Hargrove. The Leghemoglobin proximal heme pocket directs oxygen dissociation and stabilizes bound heme, PROTEINS:Structure, Function and Genetics, 46, 268-277.

  64. Showalter B.M., Datta A., Chowdhury P. K., Park, J., Bandyopadhyay, P., Choudhury, P. K., Kesavan, S., Zeng, Y. Kraus, G. A., Gordon M. S., Toscano, J. P. and J. W. Petrich. Identification of a vibrational frequency corresponding to H-atom translocation in hypericin, Photochem. Photobiol. 2001, 74, 157-163.

  65. Park., J., Datta, A., Chowdhury P. K. and J. W. Petrich. Is the excited-state H-atom transfer in hypericin concerted? Photochem. Photobiol. 2001, 73, 105-109.

  66. Chowdhury P. K., Ashby K. D., Datta, A. and J. W. Petrich. Effect of pH on the fluorescence and absorption spectra of hypericin in reverse micelles, Photochem. Photobiol. 2000, 72, 612-618.

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