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Debasish Chattopadhyay's Structural Biology Laboratory

Recent Publications


Chattopadhyay D, Rayner J, McHenry AM, Adams JH.  “The structure of the Plasmodium falciparum EBA175 ligand domain and the molecular basis of host specificity”  Trends Parasitol. 2006 Apr;22(4), 143-5.

Schormann N, Pal B, Senkovich O, Carson M, Howard A, Smith C, Delucas, Chattopadhyay D.  “Crystal structure of Trypanosoma cruzi pteridine reductase 2 in complex with a substrate and an inhibitor”  J Struct Biol. 2005 Oct;152(1), 64-75.

Senkovich O, Bhatia V, Garg N, Chattopadhyay D.  “Lipophilic antifolate trimetrexate is a potent inhibitor of Trypanosoma cruzi: prospect for chemotherapy of Chagas' disease”  Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2005 Aug;49(8), 3234-8.

Pal B, Pybus B, Muccio DD, Chattopadhyay D.  “Biochemical characterization and crystallization of recombinant 3-phosphoglycerate kinase of Plasmodium falciparum  Biochem Biophys Acta. 2004 Jun 1;1699(1-2), 277-80.

Senkovich O and Chattopadhyay D.  Plasmodium falciparum ARFGAP: expression and crystallization of the catalytic domain”  Biochem Biophys Acta. 2004 Apr 8;1698(1), 127-30.

Costanzo MJ, Yabur SC, Almond Jr. HR, Andrade-Gordon P, Corcoran TW, de Garavilla L, Kauffman JA, Abraham WM, Recacha R, Chattopadhyay D. and Maryanoff BE. (2003)  “Potent, small-molecule inhibitors of human mast cell tryptase. Antiasthmatic action of a dipeptide-based transition-state analogue containing a benzothiazole ketone.”  J Med Chem. 2003 Aug 28;46(18), 3865-76.

Schormann N, Senkovich O, Ananthan S, Chattopadhyay D. (2003)  “Docking and biological activity pteridine analogs: search for inhibitors of pteridine reductase enzymes from Tryanosoma cruzi.”  Theochem. 2003 Sept 18;635, 37-44.

Todd B, Moore D, Deivanayagam CC, Lin GD, Chattopadhyay D, Maki M, Wang KK, Narayana SV.  “A structural model for the inhibition of calpain by calpastatin: crystal structures of the native domain VI of calpain and its complexes with calpastatin peptide and a small molecule inhibitor.”  J Mol Biol. 2003 Apr 18;328(1):131-46.

Quevillon E, Spielmann T, Brahimi K, Chattopadhyay D, Yeramian E, Langsley G.  “The Plasmodium falciparum family of Rab GTPases.”  Gene 2003 Mar 13;306:13-25.

Senkovich O, Pal B, Schormann N, Chattopadhyay D.  Trypanosoma cruzi genome encodes a pteridine reductase 2 protein.”  Mol Biochem Parasitol. 2003 Mar;127:89-92.

Greco MN, Hawkins MJ, Powell ET, Almond HR Jr, Corcoran TW, de Garavilla L, Kauffman JA, Recacha R, Chattopadhyay D, Andrade-Gordon P, Maryanoff BE.  “Nonpeptide inhibitors of cathepsin G: optimization of a novel beta-ketophosphonic acid lead by structure-based drug design.”  J Am Chem Soc. 2002 Apr 17;124(15):3810-1.

Smith CD, Carson M, Friedman AM, Skinner MM, Delucas L, Chantalat L, Weise L, Shirasawa T, Chattopadhyay D.  “Crystal structure of human L-isoaspartyl-O-methyl-transferase with S-adenosyl homocysteine at 1.6-Å resolution and modeling of an isoaspartyl-containing peptide at the active site.”  Protein Sci. 2002 Mar;11(3):625-35.

Recacha R, Costanzo MJ, Maryanoff BE, Chattopadhyay D.  “Crystal structure of human carbonic anhydrase II complexed with an anti-convulsant sugar sulphamate.”  Biochem J. 2002 Feb;361(Pt 3):437-41.

Schormann N, Pal B, Chattopadhyay D.  “Expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary crystallographic analysis of recombinant pteridine reductase of Trypanosoma cruzi.”  Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 2001 Nov;57(Pt 11):1671-3.

Devedjiev Y, Symersky J, Singh R, Jedrzejas M, Brouillette C, Brouillette W, Muccio D, Chattopadhyay D, DeLucas L.  “Stabilization of active site loops in NH3-dependent NAD+-synthetase from Bacillus subtilis.” Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 2001 Jun;57(Pt 6):806-12.

Amaral MD, Chen L, Chattopadhyay D, Smith CD, Meehan EJ.  “Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of protein L-isoaspartyl O-methyltransferase from wheat germ.”  Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr.2001 Feb;57(Pt 2):304-5.

Recacha R, Costanzo MJ, Maryanoff BE, Carson M, DeLucas L, Chattopadhyay D.  “Structure of human alpha-thrombin complexed with RWJ-51438 at 1.7 Å: unusual perturbation of the 60A-60I insertion loop.”  Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 2000 Nov;56(Pt 11):1395-400.

Chattopadhyay D, Smith CD, Barchue J, Langsley G.  Plasmodium falciparum rab6 GTPase: expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary crystallographic studies.”  Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 2000 Aug;56(Pt 8):1017-9.

Chattopadhyay D, Langsley G, Carson M, Recacha R, DeLucas L, Smith C.  “Structure of the nucleotide-binding domain of Plasmodium falciparum rab6 in the GDP-bound form.”  Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 2000 Aug;56(Pt 8):937-44.

Cook WJ, DeLucas LJ, Chattopadhyay D.  “Crystal Structure of adenosine kinase from Toxoplasma gondii at 1.8 Å resolution.”  Protein Sci. 2000 Apr;9(4):704-12.

Recacha R, Talalaev A, DeLucas LJ, Chattopadhyay D.  Toxoplasma gondii adenosine kinase: expression, purification, characterization, crystallization and preliminary crystallographic analysis.”  Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 2000 Jan;56(Pt 1):76-8.

Recacha R, Costanzo MJ, Maryanoff BE, Carson M, DeLucas L, Chattopadhyay D.  “Structure of human alpha-thrombin complexed with RWJ-51438 at 1.7 Å: unusual perturbation of the 60A-60I insertion loop.”  Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 2000 Nov;56(Pt 11):1395-400.

Recacha R, Carson M, Costanzo MJ, Maryanoff B, DeLucas LJ, Chattopadhyay D.  “Structure of RWJ-51084-bovine pancreatic beta-trypsin complex at 1.8 Å.”  Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 1999 Nov;55(11):1785-91.

Ozment C, Barchue J, DeLucas LJ, Chattopadhyay D.  “Structural study of Escherichia coli NAD synthetase: over-expression, purification, crystallization, and preliminary crystallographic analysis.”  J Struct Biol. 1999 Oct;127(3):279-82.

Barchue J, Symersky J, Narayana SV, Moore JK, DeLucas LJ, Chattopadhyay D.  “Expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of uracil phosphoribosyltransferase of Toxoplasma gondii.”  Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 1999 Jan;55(Pt 1):347-9.



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