Swaminathan Venkatesh

 

Degrees

 2000-2006: Ph.D in Molecular Biology, Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India. 

 

1998-2000: M.Sc in Biotechnology, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India.

 

1995-1998:  B.Sc in Botany, Presidency College, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India 


Publications

 

1.  Swaminathan, V.*, Ashok Reddy, B.A.*, Ruthrotha Selvi, B.*, and Kundu, T. K. Small Molecular Modulators in Epigenetics: Implications in gene expression and therapeutics. Subcellular Biochemistry (In Press). (*Equal Contribution)

 

2.  Shandilya, J.*, Gadad, S.*, Swaminathan, V.*, and Kundu, T. K. Histone Chaperones in Chromatin Dynamics: Implications in disease manifestation. Subcellular Biochemistry (In Press). (* Equal Contribution)

 

3.  Swaminathan, V, Hari Kishore A, Febitha K. K., and Tapas K. Kundu. The histone chaperone Nucleophosmin/B23 activates chromatin transcription in an acetylation dependent manner. (2005), Mol. Cell Biol., 25, 7534-7545.

 

4.  Balasubramanyam, K., Radhika A. Varier, M. Altaf, V. Swaminathan, Nagadenahalli B Siddappa., Udaykumar Ranga, and Tapas K. Kundu.A p300 specific histone acetyltransferase inhibitor, Curcumin represses HIV multiplication. (2004) J. Biol. Chem., 279, 51163-51171.

 

5.  Varier, R.A., Swaminathan, V., Balasubramanyam, K., and Kundu, T.K. Implications of small molecule activator and inhibitors of histone acetyltransferases in chromatin therapy. (2004) Biochem. Pharmacol. 68, 1215-1220.

 

 

 

 

 

6.  Balasubramanyam, K., Altaf M, Varier, R.A., Swaminathan, V., Ravindran, A., Sadhale, P.P., and Kundu, T.K. Polyisoprenylated benzophenone, Garcinol, a natural HAT inhibitor represses chromatin transcription and alters global gene expression. (2004) J. Biol. Chem.  279, 33716-33725.

 

7.  Karanam Balasubramanyam*, Swaminathan, V.*, Anupama Ranganathan, and Tapas K. Kundu (2003). Small Molecule Modulators of Histone Acetyltransferase p300. (2003) J. Biol. Chem. 278, 19134-19140. (* Equal Contribution)

 

 

 

 

8.   Kar S, Sakaguchi K, Shimohigashi Y, Samaddar S, Banerjee R , Basu  G, Swaminathan V , Kundu  T.K   and Roy S.   Effect of Phosphorylation on the Structure and Fold of Transactivation domain of p53. (2002) J.Biol.Chem. 277, 15579-15585.

 

9.   Kumar, P. B. R., Swaminathan, V., Banerjee, S., and Kundu, T. K. p300-Mediated acetylation of human transcriptional coactivator is inhibited by phosphorylation. (2001) J. Biol. Chem. 276, 16804-16809.

 



 

Last Updated:  May 11, 2007