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Understanding the mechanisms of genome integrity in nucleus and mitochondria using biochemical and cell biology tools and all contemporary techniques and animal models

Current Focus Areas

  • Understanding the mechanisms of genome integrity in nucleus and mitochondria using biochemical and cell biology tools and all contemporary techniques and animal models

Selected Publications

  • 1. Kaur E, Agrawal R, Arun R, Madhavan V, Srivastava V, Kumar D, Rath PP, Kumar N, Vedagopuram S, Pandey N, Priya S, Legembre P, Gourinath S, Bajaj A, Sengupta S (2024). Small molecules that disrupt RAD54-BLM interaction hamper tumor proliferation in colon cancer chemoresistance models. J Clin Invest. e161941. PMID: 38421735 2. Hussain M, Mohammed A, Saifi S, Khan A, Kaur E, Priya S, Agarwal H, Sengupta S (2021). MITOL-dependent ubiquitylation negatively regulates the entry of PolA into mitochondria. PLoS Biol. 19(3): e3001139. PMID: 33657094 3. Priyadarshini R, Hussain M, Attri P, Kaur E, Tripathi V, Priya S, Dhapola P, Saha D, Madhavan V, Chowdhury S, Sengupta S (2018). BLM potentiates c-Jun degradation and alters its function as an oncogenic transcription factor. Cell Rep. 24(4):947-961. PMID: 30044990. 4. Tripathi V, Agarwal H, Priya S, Batra H, Modi P, Pandey M, Saha D, Raghavan SC, Sengupta S (2018). MRN complex-dependent recruitment of ubiquitylated BLM helicase to DSBs negatively regulates DNA repair pathways. Nat Commun. 9(1):1016. PMID: 29523790. 5. Tikoo S, Madhavan V, Hussain M, Miller ES, Arora P, Zlatanou A, Modi P, Townsend K, Stewart GS, Sengupta S (2013) Ubiquitin-dependent recruitment of the Bloom Syndrome helicase in response to replication stress is required to suppress homologous recombination. EMBO J. 32(12): 1778-1792. PMID: 23708797

Skills & Proficiency

Genome Integrity Cell signalling DNA reapir DNA damage response mitochondria. mitochondrial replication Aggregation Ubiquitylation Ubiquitin E3 ligases