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Published 

7. Kinshuk Raj Srivastava, Anil Kumar, Bhupesh Goyal and Susheel Durani. “Stereochemistry and Solvent Role in Protein Folding: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Molecular Dynamics Studies of Poly-L and Alternating-L,D Homopolypeptides in Dimethyl Sulfoxide” Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2011, 115, 6700-6708.

6. Anil Kumar and Vibin Ramakrishnan “Creating novel protein scripts beyond natural alphabets” Systems and Synthetic Biology 2010, 4, 247-256.

5. Kirti Patel, Bhupesh Goyal, Anil Kumar and Susheel Durani. “Cured of “Stickiness”, Poly-L b-Hairpin is Promoted with LL- to –DD Mutation as a Protein and a Hydrolase Mimic.” Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2010, 114(50), 16887-16893.

4. Anil Kumar, Vibin Ramakrishnan, Ranjit Ranbhor, and Susheel Durani. “Homochiral Stereochemistry: The Missing Link of Structure to Energetics in Protein Folding.” Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2009, 113, 16435-16442

3. Kirti Patel, Anil Kumar and Susheel Durani. “Analysis of Structural Consensus of the Zinc Coordination Centers of Metalloprotein Structures.” Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Proteins and Proteomics 2007, 1774, 1247–1253.

2. Vibin Ramakrishnan, Ranjit Ranbhor, Anil Kumar and Susheel Durani. “Role of Stereochemistry in the Link between Sequence and Conformation in Protein Structures.” Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2006, 110 (18); 9314-9323.

1. Ranjit Ranbhor, Vibin Ramakrishnan, Anil Kumar and Susheel Durani. “The Interplay of Sequence and Stereochemistry in defining Conformations in Proteins and Polypeptides.” Biopolymers 2006, 83(5); 537-545. 

Communicated/Under Preparation 

4. Anil Kumar, Bhupesh Goyal, Vibin Ramakrishnan, Ranjit Ranbhor, Kirti Patel, Kinshuk Raj Srivastava, Pooja Gupta and Susheel Durani. “Homochiral Stereochemistry and Protein Folding: Topological Blocks of Folding Path may manifest f,y Dispersal under effect of Poly-L Structure.” 2011 (Submitted)

3. Ranjit Ranbhor, Abhijit Tendulkar, Anil Kumar, Vibin Ramakrishnan, Kirti Patel and Susheel Durani. “IDeAS: Protein-Design Software for Applying Side Chains to Chirality of Interest.” 2011 (Submitted)

2. Ranjit Ranbhor, Anil Kumar, Kirti Patel, Vibin Ramakrishnan, Pooja Gupta and Susheel Durani. “Protein-Design Automation for Applying Residue Chirality as the Stereochemical Alphabet.” 2011 (Submitted)

1. Bhupesh Goyal, Anil Kumar, Kinshuk Raj Ssrivastava and Susheel Durani. “Stereochemistry and Energetics of Protein Conformation: Molecular Dynamics Studies of Tetrapeptides Diastereomeric in Structure.” 2011 (Under Preparation) 

RESEARCH TALK 

1. IBS-2009 (National Symposium on Cellular & Molecular Biophysics)
CCMB, Hyderabad, India January 22-24th, 2009
“Homochirality and Protein-Folding Principles: Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Ac-Lys-Ala3-Lys-Ala3-Lys-NHMe Isomeric in Structure.”

2. IBS-2007 (National Symposium on Biophysics: Trends in Biomedical Research)
New Delhi, India Feburary 13-15th, 2007
“Molecular Dynamics of Blocked Octa-L-alanine Implicates Inter-Peptide Electrostatics as Possible Speed Barrier in Protein Folding.”

3. Department of Chemistry, IIT Bombay, India
Spring Semester 2004
“Theoretical studies of kinetics of protein folding pathway”

4. Department of Chemistry, IIT Bombay, India
Spring Semester 2004
“Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and its application”

5. Department of Chemistry, IIT Bombay, India
Autumn Semester 2003
“Total synthesis of Diazonamide” 

RESEARCH POSTERS

International Conference Proceedings (Selected ones out of 9)

94th Canadian Chemistry Conference
CSC-Meeting 2011, Montreal, Canada, June 5-9th 2011
“Structure-based design of circularly permutated and frame-shifted photoactive yellow proteinss”

• 55th Annual meeting of Biophysical Society
Baltimore, Maryland, USA, March 5-9th 2011
“Stereochemistry and Protein Folding: Spectroscopic and Molecular Dynamics Studies of Homopolypeptides in DMSO”

• ISCB-2009, 13th ISCBC International Conference on Interplay of Chemical and Biological Sciences: Impact on Health and Environment
University of Delhi, India, February 26th- March 1st, 2009
“Poly-L Stereochemistry and Protein Folding: Enquiry with a simple Peptide Model”

• 51st Annual Meeting of Biophysical Society
California, Long Beach, USA, Biophys. J. 94: 195. 2008
“Poly-L Stereochemistry and Conformational Landscapes of Protein Folding. Explicit Solvent MD of Poly-L and Alternating-L,D Octa-alanines.”

• 21st Symposium of The Protein Society
MA, USA, Protein Science S. 16, 107, 2007
“Simulated Dynamics of Blocked Octa-L-alanine Implicates Inter-Peptide Interaction as Possible Speed Barrier in Protein Folding.”

• 5th International Conference on Bioinformatics
New Delhi, India December 18-20th, 2006
“Inter-peptide Interaction and Protein Folding Mechanism. Molecular Dynamics of blocked Octa-L-Alanine in Explicit Solvent.”

• Joint International Conference on Building Bridges, Forging Bonds for 21st Century Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Jointly organized by ACS, USA and CSIR, India. National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India 2006
“De novo Protein Design with Diversification of Molecular Tacticity.”

• Fluorescence 2009, An International Conference of Fluorescence in Biology
TIFR, Mumbai, India, March 16-19th, 2009
“Analysis of Folding in the Minimal Protein Model Ac-ERYDNDFQWK-NH2” 

National Conference Proceedings (Selected ones out of 20)

• Symposium on Recent Trends in Biophysics
BHU, Varanasi, India, February 13-15, 2010
“Stereochemical Design of “Hairclip” with L- and D-a-Amino-Acid Alphabet and its Serendipitous Assembly as a Nanotube”

• Symposium on Frontiers in Computational Biology
C-DAC, Pune, India, July 23-24, 2009
“Stereochemistry and Protein Folding: A Comparative Study of the Peptide Models Homochiral and Heterochiral”
(Selected for First Prize)

• RSC-IITB Symposium on Chemical Sciences
Jointly organized by Dept. of Chemistry, IIT Bombay, India and Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, IRCC Auditorium, IIT Bombay, India February 3rd, 2009
“The Stereochemical bias of Nature: Enquiries of its Relevance to Protein Folding

• In-house symposium
Department of Chemistry, IIT Bombay, India September 27th, 2008
“Probing Protein Folding in its Stereochemical Logic. NMR, CD, and MD Studies of Ac-Lys-Ala3-Lys-Ala3-Lys-NHMe.”

• Western Regional Humboldt Kolleg 2007
Jaipur, Rajasthan, India September 28-30th, 2007
“Poly-L Structure and Peptide Dipolar Interaction in Protein Folding Speed and Specificity.”

• In-house symposium
Department of Chemistry, IIT Bombay, India August 19th, 2006
“Inter-Peptide Interaction and Protein Folding Mechanisms: A Molecular Dynamics Study of Blocked Octa-L-Alanine in Explicit Solvent.”