Dr. Boggavarapu Rajendra,

Postdoctoral Scholar

vrb30@case.edu


Swiss National Science Foundation early postdoctoral grant 2016 (18 month)

Curriculum vitae


List of publications:

Diana P. Valverde, Shenliang Yu, Venkata Boggavarapu, Nikit Kumar, Joshua A. Lees, Thomas Walz, Karin M. Reinisch, Thomas J. Melia; ATG2 transports lipids to promote autophagosome biogenesis. J Cell Biol 3 June 2019; 218 (6): 1787–1798. doi: https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201811139

Boggavarapu R, Hirschi S, Harder D, Meury M, Ucurum Z, Bergeron MJ, Fotiadis D (2016) Purification of Human and Mammalian Membrane Proteins Expressed in Xenopus laevis Frog Oocytes for Structural Studies. Methods Mol Biol. 1432: 223-42.

Boggavarapu R, Jeckelmann J-M, Harder D, Ucurum Z, Fotiadis D (2015) Role of electrostatic interactions for ligand recognition and specificity of peptide transporters. BMC Biology 13:58

Ilgü H, Jeckelmann J-M, Gachet MS, Boggavarapu R, Ucurum Z, Gertsch J, Fotiadis D (2014) Variation of the detergent-binding capacity and phospholipid content of membrane proteins when purified in different detergents. Biophys J 106: 1660–1670.

Boggavarapu R, Jeckelmann J-M, Harder D, Schneider P, Ucurum Z, Hediger M, Fotiadis D (2013) Expression, purification and low-resolution structure of human vitamin C transporter SVCT1 (SLC23A1). PLoS One 8: e76427.

Bergeron MJ, Boggavarapu R, Meury M, Ucurum Z, Caron L, Isenring P, Hediger MA, Fotiadis D (2011) Frog oocytes to unveil the structure and supramolecular organization of human transport proteins. PLoS One 6: e21901.

Meury M, Harder D, Ucurum Z, Boggavarapu R, Jeckelmann JM, Fotiadis D (2011) Structure determination of channel and transport proteins by high-resolution microscopy techniques. Biol Chem 392: 143–150.

Vasu K, Saravanan M, Rajendra BVRN, Nagaraja V (2010) Generation of a manganese specific restriction endonuclease with nicking activity. Biochemistry 49: 8425–8433.

* denotes equal contribution.