G Satheesh, I Sengupta and C Sahi (2025) AtDjB3 regulates Hsc70-1-mediated expression of the heat shock genes and thermotolerance in Arabidopsis. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.20.654906
K Yadav, S Raut, M G Roy, S Gopika, M Desai, R Balashankar, S K Mishra, C Sahi (2024) Inclusion of Hsp70 co-chaperone and RNA binding activities facilitate optimal function of spliceosomal disassembly factor Cwf23 in intron-rich Schizosaccharomyces pombe. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.06.27.600868
S S Lal, Neha, Y R Yadav, P Sreehari, A K Verma, C Sahi (2024) Cytosolic class-I J-domain proteins aid in mitochondrial protein import and influence homeostasis in Arabidopsis thaliana. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.19.590371
A Bisht, S Pippadpally, S Majumder, A T Gopi, A Das, C Sahi, M Ramaswami, V Kumar (2024) Prefoldin 5 is a microtubule-associated protein that suppresses Tau-aggregation and neurotoxicity. eLife. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.104691.1
A K Verma, P Sharma, Z Islam, A K Biswal, Y Tak, C Sahi (2024) Arabidopsis Dph4 is an Hsp70 Cochaperone with Iron-Binding Properties. ACS Omega. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.4c01776
S J Ganser, B A Mcnish, G L Schwanitz, J L Delaney, B A Corpus, B A Schilke, A K Biswal, C Sahi, Elizabeth A Craig, Justin K Hines (2024) Unique characteristics of the J-domain proximal regions of Hsp70 cochaperone Apj1 in prion propagation/elimination and its overlap with Sis1 function. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmolb.2024.1392608
P Sagarika, K Yadav, C Sahi (2022) Volleying plasma membrane proteins from birth to death: Role of J-domain proteins. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences. doi.org/10.3389/fmolb.2022.1072242
S Shekhar, S Shrivastava, A Kabeer K, P Sagarika, S Pramanik, C Sahi, S Mukherjee (2022) Cysteamine Capped Silver Nanoclusters: A Potential Antimicrobial Agent for Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry. DOI:10.1016/j.jphotochem.2022.114403
C Tamadaddi, A K Verma, V Zambare, A Vairagkar, D Diwan, C Sahi (2022) J-like protein family of Arabidopsis thaliana: the enigmatic cousins of J-domain proteins. Plant Cell Reports. doi: 10.1007/s00299-022-02857-y
S Chakraborty, P Sagarika, S Rai, C Sahi, and S Mukherjee (2021) Tyrosine-Templated Dual-Component Silver Nanomaterials Exhibit Photoluminescence and Versatile Antimicrobial Properties through ROS Generation. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. DOI:10.1021/acsami.1c10520
C Tamadaddi, V Sagar, AK Verma, F Afsal, C Sahi (2020) Expansion of the evolutionarily conserved network of J-domain proteins in the Arabidopsis mitochondrial import complex C. Plant Molecular Biology, 105, 385–403
N Dobriyal, P Sagarika, A Shrivastava, AK Verma, Z Islam, P Gupta, T Mochizuki, F Abe, C Sahi (2020) Over-expression of Caj1, a plasma membrane-associated J-domain protein in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, stabilizes amino acid permeases. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Biomembranes, 1862, 18335
M Kawadkar, AS Mandloi, V Saxena, C Tamadaddi, C Sahi, VV Dhote (2020) Noscapine alleviates cerebral damage in ischemia-reperfusion injury in rats. Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology, 1-15
AK Verma, C Tamadaddi, Y Tak, S S Lal, S J Cole, J K Hines, C Sahi (2019) The expanding world of plant J-domain proteins. Critical reviews in plant sciences 38 (5-6), 382-400
N Maheshwari, C Karthikeyan, S V Bhadada, A K Verma, C Sahi, NS H N Moorthy, P Trivedi (2019) Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of some tetrazole acetamide derivatives as novel non-carboxylic PTP1B inhibitors. Bioorganic chemistry, 92, 103221
S Kumar, PK Lakshmi, C Sahi, RS Pawar (2019) Sida cordifolia accelerates wound healing process delayed by dexamethasone in rats: Effect on ROS and probable mechanism of action. Journal of ethnopharmacology 235, 279-292
S Raut, K Yadav, AK Verma, Y Tak, P Waiker, C Sahi (2019) Co-evolution of spliceosomal disassembly interologs: crowning J-protein component with moonlighting RNA-binding activity. Current Genetics 65 (2), 561-573
HH Kampinga, C Andreasson, A Barducci, ME Cheetham, D Cyr, C Emanuelsson, P Genevaux, JE Gestwicki, P Goloubinoff, J Huerta-Cepas, J Kirstein, K Liberek, MP Mayer, K Nagata, NB Nillegoda, P Pulido, C Ramos, P De Los Rios, S Rospert, Rosenzweig R, C Sahi, Taipale M, Tomiczek B, Ushioda R, Young JC, Zimmermann R, Zylicz A, Zylicz M, Craig EA, Marszalek J (2019) Function, evolution, and structure of J-domain proteins. Cell Stress Chaperones. Nov 26. doi: 10.1007/s12192-018-0948-4
N Maheshwari, C Karthikeyan, Bhadada SV, C Sahi, AK Verma, NS Moorthy, P Trivedi. (2018) Synthesis and biological evaluation of some N-(3-(1H-tetrazol-5-yl) phenyl)acetamide derivatives as novel non-carboxylic PTP1B inhibitors designed through bioisosteric modulation. Bioorganic chemistry doi: 10.1016/j.bioorg.2018.06.016
N Dobriyal, P Tripathi, S Sarkar, Y Tak, AK Verma, C Sahi (2017) Partial dispensability of Djp1’s J domain in peroxisomal protein import in Saccharomyces cerevisiae results from genetic redundancy with another class II J protein, Caj1. Cell Stress and Chaperones.22(3):445-452
AK Verma, D Diwan, S Raut, N Dobriyal, C Sahi (2017) Evolutionary Conservation and Emerging Functional Diversity of the Cytosolic Hsp70:J Protein Chaperone Network of Arabidopsis thaliana. G3: Genes Genomes Genetics.7(6):1941-1954
S Raut, B Mallik, A Parichha, C Sahi, V Kumar (2017) RNAi-Mediated Reverse Genetic Screen Identified Drosophila Chaperones Regulating Eye and Neuromuscular Junction Morphology. G3: Genes Genomes Genetics.7(7):2023-2038
C Tamadaddi and C Sahi (2016) J domain independent functions of J proteins. Cell Stress and Chaperones.21(4):563-70
C Sahi, J Kominek, T Ziegelhoffer, HY Yu, M Baranowski, J Marszalek, EA Craig (2013) Sequential Duplications of an Ancient Member of the DnaJ-family Expanded the Functional Chaperone Network in the Eukaryotic Cytosol. Mol Biol Evol. 30(5):985-98
GL Ciesielski, M Plotka, M Manicki, BA Schilke, R Dutkiewicz, C Sahi, J Marszalek, EA Craig.(2013) Nucleoid localization of Hsp40 Mdj1 is important for its function in maintenance of mitochondrial DNA. Biochim Biophys Acta. 1833(10):2233-2243
M Agarwal, A Singh, D Mittal, C Sahi and A Grover (2011) Cycloheximide-mediated superinduction of genes involves both native and foreign transcripts in rice (Oryza sativa L.). Plant Physiol Biochem. 49(1):9-12
SA Weeks, WP Shield, C Sahi, EA Craig, S Rospert and DJ Miller (2010) A targeted analysis of cellular chaperones reveals contrasting roles for heat shock protein 70 in Flock House virus RNA replication. Journal of Virology 84(1): 330-339
C Sahi, T Lee, I Maki, J Pleiss and EA Craig (2010) Cwc23, an essential J-protein critical for pre-mRNA splicing with a dispensable J-domain. Mol Cell Biol. 30(1): 33-42
A Singh, C Sahi and A Grover (2009) Chymotrypsin protease inhibitor gene family in rice: Genomic organization and evidence for the presence of a bidirectional promoter shared between two chymotrypsin protease inhibitor genes. Gene 428(1-2): 9-19
T Higurashi*, J Hines*, C Sahi and EA Craig (2008) Specificity of the J-protein Sis1 in the propagation of 3 yeast prions. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 105(43):16596-16601. (*Equal contribution)
N Nigam, A Singh, C Sahi, A Chandramouli and A Grover (2008) SUMO conjugating enzyme (Sce) and FK506 binding protein (FKBP) encoding rice (Oryza sativa) genes: genome-wide analysis, expression studies and evidence for their involvement in abiotic stress response. Mol Genet Gen. 279:371-383
R Aron*, T Higurashi*, C Sahi and EA Craig (2007) J-protein Co-chaperone Sis1 Required for Generation of [RNQ+] Seeds Necessary for Prion Propagation. EMBO J 26(16): 3794-3803. (*Equal contribution)
A Grover, A Chandramouli, S Agarwal, S Katiyar-Agarwal, M Agarwal, C Sahi (2007) Transgenic rice for tolerance against abiotic stresses. In: Datta, SK (ed.) Rice Improvement in the Genomic Era, Hawarth Press USA, 237-267
C Sahi and CA Craig (2007) Network of general and specialty J protein chaperones of the yeast cytosol. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA.104(17): 7163-7168
C Sahi, M Agarwal, A Singh and A Grover (2007) Molecular characterization of a novel isoform of rice (Oryza sativa L.) glycine rich-RNA binding protein and evidence for its involvement in high temperature stress response. Plant Sci. 173 (2): 144-155
C Sahi, A Singh, K Kumar, E Blumwald and A Grover (2006) Salt stress response in rice: genetics, molecular biology, and comparative genomics. Func Integ Gen. 6(4): 263-284
C Sahi, Singh A, Blumwald E and Grover A (2006) Beyond osmolytes and transporters: novel plant salt stress tolerance-related genes from transcriptional profiling data. Physiologia Plantarum. 127:1-9
C Sahi, M Agarwal, MK Reddy, SK Sopory and A Grover (2003) Isolation and expression analysis of salt stress-associated ESTs from contrasting rice cultivars using a PCR-based subtraction method. Theo Appl Genet. 106(4): 620-628
M Agarwal, C Sahi, S Katiyar-Agarwal, S Agarwal, T Young, DR Gallie, VM Sharma, K Ganesan and A Grover (2003) Molecular characterization of rice hsp101: complementation of yeast hsp104 mutation by disaggregation of protein granules and differential expression in indica and japonica rice types. Plant Mol Biol. 51(4): 543-553
M Agarwal, S Katiyar-Agarwal, C Sahi, DR Gallie and A Grover (2001) Arabidopsis thaliana Hsp100 proteins: kith and kin. Cell Stress Chap. 6(3): 219-224
A Grover, A Kapoor, O SatyaLakshmi, S Agarwal, C Sahi, S Katiyar-Agarwal, M Agarwal, H Dubey (2001) Understanding molecular alphabets of the plant abiotic stress response. Current Sci. 80(2): 206-216
A Grover, M Agarwal, S Katiyar-Agarwal, C Sahi, S Agarwal (2000) Production of high temperature tolerant transgenic plants through manipulation of membrane lipids. Current Sci. 79(5): 557-559
A Grover, C Sahi, N Sanan, A Grover (1999) Taming abiotic stresses in plants through genetic engineering: current strategies and perspective. Plant Sci.143, (1): 101-111
A Grover, N Sanan, C Sahi (1998) Genetic engineering for high-level tolerance to abiotic stresses through over-expression of transcription factor genes: The next frontier Current Sci. 75(3): 178-179
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