44. Patidar, R. K., Tiwari, R., Srivastava, N., & Ranjan, N. (2023). Nile Blue: A Red-Emissive Fluorescent Dye That Displays Differential Self-Assembly and Binding to G-Quadruplexes. The Journal of Physical chemistry. B. 127, 46, 9915–9925 . Web Link
43. Metangle, S., & Ranjan, N. (2024). Preferential Binding of a Red Emissive Julolidine Derivative to a Promoter G‐ Quadruplex. ChemBioChem, 25(3), e202300527. Web Link
42. Singh, K., Maurya, S., Gupta, S., Ranjan, N., Ramanathan, G., & Bhattacharya, S. (2023). Effect of the Standardized ZnO/ZnO-GO Filter Element Substrate driven Advanced Oxidation Process on Textile Industry Effluent Stream: Detailed Analysis of Photocatalytic Degradation Kinetics. ACS omega, 8(31), 28615-28627. . Web Link
41. Patidar, R. K., Tiwari, K., Tiwari, R., & Ranjan, N. (2023). Promoter G-Quadruplex Binding Styryl Benzothiazolium Derivative for Applications in Ligand Affinity Ranking and as Ethidium Bromide Substitute in Gel Staining. ACS Applied Bio Materials. 6 (6), 2196-2210. Web Link
40. Singh, L., & Ranjan, N. (2023). Highly selective and sensitive detection of nitrite ion by an unusual nitration of a fluorescent benzimidazole. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 145 (5), 2745-2749. Web Link
39. Ombase, P., Patidar, R. K., Singh, L., Baranwal, J., Srivastava, N., & Ranjan, N. (2022). Human telomeric G- quadruplex DNA enabled preferential recognition of copper (II) and Iron (III) ions sensed by a red emissive probe. Tetrahedron Letters, 111, 154181. Web Link
38. Verma, S., Patidar, R. K., Tiwari, R., Velayutham, R., & Ranjan, N. (2022). Fragment-Based Design of Small Molecules to Study DNA Minor Groove Recognition. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 126 (38), 7310- 7320. Web Link
37. Verma, S., Patidar, R. K., Tiwari, K., Tiwari, R., Baranwal, J., Velayutham, R., & Ranjan, N. (2022). Preferential Recognition of Human Telomeric G-Quadruplex DNA by a Red-Emissive Molecular Rotor. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 126 (38), 7298-7309. Web Link
36. Rathod, S.; Patidar, R.; Ray, D.; Aswal, V.K.; Shah, S.A.; Ranjan, N.; Bahadur, P.; Monosaccharide-induced growth and higher order transitions in TPGS micelles Colloids Surf. A: Physicochem. Eng. Asp. 2022, 632, 127792. Web Link
35. Deshmukh, S.K.; Agrawal, S.; Gupta, M.K.; Patidar, R.K.; Ranjan, N.; Recent Advances in the Discovery of Antiviral Metabolites from Fungi Curr. Pharm. Biotechnol. 2022, 23, 495-537. Web Link
34. Arya, S.; Patidar, R.; Ray, D.; Aswal, V.K.; Ranjan, N.; Bahadur, P.; Tiwari, S.;
Structural transitions in TPGS micelles induced by trehalose as a model cryoprotectant Colloids Surf. A: Physicochem. Eng. Asp. 2022, 642, 128714.
33. Ekal, N.S.; Patil, R.; Ranjan, N.; Bahadur, P.; Tiwari, S.; Oxidation state of graphene oxide nanosheets drives their interaction with proteins: A case of bovine serum albumin Colloids Surf. B: Biointerfaces, 2022, 212, 112367. Web Link
32. Parameswaran, P.; Arora, Y.; Patidar, R.; Ranjan, N.; Bacterial rRNA A-site recognition by DAPI: Signatures of intercalative binding Biophys. Chem. 2021, 274, 106589. Web Link
31. Parameswaran, P.; Ranjan, N.; Flora, S.J.S New Approaches in Sensing and Targeting Bacterial rRNA A-site Curr. Med. Chem. 2021, 17, 299-309.
30. Verma, S.; Ravichandiran, V.; Ranjan, N.; Selective, pH sensitive,“turn on” fluorescence sensing of carbonate ions by a benzimidazole Spectrochim. Acta - A: Mol. Biomol. Spectrosc.2021, 255,119624. Web Link
29. Verma, S.; Ravichandiran, V.; Ranjan, N.; Beyond amyloid proteins: Thioflavin T in nucleic acid recognition Biochimie 2021, 190, 111-123. Web Link
28. Verma, S.; Ravichandiran, V.; Ranjan, N.; Flora, S.J.S Recent Advances in Therapeutic Applications of Bisbenzimidazoles Med. Chem. 2020, 16, 454-486. Web Link
27. Verma, S.; Ghuge, S. A.; Ravichandiran, V.; Ranjan, N Spectroscopic studies of thioflavin-T binding to c-myc G- quadruplex DNA Spectrochim. Acta - A: Mol. Biomol. Spectrosc. 2019, 212, 388-395. Web Link
26. Deshmukh Sunil K*, Prakash V., Ranjan N*. Marine Fungi: A Source of Potential Anticancer compounds (2017) Frontiers in Microbiology (Accepted for publication) * as corresponding author doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.02536 Web Link
25. Deshmukh, S. K., Prakash, V., & Ranjan, N. (2017). Recent advances in the discovery of bioactive metabolites from Pestalotiopsis. Phytochemistry Reviews, 16, 883-920. Web Link
24. Ranjan Nihar*, Kumar Umesh, Deshmukh Sunil K*. Novel targets and advancements in drug discovery: the case of HIV- AIDS; book chapter in Bioresources and Bioprocesses in Technology (Volume II), Springer publications (2017). * as corresponding author (Chapter 18, pages 419-438) Web Link
22. Ghosh, A.; Ranjan, N.; Jiang, L.; Ansari, A.H.; Degyatoreva, N.; Ahluwalia, S.; Arya, D.P., Maiti. S Fine- tuning miR-21 expression and inhibition of EMT in breast cancer cells using aromatic-neomycin derivatives Mol. Ther. Nucleic Acids, 2022, 27, 685-698.
21. Ranjan, N.; Andreasen, K.F.; Arora, Y.; Xue, L.; Arya, D.P. Surface Dependent Dual Recognition of a G- quadruplex DNA with Neomycin- Intercalator Conjugates. Front. Chem. 2020, 8, 60.
20. Chamberlin, J.; Story, S.; Ranjan, N.; Chesser, G.; Arya, D. P. Gram-negative synergy and mechanism of action of alkynyl bisbenzimidazoles Sci. Rep. 2019, 9, 1-19.
19. Ranjan N., Arya Dev P. A fluorescent aminosugar to rapidly screen and study RNA binders. Methods in Enzymology 2019, 623, 291-314. Web Link
18. Story, Sandra, Michael J. Skriba, Krishnagopal Maiti, Nihar Ranjan, Natalya N. Degtyareva, Keith D. Green, Verjine Khodaverdian, Adegboyega K. Oyelere, Sylvie Garneau-Tsodikova, and Dev P. Arya. "Synthesis, antimicrobial activity, attenuation of aminoglycoside resistance in MRSA, and ribosomal A-site binding of pyrene-neomycin conjugates." European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 2018.
17. Sayantan Bhaduri, Ranjan N. and Dev P. Arya. "An overview of recent advances in duplex DNA recognition by small molecules."Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, (2018) Vol 14, Pages 1051- 1086.
16. Thamban Chandrika, Nishad, Sanjib K. Shrestha, Nihar Ranjan, Anindra Sharma, Dev P. Arya, and Sylvie Garneau- Tsodikova. "New Application of Neomycin B–Bisbenzimidazole Hybrids as Antifungal Agents." (2018) ACS infectious diseases, 4 (2), pp 196–207. Web Link
15. Ranjan, N., Kellish, P., King, A., & Arya, D. P. Impact of Linker Length and Composition on Fragment Binding and Cell Permeation: Story of a Bisbenzimidazole Dye Fragment. (2017) Biochemistry, 56(49),6434-6447. Web Link
14. Ranjan N.,Fulcrand F,Ahmed M., King A., Sur S., Leng F., Yuk-Ching Tse-Dinh and Arya D. P. Selective inhibition of Escherichia coli DNA and RNA topoisomerase by Hoechst 33258 derived Mono and Bisbenzimidazoles (2017) J. Med. Chem. 60 (12) 4904-4922. Web Link
13. Ranjan N.; Arya Dev P. Linker dependent intercalation of bisbenzimidazole-aminosugars in an RNA duplex; selectivity in RNA vs. DNA binding Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett (2016) 26 (24) 5989-5994 Web Link)
12. Kumar S., Ranjan N., Kellish Patrick C., Arya Dev P. Multivalency in Recognition and Antagonism of HIV TAR RNA-TAT assembly using an aminoglycoside –Benzimidazole scaffold, Org Biomol Chem. (2016) 14 (6) 2052-2056 Web Link
11. Nahar S., Ranjan N., Arya Dev P., Maiti S. Potent inhibition of miR-27a by neomycin-bisbenzimidazole conjugates (2015) Chemical Science (2015) 6 (10), 5837-5846 Web Link
10. Woo, C.M., Ranjan, N., Arya, D.P., Herzon, S. B. Analysis of Diazofluorene DNA binding and damaging activity: DNA cleavage by a synthetic monomeric diazofluorene. Angew Chem Int Ed (2014) 53, 9325-9328; Web Link
9. Ranjan, N., Fulcrand, G., King, A., Brown, J., Xiang, X., Leng, F., Arya, D. P. Selective inhibition of bacterial topoisomerase I by alkynyl-bisbenzimidazoles. (2014) Med ChemComm, 5, 816-825; Web Link
8. Ranjan, N., Davis, E., Xue, L., and Arya, D. P. Dual recognition of the human telomeric G-quadruplex by a neomycin- anthraquinone conjugate. (2013) Chem. Comm.49, 5796-5798; Web Link
7. Ranjan, N., Kumar, S., Watkins, D., Wang, D., Appella, D. H., and Arya, D. P. Recognition of HIV-TAR RNA using neomycin– benzimidazole conjugates.(2013) Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett., 23, 5689-5693. Web Link
6. Ranjan N.; Arya, D.P. Targeting C-myc G-quadruplex: Dual recognition by aminosugar- bisbenzimidazoleswih varying linker lengths. (2013) Molecules, 18, 14228-14240; Web Link
5. Watkins, D., Ranjan, N., Kumar, S., Gong, C., and Arya, D. P. An assay for human telomeric G-quadruplex DNA binding drugs.(2013) Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett., 23(24), 6695-6699; Web Link.
4. King, A., Watkins, D., Kumar, S., Ranjan, N., Gong, C., Whitlock, J., and Arya, D. P. Characterization of ribosomal binding and antibacterial activities using two orthogonal high throughput capable screens. (2013) Antimicrob. Agents Chemotherapy, 57(10) 4717-4726;Web Link
3. Xi, H., Davis, E., Ranjan, N., Xue, L., Hyde-Volpe, D., and Arya, D. P. Thermodynamics of Nucleic Acid "Shape Readout" by an Aminosugar. (2011) Biochemistry. 50, 9088-9113; Web Link
2. Xue, L., Ranjan, N., and Arya, D. P. Synthesis and Spectroscopic Studies of the Aminoglycoside (Neomycin)- Perylene Conjugate Binding to Human Telomeric DNA. (2011) Biochemistry. 50, 2838-2849; Web Link.
1. Ranjan, N., Andreasen, K. F., Kumar, S., Hyde-Volpe, D., and Arya, D. P. Aminoglycoside Binding to Oxytricha NovaTelomeric DNA. (2010) Biochemistry. 49, 9891-9903; Web Link