Publications in International Journals

1. Lundin AP, Stewart KI, Stewart AM, Herring TI, Chowdhury C and Bobik TA (2020). Genetic characterization of a glycyl radical microcompartment used for 1,2-propanediol fermentation by uropathogenic Escherichia coli CFT073. J Bacteriol. 202(9). pii: e00017-20

2. Chowdhury C, Bobik TA (2019). Engineering the PduT shell protein to modify the permeability of the 1,2-propanediol microcompartment of Salmonella. Microbiology 165(12):1355-1364

3. Herring TI, Harris TN, Chowdhury C, Mohanty S, Bobik TA (2018). A bacterial microcompartment is used for choline fermentation by Escherichia coli 536. J Bacteriol. 200(10). pii: e00764-17.

4. Lehman BP, Chowdhury C, Bobik TA (2017). The N-terminus of the PduB protein binds the protein shell of the Pdu microcompartment to its enzymatic core. J Bacteriol. 199(8). pii: e00785-16.

5. Chowdhury C, Chun S, Sawaya MR, Yeates TO, Bobik TA (2016). The function of the PduJ microcompartment shell protein is determined by the genomic position of its encoding gene. Mol Microbiol. 101(5):770-783.

6. Chowdhury C, Chun S, Pang A, Sawaya MR, Sinha S, Yeates TO, Bobik TA (2015). Selective molecular transport through the protein shell of a bacterial microcompartment organelle. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 112(10):2990-2995.

7. Bansal A, Kar D, Rajagopal A. M., Mallick S, Dutta M, Pandey SD, Chowdhury C, Ghosh AS (2015). A putative low-molecular mass (LMM) penicillin-binding protein (PBP) of Mycobacterium smegmatis exhibits prominent physiological characters of Carboxypeptidase and beta-lactamase. Microbiology 161(Pt 5):1081- 1091.

8. Chowdhury C, Sinha S, Chun S, Yeates TO, Bobik TA (2014). Diverse Bacterial Microcompartment Organelles. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev. 78(3):438-468.

9. Chowdhury C, Jagannadham MV (2013). Virulence factors are released in association with outer membrane vesicles of Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato T1 during normal growth. Biochim Biophys Acta. 1834(1):231-239.

10. Chowdhury C, Kar D, Dutta M, Kumar A, Ghosh AS (2012). Moderate deacylation efficiency of DacD explains its ability to partially restore beta-lactam resistance in Escherichia coli PBP5 mutant. FEMS Microbiol Lett. 337(1):73-80.

11. Jagannadham MV, Chowdhury C (2012). Differential expression of membrane proteins helps Antarctic Pseudomonas syringae to acclimatize upon temperature variations. J Proteomics 75(8):2488-2499.

12. Sarkar SK, Dutta M*, Chowdhury C*, Kumar A, Ghosh AS (2011). PBP5, PBP6 and DacD play different roles in intrinsic β-lactam resistance of Escherichia coli. Microbiology 157(Pt 9):2702-2707. (* Contributed equally)

13. Chowdhury C, Ghosh AS (2011). Differences in active-site microarchitecture explain the dissimilar behaviors of PBP5 and 6 in Escherichia coli. J Mol Graph Model. 29(5):650-656.

14. Sarkar SK, Chowdhury C, Ghosh AS. Deletion of penicillin-binding protein 5 (PBP5) sensitises Escherichia coli cells to beta-lactam agents (2010) Int J Antimicrob Agents. 35(3):244-249.

15. Chowdhury C, Nayak TR, Young KD, Ghosh AS (2010). A weak DD-carboxypeptidase activity explains the inability of PBP 6 to substitute for PBP 5 in maintaining normal cell shape in Escherichia coli. FEMS Microbiol Lett. 303(1):76-83.

16. Ghosh AS, Chowdhury C, Nelson DE (2008). Physiological functions of D-alanine carboxypeptidases in Escherichia coli. Trends Microbiol. 16(7):309-317.

Publication in Book chapter:

Rastogi S, Chowdhury C^*. Industrial Prospect of Bacterial Microcompartment Technologies. In D. K. Verma (Ed.) Microbial Technology in Food, Health and Industry: Recent Trends and Developments. 2019, (Accepted) New York, NY: CRC Press, a Taylor & Francis Group

(^* Corresponding author)

Presentation in International Conference and Publication:

• Chowdhury C. 2019. Functional characterization of shell proteins of ethanolamine utilization microcompartment in Salmonella. Poster presentation at Regional Young Investigators’ Meeting held on 6th - 7th August 2019 at NIPGR, New Delhi. (Abstract published in conference proceedings)

• Chowdhury C, Bobik TA. 2018. The Gene Location Determines Function of a Microcompartment Shell Protein in Salmonella. Oral Presentation at Analytical Genetics Meeting 2018 organized by San Diego State University, held in San Diego, CA, USA on January 5th to January 9th, 2018.

• Chowdhury C, Bobik TA. 2017. Engineering Substrate Transport in Bacterial Microcompartment. Oral Presentation at ASM Microbe 2017 organized by American Society of Microbiology, held in New Orleans, LA, USA, June 1-5, 2017 (Published in conference proceedings).

• Chun S, Chowdhury C, Park J, Houk KN, Bobik TA, Yeates TO. 2014. Bacterial Microcompartments: Substrate Transport through Shell Pores. The 28th Annual Symposium of the Protein Society, San Diego,CA, USA, July 27–30, 2014. (Published in PROTEIN SCIENCE 2014, Volume 23, Issue S1 pp 162-163)

• Chowdhury C, Sinha S, Bobik TA. 2013. “Toward Understanding Substrate Selectivity of Microcompartment Pores”. Oral Presentation in Analytical Genetics Meeting, organized by University of Utah, held in Alta, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA on October 13th to October 17th, 2013 (Published in conference proceedings).

• Sarkar, S. K., Chowdhury, C., Ghosh, A. S., 2008. PBP 5 acts as an intrinsic modulator of beta-lactam sensitivity in Escherichia coli. International symposium on “Integrating Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Biology to understand living system”, organized by DST, Govt. of India held at Bose Institute, Kolkata, December 4–6, 2008 (Presenting author, Published in conference proceedings) (Presenting Author)

Attended several both national and international workshops and symposia

a) National workshop on Protein folding and Bio-informatics organized by Bose Institute, Kolkata during 4th and 5th March, 2008.

b) Assisted in the hands-on training of the National workshop on Bioinformatics in Genomics and Proteomics organized by Department of Biotechnology, IIT Kharagpur and Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India during October 09-10, 2009.

c) Workshop on Flow Cytometry and its Research Application organized by Department of Biotechnology, IIT Kharagpur in association with BD Biosciences, India during December 18-19, 2006.