Publications

Peer reviewed publications (‘*’ denotes joint first authorship, ‘^’ denotes co-corresponding authorship)

● JL Lin, G Kaur, A Iyer, B Chanda., (2023) Functional characterization of gating polarity in CNBD channels across phylogenetically diverse species. Biophysical Journal. 122(3), 245a.

● Lin, J. L., Kaur, G., Chang, Y., Tewari, D., Cowgill, J., Iyer, A., & Chanda, B. (2022). C-terminal domain influences the gating polarity of CNBD family of ion channels. Biophysical Journal, 121(3), 239a-240a.

● Kaur, G. *, Iyer, L.M.*, Burroughs, A.M., Aravind, L., (2021). Bacterial Death and TRADD-N domains help define novel apoptosis and immunity mechanisms shared by prokaryotes and metazoans. eLife 9, e70394.

● Kaur, G. *, Burroughs, A.M. *, Iyer, L.M., Aravind, L., (2020). Highly-regulated, diversifying NTP-based biological conflict systems with implications for emergence of multicellularity. eLife 9, e52696.

● Wiles, E.T. *, McNaught, K.J. *, Kaur, G., Selker, J.M.L., Ormsby, T., Aravind, L., Selker, E.U., (2020). Evolutionarily ancient BAH-PHD protein mediates Polycomb silencing. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 117(21), 11614-11623.

● Wiles, E.T., McNaught, K.J., De Silva, S.M., Kaur, G., Selker, J.M., Ormsby, T., Aravind, L., Musselman, C.A., Selker, E.U., (2019). Evolutionarily ancient BAH-PHD protein mediates Polycomb silencing. bioRxiv, 868117.

● Kaur, G.^ and Subramanian, S. (2018) Evolutionary relationship between the cysteine and histidine rich domains (CHORDs) and Btk-type zinc fingers. Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 34, 1981-1985.

● Kaur, G., Iyer, L.M., Subramanian, S. and Aravind, L. (2018) Evolutionary convergence and divergence in archaeal chromosomal proteins and Chromo-like domains from bacteria and eukaryotes. Scientific reports, 8, 6196.

● Kaur, G. ^ and Subramanian, S. (2017) Evolutionary analysis of a novel zinc ribbon in the N-terminal region of threonine synthase. Cell cycle (Georgetown, Tex.), 16, 1918-1926.

● Burroughs, A.M., Kaur, G., Zhang, D. and Aravind, L. (2017) Novel clades of the HU/IHF superfamily point to unexpected roles in the eukaryotic centrosome, chromosome partitioning, and biologic conflicts. Cell cycle (Georgetown, Tex.), 1-11.

● Kaur, G. and Subramanian, S. (2016) Classification of the treble clef zinc finger: noteworthy lessons for structure and function evolution. Scientific reports, 6, 32070.

● Acharya, G., * Kaur, G. * and Subramanian, S. (2016) An atypical segment swap in the DN and DC domains of the Acr_tran family resistance-nodulation-cell division pump. J Struct Biol, 196, 358-363. (Featured on the journal cover)

● Acharya, G., Kaur, G. and Subramanian, S. (2016) Evolutionary relationships between heme-binding ferredoxin alpha + beta barrels. BMC bioinformatics, 17, 168.

● Kaur, G. ^ and Subramanian, S. (2015) A novel RING finger in the C-terminal domain of the coatomer protein alpha-COP. Biology direct, 10, 70.

● Kaur, G. and Subramanian, S. (2015) The Ku-Mar zinc finger: A segment-swapped zinc ribbon in MarR-like transcription regulators related to the Ku bridge. J Struct Biol, 191, 281-289.

● Kaur, G. and Subramanian, S. (2015) The insertion domain 1 of class IIA dimeric glycyl-tRNA synthetase is a rubredoxin-like zinc ribbon. J Struct Biol, 190, 38-46. (Featured on the journal cover)

● Kaur, G. and Subramanian, S. (2015) The UBR-box and its relationship to binuclear RING-like treble clef zinc fingers. Biology direct, 10, 36.

● Kaur, G. and Subramanian, S. (2014) Repurposing TRASH: Emergence of the enzyme organomercurial lyase from a non-catalytic zinc finger scaffold. J Struct Biol, 188, 16-21. (Featured on the journal cover)

Oral Presentations

● “Novel Apoptosis and Immunity Mechanisms Shared By Prokaryotes And Metazoans”, the ASM Microbe, Washington DC (9-13 June, 2022)

● “Highly-regulated and diverse NTP-based biological conflict systems with implications for emergence of multicellularity”, the EMBL Conference: Molecular Mechanisms in Evolution and Ecology (30 September – 2 October 2020)

● “Highly-regulated and diverse NTP-based biological conflict systems with implications for emergence of multicellularity”, Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) Conference (13-16 July 2020)

● Invited lecture on “Microbial Evolution", 27 January 2020, Georgetown University, District of Columbia, USA

● “HU/IHF and Chromo-Domains: A Tangled Tale of Evolutionary Convergence and Divergence of Chromatin Proteins", Gordon Research Seminar Chromatin Structure and Function (GRS), July 21 - 22, 2018, Newry, ME, USA

● Mentoring lecture on “Data Management” at NIH Community College Summer Enrichment Program (CCSEP)-NIH College Summer Opportunities to Advance Research (C-SOAR), 4 June 2018, NIH, USA

● Evolutionary Analysis of The Conserved Insertion Domain 1 Of Class IIA Dimeric Glycyl-tRNA synthetase, IUBMB focused meeting aaRS2017, Clearwater, Florida

Poster Presentations

● "HU/IHF and Chromo-Domains: A Tangled Tale of Evolutionary Convergence and Divergence of Chromatin Proteins", Gordon Research Conference Chromatin Structure and Function (GRS), July 22-27, 2018, Newry, ME, USA

● Evolution of enzymatic function on a non-catalytic scaffold. International Conference on Structural Genomics ICSG2015 - Deep Sequencing Meets Structural Biology", Weizmann Institute, Israel (2015)

● Exploring sequence, structure and function evolution in zinc finger protein families. Gordon Research Conference "Proteins" 2015, Holderness School, New Hampshire, USA (2015)

● RAPD and Microsatellite based polymorphisms in three medicinal plants- Boerhavia diffusa, Trianthema portulacastrum and Trianthema monogyna. Anveshan Student Research Convention organized by Panjab University, Chandigarh, India (2008)

● RAPD and Microsatellite based polymorphisms in three medicinal plants- Boerhavia diffusa, Trianthema portulacastrum and Trianthema monogyna. Biotechnology Fest, Panjabi University, Patiala, Punjab, India (2008)