Dynamic Properties of Graphene Oxide Functionalized with L-Cysteine

Singh, R., Kar, R.K.# Journal of Physical Chemistry C (2023) [DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c04469]  [Article Link] 

Network analysis of chromophore binding site in LOV domain

Panda, R., Panda, P.K., Krishnamoorthy, J. Kar, R.K.# Computers in Biology and Medicine (2023): 161, 106996 [DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2023.106996]  [Article Link] 

Non-covalent interactions that tune the reactivities of the flavins in bifurcating electron transferring flavoprotein

Viegas, M.G-, Kar, R.K., Miller, A.-F., Mroginski, M.A. Journal of Biological Chemistry (2023): 299(6), 104762 [DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbc.2023.104762]  [Article Link] 

Cover Story | Benefits of Hybrid QM/MM over Traditional Classical Mechanics in Pharmaceutical Systems

Kar, R.K.# Drug Discovery Today (2022): 28, 103379 [DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drudis.2022.103374]  [Article Link] 

Tuning the Quantum Chemical Properties of Flavins via Modification at C8. 

Kar, R.K., Chasen, S., Mroginski, M-.A., Miller, A-F.Journal of Physical Chemistry - B (2021): 125, 46, 12654-69. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c07306 [Article Link]            

Structural Dynamics of RNA in the Presence of Choline Amino Acid Based Ionic Liquid: A Spectroscopic and Computational Outlook. 

Tulsiyan, K.D., Jena, S., Viegas, M.G-, Kar, R.K.,# Biswal, H.S.# ACS Central Science (2021): DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.1c00768 [Article Link]                  

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Kar, R.K., Miller, A.-F., Mroginski, M.A. WIREs Computational Molecular Science (2022): e1613 [DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/wcms.1613]  [Article Link] 

Transient Near-UV Absorption of the Light-Driven Sodium Pump Krokinobacter eikastus Rhodopsin 2: A Spectroscopic Marker for Retinal Configuration. 

Asido, M.,* Kar, R.K.*, Kriebel, C.N., Braun, M., Glaubitz, C., Schapiro, I., Wachtveitl,  J. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters (2021): 12, 6284-91.[Article Link]            * Co-first authors

Solvent Relaxation NMR: A Tool for Real-Time Monitoring Water-Dynamics in Protein  Aggregation Landscape


Chakraborty, I.*, Kar, R.K.*, Sarkar, D., Kumar, S., Maiti, N., Mandal, A., Bhunia, A. ACS Chemical Neuroscience (2021).[Article Link]

* Co-first authors

Understanding Flavin Electronic Structure and Spectra. 

Kar, R.K., Miller, A.-F., Mroginski, M.A. WIREs Computational Molecular Science (2021): e1541 [DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/wcms.1541]  [Article Link] 

Two-Photon Conversion of a Bacterial Phytochrome. 

Sokolovski, S.G., Zherebtsov, E.A., Kar, R.K., Golonka, D., Stabel, R., Chichkov, N.B., Gorodetsky, A., Schapiro, I., Möglich, A., Rafailov, E.U. Biophysical Journal (2021) 120(5): 964-974 [Article Link] 

Femtosecond-to-Millisecond Structural Changes in a Light-Driven Sodium Pump. 

Skopintsev, P., Ehrenberg, D., Weinert, T., James, D., Kar, R.K., ..., Schapiro, I., Milne, C., Heberle, J., Standfuss, J. Nature (2020) 583(7815): 314-318 [PMID-32499654] [Article Link][PDF


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Spectroscopic Properties of Lumiflavin: A Quantum Chemical Study. 

Kar, R.K., Borin, V., Ding, Y., Matysik, J., Schapiro, I. Photochemistry and Photobiology (2019) 95(2):662-674 [PMID-30257038][Article Link][PDF] 

Non-productive binding modes as a prominent feature of Aβ40 fiber elongation: Insights from molecular dynamics simulation. 

Kar, R.K., Brender, J.R., Ghosh, A., Bhunia, A. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling (2018) 58:15 [PMID-27760359][Article Link][PDF] 

Accelerated molecular dynamics simulation analysis of MSI-594 in a lipid bilayer. 

Mukherjee, S., Kar, R.K., Reddy, R.P., Mroue, K.H., Ramamoorthy, A., Bhunia, A. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (2017) 19:19289-19299. [PMID-28702543][Article Link] [PDF

Evidence for Inhibition of Lysozyme Amyloid Fibrillization by Peptide Fragments from Human Lysozyme: A Combined Spectroscopy, Microscopy, and Docking Study

Kar, R.K., Gazova, Z., Bednarikova, Z., Mroue, K.H., Ghosh, A., Zhang, R., Ulicna, K., Siebert, H.C., Nifantiev, N.E., Bhunia, A. Biomacromolecules (2016) 17(6), 1998–2009 . [PMID-27116396][Article Link] [PDF

Biophysical and Biochemical Aspects of Antifreeze Proteins: Using Computational Tools to Extract Atomistic Information. 

Kar, R.K., Bhunia, A. Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology (2015) 119(2), 194-204. [PMID-26362837][Article Link] [PDF

Will it be beneficial to simulate the Antifreeze proteins at ice freezing condition or at lower temperature? 

Kar, R.K., Bhunia, A. Journal of Physical Chemistry-B (2015) 119, 11485-11495. [PMID-26295714] [Article Link] [PDF

Plant alkaloid chelerythrine induced aggregation of human telomere sequence - a unique mode of association between a small molecule and a quadruplex. 

Ghosh, S. *, Jana, J. *, Kar, R.K. *, Chatterjee, S., Dasgupta, D. Biochemistry (2014) 53; 7269-7282. [PMID-25566806] [Article Link] [PDF] 

Indolicidin Targets Duplex DNA: Structural and Mechanistic Insights Employing Combination of Spectroscopy and Microscopy. 

Ghosh A., Kar, R.K., Jana, J., Saha, A., Jana, B., Krishnamoorthy, J., Kumar, D., Ghosh, S., Chatterjee, S., Bhunia A. ChemMedChem (2014) 9(9); 2052-2058. [PMID-25044630] [Article Link] [PDF

Use of a Small Peptide Fragment as an Inhibitor of Insulin Fibrillation Process: A Study by High and Low Resolution Spectroscopy. 

Banerjee V.*, Kar, R.K. *, Datta A., Parthasarathi K., Chatterjee S., Das K.P., Bhunia A. PLoS One (2013) 8(8):e72318. [PMID-24009675] [Article Link] [PDF] 

Novel G-Quadruplex Stabilizing Agents: In-Silico Approach and Dynamics 

Kar, R.K., Suryadevara P., Jana J., Bhunia A., Chatterjee S. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics (2013) 31(12):1497-518. [PMID-23244447] [Article Link] [PDF] 

Solution Structures, Dynamics and Ice Growth Inhibitory Activity of Peptide Fragments Derived from an Antarctic Yeast Protein 

Shah S.H.*, Kar, R.K.*, Asmawi A.A., Rahman M.B., Murad A.M., Mahadi N.M., Basri, M., Rahman R.N., Salleh A.B., Chatterjee S., Tejo B.A., Bhunia A. PLoS One (2012) 7(11):e49788. [PMID-23209600] [Article Link] [PDF]