Publications

1. R. Saha and Irene Chen, Synthetic chemistry recreates transitional forms in prebiotic membrane evolution, Chem 2024.

2. R Saha and A Vázquez-Salazar, Eds. in Origin of Life in Chemically Complex Messy Environments, Life 2024.

3. R Saha, W-L Kao, B Malady, X Heng,  IA Chen. (2023) Effect of montmorillonite K10 clay on RNA structure and function. Biophys. J., 122:1-13.

4. R Saha*, A. Vázquez-Salazar *, A Nandy, I. A. Chen, Fitness landscapes and evolution of catalytic RNA. Ann. Rev. Biophys 2023.   (accepted). (*equal contribution)

5. C. H. Tran*, R. Saha*, C Blanco, D Bagchi, I. A. Chen, Modulation of a-synuclein aggregation in vitro by a DNA  aptamer. Biochemistry 2022, 61, 17, 1757. (*equal contribution)

6. R. Saha & I. A. Chen, Effect of UV Radiation on Fluorescent RNA Aptamers’ Functional and Templating Ability, ChemBioChem 20 (2019) 2609. (Cover feature of the special issue of ChemBioChem on Bottom-up Synthetic Biology)

7. C. Blanco, E. Janzen, A. Pressman, R. Saha, I. A. Chen, Molecular fitness landscapes from high coverage sequence profiling, Annu. Rev. Biophys 48 (2019) 1.

8. R. Saha, S Verbanic and I. A. Chen, Lipid vesicles chaperone an encapsulated RNA aptamer. Nat. Commun. 9 (2018) 2313.

9. U. K. Bhui, S. Sanyal, R. Saha, S. Rakshit and S. K. Pal, Steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopic study of petroleum crudes in aqueous-surfactant solutions: Its implications for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) during surfactant flooding. Fuel 234 (2018) 1081.

10. R. Saha and I.A. Chen, Origin of Life: Protocells red in tooth and claw. Curr. Biol. 25 (2015) R1166-R1175.

11. R. Saha, A. Pohorille and I.A. Chen, Molecular crowding and early evolution. Orig. Life Evol. Biosph. 44 (2015) 319.

12. R. Saha, S. Rakshit and S. K. Pal, Molecular recognition of a model globular protein apomyoglobin by synthetic receptor cyclodextrin: Effect of fluorescence modification of the protein and cavity size of the receptor in the interaction. J. Mol. Recognit. 26 (2013) 568.

13. S. Rakshit, R. Saha, and S. K. Pal, Modulation of environmental dynamics at the active site and activity of an enzyme under nanoscopic confinement: Subtilisin carlsberg in anionic AOT reverse micelle.  J. Phys. Chem. B 117 (2013) 11565.

14. R. Saha*, P. K. Verma*, S. Rakshit, S. Saha, S. Mayor and S. K. Pal, Light driven ultrafast electron transfer in oxidative redding of green fluorescent proteins. Scientific Reports 3 (2013) 1580. (*equal contribution)  

15.  R. Saha, S. Rakshit, D. Majumdar, A. Singha, R. K. Mitra, and S. K. Pal, Nanostructure, solvation dynamics and nanotemplating of plasmonically active SERS substrate in reverse vesicles. J. Nanopart. Res. 15 (2013) 1576.

16. S. Rakshit, R. Saha, A. Singha, Z. S. A. Seddigi and S. K. Pal, Molecular interaction, co-solubilisation of organic pollutants and ecotoxicity of a potential carcinogenic fuel additive MTBE in water. J. Mol. Liq. 180 (2013) 235.

17. S. Rakshit, R. Saha, A. Chakraborty and S. K. Pal, Effect of hydrophobic interaction on structure, dynamics and reactivity of water. Langmuir 29 (2013) 1808.

18. R. Saha, S. Rakshit, P. K. Verma, R. K. Mitra and S. K. Pal, Protein-cofactor binding and ultrafast electron transfer in riboflavin binding protein under the spatial confinement of nanoscopic reverse micelles. J. Mol. Recognit. 26 (2013) 59.

19. S. Rakshit, R. Saha, P. K. Verma, R. K. Mitra and S. K. Pal, Ultrafast electron transfer in riboflavin binding protein in macromolecular crowding of nano-sized micelle. Biochimie 94 (2012) 2673.

20. S. Rakshit, R. Saha, P. K. Verma and S. K. Pal, Role of solvation dynamics in excited state proton transfer of 1-naphthol in nanoscopic water clusters formed in a hydrophobic solvent. Photochem. Photobiol. 88 (2012) 851.

21. R. Saha, S. Rakshit, R. K. Mitra and S. K. Pal, Microstructure, morphology and ultrafast dynamics of a novel edible microemulsion. Langmuir 28 (2012) 8309.

22. R. Saha, P. K. Verma, R. K. Mitra and S. K. Pal, Structural and dynamical characterization of unilamellar AOT vesicles in aqueous solutions and their efficacy as potential drug delivery vehicle. Colloids Surf., B. 88 (2011) 345.   

23. N. Goswami, R. Saha, S. K. Pal, Protein-assisted synthesis route of metal nanoparticles: exploration of key chemistry of the biomolecule. J. Nanopart. Res. 13 (2011) 5485.

24. P. K. Verma, R. Saha, R. K. Mitra and S. K. Pal, Slow water dynamics at the surface of macromolecular assemblies of different morphologies. Soft Matter 6 (2010) 5971.

Patent

1. Sodium bis(2-ehylexyl) sulfosuccinate (AOT) based drug delivery system (2011), Saha R, Verma PK, Rakshit S, Mitra RK and Pal SK, Indian Patent No. 322384 dated 20th July 2011 (Granted).