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2026

1. Sarita Puri*, Valentina Speranzini, Monica Russo, Alice Nevone, Uriel Pertralia, Manoj K Sriramoju, Luca Broggini, Giovanni Palladini, Giampaolo Merlini, Mario Nuvolone, Shang-Te Danny Hsu, Stefano Ricagno* (2026) N-glycosylation multifaceted effect on k-light chains associated with AL amyloidosis. Structure, Cell Press, 10.1016/j.str.2026.05.011  (Co-corresponding author) 

2. Sarita Puri & Shang-Te Danny Hsu (2026) Navigating the knotty paths: structure, folding, and function of knotted proteins. (Book chapter) Reference collection in Life Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-99507-8.00077-9

2025

3. Li-Ching Hsiao, Sarita Puri*, Manoj Kumar Sriramoju, Yong-Sheng Wang, Tian-Neng Li, Lily Hui-Ching Wang, Shang-Te Danny Hsu* (2025) Characterization of BAP1 aggregation properties induced by cancer-associated mutations.  ChemBioChem, e202500372 https://doi.org/10.1002/cbic.202500372 (Co-corresponding author)

4. Sarita Puri*, Sharvari Palkar, Amit Kumawat, Ishaan Chaudhary, Basudha Patel, Vinoth Kumar V, Manoj Kumar Sriramoju, Kanchan Garai, Shang-Te Danny Hsu, Stefano Ricagno (2025) Dimer dissociation and aggregation hot-spot exposure synergistically accelerate light chain variable domain aggregation associated with AL amyloidosis. J. Mol. Biol., 169468, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2025.169468 (*Corresponding author)

5. Sarita Puri*, Ishaan Chaudhary, Arnav Khatri, Basudha Patel, Amit Kumawat, Sharvari Palkar, Gourab Das, Prasanna Venkatraman (2025). The conformational landscape of AlphaFold2-predicted amyloidogenic light chains and their correlation with VL domain mutations and aggregation propensity. J. Mol. Recog., 38(5), e70011. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmr.70011 (* Corresponding author)

6. Sarita Puri, Angela Gadda, Ivan Polsinelli, Barzago, Maria Monica, Toto Angelo, Sriramoju Manoj K., Visentin Cristina, Broggini Luca, Bonnet, Diane Marie Valérie, Russo Rosaria, Chaves Sanjuan Antonio, Merlini Giampaolo, Nuvolone Mario, Palladini Giovanni, Gianni Stefano, Hsu Shang-Te Danny, Diomede Luisa, Ricagno, Stefano* (2025) The critical role of the variable domain in driving proteotoxicity and aggregation in full-length light chains. J. Mol. Bio., 437(5), 168958, available online https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2025.168958 Associated PDB ID: 9FVK https://doi.org/10.2210/pdb9FVK/pdb

2024

7. Cristina Paissoni#, Sarita Puri#, Luca Broggini, Manoj K Sriramoju, Martina Maritan, Rosaria Russo, Valentina Speranzini, Federico Ballabio, Mario Nuvolone, Giampaolo Merlini, Giovanni Palladini, Shang-Te Danny Hsu, Stefano Ricagno, Carlo Camilloni* (2024) A conformational fingerprint for amyloidogenic light chains. eLife, 13:RP102002 (#Shared first author) https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.102002.2 

8. Sarita Puri and Shang-Te Danny Hsu*  (2024) Functional dynamics of human ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolases. Frontiers in Biophysics, 2, 1479898. https://doi.org/10.3389/frbis.2024.1479898  

9. Pragati Vishwakarma, Sarita Puri, Manidipa Banerjee, Chia-Yu Chang, Chia-Ching Chang*, Tapan K Chaudhuri* (2024) Deciphering the thermal stability of Bacteriophage MS2-derived virus-like particle and its engineered variant. ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering, 10, 1021 https://doi.org/10.1021/acsbiomaterials.4c00770

2023

10. Sarita Puri, Tim Schulte, Antonio Chaves-Sanjuan, Giulia Mazzioni, Serena Caminito, Carlo Pappone, Luigi Anastasia, Paolo Milani, Giampaolo Merlini, Martino Bolognesi, Stefano Ricagno* (2023) The Cryo-EM structure of renal amyloid fibril suggests structurally homogeneous multiorgan aggregation in AL amyloidosis. J. Mol. Bio., 435, 16215. Selected as a Journal Cover https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2023.168215 Associated PDB ID: 8CPE https://doi.org/10.2210/pdb8CPE/pdb and EM Map EMD-16780: EMDB EMDataResource

11. Cheng-Pu Sun, Chi-Wen Chiu, Ping-Yi Wu, Szu-I Tsung, I-Jung Lee, Chih-Wei Hu, Min-Feng Hsu, Tzu-Jiun Kuo, Yu-Hua Lan, Li-Yo, Chen, Hui-Yee Ng, Meng-Jhe Chung, Hsin-Ni Liao, Sheng-Che Tseng, Chia-Hui Lo, Yung-Jiun Chen, Chun-Che Liao, Chih-Shin Chang, Jian-Jong Liang, Piotr Draczkowski, Sarita Puri, Yuan-Chin Chang, Jing-Siou Huang, Cheng-Cheung Chen, Jyh-Hwa Kau, Yen-Hui, Chen, Wen-Chun Liu, Han-Chung Wu, Shang-Te Danny Hsu, I-Hsuan Wang, Mi-Hua Tao (2023) Development of AAV-delivered broadly neutralizing anti-human ACE2 antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 variants. Molecular Therapy, 31, 11, 3322-3336 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymthe.2023.09.002 

12. Sarita Puri, Cheng-Yu Liu, I-Chen Hu, Chih-Hsuan Lai, Shang-Te Danny Hsu*, Ping-Chiang Lyu* (2023) Elucidation of the folding pathway of a circular permutant of topologically knotted YbeA by tryptophan substitutions. Biochem.  Biophys. Res. Commun., 672, 81-88 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2023.06.021

2022

13.   Sarita Puri, Yi-Hsiang Chiu, Piotr Draczkowski, Shang-Te Danny Hsu* et al., (2022) Impacts of cancer-associated mutations on the structure-activity relationship of BAP1. J. Mol. Bio., 434, 167553 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2022.167553

14.  Sarita Puri and Shang-Te Danny Hsu* (2022) Elucidation of the folding pathway of knotted proteins. Methods in Enzymology, Elsevier, 675, 275-297 https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.mie.2022.07.012

15. Sarita Puri and Shang-Te Danny Hsu* (2022) Oxidation of catalytic cysteine of human deubiquitinase BAP1 triggers misfolding and aggregation in addition to functional loss. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun., 599, 57-62 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2022.02.029

2021

16. Cristina Paissoni#, Sarita Puri#, Iren Wang, Szu-Yu Chen, Carlo Camilloni*, and Shang-Te Danny Hsu* (2021) Converging experimental and computational views of the knotting mechanism of the smallest knotted protein. Biophysical Journal, 120, 11, 2276-86 (#Shared first author) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2021.03.032

17. Sarita Puri and Shang-Te Danny Hsu* (2021) Cross-over loop cysteine (C152) acts as an antioxidant to maintain the folding, stability, and deubiquitinase activity of UCH-L1 under oxidative stress. J. Mol. Bio., 433, 8, 166879 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2021.166879

2017-2019 (Ph.D. work)

18. Sarita Puri and Chaudhuri, T. K* (2019). Improvement of stability and chaperoning function of GroEL through modulation of physicochemical conditions. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 129, 792-798 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2019.02.069

19. Sarita Puri and Tapan K. Chaudhuri* (2018) Inter and intra-subunit interactions at the subunit interface of the chaperonin GroEL are essential for its stability and assembly. BBA-Protein & Proteomics, 1867, 331-343 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbapap.2018.10.012

20.  Sarita Puri and Chaudhuri, T.K*. (2017) Folding and unfolding pathway of chaperonin GroEL monomer and elucidation of thermodynamic parameters, International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 96, 713-726 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2016.12.054

21. Sarita Puri and Tapan K. Chaudhuri* (2022). Improvement of the stability and function of the GroEL protein and implementations thereof. Indian Patent no: 411907.

22. Bhaskar K. Chatterjee, Sarita Puri, Ashima Sharma, Ashutosh Pastor, Tapan K. Chaudhuri*. (2018) Molecular Chaperones: Structure-function relationship and their role in protein folding. Book chapter in the book entitled “Heat Shock Proteins in Stress” Springer Nature International Publisher, 181-220 (Equal contribution) http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74715-6_8