Publications

"If you cannot - in the long run - tell everyone what you have been doing, your doing has been worthless." -Erwin Schrödinger

13. Chromato-Kinetic Fingerprinting Enables Multiomic Digital Counting of Single Disease Biomarker Molecules.

Pavel Banerjee, Sujay Ray, Liuhan Dai, Erin Sandford, Tanmay Chatterjee, Shankar Mandal, Javed Siddiqui, Muneesh Tewari, and Nils G. Walter. ACS Nano 2025 19 (24), 22315-22329, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5c05169. Full Text.

12. Mathias Centola, Erik Poppleton, Sujay Ray, Martin Centola, Robb Welty, Julián Valero, Nils G. Walter, Petr Šulc, & Michael Famulok. “A rhythmically pulsing leaf-spring DNA-origami nanoengine that drives a passive follower.” Nat. Nanotechnol. (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-023-01516-x,  Full Text.

11. Emily Ellinger, Adrien Chauvier, Rosa A. Romero, Yichen Liu, Sujay Ray, & Nils G. Walter “Riboswitches as therapeutic targets: promise of a new era of antibiotics.”, Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Targets, (2023) 27:6, 433-445, DOI: 10.1080/14728222.2023.2230363,  Full Text.

10. Seong Ho Kim, Sujay Ray*, Isaac TS Li*. “Surveying Life One Molecule at a Time: Single Molecule Methods Dig Deeper into Contemporary Biology.” Front Mol Biosci. (2022). DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2022.967434,  Full Text.

9. Sujay Ray, Shiba Dandpat, Surajit Chatterjee, Nils G. Walter. “Precise tuning of bacterial translation initiation by non-equilibrium 5’-UTR unfolding observed in single mRNAs.”, Nucleic Acids Research, (2022). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkac635,  Full Text, Supporting Information.

8. Sujay Ray*, Nibedita Pal*, and Nils G. Walter. “Single bacterial resolvases first exploit, then constrain intrinsic dynamics of the Holliday junction to direct recombination.”, Nucleic Acids Research, (2021), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkab096,  Full Text, Supporting Information.

7. Sujay Ray*, Adrien Chauvier*, and Nils G. Walter. “Kinetics coming into focus: Single-molecule microscopy of riboswitch dynamics.”, RNA Biology (2018), 1-9. DOI: 10.1080/15476286.2018.1536594,  Full Text.

6. Sujay Ray*, Julia R. Widom*, Nils G. Walter. “Life under the Microscope: Single-Molecule Fluorescence Highlights the RNA World.” Chemical Reviews, (2018), DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.7b00519,  Full Text.

5. Mohamed Farhath, Matthew Thompson, Sujay Ray, Abby Sewell, Hamza Balci, Soumitra Basu. "G-Quadruplex-Enabling Sequence within the Human Tyrosine Hydroxylase Promoter Differentially Regulates Transcription" ACS Biochemistry, (2015), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biochem.5b00209,  Full Text, Supporting Information.

4. Jagat B. Budhathoki, Sujay Ray, Vaclav Urban, Pavel Janscak, Jaya G. Yodh, Hamza Balci. "BLM-mediated G-quadruplex Unfolding in the Absence of ATP." Nucleic Acids Research, (2014). DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku856,  Full Text, Supporting Information.

3. Sujay Ray*, Jigar Bandaria*, Mohammad H. Qureshi, Ahmet Yildiz, Hamza Balci. "G-quadruplex formation in telomeres enhances POT1/TPP1 protection against RPA binding."  PNAS vol. 111 no. 8, 2990–2995 (2014), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1321436111,  Full Text, Supporting Information.

This article was highlighted in Structure: "Single-Molecule Choreography between Telomere Proteins and G-Quadruplexes" Preview by Prof. Karl-Peter Hopfner.

2. Ray S, Qureshi MH, Malcolm DW, Budhathoki JB, Celik U, Balci H. RPA-mediated unfolding of systematically varying G-quadruplex structures. Biophys J. 2013 May 21;104(10):2235-45. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2013.04.004. PMID: 23708363; PMCID: PMC3660638, Full Text, Supporting Information.

1. Qureshi MH, Ray S, Sewell AL, Basu S, Balci H. Replication protein A unfolds G-quadruplex structures with varying degrees of efficiency. J Phys Chem B. 2012 May 17;116(19):5588-94. doi: 10.1021/jp300546u. Epub 2012 May 3. PMID: 22500657; PMCID: PMC3434287, Full Text, Supporting Information.