Ravi Kumar
Ravi Kumar
Associate Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
School of Biotechnology
Email
ravikr[at]jnu[dot]ac[dot]in
Personal Webpage
https://jnu.ac.in
Qualifications

PhD, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Areas of Interest/Specialization
  • To study the mechanism of chromosome condensation in prokaryotes.
  • To study the function of enzymes crucial of bacterial survival.

 

International Collaboration/Consultancy

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Best Peer Reviewed Publications
  1. Pratibha Kumari, Shamila Minnu K C, Teasha Biswas, Vinayak Hegde, Umesh Appaiah, M. Dharma Prasad, Kunal Sharan, Dhabaleswar Patra, and Ravi Kumar. MksEF Accessory Proteins Inhibit MksB ATPase Activity and Modulate DNA Substrate Binding. Biochemistry 2025 64 (19), 4067-4080

  2.  Suchitra Pradhan, K Shwetha, Pratibha Kumari, Ravi Kumar. Biochemical and functional characterization of the SMC holocomplex from Mycobacterium smegmatis. Microbiology (UK), 2021, 167, 001011.

  3. Suchitra Pradhan, Swathy Velaparambil Bipinachandran, Pratibha Kumari, M. Suguna, M. Dharma Prasadc Ravi Kumar. MksB, an alternate condensin from Mycobacterium smegmatis is involved in DNA binding and condensation. Biochimie, 2020,171, 136-146. 

  4.  Jaiswal RK, Prabha TS, Manjeera G, Gopal B. Mycobacterium tuberculosis RsdA provides a conformational rationale for selective regulation of σ factor activity by proteolysis. Nucleic Acids Res, 2013, 41, 3414-23.

  5. Jaiswal RK, Manjeera G, Gopal, B, Role of a PAS sensor domain in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis transcription regulator Rv1364c. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 2010, 398, 342-49.
     

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

  1. Pratibha Kumari, Shamila Minnu K C, Teasha Biswas, Vinayak Hegde, Umesh Appaiah, M. Dharma Prasad, Kunal Sharan, Dhabaleswar Patra, and Ravi Kumar. MksEF Accessory Proteins Inhibit MksB ATPase Activity and Modulate DNA Substrate Binding. Biochemistry 2025 64 (19), 4067-4080

  2. Pratibha Kumari, Vinayak Hegde, Anant Bakshi, M. Suguna, M. Dharma Prasad, B.S. Gnanesh Kumar, Dandamudi Usharani, Kunal Sharan, Ravi Kumar. A novel regulatory motif at the hinge dimer interface of the MksB mediates dimerization and DNA binding activity, Biochimie, 2025, 230, 68-85.

  3. Anusree Lohithakshan, Raja Narayanasamy, Deshmukh P., Dandamudi Usharani, Ravi Kumar#. Insights into the role of F26 residue in the FMN: ATP adenylyltransferase activity of Staphylococcus aureus FAD synthetase. BBA-Proteins and proteomics, 2022, 1870 (5), 14078.

  4. Anusree Lohithakshan, Raja Narayanasamy, Upasana S Potteth, Shwetha Keshava, Vibha Nagaraja, Dandamudi Usharani, Ravi Kumar#.  Molecular insights into the mechanism of substrate binding and catalysis of bifunctional FAD synthetase from Staphylococcus aureus. Biochimie, 2021,182, 217-227.

  5. Suchitra Pradhan, K Shwetha, Pratibha Kumari, Ravi Kumar#. Biochemical and functional characterization of the SMC holocomplex from Mycobacterium smegmatis. Microbiology (UK), 2021, 167, 001011.