Physical & Bio-Physical Chemistry Group

PUBLICATIONS

1. Sapala A. Rao, Kundu Jayanta, Chowdhury, Pramit, Haridas V. "Spontaneous vesiculation: A Mechanistic Insight from the Study of Hybrid Peptide Molecules", New J. Chem. 2016, 40, 9907-9911.

2. Biswas S., Mukherjee S.K., Chowdhury P.K. "Crowder Induced Rigidity in a Multidomain Protein: Insights from Solvation"Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2016, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b10478.

3. Biswas S., Chowdhury P.K. "Correlated and Anti-Correlated Domain Movement of Human Serum Albumin: A Peek into the Complexity of the Crowded Milieu" Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2016, 120, 4897-4911.

4. Kundu J., Kar U., Gautam S., Karmakar S., Chowdhury P.K. "Unusual effects of crowders on heme retention in myoglobin" FEBS Letters, 2015, 589, 3807–3815.

5. Dubey P., Murab S., Karmakar S., Chowdhury P.K., Ghosh S. "Modulation of self-assembly process of Fibroin: an insight for regulating the conformation of silk biomaterials" Biomacromolecules 2015, 16, 3936–3944.

6. Mukherjee S.K., Gautam S., Kundu J., Biswas S., Chowdhury P.K. "Do Macromolecular Crowding Agents Exert Only Excluded Volume Effect? A Protein Solvation Study" Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2015, 119, 14145−14156.

7. Sharma S, Yadav N, Chowdhury P.K., Ganguli A.K. "Controlling the microstructure of reverse micelles and their templating effect on shaping nanostructures" Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2015, 119, 11295–11306.

8. Malik A., Kundu J., Karmakar S., Chowdhury P.K. "Interaction of ANS with Human Serum Albumin under confinement: Important insights and relevance", Journal of Luminescence 2015, 167, 316-326.

9. Biswas S., Chowdhury P.K. "Unusual domain movement in a multidomain protein in the presence of macromolecular crowders" Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2015, 17, 19820-19833.

10. Gautam S., Karmakar S., Bose A. and Chowdhury P. K. “β-Cyclodextrin and Curcumin, a potent cocktail for disaggregating/inhibiting amyloids: A case study with α-synuclein”, Biochemistry 2014, 53, 4081-4083.

11. Singh P. and Chowdhury P. K. “Crowding-Induced Quenching of Intrinsic Tryptophans of Serum Albumins: A Residue-Level Investigation of Different Conformations”, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2013, 4, 2610–2617.

12. Sharma S., Pal, N., Chowdhury P. K., Sen, S. and Ganguli A. K. “Understanding Growth Kinetics of Nanorods in Microemulsion: A Combined Fluorescence Correlation  Spectroscopy, Dynamic Light Scattering and Electron Microscopy Study”, Journal of the American Chemical Society 2012, 134, 19677–19684.

13. Malik A., Kundu J., Mukherjee S. K. and Chowdhury P. K. “Myoglobin unfolding in crowding and confinement”, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2012, 116, 12895-12904.

14. Ojha, K. Chowdhury P. K. and Ganguli A. K. “Fluorescence and CD studies of protein denaturation in the presence of sub-picomolar gold nanoparticles”, Ind. J. Chem. 2012, 51A, 1561-1566.

15. Chowdhury P. K. “Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy: a brief review of techniques andapplications to biomolecules and biosystems”, Journal of Proteins and Proteomics, 2011, 2, 145-169.

16. Mukherjee S., Waegele M. M., Chowdhury P., Guo L. and Gai F. “Effect of macromolecular crowding on protein folding dynamics at the secondary structure level”, J. Mol. Biol. 2009, 393, 227-236.

17. Guo L., Park J., Lee T, Chowdhury P., Lim, M and F. Gai. “Probing the role of hydration in the unfolding transitions of carbonmonoxy myoglobin and apomyoglobin”, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2009, 113, 6158-6163.

18. Mukherjee S., Chowdhury P. and F. Gai. “Effect of dehydration on the aggregation kinetics of two amyloid peptides”, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2009, 113, 531-535.

19. Glasscock J. M., Zhu Y, Chowdhury P, Tang J, F. Gai. “Using an amino acid fluorescence resonance energy transfer pair to probe protein unfolding: application to the villin headpiece subdomain and the LysM domain”, Biochemistry, 2008, 47, 11070-11076.

20. Mukherjee S., Chowdhury P., Bunagan M. R. and F. Gai. “Folding kinetics of a naturally occurring helical peptide: implication of the folding speed limit of helical proteins”, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2008, 112, 9146-9150.

21. Guo L., Chowdhury P., Glasscock J. M. and F. Gai. “Denaturation induced expansion and compaction of a multidomain protein: IgG”, J. Mol. Biol. 2008, 384, 1029-1036.

22. Guo L., Chowdhury P., Fang J. and F. Gai. “Heterogeneous and anomalous diffusion inside lipid tubules”, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2007, 111, 14244-14249.

23. Mukherjee S., Chowdhury P. and F. Gai. “Site-specific hydration status of an amphipathic peptide in AOT reverse micelles”, Langmuir, 2007, 23,11174-11179.

24. Mukherjee S., Chowdhury P. and F. Gai. “Infrared study of the effect of hydration on the amide I band and aggregation properties of helical peptides”, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2007, 111, 4596-4602.

25. Chowdhury P., Wang, W., Lavender, S., Bunagan, M. R., Klemke, J. W., Tang, J., Saven, J. G., Cooperman, B. S. and F. Gai. “Fluorescence correlation spectroscopic study of serpin depolymerization by computationally designed peptides”, J. Mol. Biol. 2007, 369, 462-473.

26. Mukherjee S., Chowdhury P. and F. Gai. “Tuning the cooperativity of the helix-coil transition by aqueous reverse micelles”, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2006, 110, 11615-11619.

27. Halder M., Chowdhury P. K., Das R., Mukherjee P., Atkins W. M., and J. W. Petrich. “Interaction of glutathione S-transferase with hypericin: a photophysical study”, J. Phys. Chem. B. 2005, 109, 19484-19489.

28. Krishnamoorthy G., Webb S. P., Nguyen T., Chowdhury P. K., Halder M., Wills N. J., Carpenter S., Kraus G. A, Gordon M. S., and J. W. Petrich. “Synthesis of hydroxy and methoxy perylene quinones, their spectroscopic and computational characterization, and their antiviral activity”, Photochem. Photobiol. 2005, 81, 924-933.

29. Chowdhury, P. K., Halder, M., Sanders, L., Calhoun, T., Anderson, J. L., Armstrong, D. W., Song, X. and J. W. Petrich. “Dynamic solvation in room temperature ionic liquids”, J. Phys. Chem. B. 2004, 108, 10245-10255.

30. Das. K., Halder, M., Chowdhury, P. K., Park, J., Alexeev, Y., Gordon, M. S. and J. W. Petrich. “Hypericin and its perylene quinone analogs: Probing structure, dynamics and interactions with the environment”, Adv. Photochem. 2004, 28, 1-25.

31. Chowdhury, P. K., Halder, M., Sanders, L., Arnold, R. A., Liu, Y., Armstrong, D. W., Kundu, S., Hargrove, M. H., Song, X. and J. W. Petrich. “The complex of apomyoglobin with the fluorescent dye, coumarin 153.” Photochem. Photobiol. 2004, 79, 440-446.

32. Chowdhury P. K., Halder, M., Chowdhury, Prabir. K., Kraus, G. A., Desai, M. J., Armstrong, D. A., Casey, T. A., Rasmussen, M. A., and J. W. Petrich. “ Generation of fluorescent adducts of malondialdehyde and amino acids: towards an understanding of lipofuscin”, Photochem. Photobiol. 2004, 79, 21-25.

33. Halder, M., Das, K., Chowdhury, P. K., Kundu, S., Hargrove, M. S. and J. W. Petrich. “A comparative femtosecond coherence study of the unligated monomeric hemeproteins myoglobin and leghemoglobin”, J Phys. Chem. B, 2003, 107, 9933-9938.

34. Chowdhury, P. K., Kundu, S., Halder, M., Das, K., Hargrove, M. S., J. W. Petrich. “Effects of distal pocket mutations on the geminate recombination of NO with leghemoglobin on the picosecond time scale”, J Phys. Chem. B, 2003, 107, 9122-9127.

35. Ibarra, C. A., Chowdhury, P., Petrich, J. W., and W. M. Atkins. “The anomalous pKa of Tyr-9 in glutathione s-transferase A1-1 catalyzes product release”, J. Biol. Chem. 2003, 278, 19257-19265.

36. Wen, J., Chowdhury, P., Fulton, D. B., Datta, A., Das, K., Andreotti, A. H., and J. W. Petrich. “Does solvent influence the ground-state tautomeric population of hypericin?”, Photochem. Photobiol., 2003, 77, 5-9.

37. Chowdhury, P., Gondry, M., Genet, R., Martin, Jean-Louis., Menez, A., Negrerie, M. and J. W. Petrich. “Picosecond dynamics of a peptide from the acetylcholine receptor interacting with a neurotoxin probed by tailored tryptophan fluorescence”, Photochem. Photobiol. 2003, 77, 151-157.

38. Ashby, K. D., Wen, J., Chowdhury, P.; Casey, T. A., Rasmussen, M. A., and J. W. Petrich. “Fluorescence of dietary porphyrins as a basis for real-time detection of fecal contamination on meat”, J. Agric. Food Chem. 2003, 51, 3502-3507.

39. Chowdhury, P. K., Das, K. Datta, A., Liu, W.-Z., Zhang, H.-Y. and J. W. Petrich. “ A comparison of the excited-state processes of nearly symmetrical perylene quinines: hypocrellin A and hypomycin B. ”, J. Photochem. Photobiol. A, 2002, 154, 107-116.

40. Wen, J., Chowdhury, P., Wills, N. J., Wannemuehler,Y., Park, J., Kesavan, S., Carpenter, S., Kraus, G. A., J. W. Petrich. “Toward the molecular flashlight: preparation, properties, and photophysics of a hypericin-luciferin tethered molecule”, Photochem. Photobiol. 2002, 76, 153-157.

41. Kundu, S., Snyder, B., Das, K., Chowdhury, P., Park, J., Petrich, J. W. and M. Hargrove. “The Leghemoglobin proximal heme pocket directs oxygen dissociation and stabilizes bound heme”, PROTEINS:Structure, Function and Genetics, 46 268-277.

42. Showalter B.M., Datta A., Chowdhury P. K., Park, J., Bandyopadhyay, P., Choudhury, P. K., Kesavan, S., Zeng, Y. Kraus, G. A., Gordon M. S., Toscano, J. P. and J. W. Petrich. “Identification of a vibrational frequency corresponding to H-atom translocation in hypericin”, Photochem. Photobiol. 2001, 74, 157-163.

43. Park., J., Datta, A., Chowdhury P. K. and J. W. Petrich. “Is the excited-state H-atom transfer in hypericin concerted?”, Photochem. Photobiol. 2001, 73, 105-109.

44. Chowdhury P. K., Ashby K. D., Datta, A. and J. W. Petrich. “Effect of pH on the fluorescence and absorption spectra of hypericin in reverse micelles”, Photochem. Photobiol. 2000, 72, 612-618.