Publications

2019

  1. Ivanna Ihnatovych, Tapan K Nayak, Aya Ouf, Norbert Sule, Barbara Birkaya, and Anthony Auerbach, *Kinga Szigeti. (2019). iPSC model of CHRFAM7A effect on α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor function in the human context. Translational Psychiatry. 9(1), 59. Link
  2. Tapan K Nayak , Viz, R, Bruhova, I, Shandilya, J, *Auerbach A. (2019). Efficiency measures the conversion of agonist binding energy into receptor conformational change. J. Gen. Physiol., 151(4), 465. Link

2017

  1. Tapan K Nayak, *Auerbach A. (2017). Cyclic activation of endplate acetylcholine receptors. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 114(45):11914-11919. Link

2016

  1. Tapan K Nayak, Chakrabarty S, Zheng W, *Auerbach A. (2016). Structural correlates of affinity in fetal versus adult endplate nicotinic receptors. Nature Communications 7:11352. Link
  2. Shandilya J, Gao Y, Tapan K Nayak, Roberts S, *Medler K. (2016). AP1 transcription factors are required to maintain the peripheral taste system. Cell Death and Disease. 7(10):e2433. Link

2014

  1. Tapan K Nayak, Bruhova I, Chakrabarty S, Gupta S, Zheng W, *Auerbach A. (2014). Functional differences between neurotransmitter binding sites of muscle acetylcholine receptors. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 111(49): 17660-05. Link
  2. Iacobucci G, Rahman NA, Valtuena AA, Tapan K Nayak, *Gunawardena S. (2014). Spatial and temporal characteristics of normal and perturbed axonal transport in vivo. PLos One, 9(5):e97237. Link

2013

  1. Tapan K Nayak, *Auerbach A (2013). Asymmetric transmitter binding sites of fetal muscle acetylcholine receptors shape their synaptic response. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 110(33): 13654-59. Link

2012

  1. Tapan K Nayak, Purohit PG, *Auerbach A (2012). The intrinsic energy of the gating isomerization of a neuromuscular acetylcholine receptor channel. J. Gen. Physiol., 139(5):349-58. Link

2011

  1. Tapan K Nayak, Dana S, Raha S, *Sikdar SK (2011). Activator-induced dynamic disorder and molecular memory in human two-pore domain hTREK1 K+ channel. J. Chem. Biol. 4(2):69-84. Link

2009

  1. Tapan K Nayak, Harinath S, Nama S, Somasundaram K, *Sikdar SK (2009). Inhibition of human two-pore domain K+ channel TREK1 by local anesthetic lidocaine: negative cooperativity and half-of-sites saturation kinetics. Molecular Pharmacology. 76(4): 903-17. Link

2007

  1. Tapan K Nayak, *Sikdar SK (2007). Time-dependent molecular memory in single voltage-gated sodium channel. J. Memb. Biol. 219(1-3): 19-36. Link

Book Chapter(s)

2022

  1. Nadira Khatoon, Adusumilli S, Dey P, Sharma R, Kampani P, Shandilya J, Tapan K Nayak (2022). Protein engineering and design in ion channels and receptors. Methods in Cell Biology. 169: 143-168. Link

Publications Under Review

2022

  1. Monika Kumari, Khatoon N, Adusumilli S, Sharma R, Auerbach A, Kashyap H, Tapan K Nayak. (2022). Hydrophobic gating of the acetylcholine receptor channel pore. Under Revision (J. Gen. Physiol). Link