Publications


Chaudhary, Bharat P., Jochem Struppe, Hem Moktan, David Zoetewey, Donghua H. Zhou, and Smita Mohanty, Reconstitution and resonance assignments of yeast OST subunit Ost4 and its critical mutant Ost4V23D in liposomes by solid-state NMR. J Biomol NMR (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10858-024-00437-8

Al-Danoon, O., Mohanty, S. Backbone and side chain NMR assignments and secondary structure calculation of the pheromone binding protein3 of Ostrinia nubilalis, an agricultural pest. Biomol NMR Assign (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12104-023-10145-3

Salik Dahal, Jacob Lewellen, Shine Ayyappan, Bharat Chaudhary, Smita Mohanty, Ostrinia furnacalis PBP2 Solution NMR Structure: Insight into Ligand Binding and Release Mechanisms, Protein Science, 2022, 31(10):e4438, https://doi.org/10.1002/pro.4438

Biraj B. Kayastha, Aya Kubo, Jacob Burch‑Konda, Rosalie L. Dohmen, Jacee L. McCoy, Rendi R. Rogers, Sergio Mares, Justin Bevere, Annalisa Huckaby, William Witt, Shuxia Peng, Bharat Chaudhary, Smita Mohanty, Mariette Barbier, Gabriel Cook, Junpeng Deng & Marianna A. Patrauchan, EF‑hand protein, EfhP, specifically binds Ca2+ and mediates Ca2+ regulation of virulence in a human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Scientific Reports, 2022, 12:879, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-12584-9

Omar Al-Danoon, Suman Mazumder, Bharat P. Chaudhary, Viswanath Nukala, Benton Bishop, Gage Cahoon, and Smita Mohanty, Structural and functional characterization of European Corn Borer, Ostrinia nubilalis Pheromone Binding Protein 3J. Agric. Food Chem. 2021, 69, 46, 14013–14023, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jafc.1c03775.

Bharat Chaudhary, David Zoetewey, Martin McCullagh, and Smita Mohanty, NMR and Molecular Dynamics Simulation Reveal the Impact of V23D Mutation on the Function of yeast Oligosaccharyltransferase subunit Ost4pGlycobiology, 2021, 31, 7, 838-850DOI: 10.1093/glycob/cwab002

Caroline Muteti, Caroline Zarraga, Brooke Jacob, Tuli Mwarumba, Dorothy Nkhata, Mwarumba Mwavita, Smita Mohanty, and Jacinta Mutambuki, I realized what I was doing was not working: the influence of explicit teaching of metacognition on students’ study strategies in a general chemistry I courseChem. Educ. Res. Pract., 2020: https://doi.org/10.1039/D0RP00217H

Jacinta M. Mutambuki, Mwarumba Mwavita, Caroline Z. Muteti, Brooke I. Jacob, and Smita Mohanty, Metacognition and Active Learning Combination Reveals Better Performance on Cognitively Demanding General Chemistry Concepts than Active Learning Alone, Journal of Chemical Education, 2020https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.0c00254

Bharat P Chaudhary, David Zoetewey, Smita Mohanty, 1H, 13C, 15N Resonance Assignments and Secondary Structure of Yeast Oligosaccharyltransferase Subunit Ost4p and Its Functionally Important Mutant Ost4pV23D, Journal of Biomolecular NMR assignments, 2020: doi: 10.1007/s12104-020-09946-7.

Smita Mohanty, Bharat P Chaudhary, David Zoetewey, Structural Insight into the Mechanism of N-Linked Glycosylation by Oligosaccharyltransferase, Biomolecules, 202010(4), 624; https://doi.org/10.3390/biom10040624

Salik R Dahal, Jacob Lewellen, Bharat P Chaudhary, Smita Mohanty, 1H, 13C, and 15N resonance assignment and secondary structure of the pheromone binding protein from the agricultural pest Ostrinia furnacalis (OfurPBP2), Journal of Biomolecular NMR assignments, 2020, DOI: 10.1007/s12104-020-09930-1

Dharmaratne, Asantha C., Moulton, James T.,Niroula, Jinesh, Walgama, Charuksha, Mazumder, Suman, Mohanty, Smita, Krishnan, Sadagopan, Pyrenyl Carbon Nanotubes for Covalent Bilirubin Oxidase Biocathode Design: Should the Nanotubes be Carboxylated?Electroanalysis, 2019, 10.1002/elan.201900564

Suman Mazumder#, Bharat P Chaudhary#, Salik R Dahal, Omar Al-Danoon, Smita Mohanty, Pheromone Perception: Mechanism of the Reversible Coil−Helix Transition in Antheraea polyphemus Pheromone-Binding Protein 1, Biochemistry, 2019, 58 (45), 4530-4542, doi: 10.1021/acs.biochem.9b00737. (# equal contribution)

Bharat P Chaudhary, Salik R Dahal, Bhavendrasinh Sayania, Amit Kumar and Smita MohantyEffect of Toxic Metal binding on Tax-Interacting Protein1 (TIP1): A Protein Related to Brain Diseases, Natural product communications2019, 14 (5), 1-2, 1934578X19849161.

Suman Mazumder, Salik R. Dahal, Bharat P. Chaudhary, Smita Mohanty, Structure and Function Studies ofAsian Corn Borer Ostrinia furnacalis Pheromone Binding Protein2, Scientific Reports, 2018, 8:17105.doi:10.1038/s41598-018-35509-x.

Bharat Chaudahry, Suman Mazumder and Smita Mohanty, Production and Biophysical Characterization of a Mini-Membrane protein, Ost4pV23D: A Functionally Important Mutant of Yeast Oligosaccharyl Transferase Subunit Ost4p, Protein expression and purification, 2017, 139, 43-48. 

Rajsekhara Nerimetla, Sadagopan Krishnan, Suman Mazumder, Smita Mohanty, Gretchen G. Mafi, Deborah L. VanOverbeke, Ranjith Ramanathan, Species-Specificity in Myoglobin Oxygenation and Reduction Potential Properties, Meat and Muscle Biology, 2017, 1, 1-7.

Smita Mohanty, Mohiuddin Ovee, Monimoy Banerjee, PDZ Domain Recognition: Insight from Human Tax-Interacting Protein 1 (TIP-1) Interaction with Target Proteins,  Biology, 2015, 4, 88-103.

Sevil Zencir, Monimoy Banerjee, Melanie J. Dobson, Ferhan Ayaydin, Elfrieda Ayaydin Fodor, Zeki Topcu,*  and Smita Mohanty, New partner proteins containing novel internal recognition motif for human Glutaminase Interacting Protein (hGIP), Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications2013, 432 (1), 10 – 15.

* Dr. Zeki Topcu received Fulbright Fellowship and worked in our laboratory from 2009-2010.

Uma V. Katre, Suman Mazumder, and Smita Mohanty, Structural insights into the ligand binding and releasing mechanism of Antheraea polyphemus PBP1: role of the C-terminal tailBiochemistry2013, 52, 1037-1044.

Chengdong Huang, Rajgopalan Bhaskaran and Smita Mohanty, Eukaryotic N-glycosylation Occurs Via Membrane-anchored C-terminal Domain of Stt3p Subunit of Oligosaccharyl TransferaseJournal of Biological Chemistry2012, 287 (39), 32450-32458.

Monimoy Banerjee, David Zoetewey, Mohiudeen Ovee, Suman Mazumder, Valerie Petrenko, Tatiana Samoylove and Smita Mohanty, Specificity and promiscuity in human Glutaminase Interacting Protein (GIP) recognition: Insight from the binding of internal and C-terminal motifBiochemistry2012, 51 (35), 6950–6960.

Smita Mohanty, Moth Olfaction: A Model of Exquisite Sensitivity and SpecificityBiochem Physiol, 2012, 1:e106. doi:10.4172/bcpc.1000e106.

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Amit Kumar*, Priscilla Ward, Uma Katre and Smita Mohanty, A Novel Method of Production and Biophysical Characterization of a Mini-Membrane protein, Ost4p:  A Subunit of Yeast Oligosaccharyl TransferaseBiopolymers2012,97, 499-507.

*A. Kumar worked in the laboratory as a high school student. UG student class of 2016 at NYU.

 Sevil Zencir, Mohiudeen Ovee, Melanie Donson, Monimoy Banerjee, Zeki Topcu* and Smita Mohanty, Identification of brain-specific angiogenesis inhibitor 2 as an ınteraction partner of glutaminase interacting proteinBiochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 2011, 411, 792-797.

*Dr. Zeki Topcu received Fulbright Fellowship and worked in our laboratory from 2009-2010.

Janarthanan Krishnamoorthy and Smita Mohanty, Open-ITC: An alternate computational approach to analyze the ITC data of complex binding mechanismsJournal of Molecular Recognition2011, 24 (6), 1056-1066. 

David Zoetewey, Mohiuddin Ovee, Monimoy Banerjee, Rajagopalan Bhaskaran and Smita Mohanty, Promiscuous Binding at the Crossroads of Numerous Cancer Pathways: Insight from the Binding of GIP with Glutaminase LBiochemistry2011, 50, 3528-3539.

Chengdong Huang and Smita Mohanty, Challenging the Limits: NMR Assignment of a 31 kDa Helical Membrane Protein, Journal of American Chemical Society2010, 132 (11),3662–3663.

Chengdong Huang, Smita Mohanty and Monimoy Banerjee, A Novel Method of Production and Biophysical Characterization of the Catalytic Domain of Yeast Oligosaccharyl Transferase,Biochemistry2010, 49, 1115-1126.

Uma V. Katre, Suman Mazumder, Rabi K. Prusti, and Smita Mohanty, Ligand Binding Turns Moth Pheromone-binding Protein into a pH Sensor: Effect On The Antheraea Polyphemus PBP1 Conformation Journal of Biological Chemistry ,  2009 , 284 (46), 32167-32177.

Monimoy Banerjee, Chengdong Huang, Javier Marquez, and Smita Mohanty, Probing the structure, function and dynamics of human gulataminase-interacting protein (GIP): A possible target for drug designBiochemistry2008, 47 (35), 9208-9219.

Monimoy Banerjee, Erich Meyerowitz, Chengdong Huang & Smita Mohanty, Probing the Conformation and Dynamics of Allatostatin Neuropeptides: A Structural Model for Functional DifferencesPeptides2008, 29(3):375-385.

Priscilla Ward, Chengdong Huang, Monimoy Banerjee & Smita Mohanty, Interaction of Metal Ions with Glutaminase Interacting Protein (GIP): A Potential Role of GIP in Brain Diseases,Spectroscopy2008, Volume 22, No. 4, page 213-221

Joshua Ring, Rabi K. Prusti & Smita Mohanty, Chemical Communication: A visit with insects,Current Chemical Biology2008, 2, Number 1, 83-96.

Sergey Zubkov, A. Gronenborn, I. L. Byeon & S. Mohanty, Structural consequences of the pH-induced conformational switch in A. polyphemus pheromone-binding protein: mechanisms of ligand releaseJournal of Molecular Biology2005, 354, 1081-1090.

Smita Mohanty, S. Zubkov & A. Gronenborn, Solution NMR structure of Antheraea polyphemus PBP provides new insight into pheromone recognition by pheromone binding proteins, Journal of Molecular Biology2004, 337, 443-451.

Sergey Zubkov, W. J. Lennarz & S. Mohanty, Structural basis for the function of a novel minimembrane protein subunit of yeast oligosaccharyltransferase Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A2004 101, issue 11, 3821-3826.

Smita Mohanty, Sergey Zubkov and Ramon Campos-Olivas, 1H, 13C and 15N backbone assignments of the pheromone binding protein from the silk moth Antheraea polyphemus (ApolPBP)J. Biomol. NMR2003, 27, 393.