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Publications:

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​2022-

1. Kei Yamada+, Arghya Deb+, Veronika M. Shoba, Donghyun Lim, Basudeb Maji, Ashley E. Modell, and Amit Choudhary*. Rational Design of Silicon-Based Zinc Ionophores with AntibacterialActivity. Angew. Chem. Int., 2022, 134 (23), e202201698. (IF 15.3).

2. A general approach to identify cell-permeable, miniature, and synthetic anti-CRISPRs. Donghyun Lim, Qingxuan Zhou, Kurt Cox, Benjamin Law, Miseon Lee, Praveen Kokkonda, Santosh Chaudhary, Rajaiah Pergu, Vedagopuram Sreekanth, Soumyashree Gangopadhyay, Basudeb Maji, Sophia Lai, Yuka Amako, David Thompson, Hari Subramanian, Michael Mesleh, Vlado Dančík, Paul Clemons, Bridget Wagner, Christina Woo, and George Church, Amit Choudhary. Nature Cell Biology, 2022, In press. (IF 28).

3. Nucleic acid editing (Nucleic acid biology and its application in human diseases): Springer Nature. Ayush Mistry, Sadiya Tanga, Basudeb Maji. 2022, In press.

4. Emerging trends in precision drug and gene delivery. Sadiya Tanga and Basudeb Maji. Applied NANOMEDICINE, 2022, 22, 429 (PDF).

5. CRISPR in surveillance and therapy. Akshara Kulkarni and Basudeb Maji, Submitted, 2022.

6. Precision cancer diagnostics and medicines. Manuscript to be submitted

7. CRISPR-CLEAR: An enhanced method for genetic and epigenetic modulation. Manuscript under preparation

8. CRISPR-COOL: An ultimate bioorthogonal method in controlling CRISPR-based gene-editing and transcriptional regulation. Manuscript under preparation

2021-

1. Sevim Kahraman, Debasish Manna#, Ercument Dirice#, Basudeb Maji, Jonnell Small, Bridget Wagner, Amit Choudhary, and Rohit Kulkarni. Harnessing Reaction-Based Probes to Preferentially Target Pancreatic b-Cells and b-Like Cells. Life Science Alliance. 2021, https://www.life-science-alliance.org/content/4/4/e202000840.

​2020-

1. M Lee#, B Maji#, D Manna#, J Small, B Wagner, A Choudhary. Native Zinc Catalyzes Selective and Traceless Release of Small Molecules in β-Cells. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2020,142, 6477-6482. # Equal contribution. (IF 14.6)

2019-

1. B Maji, SA Gangopadhyay, M Lee, M Shi, P Wu, R Heler, B Mok, D Lee, B Paul, V Dančík, MF Mesleh, A Vetere, LA Marraffini, DR Liu, PA Clemons, BK Wagner and A Choudhary. A high- throughput platform to identify small-molecule inhibitors of CRISPR-Cas9. Cell, 2019, 167, 1067- 1079. Highlighted in more than 12 science media reports. (IF 38.6)

2. D Manna, B Maji, S. Gangopadhyay, and A Choudhary. A singular system with precise dosing and spatiotemporal control of CRISPR-Cas9. Angew. Chem. Int., 2019, 58, 6285-6289. (IF 15.3)

3. SA Gangopadhyay, K Cox, D Manna, D Lim, B Maji, Q Zhou and A Choudhary. Precision control of CRISPR-Cas9 using small molecules and light. Biochemistry, 2019, 58, 234–244. (IF 3.0)

2018-

1. MH Kaulage,a B Maji,a S Pasadi, A Ali, S Bhattacharya and K Muniyappa. Targeting G-quadruplex  DNA structures in the telomere and oncogene promoter  regions  by  benzimidazole‒carbazole ligands. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2018, 148, 178-194. aEqual contribution. (IF 5.6)

2. N Dey, B Maji and S Bhattacharya. Motion Induced Change in Emission as an Effective Strategy for Ratiometric Probing of Human Serum Albumin and Trypsin in a Wide Range of Biological Fluids. Chemistry – An Asian Journal, 2018, 13, 664-671. (IF 3.8)

3. N Dey, B Maji and S Bhattacharya. A Unique Example of Excitation Triggered Alteration in Sensing Behavior of Fluorescent Organic Nanoaggregates: A Multifaceted Detection Probe for Caffeine in Real- Life Samples. Analytical Chemistry, 2018, 90, 821–829. (IF 6.8)

2017-

1. B Maji,a CL Moore,a B Zetsche, SE Volz, F Zhang, MD Shoulders and A Choudhary.   Multi-Dimensional Chemogenic Control of CRISPR-Cas9. Nature Chemical Biology, 2017, 13, 9-11. aEqual contribution. (Highlighted by Nat. Chem. Biol. News & Views. doi: 10.1038/nchembio.2243.) (IF 12.6) 

2. MH Kaulage, B Maji, S Pasadi, S Bhattacharya and K Muniyappa. Novel ruthenium azo-quinoline complexes with enhanced photonuclease activity in human cancer cells. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2017, 139, 1016-1029. (IF 5.6)

3. T Hussain, D Saha, G Purohit, A Kar, A Mukherjee, S Sharma, S Sengupta, P Dhapola, B Maji et al. Transcriptional control of CDKN1A (p21/CIP1/WAF1) by TRF2 through the REST repressor complex. Scientific Reports, 2017, 7, 11541. (IF 4.0)

2016-

1. M Kaulage, B Maji, J Bhat, Y Iwasaki, S Chatterjee, S Bhattacharya, K Muniyappa. Discovery and Structural Characterization of G-quadruplex DNA in Human Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase Gene Promoters: Its Role in Transcriptional Regulation and as a Therapeutic Target for Human Disease. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2016, 59, 5035-5050. (IF 6.2)

2015-

1. B Maji, K Kumar, K Muniyappa, and S. Bhattacharya, New dimeric carbazole–benzimidazole mixed ligands for the stabilization of human telomeric G-quadruplex DNA and as telomerase inhibitors. A remarkable influence of the spacer. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 2015,13, 8335-8348. (IF 3.6)

2014-

1. B Maji, K Kumar, M Kaulage, K Muniyappa and S Bhattacharya, Design and Synthesis of New Benzimidazole–Carbazole Conjugates for the Stabilization of Human Telomeric DNA, Telomerase Inhibition, and Their Selective Action on Cancer Cells. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2014, 57, 6973-6988. (IF 6.2)

2. B Maji and S Bhattacharya, Advances in the molecular design of potential anticancer agents via targeting of human telomeric DNA. Chemical Communications. 2014, 50, 6422-6438. (IF 6.0)

3. B Maji, SK Samanta and S Bhattacharya, Role of DNA Secondary Structures in the Reversible Dispersion/Precipitation and Separation of Metallic and Semiconducting Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes. Nanoscale, 2014, 6, 3721-3730. (IF 6.9)

2013-

1. B Maji and S Bhattacharya, Molecular design of synthetic benzimidazoles for the switchover of the duplex to G-quadruplex DNA recognition. Chimia 2013, 67, 39-43. (IF 1.2)

2012-

1. A Paul, B Maji, SK Misra, AK Jain, K Muniyappa and S Bhattacharya, Stabilization and structural alteration of the G-quadruplex DNA made from the human telomeric repeat mediated by Tröger's base based novel benzimidazole derivatives. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2012, 55, 7460-7471. (IF 6.2)

2. A Paul, AK Jain, SK Misra, B Maji, K Muniyappa and S Bhattacharya, Binding of gemini bisbenzimidazole drugs with human telomeric G-quadruplex dimers: Effect of the spacer in the design of potent telomerase inhibitors. PLoS ONE, 2012, 7, e39467. (IF 2.7)

3. AK Jain, A Paul, B Maji, SK Misra, K Muniyappa and S Bhattacharya, Dimeric 1,3-Phenylene- bis(piperazinyl benzimidazole)s: Synthesis and structure-activity investigations on their binding with human telomeric G-quadruplex DNA and telomerase inhibition properties. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2012, 55, 2981-2993. (IF 6.2)

2011-

1. AD Tiwari, AK Mishra, SB Mishra, BB Mamba, B Maji and S Bhattacharya, Synthesis and DNA binding studies of Ni(II), Co(II), Cu(II) and Zn(II) metal complexes of N 1,N 5-bis[pyridine-2-methylene]- thiocarbohydrazone Schiff-base ligand. Spectrochimica Acta - Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 2011, 79, 1050-1056. (IF 2.9)

Patents

1. CRISPR-CAS systems having destabilization domains, US Patent WO/2018/005,873, 2018.

2. Inhibitors of RNA guided nucleases and uses thereof. Pub. No.: WO/2018/085288. Publication Date:11.05.2018.

3. Inhibitors of RNA-guided nuclease target binding and uses thereof. WO/2020/068304.

4. Targeted delivery to beta cells. US patent WO2018195486A1 WIPO (PCT), 2018.

5. Methods and compositions for optochemical control of crispr-cas9. WO / 2020/041380, 2018.

6. Crispr protein inhibitors, U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 62/579,727.

Recognition:

• Assistant Professor of Molecular Medicine, Bose Institute, 2022
• Assistant Professor of Biology, Ashoka University, 2020
• Invited Speaker at Nature Chemical Biology conference New York University, NY, USA, 2018
• Top 10 Retreat presenter of the year 2017 Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2017
• Partners Innovation Discovery Award Brigham and Women's Hospital, MA, USA, 2016
• Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Chemistry, MIT, MA, USA, 2016
• Broad Next10 Research grant Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, MA, USA, 2016
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow Harvard Medical School, MA, USA, 2015

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Image	Name	Designation	Department	Campus	Contact number	Email
	Arkadeep Karmakar	Junior Research Fellow	Division of Molecular Medicine	Unified		arka717@gmail.com

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