DR. ANUP KUMAR MISRA
 
... Medicinal Chemistry Division
Central Drug Research Institute
Lucknow 226 001, India
 
E- mail akmisra69[at]rediffmail dot com
Educational qualifications M. Sc. (University of Calcutta), Ph.D. (Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science).
Date of Birth

December 21, 1969

 
POST -DOCTORAL RESEARCH
 
University of St. Andrews, Scotland with Prof. R. A. Field and Prof. S. W. Homans (1997-1998),
The Burnham Institute, La Jolla, USA with Prof. Ole Hindsgaul and Prof. Minoru Fukuda (1998-2000).

 
CURRENT AREAS OF INTEREST
Design and synthesis of bioactive molecules related to infectious diseases, Anti-inflammatory agents using C- and O-glycosylation technique and synthetic organic chemistry. Development of new glycosylation methodologies and synthesis of glycoconjugate natural products.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
 
Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Sialylated Oligosaccharides for their Evaluation in a Polysialyltransferase Assay. Prabal Sengupta, Anup Kumar Misra, Misa Suzuki, Minoru Fukuda and Ole Hindsgaul. Tetrahedron Lett (2003) 44, 6037.
Efficient synthesis of lactosaminylated Core-2 O-Glycans. Anup K. Misra, M. Fukuda and O. Hindsgaul, Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. (2001), 11, 2667.
A concise synthesis of the 6-O and 6'-O-sulfated analogues of the sialyl Lewis X tetrasaccharide. A. K. Misra, Y. Ding, J. B. Lowe and O. Hindsgaul, Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. (2000), 10 (14) 1505.
Poly-N-acetyllactosamine extention in N-glycans and core 2- and core 4- branched O-glycans is differentially controlled by i-extention enzyme and different members of the 1, 4- lactosyltransferase gene family. M. Ujita; Anup K. Misra; J. McAuliffe; O. Hindsgaul; M. Fukuda. J. Biol. Chem. (2000), 275(21), 157868.
Synthesis of the tetrasaccharide repeating unit of the antigen from Klebsiella type-2. Anup K. Misra and Nirmolendu Roy. Carbohydr. Res (1995), 278(1), 103.