Dr. ARUNAVA DASGUPTA
     
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Senior Scientist
Division of Microbiology
CDRI,
Lucknow 226 031.
E-Mail

[email protected]

Phone +91 9932835909
Educational qualifications M.Sc. (1999) Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, West Bengal.
Ph.D. (2005-06) Bose Institute/Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal
Date of birth

25th May, 1976

Postdoctoral Research
Mycobacterial Genetics Unit, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France (May 2005 - May 2007)
Department of Immunology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany (May 2007-Sep 2010)
AREA OF INTEREST
 
Host Pathogen interaction in the context of Mycobacterial infection
 
PUBLICATIONS
Skovierova H, Larrouy-Maumus G, Pham H, Belanova M, Barilone N, Dasgupta A, Mikusova K, Gicquel B, Gilleron M, Brennan PJ, Puzo G, Nigou J, Jackson M. Biosynthetic origin of the galactosamine substituent of arabinogalactan in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
J Biol Chem. 285(53):41348-55. 2010.
Dasgupta A*, Sureka K*, Mitra D, Saha B, Sanyal S, Das AK, Chakrabarti P, Jackson M, Gicquel B, Kundu M and Basu J. An oligopeptide transporter of Mycobacterium tuberculosis regulates cytokine release and apoptosis of infected macrophages.
PLoS ONE. Aug 17; 5(8): e12225.
Sureka K*, Ghosh B*, Dasgupta A, Basu J, Kundu M and Bose I. Positive feedback and noise activate the stringent response regulator rel in mycobacteria.
PLoS ONE. Mar 12; 3(3): e1771. 2008.
Sureka K, Dey S, Datta P, Singh AK, Dasgupta A, Rodrigue S., Basu J and Kundu M. Polyphosphate kinase regulates a signalling pathway involving the mprAB, sigE and rel genes, which is required for adaptation to stress in mycobacteria.
Mol Microbiol. Jul; 65(2): 261-76. 2007.
Mukherjee P, Dutta M, Datta P, Dasgupta A, Pradhan R, Pradhan M, Kundu M, and Basu J and Chakrabarti P. The RD1-encoded antigen Rv3872 of Mycobacterium tuberculosis as a potential candidate for serodiagnosis of tuberculosis.
Clin Microbiol Infect. 13 (2):146-52. 2007.
Datta P, Dasgupta A, Singh AK, Mukherjee P, Kundu M and Basu J. Interaction between FtsW and penicillin-binding protein (PBP)3 direct PBP3 to mid-cell, controls cell septation and mediates the formation of a trimeric complex involving FtsZ, FtsW and PBP3 in mycobacteria.
Mol Microbiol. Dec 62(6):1655-73. 2006.
Dasgupta A*, Datta P*; Kundu M and Basu J. The serine/threonine kinase PknB of Mycobacterium tuberculosis phosphorylates PBPA, a penicillin-binding protein required for cell division.
Microbiol. 152: 493-504. 2005.
Datta P*, Dasgupta A*, Bhakta S and Basu J.
Interaction between FtsZ and FtsW in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
J Biol Chem, 277: 24983-87. 2002.