
Punit Kaur
Affiliation
Professor and Head of the Department(CTVS)
Department of
Biophysics
Contact
Email :
punitkaur1@hotmail.com
punitkaur@aiims.edu
Phone :
+91-11-26594288/3201
Additional Responsibility
Office Address
General OPD
Special Clinic
Surgery Days
Speciality of work
Areas of teaching
Areas of teaching
Brief Research Area :
Bioinformatics, Structural Biology, X-ray Crystallography, and Rational Structure Based Drug Design.
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Publications:
- Gupta D, Tiwari P, Haque MA, Sachdeva E, Hassan MI, Ethayathulla AS, Kaur P. (2021) Structural insights into the transient closed conformation and pH dependent ATPase activity of S.Typhi Gyrase B N- terminal domain. Arch Biochem Biophys. Apr 15; 701:108786. doi: 10.1016/j.abb.2021.108786.
- Gupta D, Sharma P, Singh M, Kumar M, Ethayathulla AS, Kaur P. (2021) Structural and functional insights into the spike protein mutations of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants. Cell Mol Life Sci. 78:7967-7989. doi: 10.1007/s00018-021-04008-0. (Review)
- Tripathi MK, Nath A, Singh TP, Ethayathulla AS, Kaur P (2021) Evolving scenario of big data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in drug discovery Mol Divers 25(3):1439-1460. doi: 10.1007/s11030-021-10256-w.
- Katiyar A, Kaur G, Rani L, Jena L, Singh H, Kumar L, Sharma A, Kaur P*, Gupta R*. (2021) Genome-wide identification of potential biomarkers in multiple myeloma using meta-analysis of mRNA and miRNA expression data. Sci Rep. 11(1):10957. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-90424-y. (Co-Corresponding authors)
- Singh PK, Pandey S, Rani C, Ahmad N, Viswanathan V, Sharma P, Kaur P, Sharma S, Singh TP (2021) Potassium-induced partial inhibition of lactoperoxidase: structure of the complex of lactoperoxidase with potassium ion at 2.20 Å resolution. J Biol Inorg Chem. 26(1):149-159. doi: 10.1007/s00775-020-01844-6.
- Singh PK, Sharma P, Bhushan A, Kaur P, Sharma S, Singh TP. (2021) Structure of a ternary complex of lactoperoxidase with iodide and hydrogen peroxide at 1.77 Å resolution. J Inorg Biochem. 220:111461. doi: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2021.111461.
- Sharma P, Vijayan V, Pant P., Vikram N, Kaur P, Singh, TP, Sharma S (2021) Identification of potential drug candidates to combat COVID-19: a structural study using the main protease (mpro) of SARS-CoV-2. J. Biomol Struct Dyn 39(17):6649-6659.
- Vijayan V, Pant P., Vikram N, Kaur P, Singh, TP, Sharma S, Sharma P (2021) Identification of promising drug candidates against NSP16 of SARS-CoV-2 through computational drug repurposing study. J. Biomol Struct Dyn 39(17):6713-6727.
- Gupta A, Vijayan V, Pant P., Kaur P, Singh, TP, Sharma P, Sharma S (2021) Structure prediction and discovery of inhibitors against phosphopanthothenoyl cysteine synthetase of Acinetobacter baumannii. J. Biomol Struct Dyn Aug 4:1-13.
- Singh M, Malhotra L, Haque MA, Kumar M, Tikhomirov A, Litvinova V, Korolev AM, Ethayathulla AS, Das U, Shchekotikhin AE, Kaur P. (2021) Heteroarene-fused anthraquinone derivatives as potential modulators for human aurora kinase B. Biochimie. 182:152-165. doi: 10.1016/j.biochi.2020.12.024.
- Viswanathan V, Rani C, Ahmad N, Singh PK, Sharma P, Kaur P, Sharma S, Singh TP. (2021) Structure of Yak Lactoperoxidase at 1.55 Å Resolution. Protein J. 40: 8-18. doi: 10.1007/s10930-020-09957-2. .PMID: 33389415
- Koley T, Madaan S, Chowdhury SR, Kumar M, Kaur P, Singh TP, Ethayathulla AS. (2021) Structural analysis of COVID-19 spike protein in recognizing the ACE2 receptor of different mammalian species and its susceptibility to viral infection. 3 Biotech.11(2):109. doi: 10.1007/s13205-020-02599-2. Epub 2021 Feb 1.PMID: 33552834
- Malhotra L, Goyal HKV, Jhuria S, Dev K, Kumar S, Kumar M, Kaur P, Ethayathulla AS. (2021) Curcumin rescue p53Y220C in BxPC-3 pancreatic adenocarcinomas cell line: Evidence-based on computational, biophysical, and in vivo studies. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj. 1865:129807. doi: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2020.129807.
- Gupta A, Singh PK, Sharma P, Kaur P, Sharma S, Singh TP. (2020) Structural and biochemical studies of phosphopantetheine adenylyltransferase from Acinetobacter baumannii with dephospho-coenzyme A and coenzyme A. Int J Biol Macromol. 142:181-190. doi: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2019.09.090.
- Gupta A, Rani C, Pant P, Vijayan V, Vikram N, Kaur P, Singh TP, Sharma S, Sharma P. (2020) Structure-Based Virtual Screening and Biochemical Validation to Discover a Potential Inhibitor of the SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease.ACS Omega. 5:33151-33161. doi: 10.1021/acsomega.0c04808.
- Naz F, Mashkoor M, Sharma P, Haque MA, Kapil A, Kumar M, Kaur P, Abdul Samath E. (2020) Drug repurposing approach to target FtsZ cell division protein from Salmonella Typhi. Int J Biol Macromol. 159:1073-1083. doi: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2020.05.063.
- Sachdeva, E., Kaur, G., Tiwari, P., Gupta, D, Singh TP, Ethayathulla, AS, Kaur P. (2020). The pivot point arginines identified in the β-pinwheel structure of C-terminal domain from Salmonella Typhi DNA Gyrase A subunit. Sci Rep 10, 7817 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-64792-w
- Tripathi MK, Singh P, Sharma S, Singh TP, Ethayathulla AS, Kaur P (2020) Identification of bioactive molecule from Withania somnifera (Ashwagandha) as SARS-CoV-2 main protease inhibitor J. Biomol Struc. Dyn. doi.org/10.1080/07391102.2020.1790425
- Katiyar A, Sharma P, Dahiya S, Singh H, Kapil A, Kaur P (2020) Genomic profiling of antimicrobial resistance genes in clinical isolates of Salmonella Typhi from patients infected with Typhoid fever in India. Sci. Rep. 10:8299. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-64934-0.
- Sharma P, Vijayan V , Pant P, Sharma M, Vikram N, Kaur P, Singh TP, Sharma S (2020) Identification of potential drug candidates to combat COVID-19: a structural study using the main protease (mpro) of SARS-CoV-2 J. Biomol Struc. Dyn. doi.org/10.1080/07391102.2020.1798286
- Bansal R Haque MA, Hassan MI, Ethayathulla AS, Kaur P. (2020) Structural and conformational behavior of MurE ligase from Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi at different temperature and pH conditions Int J Biol Macromol. 150:389-399. doi: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2020.01.306
- Tiwari A, Kumar M, Kaur P, Kumar B, Sagi SSK (2020) Efficacy of Quercetin as a potent sensitizer of β2 AR in combating the impairment of fluid clearance in lungs of rats under hypoxia. Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology 273: 103334
- Verma D, Gupta S, Saxena R, Kaur P, Srivastava S, Gupta V. (2020) Allosteric inhibition and kinetic characterization of Klebsiella pneumoniae CysE: An emerging drug target. Int J Biol Macromol. 151:1240‐1249. doi:10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2019.10.170
- Kumar A, Jain V, Chowdhury MR, Kumar M, Kaur P, Kabra M. (2020) Pathogenic/likely pathogenic variants in the SHOX, GHR and IGFALS genes among Indian children with idiopathic short stature. J Pediatr Endocrinol Metab 33:79-88. doi: 10.1515/jpem-2019-0234.
Recent Chapter in Book:
- Tripathi, MK, Sharma, S, Singh, TP, Ethayathulla, AS, Kaur P (2021) Computational Intelligence in Drug Repurposing for COVID-19 in 'Computational Intelligence Methods in COVID-19: Surveillance, Prevention, Prediction and Diagnosis" in the series Studies in Computational Intelligence', Pg 273 - 294 Ed. Khalid Raza Springer Singapore