Specialisation: Microbiology, Nitric Oxide Synthase: Structure-Function, Nitrosative Stress Response

Academic qualifications:

• Scottish Church College, University of Calcutta : B.Sc. in Chemistry (Honours)
• Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Calcutta : M.Sc. in Biochemistry
• Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Calcutta : Ph. D. in Science

Research interests:

• Characterizing Nitrosative Stress Response using yeast as a model system
• Characterizing the effect of NO and RNS in cellular autophagy
• Isolation, Production and Properties of industrially important cellulase and xylanase enzymes from fungus:
• Secretome analysis of Phytopathogenic fungi Macrophomina phaseolina grown in solid state and submerged culture.
• Role of NO and RNS in Arachis hypogeae: Bradyrhizobium symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation

Select list of publications:

Journals

1. Subhamoy Chakraborty, Sampurna Datta, Sanjay Ghosh (2019) Induction of autophagy under nitrosative stress: A complex regulatory interplay between SIRT1 and AMPK in MCF7 cells. Cellular Signaling. 2019 Sep 3; 64:109411. doi: 10.1016/j.cellsig.2019.109411. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31491460
2. Sourav Kumar Patra, Saurabh Samaddar, Nilanjan Sinha, Sanjay Ghosh (2019) Reactive nitrogen species induced catalases promote a novel nitrosative stress tolerance mechanism in Vibrio cholerae. Nitric Oxide. 2019 Apr 11;88:35-44. doi: 10.1016/j.niox.2019.04.002. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30981896
3. Sampurna Datta, Subhomoy Chakraborty, Chiranjit Panja, Sanjay Ghosh (2018) Reactive nitrogen species control apoptosis and autophagy in K562 cells: implication of TAp73 induction in controlling autophagy. Free Radical Research Mar 6:1-271. doi:10.1080/10715762.2018.1449210.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/295086 25

Books/ book chapters:

1. Dennis J. Stuehr, and Sanjay Ghosh (2000) Enzymology of NO Synthase in Nitric Oxide (Hand Book of Experimental pharmacology, Edited by Bernd Mayer) Vol 143, pp 33-70, Springer- Verlag Publ., Heidelberg. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-57077-3_3
2. Pranjal Biswas, Uddalak Majumdar and Sanjay Ghosh (2018) Analysis of reverse transcribed mRNA using PCR and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Methods in Molecular Biology for S. pombe. Edited by Teresa L. Singleton, Springer 2018; 1721:73-87. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-7546-4_7 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29423848