Balaji Prakash
Senior Principal Scientist
Department of Molecular nutrition
Central Food Technological Research Institute
India
Biography
Prior to joining CSIR-CFTRI, Balaji Prakash, was a Professor, at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur for 14 years. Using a combination of biochemistry, structural Biology and bioinformatics, his work addressed catalytic mechanisms of important family of enzymes like GTPases, kinases and sugar nucleotidylyltransferases. Targeting these, he develops novel peptides/molecules with potential applications and relevance to food science.
Research Interest
His research interest lies in Structural Biology, Enzyme catalysis, Bioinformatics, X-ray crystallography, Structure-based Drug Design.
Publications
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mehata S,Murugeson,Prakash B,Deepak (2015) Fabrication of three dimensional patterns of wide dimensional range using microbes and their applications. Sci. Rep 5:
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Vithani N, Batra S, Prakash B, Nair N.N (2016) Elucidating the GTP hydrolysis mechanism in FeoB – a hydrophobic amino acid substituted GTPase.ACS catalysis 7:902-906.
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Majumdar S, Acharya A, Tomar SK, Prakash B (2017) Disrupting domain-domain interactions is indispensable for EngA-ribosome interactions.Biochim Biophys Acta 1865:289-303.
