Dr. Balaji Prakash
Senior Principal Scientist
Molecular Nutrition
Central Food Technological Research Institute
India
Biography
Dr. Balaji Prakash is currently a Senior Principal Scientist in the Department of Molecular Nutrition Central Food Technological Research Institute, India. Prior to joining CSIR-CFTRI, Balaji Prakash, was a Professor, at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. 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
Combining ‘Structural Biology, Enzyme catalysis, and Bioinformatics’ for the Rational Design of new Preservatives.
Publications
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Sunita Mehta, Saravanan Murugeson, Balaji Prakash, Deepak$ . Development of process for generating three dimensional microbial patterns amenable for engineering use. RSC Advances (2016), 6: 22586-22593. [International Peer reviewed – Royal Soc. Chemistry].
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Soneya Majumdar, Abhishek Acharya, Sushil Kumar Tomar and Balaji Prakash$ . Disrupting domain-domain interactions is indispensable for EngA-ribosome interactions. BBA-Proteins and Proteomics. (2016) in press
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Neha Vithani, Sahil Batra, Balaji Prakash$ and Nisanth Nair$ . Elucidating the GTP Hydrolysis Mechanism in FeoB – a Hydrophobic Amino Acid substituted GTPase. ACS Catalysis (2016) in press.
