Usharani D
Principal Scientist
Department of Food Safety & Analytical Quality Control Labor
Central Food Technological Research Institute
India
Biography
She has research experience as post doctoral fellow in The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel and currently employed as scientific fellow in CFTRI
Research Interest
Her interest in research area is in bioinorganic chemistry, biocatalysis, structural biology and disease mechanisms. She has expertise in molecular modeling, spectroscopic analysis, electronic structure and bonding, structure based drug designing.
Publications
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Usharani D, Lacy DC, Borovik AS, Shaik S (2013) Dichotomous hydrogen atom transfer vs proton-coupled electron transfer during activation of X-H bonds (X = C, N, O) by nonheme iron-oxo complexes of variable basicity. J Am Chem Soc 135: 17090-17104.
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Wang B, Usharani D, Li C, Shaik S (2014) Theory uncovers an unusual mechanism of DNA repair of a lesioned adenine by AlkB enzymes.J Am Chem Soc 136: 13895-13901.
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Mandal D, Ramanan R, Usharani D, Janardanan D, Wang B, et al (2015) How does tunneling contribute to counterintuitive H-abstraction reactivity of nonheme Fe(IV)O oxidants with alkanes? J Am Chem Soc 137:722-733.
