K. Natarajan
Professor
School of Life Sciences
Jawaharlal Nehru University
India
Biography
Teaching: 2001 - present; Research: 1994 - present Mentor/Supervisor: Ph.D. - 04 (current); 10 (awarded) M.Sc. - 24 (awarded)
Research Interest
Broad area of research- Cell and Molecular biology/Molecular genetics: Transcription, chromatin and gene regulation Specific areas- (1) TAF complexes and Mechanism of Transcription in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Candida albicans; (2) Gene regulation during Iron Homeostasis in Candida albicans (3) Transcriptional Regulatory Network controlling Melanogenesis and pigment disorders using Mouse Melanoma cell lines
Publications
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Natarajan, V.T., Ganju, P., Singh, A., Vijayan, V., Kirty, K., Yadav, S., Puntambekar, S., Bajaj, S., Dani, P., Kar, H.K., Gadgil, C.J., Natarajan, K., Rani, R. and Gokhale, R.S. (2014). IFN-g signaling maintains skin pigmentation homeostasis through regulation of melanosome Maturation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (USA) 111:2301-2306.
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Saint, M*, Sawhney, S*, Sinha, I, Singh R.P., Thakur, A., Siddharthan, R. and Natarajan K. (2014). TAF9 C-terminal conserved region domain is required for SAGA and TFIID promoter occupancy to promote transcriptional activation. Molecular and cellular Biology 34(9): 1547-63. *equal contribution
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Sinha I, Poonia P, Sawhney S, Natarajan K. (2017) Functional Specialization of Two Paralogous TAF12 Variants by Their Selective Association with SAGA and TFIID Transcriptional Regulatory Complexes. Journal of Biological Chemistry 292: 6047–6055.
