Arunkumar Dhayalan
Assistant Professor
Department of Biotechnology
Pondicherry University
India
Biography
Arunkumar Dhayalan obtained graduation from University of Madras ; post-garduation from Pondicherry University and Ph.D. from Jacobs University Bremen, Germany. He currently holds as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences at Pondicherry University. He has been awarded with Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award (IYBA), 2010, DBT, Govt. of India; Best Teacher Award, Pondicherry University, 2011, 2012 and 2013.
Research Interest
Epigenetics,Protein Engineering
Publications
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Dhayalan, A., Tamas, R., Bock, I., Tattermusch, A., Dimitrova, E., Kudithipudi, S., Ragozin, S., Jeltsch, A. (2011) The ATRX-ADD domain binds to H3 tail peptides and reads the combined methylation state of K4 and K9. Hum Mol Genet, 20, 2195-2203.
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Kudithipudi, S., Dhayalan, A., Kebede, AF., Jeltsch, A. (2012) The SET8 H4K20 protein lysine methyltransferase has a long recognition sequence covering seven amino acid residues. Biochimie, 94, 2212-2218.
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Kycia I, Kudithipudi S, Tamas R, Kungulovski G, Dhayalan A, Jeltsch A. (2013) The Tudor Domain of the PHD Finger Protein 1 Is a Dual Reader of Lysine Trimethylation at Lysine 36 of Histone H3 and Lysine 27 of Histone Variant H3t. J Mol Biol.
