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  • 2003 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences

Overview

Avadhesha Surolia is affiliated with the Indian Institute of Science in India and has contributed extensively to research in biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their published work spans multiple subfields including molecular biology, infectious diseases, immunology, organic chemistry, and epidemiology.

Their research topics frequently address areas such as glycosylation and glycoproteins research, tuberculosis research and epidemiology, carbohydrate chemistry and synthesis, biochemical and molecular research, cancer therapeutics and mechanisms, galectins and cancer biology, and nanoparticle-based drug delivery.

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Nisha Grandhi Jayaprakash, N. Sivaji, A.D. Singh, Soujanya D. Yelamanchi, and Dulal Panda.

Surolia's scientific contributions have been published in a variety of journals, with multiple publications appearing in IUBMB Life, Frontiers in Immunology, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Glycobiology, and ACS Chemical Biology.

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Surolia include:

  • Multipronged regulation of autophagy and apoptosis: emerging role of TRIM proteins, 2024, Cellular & Molecular Biology Letters
  • Targeting amino acid metabolism of Mycobacterium tuberculosis for developing inhibitors to curtail its survival, 2021, IUBMB Life
  • C1 Inhibits Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation and Oligomerization of Tau and Protects Neuroblastoma Cells against Toxic Tau Oligomers, 2021, ACS Chemical Neuroscience
  • Structure and interactions of the phloem lectin (phloem protein 2) Cus17 from Cucumis sativus, 2023, Structure
  • The barley lectin, horcolin, binds high-mannose glycans in a multivalent fashion, enabling high-affinity, specific inhibition of cellular HIV infection, 2020, Journal of Biological Chemistry

In 2003, Surolia was recognized as a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Triclosan offers protection against blood stages of malaria by inhibiting enoyl-ACP reductase of Plasmodium falciparum.

    Namita Surolia;Avadhesha Surolia

  • N-linked oligosaccharides as outfitters for glycoprotein folding, form and function

    Nivedita Mitra;Sharmistha Sinha;Thirumalai N.C. Ramya;Avadhesha Surolia

  • A novel mode of carbohydrate recognition in jacalin, a Moraceae plant lectin with a beta-prism fold.

    Rajan Sankaranarayanan;Kanakaraj Sekar;Rahul Banerjee;Vivek Sharma

  • Analyses of carbohydrate recognition by legume lectins: size of the combining site loops and their primary specificity

    Vivek Sharma;Avadhesha Surolia

  • Thermodynamics of monosaccharide binding to concanavalin A, pea (Pisum sativum) lectin, and lentil (Lens culinaris) lectin.

    F. P. Schwarz;Kamil Deep Puri;R. G. Bhat;Avadhesha Surolia

  • Conformation, protein-carbohydrate interactions and a novel subunit association in the refined structure of peanut lectin-lactose complex.

    R Banerjee;Kalyan Das;Raman Ravishankar;K Suguna

  • Role of glycosylation in nucleating protein folding and stability.

    Nisha Grandhi Jayaprakash;Avadhesha Surolia

  • Analysis of saccharide binding to Artocarpus integrifolia lectin reveals specific recognition of T-antigen (beta-D-Gal(1----3)D-GalNAc).

    M V Sastry;P Banarjee;S R Patanjali;M J Swamy

  • Synthesis and exploration of novel curcumin analogues as anti-malarial agents

    Satyendra Mishra;Krishanpal Karmodiya;Namita Surolia;Avadhesha Surolia

  • Preparation of protein A-peroxidase monoconjugate using a heterobifunctional reagent, and its use in enzyme immunoassays

    Debkumar Pain;Avadhesha Surolia

  • Titration calorimetric studies to elucidate the specificity of the interactions of polymyxin B with lipopolysaccharides and lipid A

    Subita Srimal;Namita Surolia;S. Balasubramanian;Avadhesha Surolia

  • Ribosome inactivating proteins and apoptosis

    Sriram Narayanan;Kalpana Surendranath;Namrata Bora;Avadhesha Surolia

  • Interaction between lectin from Ricinus communis and liposomes containing gangliosides.

    Avadhesha Surolia;B. K. Bachhawat;S. K. Podder

  • Crystal structure of peanut lectin, a protein with an unusual quaternary structure.

    Rahul Banerjee;Shekhar C. Mande;V. Ganesh;Kalyan Das

  • Sulfonamide drugs binding to the colchicine site of tubulin: thermodynamic analysis of the drug-tubulin interactions by isothermal titration calorimetry.

    Mithu Banerjee;Asim Poddar;Gopa Mitra;Avadhesha Surolia

  • Heat-shock protein 70-2 (HSP70-2) expression in bladder urothelial carcinoma is associated with tumour progression and promotes migration and invasion.

    Manoj Garg;Deepika Kanojia;Amlesh Seth;Rajive Kumar

  • Protein A: nature's universal anti-antibody

    Avadhesha Surolia;Debkumar Pain;M. Islam Khan

  • Collectins: sentinels of innate immunity

    Garima Gupta;Avadhesha Surolia

  • On the Specificity of Carbohydrate‐Lectin Recognition

    Sunil K. Podder;Avadhesha Surolia;Bimal K. Bachhawat

  • Sugar-quantum dot conjugates for a selective and sensitive detection of lectins.

    Ponnusamy Babu;Sharmistha Sinha;Avadhesha Surolia

Frequent Co-Authors

Mamannamana Vijayan
Mamannamana Vijayan Indian Institute of Science
Raghavan Varadarajan
Raghavan Varadarajan Indian Institute of Science
Rahul Banerjee
Rahul Banerjee Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata
Dulal Panda
Dulal Panda Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Stefan Oscarson
Stefan Oscarson University College Dublin
Kalyan Das
Kalyan Das Rega Institute for Medical Research
Nathan Sharon
Nathan Sharon Weizmann Institute of Science
Pinak Chakrabarti
Pinak Chakrabarti Bose Institute
Gabor Tigyi
Gabor Tigyi University of Tennessee Health Science Center

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