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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Ranjan Sen is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the broad area of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology with a focus on Molecular Biology, Genetics, Ecology, Molecular Medicine, and Endocrinology as subfields.

The scientist's work largely revolves around RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, bacterial genetics and biotechnology, and bacteriophages and microbial interactions. Additional topics include RNA research and splicing, RNA modifications and cancer, antibiotic resistance in bacteria, and studies on Escherichia coli.

Recent publications by Ranjan Sen include:

  • Steps toward translocation-independent RNA polymerase inactivation by terminator ATPase ρ, 2020, Science
  • The Rho-Dependent Transcription Termination Is Involved in Broad-Spectrum Antibiotic Susceptibility in Escherichia coli, 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • In vivo regulation of bacterial Rho-dependent transcription termination by the nascent RNA, 2022, Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Rho-dependent transcription termination regulates the toxin-antitoxin modules of cryptic prophages to silence their expression in Escherichia coli, 2021, FEBS Letters
  • Gain-induced Kerr beam cleaning in a femtosecond fiber amplifier, 2023, Journal of the Optical Society of America B

The scientist has published multiple articles in venues such as:

  • Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Biochemical Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Science
  • Frontiers in Microbiology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ranjan Sen include Sriyans Jain, Nelly Said, Tarek Hilal, Bernhard Loll, and Irina Artsimovitch.

Ranjan Sen has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2013.

Best Publications

  • Multiple nuclear factors interact with the immunoglobulin enhancer sequences.

    Ranjan Sen;David Baltimore

  • Inducibility of κ immunoglobulin enhancer-binding protein NF-κB by a posttranslational mechanism

    Ranjan Sen;David Baltimore

  • Architectural Protein Subclasses Shape 3D Organization of Genomes during Lineage Commitment

    Jennifer E. Phillips-Cremins;Michael E G Sauria;Amartya Sanyal;Tatiana I. Gerasimova

  • A nuclear factor that binds to a conserved sequence motif in transcriptional control elements of immunoglobulin genes.

    Harinder Singh;Ranjan Sen;David Baltimore;Phillip A. Sharp

  • A lymphoid-specific protein binding to the octamer motif of immunoglobulin genes.

    Louis M. Staudt;Harinder Singh;Ranjan Sen;Thomas Wirth

  • Aging, inflammation and the environment

    Arsun Bektas;Shepherd H. Schurman;Ranjan Sen;Luigi Ferrucci

  • Bruton's Tyrosine Kinase Links the B Cell Receptor to Nuclear Factor κb Activation

    Urmila D. Bajpai;Keming Zhang;Mark Teutsch;Ranjan Sen

  • Human T cell immunosenescence and inflammation in aging

    Arsun Bektas;Shepherd H. Schurman;Ranjan Sen;Luigi Ferrucci

  • Induction of the transcription factors NF-κB, AP-1 and NF-AT during B cell stimulation through the CD40 receptor

    Delicia A. Francis;James G. Karras;Xiao yan Ke;Ranjan Sen

  • Regulation of primary response genes.

    Trent Fowler;Ranjan Sen;Ananda L. Roy

  • Regulation of lymphoid-specific immunoglobulin mu heavy chain gene enhancer by ETS-domain proteins

    Barbara Nelsen;Gang Tian;Batu Erman;Jacqueline Gregoire

  • Stepwise activation of the immunoglobulin μ heavy chain gene locus

    Dipanjan Chowdhury;Ranjan Sen

  • Nuclear factors associated with transcriptional regulation

    David Baltimore;Ranjan Sen;Phillip A. Sharp;Harinder Singh

  • Pax5 is required for recombination of transcribed, acetylated, 5′ IgH V gene segments

    David G.T. Hesslein;David L. Pflugh;Dipanjan Chowdhury;Alfred L. M. Bothwell

  • IκB Family Members Function by Different Mechanisms

    Winnie F. Tam;Ranjan Sen

  • A brain-specific transcription activator

    Mira Korner;Amir Rattner;Fabienne Mauxion;Ranjan Sen

  • Two forms of loops generate the chromatin conformation of the immunoglobulin heavy chain gene locus

    Changying Guo;Tatiana Gerasimova;Haiping Hao;Irina Ivanova

  • NF-κB function in B lymphocytes.

    Mary Kaileh;Ranjan Sen

  • Cyclosporin-A sensitive induction of NF-AT in murine B cells.

    Lakshmi Venkataraman;Delicia A. Francis;Zihua Wang;Jialing Liu

  • Transient IL-7/IL-7R Signaling Provides a Mechanism for Feedback Inhibition of Immunoglobulin Heavy Chain Gene Rearrangements

    Dipanjan Chowdhury;Ranjan Sen

Frequent Co-Authors

David Baltimore
David Baltimore California Institute of Technology
Kevin G. Becker
Kevin G. Becker National Institutes of Health
Harinder Singh
Harinder Singh University of Pittsburgh
Luigi Ferrucci
Luigi Ferrucci National Institutes of Health
Thomas L. Rothstein
Thomas L. Rothstein Western Michigan University
Dipanjan Chowdhury
Dipanjan Chowdhury Harvard University
Michael L. Atchison
Michael L. Atchison University of Pennsylvania
Steven J. Burakoff
Steven J. Burakoff Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Anjana Rao
Anjana Rao La Jolla Institute For Allergy & Immunology

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