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Subbaratnam Muthukrishnan

Subbaratnam Muthukrishnan

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Molecular Biology

D-Index
83
Citations
20943
World Ranking
911
National Ranking
481

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - ACM Fellow For contributions to efficient algorithms for string matching, data streams, and internet ad auctions

Overview

Subbaratnam Muthukrishnan is affiliated with Kansas State University in the United States and specializes in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant focus on agricultural and biological sciences. Their research spans several subfields including molecular biology, insect science, biomaterials, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and immunology.

The research topics prominently covered by Muthukrishnan include insect resistance and genetics, insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, studies on chitinases and chitosanases, entomopathogenic microorganisms in pest control, silk-based biomaterials and applications, neurobiology and insect physiology research, and invertebrate immune response mechanisms.

Muthukrishnan has contributed to numerous scholarly articles, with recent publications including:

  • Insect Cuticular Chitin Contributes to Form and Function, 2020, Current Pharmaceutical Design
  • Yellow-g and Yellow-g2 proteins are required for egg desiccation resistance and temporal pigmentation in the Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, 2020, Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  • Yellow-y Functions in Egg Melanization and Chorion Morphology of the Asian Tiger Mosquito, Aedes albopictus, 2021, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • AA15 lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase is required for efficient chitinous cuticle turnover during insect molting, 2022, Communications Biology
  • Chitin deacetylases are necessary for insect femur muscle attachment and mobility, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Their frequent collaborators include Mi Young Noh, Yasuyuki Arakane, Karl J. Kramer, Seulgi Mun, and Qing Yang.

Muthukrishnan has published extensively in venues such as Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, SSRN Electronic Journal, Current Pharmaceutical Design, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, and Communications Biology.

In 2010, Muthukrishnan was awarded the ACM Fellow distinction for contributions to efficient algorithms for string matching, data streams, and internet ad auctions.

Best Publications

  • The genome of the model beetle and pest Tribolium castaneum.

    Stephen Richards;Richard A. Gibbs;George M. Weinstock;Susan J. Brown

  • 5'-Terminal 7-methylguanosine in eukaryotic mRNA is required for translation.

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  • Insect chitinases: molecular biology and potential use as biopesticides.

    Karl J Kramer;Subbaratnam Muthukrishnan

  • Over-expression of the cloned rice thaumatin-like protein (PR-5) gene in transgenic rice plants enhances environmental friendly resistance to Rhizoctonia solani causing sheath blight disease

    K. Datta;R. Velazhahan;N. Oliva;I. Ona

  • Genetic Engineering of Rice for Resistance to Sheath Blight

    Willie Lin;C.S. Anuratha;Karabi Datta;Karabi Datta;Ingo Potrykus

  • Reovirus messenger RNA contains a methylated, blocked 5'-terminal structure: m-7G(5')ppp(5')G-MpCp-

    Y Furuichi;M Morgan;S Muthukrishnan;A J Shatkin

  • Laccase 2 is the phenoloxidase gene required for beetle cuticle tanning

    Yasuyuki Arakane;Subbaratnam Muthukrishnan;Richard W. Beeman;Michael R. Kanost

  • Greenhouse and field testing of transgenic wheat plants stably expressing genes for thaumatin‐like protein, chitinase and glucanase against Fusarium graminearum

    Ajith Anand;Tian Zhou;Harold N. Trick;Bikram S. Gill

  • Insect chitinase and chitinase-like proteins

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  • Biosynthesis, Turnover, and Functions of Chitin in Insects

    Kun Yan Zhu;Hans Merzendorfer;Wenqing Zhang;Jianzhen Zhang

  • The Tribolium chitin synthase genes TcCHS1 and TcCHS2 are specialized for synthesis of epidermal cuticle and midgut peritrophic matrix.

    Y. Arakane;S. Muthukrishnan;K. J. Kramer;K. J. Kramer;C. A. Specht

  • Ribosome binding to reovirus mRNA in protein synthesis requires 5' terminal 7-methylguanosine.

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  • Sequence of a cDNA and expression of the gene encoding epidermal and gut chitinases of Manduca sexta.

    Karl J. Kramer;Lolita Corpuz;Hee K. Choi;Subbaratnam Muthukrishnan

  • Functional specialization among insect chitinase family genes revealed by RNA interference

    Qingsong Zhu;Yasuyuki Arakane;Richard W. Beeman;Karl J. Kramer

  • Development of wheat scab symptoms is delayed in transgenic wheat plants that constitutively express a rice thaumatin-like protein gene

    W. P. Chen;P. D. Chen;D. J. Liu;R. Kynast

  • Insect resistance of transgenic tobacco expressing an insect chitinase gene

    Xiongfei Ding;Bhuvana Gopalakrishnan;Lowell B. Johnson;Frank F. White

  • Mechanism of formation of reovirus mRNA 5'-terminal blocked and methylated sequence, m7GpppGmpC.

    Unknown

  • Chitin synthases are required for survival, fecundity and egg hatch in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum.

    Yasuyuki Arakane;Charles A. Specht;Karl J. Kramer;Karl J. Kramer;Subbaratnam Muthukrishnan

  • Characterization of two chitin synthase genes of the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum, and alternate exon usage in one of the genes during development.

    Yasuyuki Arakane;David G. Hogenkamp;Yu Cheng Zhu;Karl J. Kramer;Karl J. Kramer

  • Isolation and characterization of novel cDNA clones of acidic chitinases and β-1,3-glucanases from wheat spikes infected by Fusarium graminearum

    W. L. Li;J. D. Faris;S. Muthukrishnan;D. J. Liu

Frequent Co-Authors

Graham Cormode
Graham Cormode University of Warwick
Jon Feldman
Jon Feldman Google (United States)
Martin J. Strauss
Martin J. Strauss University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Divesh Srivastava
Divesh Srivastava AT&T (United States)
Anna C. Gilbert
Anna C. Gilbert Yale University
Flip Korn
Flip Korn Google (United States)
Vahab Mirrokni
Vahab Mirrokni Google (United States)
Paolo Ferragina
Paolo Ferragina University of Pisa
Theodore Johnson
Theodore Johnson AT&T (United States)
Nick Koudas
Nick Koudas University of Toronto

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