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Uttam L. RajBhandary

Uttam L. RajBhandary

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Genetics

D-Index
75
Citations
16202
World Ranking
1911
National Ranking
873

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1991 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Uttam L. RajBhandary is a researcher affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States. Their work primarily spans the discipline of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a specific focus on Molecular Biology as a subfield.

The topics covered in their research include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry, as well as Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research. These areas represent intersections of molecular processes and computational approaches that contribute to understanding genetic and biochemical systems.

Throughout their career, Uttam L. RajBhandary has collaborated with coauthors such as:

  • Dieter Söll (1 joint publication)

They have been recognized by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, being named a Fellow in 1991, which marks a formal acknowledgment by a prominent academic society.

Best Publications

  • Trna: Structure, Biosynthesis, and Function

    Dieter Söll;Uttam L. RajBhandary

  • Direct analysis of aminoacylation levels of tRNAs in vivo. Application to studying recognition of Escherichia coli initiator tRNA mutants by glutaminyl-tRNA synthetase

    Umesh Varshney;Chan-Ping Lee;Uttam L. RajBhandary

  • Use of in vitro 32P labeling in the sequence analysis of nonradioactive tRNAs.

    Melvin Silberklang;Amanda M. Gillum;Uttam L. RajBhandary

  • The bacteriorhodopsin gene

    R Dunn;J McCoy;M Simsek;A Majumdar

  • Novel features in the genetic code and codon reading patterns in Neurospora crassa mitochondria based on sequences of six mitochondrial tRNAs

    Joyce E. Heckman;Joshua Sarnoff;Birgit Alzner-DeWeerd;Samuel Yin

  • Initiation of Haemoglobin Synthesis by Methionyl-tRNA

    David Housman;Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena;U. L. Rajbhandary;Harvey F. Lodish

  • The use of nuclease P1 in sequence analysis of end group labeled RNA

    M. Silberklang;A.M. Gillum;U.L. Rajbhandary

  • Studies on polynucleotides. 103. Total synthesis of the structural gene for an alanine transfer ribonucleic acid from yeast.

    H.G. Khorana;K.L. Agarwal;H. Büchi;M.H. Caruthers

  • Intron within the large rRNA gene of N. crassa mitochondria: A long open reading frame and a consensus sequence possibly important in splicing

    John M. Burke;Uttam L. Rajbhandary

  • Studies on the Sequence of the 3′-Terminal Region of Turnip-Yellow-Mosaic-Virus RNA

    Melvin Silberklang;Alain Prochiantz;Anne-Lise Haenni;Uttam L. Rajbhandary

  • Sequence analysis of 5′[32P labeled mRNA and tRNA using polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis

    Raymond E. Lockard;Birgit Alzner-Deweerd;Joyce E. Heckman;Joseph MacGee

  • Nucleotide sequence of three isoaccepting lysine tRNAs from rabbit liver and SV40-transformed mouse fibroblasts.

    Manfred Raba;Klaus Limburg;Margaret Burghagen;Jon R. Katze

  • Correction: Corrigendum: Impaired protein translation in Drosophila models for Charcot–Marie–Tooth neuropathy caused by mutant tRNA synthetases

    Sven Niehues;Julia Bussmann;Georg Steffes;Ines Erdmann

  • Twenty-first aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase–suppressor tRNA pairs for possible use in site-specific incorporation of amino acid analogues into proteins in eukaryotes and in eubacteria

    Anne K. Kowal;Caroline Köhrer;Uttam L. RajBhandary

  • Mutations in MTFMT Underlie a Human Disorder of Formylation Causing Impaired Mitochondrial Translation

    Elena J. Tucker;Steven G. Hershman;Steven G. Hershman;Caroline Köhrer;Casey A. Belcher-Timme;Casey A. Belcher-Timme

  • Light-driven activation of beta 2-adrenergic receptor signaling by a chimeric rhodopsin containing the beta 2-adrenergic receptor cytoplasmic loops.

    Kim Jm;Hwa J;Garriga P;Reeves Pj

  • Escherichia coli formylmethionine tRNA: mutations in GGGCCC sequence conserved in anticodon stem of initiator tRNAs affect initiation of protein synthesis and conformation of anticodon loop

    Baik L. Seong;Uttam L. Rajbhandary

  • Site-specific Incorporation of Keto Amino Acids into Functional G Protein-coupled Receptors Using Unnatural Amino Acid Mutagenesis

    Shixin Ye;Caroline Köhrer;Thomas Huber;Manija Kazmi

  • Initiator transfer RNAs.

    Uttam L. RajBhandary

  • Characterization of tRNA precursor splicing in mammalian extracts.

    F A Laski;A Z Fire;U L RajBhandary;P A Sharp

Frequent Co-Authors

Dieter Söll
Dieter Söll Yale University
Marvin H. Caruthers
Marvin H. Caruthers University of Colorado Boulder
Baik Lin Seong
Baik Lin Seong Yonsei University
Shiladitya DasSarma
Shiladitya DasSarma University of Maryland, Baltimore
Patrick A. Limbach
Patrick A. Limbach University of Cincinnati
Vamsi K. Mootha
Vamsi K. Mootha Harvard Medical School
Kenneth J. Rothschild
Kenneth J. Rothschild Boston University

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