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Vivek Anantharaman is a researcher affiliated with the National Center for Biotechnology Information in the United States. Their work spans multiple domains within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions to related subfields and research topics.

The primary fields of study for Anantharaman include Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Environmental Science. Within these broader fields, their research covers specialized subfields such as Molecular Biology, Genetics, Ecology, Materials Chemistry, and Nutrition and Dietetics.

The scientist's main research topics focus on areas including Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology, Bacteriophages and microbial interactions, Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Enzyme Structure and Function, and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering.

Anantharaman has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including L. Aravind, Kumaran S. Ramamurthi, Taylor B. Updegrove, Thomas Delerue, and Michael C. Gilmore. These collaborations appear across multiple publications and research projects.

Their recent papers include the following:

  • Jumbo Phages: A Comparative Genomic Overview of Core Functions and Adaptions for Biological Conflicts, 2021, Viruses
  • Reformulation of an extant ATPase active site to mimic ancestral GTPase activity reveals a nucleotide base requirement for function, 2021, eLife
  • The phage shock protein (PSP) envelope stress response: discovery of novel partners and evolutionary history, 2024, mSystems
  • Apprehending the NAD+-ADPr-Dependent Systems in the Virus World, 2022, Viruses
  • Antigen Discovery, Bioinformatics and Biological Characterization of Novel Immunodominant Babesia microti Antigens, 2020, Scientific Reports

Publication venues where Anantharaman has frequently contributed include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Viruses, Science Advances, mSystems, and eLife. bioRxiv is the venue with the most recorded publications attributed to them.

Best Publications

  • Complete genome sequence of the apicomplexan, Cryptosporidium parvum.

    Mitchell S. Abrahamsen;Thomas J. Templeton;Shinichiro Enomoto;Juan E. Abrahante

  • The many faces of the helix-turn-helix domain: Transcription regulation and beyond

    L. Aravind;Vivek Anantharaman;Santhanam Balaji;M. Mohan Babu

  • Comparative genomics and evolution of proteins involved in RNA metabolism

    Vivek Anantharaman;Eugene V. Koonin;L. Aravind

  • Polymorphic toxin systems: comprehensive characterization of trafficking modes, processing, mechanisms of action, immunity and ecology using comparative genomics

    Dapeng Zhang;Robson Francisco de Souza;Robson Francisco de Souza;Vivek Anantharaman;Lakshminarayan M. Iyer

  • Evolutionary history, structural features and biochemical diversity of the NlpC/P60 superfamily of enzymes

    Vivek Anantharaman;L Aravind

  • Regulatory potential, phyletic distribution and evolution of ancient, intracellular small-molecule-binding domains.

    Vivek Anantharaman;Eugene V Koonin;L Aravind

  • Comparative genomics of transcription factors and chromatin proteins in parasitic protists and other eukaryotes

    Lakshminarayan M. Iyer;Vivek Anantharaman;Maxim Y. Wolf;L. Aravind

  • New connections in the prokaryotic toxin-antitoxin network: relationship with the eukaryotic nonsense-mediated RNA decay system.

    Vivek Anantharaman;L Aravind

  • Comparative Analysis of Apicomplexa and Genomic Diversity in Eukaryotes

    Thomas J. Templeton;Lakshminarayan M. Iyer;Vivek Anantharaman;Shinichiro Enomoto

  • Comprehensive analysis of the HEPN superfamily: identification of novel roles in intra-genomic conflicts, defense, pathogenesis and RNA processing

    Vivek Anantharaman;Kira S Makarova;A Maxwell Burroughs;Eugene V Koonin

  • Cache – a signaling domain common to animal Ca2+-channel subunits and a class of prokaryotic chemotaxis receptors

    Vivek Anantharaman;L. Aravind

  • The GOLD domain, a novel protein module involved in Golgi function and secretion

    Vivek Anantharaman;L Aravind

  • Ancient conserved domains shared by animal soluble guanylyl cyclases and bacterial signaling proteins.

    Lakshminarayan M Iyer;Vivek Anantharaman;L Aravind

  • The CHASE domain: a predicted ligand-binding module in plant cytokinin receptors and other eukaryotic and bacterial receptors

    Vivek Anantharaman;L Aravind

  • Emergence of diverse biochemical activities in evolutionarily conserved structural scaffolds of proteins

    Vivek Anantharaman;L Aravind;Eugene V Koonin

  • The two faces of Alba: the evolutionary connection between proteins participating in chromatin structure and RNA metabolism

    L Aravind;Lakshminarayan M Iyer;Vivek Anantharaman

  • CARF and WYL domains: ligand-binding regulators of prokaryotic defense systems.

    Kira S. Makarova;Vivek Anantharaman;Nick V. Grishin;Eugene V. Koonin

  • SPOUT: a class of methyltransferases that includes spoU and trmD RNA methylase superfamilies, and novel superfamilies of predicted prokaryotic RNA methylases.

    Vivek Anantharaman;Eugene V. Koonin;L. Aravind

  • Molecular Factors and Biochemical Pathways Induced by Febrile Temperature in Intraerythrocytic Plasmodium falciparum Parasites

    Miranda S. M. Oakley;Miranda S. M. Oakley;Sanjai Kumar;Vivek Anantharaman;Hong Zheng

  • Monophyly of class I aminoacyl tRNA synthetase, USPA, ETFP, photolyase, and PP‐ATPase nucleotide‐binding domains: implications for protein evolution in the RNA world

    L. Aravind;Vivek Anantharaman;Eugene V. Koonin

Frequent Co-Authors

L. Aravind
L. Aravind National Institutes of Health
Lakshminarayan M. Iyer
Lakshminarayan M. Iyer National Institutes of Health
Eugene V. Koonin
Eugene V. Koonin National Institutes of Health
Thomas F. McCutchan
Thomas F. McCutchan National Institutes of Health
Timothy G. Myers
Timothy G. Myers National Institutes of Health
Kazuyo Takeda
Kazuyo Takeda US Food and Drug Administration
Maria Laura Gennaro
Maria Laura Gennaro Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Lakshminarayan M. Iyer
Lakshminarayan M. Iyer National Institutes of Health
Kira S. Makarova
Kira S. Makarova National Institutes of Health
Jerrold M. Ward
Jerrold M. Ward National Institutes of Health

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