NK PRASANNA

Dr NK Prasanna is currently working as Principal Scientist & Editor, Indian Journal of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Research Journals Division at CSIR-National Institute of Science Communication and Policy Research, New Delhi. Before joining CSIR (NIScPR), she was at IIT Guwahati. Dr Prasanna completed her Ph.D from Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. In CSIR-NIScPR, She served one important flagship journals viz. Indian journal of Biochemistry and Biophysics (IJBB; ISSN: 0301-1208). IJBB is a premier Scopus-indexed monthly peer-reviewed research journal that publishes original research articles in the subject area of biochemistry and biophysics

Research Interests:

Protein folding, Proteases, Protein engineering and structure function relationship of proteins, Environment pollution, Science Communication, Research Communication.

Selected publications

NK. Prasanna Kumari and MV Jagannadham SDS induced molten globule state of heynein, a new thiol protease: Evidence of domains and their sequential unfolding. Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces (2011) 82, 609-615.

NK. Prasanna Kumari and MV. Jagannadham Organic solvent induced refolding of acid denatured heynein: molten: Evidence of domains in the molecular structure of the protein and their sequential unfolding. Journal of Protein and Proteomics (2011) 2, 11- 21.

NK. Prasanna Kumari and MV. Jagannadham Deciphering the molecular structure of cryptolepain in organic solvents. Biochimie (2012) 94, 354-317.

NK.PrasannaKumari and MV. Jagannadham SDS induced refolding of pre-molten globule state of cryptolepain: Differences in and chemical and temperature-induced equilibrium unfolding of SDS-induced state. (2013) 83, 71–80 Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological sciences.

SC. Yadav, NK. Prasanna Kumari and MV. Jagannadham Deglycosylated milin unfolds via inactive monomeric intermediates. Eur Biophys J (2010) 39, 1581-1588.

R. Bhowmick, NK. Prasanna Kumari, and MV. Jagannadham AM. Kayastha Purification and characterization of a novel protease from the latex of Pedilanthus tithymaloides Protein & Peptide Letters (2008) 15, 1009-1016.

M. Pande, NK. Prasanna Kumari, VK. Dubey, P. Tripathi and MV. Jagannadham stability and unfolding studies on alkaline denatured state (Ip) of Pepsin: Process Biochemistry (2009 ) 44, 906-911.