Functional genomics of extremophiles

Publications  

1. Digvijay Panday, Peter Schumann and Subrata K. Das. 2011. Rhizobium pusense sp. nov., isolated from rhizosphere of Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L). Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.028407-0.

2. Madhuban Gopal, Debashis Dutta, Sunil Kumar Jha, Shobhita Kalra, Saumya Bandyopadhyay and Subrata K Das. 2011. Biodegradation of imidacloprid and metribuzin by Burkholderia cepacia strain CH9. Pesticide Research Journal. (In press).

3. Madhuban Gopal*, Ekta Mishra, Subrata K Das, S.C. Chatterjee, U.R. Sangle and O.M. Bambawale. 2010. Growth inhibition of different pathogenic fungi by actinomycetes and its identification by 16S rRNA. Indian Phytopathology. 63: 137-140.

4. Kunwar Digvijay Narayan, Shachindra K Pandey and Subrata K. Das*. 2010. Characterization of Comamonas thiooxidans sp. nov and the comparison of thiosulfate oxidation with Comamonas testosteroni and Comamonas composti. Current Microbiology. 61: 248–253.

5. Subrata K. Das*, Uma Shankar Gautam, Kiran V Sandhu, Saumya Bandyopadhyay, Pran K Chakrabartty and Aqbal Singh. 2010. Mutation in the lysA gene impairs the symbiotic properties of Mesorhizobium ciceri. Archives of Microbiology. 192: 69-77.

6. V. Jyoti, Kunwar Digvijay Narayan and Subrata K. Das*. 2010. Gulbenkiania indica sp. nov., isolated from a sulfur spring. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 60: 1052-1055.

7. Digvijay Panday and Subrata K. Das*. 2010. Chelatococcus sambhunathii sp. nov., a moderately thermophilic alphaproteobacterium isolated from a hot spring sediment. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 60: 861-865.

8. Shachindra K. Pandey, Kunwar Digvijay Narayan, Saumya Bandyopadhyay, Kinshuk C. Nayak and Subrata K. Das*. 2009. Thiosulfate oxidation by Comamonas sp. S23 isolated from a sulfur spring. Current Microbiology. 58: 516-521.

9. Sujogya K. Panda, V. Jyoti, Bhaskar Bhadra, Kinshuk C. Nayak, Sisinthy Shivaji, Fred A. Rainey and Subrata K. Das*. 2009. Thiomonas bhubaneswarensis sp. nov., a novel obligately mixotrophic, moderately thermophilic, thiosulfate oxidizing bacterium. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 59: 2171 – 2175.

10. Madhuban Gopal, Sunil Kumar Jha, Ram Niwas, Livleen Shukla and Subrata K. Das. 2008. Degradation of Cypermethrin by Pseudomonas stutzeri. Pesticide Research Journal. 20: 275-278.

11. Uma Shankar Gautam, Anjana Jajoo, Aqbal singh, Pran K. Chakrabortty and Subrata K. Das*. 2007. Characterization of a rpoN mutant of Mesorhizobium ciceri. J. Applied Microbiology. 103: 1798-1807.

12. Minakshi Patra, Shachindra K. Pandey, Durg V. Singh, T. Ramamurthy, Subrata K. Das*. 2007. Characterization of cytotoxin producing Aeromonas caviae (strain HT10) isolated from a sulfur spring in Orissa, India. Letters in Applied Microbiology. 44: 338-341.

13. Subrata K. Das*, Uma Shankar Gautam, Pran K. Chakrabortty and Aqbal Singh. 2006. Characterization of a symbiotically defective serine auxotroph of Mesorhizobium ciceri. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 263: 244-251.

14. Nirmali Saikia, Subrata K. Das, Bharat K.C. Patel, Ram Niwas, Aqbal Singh, and Madhuban Gopal. 2005. Biodegradation of Beta cyfluthrin by Pseudomonas stutzeri strain S1. Biodegradation. 16: 581-589.

15. N. Roy, Subrata K. Das and P.K. Chakrabortty. 2005. Symbiotic Effectiveness of a Siderophore Overproducing Mutant of Mesorhizobium ciceri. Polish J. Microbiol. 54: 37-41.

16. Subrata K. Das*. 2005. Genus Bosea. In Kreig, Staley and Brenner (Editors), Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd Edition. Vol 2. The Williams & Wilkins Co., Baltimore, pp. 459-461.

17. D. Hauwaerts, G. Alexandre, Subrata K. Das, J. Vanderleyden, I.B. Zhulin. 2002. A major chemotaxis gene cluster in Azospirillum brasilense and relatioships between chemotaxis operons in alpha-proteobacteria. FEMS Microbiology Lett. 208: 61-70.

18. J. Dutta, S. Ghosh, A.K. Maiti, Subrata K. Das, D.P. Modok, P .K. Chakraborty and P.K. Roy. 1998. Biodegradation of organochlorine pesticides by soil bacteria. Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research. 57: 838-845.

19. Subrata K. Das and Ajit K. Mishra. 1996. Transposon mutagenesis affecting thiosulfate oxidation in Bosea thiooxidans, a chemolithoheterotrophic bacterium. Journal of Bacteriology. 178: 3628-3633.

20. Subrata K. Das, Ajit K. Mishra, B. J. Tindall, F. A. Rainey and E. Stackebrandt. 1996. Oxidation of thiosulfate by a new bacterium , Bosea thiooxidans (BI-42) gen, nov., sp. nov,: Analysis of phylogeny based on chemotaxonomy and 16S ribosomal DNA sequencing. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 46: 981-987.