Selected Scientific Publications

Pub Med for Chatterjee D.

Khasnobis, S., Jian Zhang, S.K. Angala, Anita G Amin, M.M. McNeil, D.C. Crick and D. Chatterjee. Characterization of an arabinosyltransferase activity involved in mycobacterial arabinan biosynthesis, Chemistry and Biology, 13: 787-795 2006, PMID: 16873027.

Libin Shi, Arwen Lee, Jian Zhang, Christopher D. Rithner, Varalakshmi Vissa, Michael McNeil, Kay-Hooi Khoo|, and Delphi Chatterjee. The Carboxy Terminus of EmbC from Mycobacterium smegmatis Mediates Chain Length Extension of the Arabinan in Lipoarabinomannan. J. Biol. Chem. 281: 19512-19526, 2006, PMID:16687411

Torsten Eckstein, Eckstein TM, Chandrasekaran S, Mahapatra S, McNeil MR, Chatterjee D, Rithner CD, Ryan PW, Belisle JT, Inamine JM. J. Biol. Chem. 281, 5209-5215, 2006, PMID: 16339155

Dinadayala, P, Devinder Kaur, Stefan Berg, Anita G. Amin, Varalakshmi D. Vissa, Delphi Chatterjee, Patrick J. Brennan and Dean C. Crick. Genetic Basis for the Synthesis of the Immunomodulatory Mannose Caps of Lipoarbinomannan in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. J. Biol Chem. 281: 20027-20035, 2006, PMID: 16704981

Kzywinski, E., L, Sweet, S. Bhatnagar, D. Chatterjee, Schorey, J. Mycobacterium avium 104 deleted of the methyltransferase D gene by allelic replacement lacks serotype-specific glycopeptidolipids and shows attenuated virulence in mice. Mol. Microbiol. 56:1262-1273, 2005.

Stefan Berg, James Starbuck, Jordi B. Torrelles, Varalakshmi D. Vissa, Dean C. Crick, Delphi Chatterjee, and Patrick J. Brennan. Role of Conserved Proline and GT-C Motifs of EmbC of Mycobacterium in Biosynthesis of Lipoarabinomannan, J. Biol. Chem. 280: 5651-5663, 2005.

Lee Robin, E.B., W. Li, D. Chatterjee and R.E. Lee. Structural characterization of the intact Mycobacterial cell wall using 2D and 3D High Resolution Magic Angle Spinning NMR spectroscopy : Structural changes in the cell wall due to Ethambutol treatment and gene mutation are observed. Glycobiology, 15: 139-151. 2005.

Turnbull, B.W., K. Shimizu, A. Treumann, D. Chatterjee, S.W. Homans. Identification of the 5-methylthiopentosyl substituent in Mycobacterium tuberculosis lipoarabinomannan, Angewandte Chemie, (International). 43: 3918-3944. 2004.

Zhang, N., J.B. Torrelles, M.R. McNeil, V.E. Escuyer, K.-H. Khoo, P.J. Brennan, and D. Chatterjee. The Emb proteins of mycobacteria direct arabinosylation of lipoarabinomannan and arabinogalactan via an N-terminal recognition region and a C terminal synthetic region. Mol. Microbiol. 50: 69-76. 2003.

Khoo, K.H., Tang, J.B., Chatterjee, D. Variation in mannose-capped terminal arabinan motifs of lipoarabinomannans from clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium avium complex. J. Biol. Chem. 276: 3863-71.2001.

Escuyer, V.E., Lety, M. A., Torrelles, J.B., Khoo, K.H., Tang, J.B., Rithner, C.D., Frehel, C., McNeil, M.R., Brennan, P.J., Chatterjee, D. The role of the embA and embB gene products in the biosynthesis of the terminal hexaarabinofuranosyl motif of Mycobacterium smegmatis arabinogalactan. J. Biol. Chem. 276: 48854-62, 2001.

George, K.M., Chatterjee, D., Gunawardana, G., Welty, D., Hayman, J., Lee, R., Small, P.L. Mycolactone: a polyketide toxin from Mycobacterium ulcerans required for virulence. Science. 283, 854-7, 1999.

Reviews

Chatterjee, D. and Khoo, K.-H. (1998) Mycobacterial lipoarabinomannan : an extraordinary lipoheteroglycan with profound physiological effects. Glycobiology, 8, 113-120.

Chatterjee, D., and Khoo K.-H. (2001) The surface glycopeptidolipids of mycobacteria: structures and biological properties. Cell Mol. Life Sci. 58, 2018-42.

Khasnobis, S., Escuyer, V. E., Chatterjee, D. (2002) Emerging therapeutic targets in tuberculosis: post-genomic era. Expert Opin. Ther. Targets, 1, 21-40. (PDF Version)

Chan, E.D., Chatterjee, D., Iseman, M.D., Heifets, L.B., Pyrazinamide, Ethambutol, Ethionamide, and Aminoglycosides, 2003, Tuberculosis, 2nd Edition, Ed: Rom, W and Gray, Chapter 51, pp 773-789