Dr. Sutapa Chakrabarti

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsStructural Biology,Biochemistry
KeywordsRNA helicases, mRNA decay, X-ray crystal structure
Honours and awards

2008: Post-doctoral fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Current contact address

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Elena ContiMax-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Martinsried
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/2008

Program(s)

2008Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2018Manjeera Gowravaram, Fabien Bonneau, Joanne Kanaan, Vincent D. Maciej, Francesca Fiorini, Saurabh Raj, Vincent Croquette, Hervé Le Hir, Sutapa Chakrabarti: A conserved structural element in the RNA helicase UPF1 regulates its catalytic activity in an isoform-specific manner. In: Nucleic Acids Research, 2018, 2648-2659
2015Sevim Ozgur, Gretel Buchwald, Sebastian Falk, Sutapa Chakrabarti, J. Rajan Prabu and Elena Conti: The conformational plasticity of eukaryotic RNA-dependent ATPases. In: FEBS Journal, 2015, 850-863
2014Sutapa Chakrabarti, Fabien Bonneau, Steffen Schüssler, Elfriede Eppinger, and Elena Conti: Phospho-dependent and phospho-independent recognition of the helicase UPF1 by the NMD factors SMG5-SMG7 and SMG6. In: Nucleic Acids Research, 2014, 9447-9460
2011Sutapa Chakrabarti, Uma Jayachandran, Fabien Bonneau, Francesca Fiorini, Claire Basquin, Sylvia Domcke, Hervé Le Hir and Elena Conti: Molecular mechanisms for the RNA-dependent ATPase activity of Upf1 and its regulation by Upf2. In: Molecular Cell, 2011, 693-703