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Nagendra K. Sharma

School: 

Chemical Sciences

Designation: 

Faculty (Reader-F)

Education: 

2006-2009 Post. Doc.- Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah (USA) (Mentor: Prof. Dale C. Poulter)

2000-2006 Ph.D.- Org. Chem. synthesis (OCS),  National Chemical Laboratory (NCL)- Pune & (University of Pune)- Maharashtra (Mentor: Prof. K. N. Ganesh)

1999 M.Sc (Spl. Organic Chemistry).- Delhi Unversity, Delhi

1997 B.Sc (Honours): Delhi Unversity, Delhi

 

Specialisation: 

Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Publications: 

1. Tropolone conjugated DNA: pH Induced Fluorescence Enhancement of Tropolone in DNA Duplex, Bollu, A. Sharma, N. K., ChemBioChem 2019 (Just Accepted)

2. Syntheses and Conformational Analysis of New Aminopyrazolonyl Amino Acid (APA)/Peptides, Bollu, A. Sharma, N. K. Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2019, 1286-1292. 

3. Helical supramolecular self-assembly by prolamide thymidine/uridine analogues Gade, C. R.; Sharma, NK*  Supramolecular Chemistry, 2018, 30, 965-969  

4. Direct/Reversible Amidation of Troponyl Alkylglycinates via Cationic Troponyl Lactones and Mechanistic Insights,  Balachandra, C.; Sharma, N. K.* ACS Omega, 2018, 3 , 997–1013

5. Hybrid DNA i-motif: Aminoethylprolyl-PNA (pC5) enhance the stability of DNA (dC5) i-motif structure Gade, C. R.; Sharma, NK.* Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 2017, 17, 5424-5428

6. Novel fluorophores: Syntheses and photophysical studies of Boron-aminotroponimines. Balachandra, C.; Sharma, N. K.* Dyes and Pigments, 2017, 137, 532-538.

7. Dideoxy Nucleoside Triphosphate (ddNTP) Analogues:Synthesis and Polymerase Substrate Activities of Pyrrolidinyl Nucleoside Triphosphates (prNTPs): Gade, C. R.; Dixit, M.; Sharma, NK.* Bioorg. Med. Chem. 2016, 24, 4016-4022.

8. Instability of Amide Bond Comprising the 2-Aminotropone Moiety: Cleavable under Mild Acidic Conditions. Balachandra C, Sharma N. K* Org. Lett. 2015, 17, 3948−3951. DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.5b01535.
9. Methylene Salicylicacidyl Hexamer (MSH) Has DNAse Activity. Tiwari A, Gade CR, Dixit M, Sharma NK*. Appl Biochem Biotechnol. 2015 , 176, 1791-800. DOI: 10.1007/s12010-015-1678-z.
10. Synthesis and spectroscopic studies of berberine immobilized modified cellulose material. Gade CR, Sharma NK* RSC Adv. 2014 , 4, 39337-39342. DOI: 10.1039/C4RA06015F
11. Synthesis and conformational analysis of new troponyl aromatic amino acid. Balachandra C, SharmaNK*. Tetrahedron 2014, 70, 7464–7469. DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2014.08.014
12. Binding Studies of Natural Product Berberine with DNA G-Quadruplex. Sharma NK*, Lunawat P, Dixit M, Am. J. Biochem. Biotechnol. 2011, 7, 130-134. DOI : 10.3844/ajbbsp.2011.130.134
13. Enhanced stability of G-quadruplexes from conformationally constrained aep-PNA backbone. Sharma NK*, Ganesh KN. Org Biomol Chem. 2011, 9, 725-9. DOI: 10.1039/c0ob00528b
14. Base dependent pyrrolidine ring pucker in aep-PNA monomers: NMR and PSEUROT analysis. Tetrahedron 2010, 66, 9165-9170. DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2010.09.082
15. Type II isopentenyl diphosphate isomerase: probing the mechanism with alkyne/allene diphosphate substrate analogues. Sharma N. K., Pan J. J, Poulter CD*. Biochemistry. 2010, 49, 6228-33.   DOI: 10.1021/bi100844e.
16. PNA C-C+ i-motif: superior stability of PNA TC8 tetraplexes compared to DNA TC8 tetraplexes at low pH. Sharma NK, Ganesh KN*. Chem Commun (Camb). 2005, 34, 4330-2.DOI: 10.1039/506870C
17. Regioselective oxidation of N-alkylpyrrolidines to pyrrolidin-5-ones by RuCl₃/NaIO4. Sharma NK, Ganesh KN* Tetrahedron Lett. 2004, 45, 1403–1406. DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2003.12.072  
18. Expanding the repertoire of pyrrolidyl PNA analogues for DNA/RNA hybridization selectivity: aminoethylpyrrolidinone PNA (aepone-PNA).  Sharma NK, Ganesh KN*. Chem Commun (Camb).2003, 19, 2484-5. DOI: 10.1039/B307362A

Recent Activities: 

As convener, organize a national conference NBCC-2018 at NISER

NATIONAL BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY CONFERENCE , NISER Bhubaneswar (https://www.niser.ac.in/nbcc/)

Picture for NBCC-2018: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1B06Bz-2RYpd0aYQ0SznlVfERLl3llOpJ

 

 

 

Responsibilities: 

a. ESI-Mass Incharge

b. CD-incharge

c. PGCS-SCS (2016-2018)

Research: 

Syntheses and biochemical evaluation of dNTP/ddNTP analogues (Funded By SERB-DST)

Syntheses of mi/si-RNA analogue for RNAi studies (Funded by DBT)

Synthesis and Biophysical studies of PNA/DNA-teraplexation (G-Quartet/i-motif) (Funded by CSIR-HRDG)

Synthesis of unnatural peptidomimics

Synthesis and mechanistic studies of substarte/inhibitors for IPPisomerase enzyme of isoprenoid pathways

Teaching: 

A. Core courses (M.Sc./Ph.D.)

1. C501 Organic Chemistry-III (Natural product/Heterocycles/Biomolecules)

2. C341 Organic Chemistry Lab I     

3. C344 Organic Chemistry Lab II

4. C565 Advanced Organic Chemistry

5. C344 Organic Chemistry Lab II

6. C244 Biomolecular Chemistry Lab

7. C344 Organic Chemistry Lab II

8. C301 Physical Organic Chemistry

9. C344 Organic Chemistry Lab II

10. C403 Chemistry of Heterocycles and Natural products

11. C204 Reagents in Organic Syntheses

B. Elective courses (M.Sc/Ph.D.).

1. C565 (4) Advanced Organic Chemistry

2. C561 (4) Advanced Bio-organic Chemistry

Contacts: 

Reader-F, School of Chemical Sciences,

National Institute of Science Education and Research(NISER)-Bhubaneswar

Bhimpur-Padanpur

Jatni-752050, Odisha (India), Tel. 0674-249-4141/68

E-Mail: nagendra@niser.ac.in; http://www.niser.ac.in

Phone No.: 

+91-674-249-4141/68

Extension: 

2141

Room No.: 

315

Mail ID: 

nagendra@niser.ac.in

Personal Page: 

My Homepage

Group Members: 

Ph. D. Students

Amarnath Bollu

Bibhuti Bhusana Palai

Sagarika Meher

Manish Kumar Gupta

Chinmay Kumar Jena

Sanjita Moharana

Subhashree S. Panda

M.Sc Students

M. Sc. Project Students

Nihar Ranjan Dalabehera; Ramachandra Soren; Saideep

Prajnanandan Giri; Rohit Kumar; Tushar Kant Patra

PhD Completed 

Dr. Chenikkayala Balachandra

Dr. Chandrasekhar Reddy Gade

Former Students 

Dr. Smitha Mohanlal (Postdoctoral Fellow/CSIR-RA)

Dr. Sujitlal Bhakta (Postdoctoral Fellow)

Rewati Raman Ujjwal (M. Sc.)

Saikat Nandi (M. Sc.)