1. Munan S, Ali M, Yadav R, Mapa K*, Samanta A*. (*co-corresponding authors). PET- and ICT-Based Ratiometric Probe: An Unusual Phenomenon of Morpholine-Conjugated Fluorophore for Mitochondrial pH Mapping during Mitophagy. Anal Chem. 2022 Aug 23;94(33):11633-11642. Impact factor: 6.986
2. Rao KBN, Pandey P#, Sarkar R#, Ghosh A, Mansuri S, Ali M, Majumder P, Kumar KR, Ray A, Raychaudhuri S and Mapa K* (*corresponding author, # equally contributing first authors). Stress responses elicited by misfolded proteins targeted to mitochondria. J Mol Biol. 2022 Jun 30;434(12):167618. Impact factor: 5.469
3. Sadat A, Tiwari S, S Sunidhi, Chaphalkar A, Kocharr M, Ali M, Zaidi Z, Sharma A, Verma K, Rao KBN, Tripathi M, Ghosh A, Gautam D, Atul, Ray A*, Mapa K*, Chakraborty K* (*co-corresponding authors). Conserved and divergent chaperoning effects of Hsp60/10 chaperonins on protein folding landscapes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 May 3;119(18). Impact factor: 11.2
4. Sarkar R, Rao KBN, Jha MP, Mapa K* (*corresponding author). Endoplasmic reticulum-unfolded protein response pathway modulates the cellular response to mitochondrial proteotoxic stress. Cell Stress Chaperones. 2022 May;27(3):241-256. Impact factor: 3.717
5. Munan S, Kottarathil S, Joseph MM, Jana A, Ali M, Mapa K, Maiti KK, Samanta A. IndiFluors: A New Full-Visible Color-Tunable Donor-Acceptor-Donor (D1-A-D2) Fluorophore Family for Ratiometric pH Imaging during Mitophagy. ACS Sens. 2022 Feb 3. doi: 10.1021/acssensors.1c02381. Impact factor: 7.711
6. Baruah M, Jana A, Ali M, Mapa K, Samanta A. An efficient PeT based fluorescent probe for mapping mitochondrial oxidative stress produced via the Nox2 pathway. J Mater Chem B. 2022 Mar 30;10(13):2230-2237. Impact factor: 6.331
7. Sadat A*, Tiwari S, Mapa K*(*co-corresponding authors). Protocol for Spontaneous and Chaperonin-assisted in vitro Refolding of a Slowfolding Mutant of GFP, sGFP. Bio Protoc. 2021 Jul 20;11(14): e4099. eCollection 2021 Jul 20. Impact factor: 5.78
8. Ali M, Boosi Narayana Rao K, Majumder P, Sarkar R, Mapa K* (*corresponding author). Alterations in inter-organelle crosstalk and Ca2+ signaling through mitochondria during proteotoxic stresses. Mitochondrion. 2021 Mar; 57:37-46. Impact factor: 4.16 (Invited Review Article)
9. Sadat A, Tiwari S, Verma K, Ray A, Ali M, Upadhyay V, Singh A, Chaphalkar A, Ghosh A, Chakraborty R, Chakraborty K, Mapa K (*corresponding author). GROEL/ES Buffers Entropic Traps in Folding Pathway during Evolution of a Model Substrate. J Mol Biol. 2020 Sep 18;432(20):5649-5664. Impact factor: 5.04
10. Kumar V, Peter JJ, Sagar A, Ray A, Jha MJ, Rebeaud ME, Tiwari S, Goloubinoff P, Ashish* and Mapa K* (*corresponding author). Inter-domain communication suppressing high intrinsic ATPase activity of Sse1 is essential for its co-dissaggregase activity with Ssa1. FEBS Journal 2020 Feb;287(4):671-694. Impact factor: 4.75
11. Ghosh A, Gangadharan A, Verma M, Das S, Matai L, Dash DP, Dash D*, Mapa K*, Chakraborty K* (*equally contributing senior authors). Cellular responses to proteostasis perturbations reveal non-optimal feedback in chaperone networks. Cell Mol Life Sci. 2019 Apr;76(8):1605-1621. Impact factor: 6.7
12. Banerjee R, Jayaraj GG, Peter J, Kumar V, Mapa K*. (*corresponding author). Monitoring conformational heterogeneity of DnaK lid domain during its functional chaperone cycle. FEBS Journal 2016 Aug;283(15):2853-68. Impact factor: 4.5
13. Banerjee R, Gladkova C, Mapa K, Witte G, Mokranjac D. Protein translocation channel of mitochondrial inner membrane and matrix-exposed import motor communicate via twodomain coupling protein. Elife. 2015 Dec 29;4. pii: e11897. doi: 10.7554/eLife.11897. Impact factor: 9.32
14. Nagpal S, Tiwari S, Mapa K*, Thukral L* (* co-corresponding authors). Decoding Structural Properties of a Partially Unfolded Protein Substrate: En Route to Chaperone Binding. PLoS Comput Biol. 2015Sep 22;11(9):e1004496.. Impact factor: 4.62
15. Kumar S, Mapa K, Maiti S. Understanding the effect of LNA and 2?-O methyl modification on the hybridization thermodynamics of miRNA-mRNA pair in the presence and absence of AfPiwi protein. Biochemistry. 2014 Feb 24. Impact factor: 3.42
16. Sikor M, Mapa K, Voith von Voithenberg L, Mokranjac D, and Lamb DC. Real-time observation of the conformational dynamics of mitochondrial Hsp70 by spFRET. EMBO J. 2013 Apr 26. (2013) 32, 1639 - 1649. Impact factor: 10.0
17. Agarwala P, Pandey S, Mapa K, Maiti S. G-quadruplex augments translation in 5'
Untranslated Region of Transforming Growth Factor ?2 (TGF?2). Biochemistry. 2013 Mar 5;52(9):1528-38. Impact factor: 3.42
18. Tiwari S, Kumar V, Jayaraj GG, Maiti S, Mapa K* (*corresponding author). Unique Structural Modulation of a Non-Native Substrate by Cochaperone DnaJ. Biochemistry. 2013 Feb 12;52(6):1011-8. Impact factor: 3.42 (recommended as highly significant paper by F1000)
19. Mapa K*, Tiwari S, Kumar V, Jayaraj GG and Maiti S (*corresponding author). Information encoded in non-native states drives substrate-chaperone pairing. Structure 2012 Sep 5;20(9):1562-73. Impact factor: 6.33
20. Kumar S, Bose D, Suryawanshi H, Sabharwal H, Mapa K, Maiti S. Specificity of RSG1.2 peptide binding to RRE-IIB RNA element of HIV-1 over Rev peptide is mainly enthalpic in origin. PLoS One. 2011;6(8): e23300. Epub 2011 Aug 10. Impact factor: 4.0
21. Popov-Celeketic D, Waegemann K, Mapa K, Neupert W and Mokranjac D. Role of the import motor in insertion of transmembrane segments by the mitochondrial TIM23 complex. EMBO Rep. 2011 Jun;12(6):542-8. Impact factor: 7.8
22. Mapa K, Sikor M, Kudryavstev V, Waegemann K, Kalinin S, Seidel CAM, Neupert W, Lamb DC and Mokranjac D. The Conformational dynamics of the mitochondrial Hsp70 chaperone. Mol Cell. 2010 Apr 9;38(1):89-100. Impact factor: 13.5
23. Blamowska M, Sichting M, Mapa K, Mokranjac D, Neupert W and Hell K. ATPase Domain and Interdomain Linker Play a Key Role in Aggregation of Mitochondrial Hsp70 Chaperone Ssc1. J Biol Chem. 2010 Feb 12;285(7):4423-31. Impact factor: 5.5
24. Mokranjac D, Sichting M, Popov-Celeketic D, Mapa K, Gevorkyan-Airapetov L, Zohary K, Hell K, Azem A, Neupert W. Role of Tim50 in the Transfer of Precursor Proteins from the Outer to the Inner Membrane of Mitochondria. Mol Biol Cell. 2009 Mar; 20(5):14007. Impact factor: 5.5
25. Gevorkyan-Airapetov L, Zohary K, Popov-Celeketic DA, Mapa K, Hell K, Neupert W, Azem A, Mokranjac D. Interaction of tim23 with tim50 is essential for protein translocation by the mitochondrial tim23 complex. J Biol Chem. 2009 Feb 20;284(8):4865-72. Impact factor: 5.5
26. Popov-Celeketi? D*, Mapa K*, Neupert W, Mokranjac D (*Equally contributing first authors). Active remodelling of the TIM23 complex during translocation of preproteins into mitochondria. EMBO J. 2008 May 21;27(10):1469-80. Impact factor: 8.0
27. Dhar D*, Mapa K.*, Pudi R., Srinivasan P., Bodhinathan K., Das S (*Equally contributing first authors). Human ribosomal protein L18a interacts with hepatitis C virus internal ribosome entry site. Arch Virol. 2006
Mar;151(3) :509-24Impact factor: 1.8
28. Bhattacharyya S., Mapa K., Prabhavathi S., Sudhamani SR., Menon PK., John KP, Shivaram C., Amarnath S., Das S. Phylogenetic conservation of the stem-loop III structure of the 5' untranslated region of Hepatitis C virus RNA among natural variants in samples collected from Southern India. Arch Virol. 2004 May; 149(5): 1015-26. Impact factor: 1.8