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• Impact of Charge Distribution on the Membrane Binding and Antimicrobial Activity of Cationic Heptapeptides J. Phys. Chem. B 2026  Jyoti Gangwar, Dipankar Roy§, Vignesh Shanmugam Rajalakshmi§, Priyadarshi Satpati*, Sunanda Chatterjee*

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• Refining Selectivity of Branched CAMPs through Modulation of Hydrophobic–Hydrophilic Balance by Incorporation of N-Terminal ω- Amino Acid Residues ACS Omega 2026 Maitery Yadav; Anurag Singh; Dhaya Shankaran Panneerselvam; Rajkumar P. Thummer; Sunanda Chatterjee * ​​

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• Impact of the Arrangement Modes of the Antimicrobial Motifs WWR-7 and its Analogs in CAMPs on Their Therapeutic Properties Chemistry – An Asian Journal 2025 Maitery Yadav, Harsh V. Singh, Soham Basu, Rajkumar P. Thummer, Sunanda Chatterjee

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• ​ Salt-Tolerant, Protease-Stable and Non-Resistance Developing Cationic AMPs for Combatting Planktonic MRSA and its Biofilms ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters 2025 Maitery Yadav, Tanisha Singh, Harsh Vikram Singh, Rajkumar P Thummer, Sunanda Chatterjee

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• Alchemical Simulation-Aided De Novo Design of Membrane-Active Antimicrobial Hepta-Peptides Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 2025, 68, 16, 17723–17735 Suvankar Ghosh, Tanumoy Sarkar, Maitery Yadav, Sunanda Chatterjee, and Priyadarshi Satpati

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• ​ Serum-Stable, Cationic, α-Helical AMPs to Combat Infections of ESKAPE Pathogens and C. albicans  ACS Applied Bio Materials 2025, 8, 5, 3941–3957

        Tanumoy Sarkar, Vignesh Shanmugam Rajalakshmi, Ronima K R, Rajkumar P. Thummer, Sunanda Chatterjee

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• ​Development of protease resistant and non-cytotoxic Jelleine analogs with enhanced broad spectrum antimicrobial efficacy  Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes 2024, 1866, 6, 184336

       Tanumoy Sarkar, SR Vignesh, Tanya Sehgal, KR Ronima, Rajkumar P Thummer, Priyadarshi Satpati, Sunanda Chatterjee

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• ​De Novo Design of Tryptophan Containing Broad-Spectrum Cationic Antimicrobial Octapeptides  ChemMedChem 2024, 20, 2

       Tanumoy Sarkar, Pradeep Kumar Sundaravadivelu, Rajkumar Purushottambhai Thummar, Priyadarshi Satpati, Sunanda           Chatterjee

 

• Mechanism of D-Amino Acid Residue Protease Resistance Containing Cationic Antimicrobial Heptapeptides.  ACS Infect. Dis. 2024, 10, 2, 562–581

       Tanumoy Sarkar, Suvankar Ghosh, Pradeep Kumar Sundaravadivelu, Gopal Pandit, Swapna Debnath, Rajkumar P.                   Thummer, Priyadarshi Satpati, and Sunanda Chatterjee

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• Tuning of Hydrophobic-Hydrophilic Balance for the Development of a Salt-Tolerant and Protease-Resistant Lipopeptide AMP  New J. Chem., 2024,48, 2764-2777

       Monikha Chetia, Tanumoy Sarkar, Maitery Yadav, Chandrima Dey, Pradeep Kumar Sundaravadivelu, Rajkumar P.                   Thummer and Sunanda Chatterjee

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• Effect of Spacer Length Modification of the Cationic Side-chain on the Energetics of Antimicrobial Peptide Binding to Membrane-mimetic-bilayer  J. Chem. Inf. Model. 2023, 63, 18, 5823–5833 Suvankar Ghosh, Sunanda Chatterjee, Priyadarshi Satpati

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• Ambidexterity and Left-handedness Induced by Geminally Di-substituted Gamma Amino Acid Residues in Chiral 310 Helices  ACS Omega 2023, 8, 39, 36370–36385

       Swapna Debnath, S.R. Vignesh, Dinesh Kumar, Babulal Das, Prema Vasudeva, Priyadarshi Satpati, Sunanda Chatterjee

 

• ​Bridging Thermodynamics, Antimicrobial Activity, and pH Sensitivity of Cationic Membranolytic Hepta-Peptides – A Computational and Experimental Study  J. Chem. Inf. Model. 2023, 63, 8, 2393–2408

        Suvankar Ghosh, Tanumoy Sarkar, Sunanda Chatterjee, Priyadarshi Satpati

 

• Position of Geminal Substitution of γ Amino Acid Residues Modulates Their Ability to Form Isolated Non-Helical C12 β-turn Mimics ChemistrySelect 2023, 8, e202204255 Swapna Debnath, S.R. Vignesh, Priyadarshi Satpati, Sunanda Chatterjee

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• Effect of Monovalent Salt on the Energetics of Antimicrobial-Peptide: Micelle Dissociation Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2022,24, 23669-23678

       Suvankar Ghosh, Sunanda Chatterjee, Priyadarshi Satpati

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• Effect of Leu/Val Mutation on the Energetics of Anti-microbial Peptide: Micelle Binding J. Phys. Chem. B 2022, 126, 28, 5262–5273

       Suvankar Ghosh, Sunanda Chatterjee, Priyadarshi Satpati

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• Effect of differential backbone di-substitution of gamma amino acid residues on the conformation and assembly of their Fmoc derivatives in solid and solution states Chem. Asian J. 2022, 17, e202200356.

       Swapna Debnath, Suvankar Ghosh, Dinesh Kumar, Prema G Vasudev, Priyadarshi Satpati, Sunanda Chatterjee

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• Delineating the Mechanism of Action of a Protease Resistant and Salt Tolerant Synthetic Antimicrobial Peptide against Pseudomonas aeruginosa  ACS Omega 2022, 7, 18, 15951–15968

       Gopal Pandit, Tanumoy Sarkar, Vignesh S. R., Swapna Debnath, Priyadarshi Satpati and Sunanda Chatterjee 

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• Effect of monovalent salt concentration and peptide secondary structure in peptide-micelle binding 

       RSC Adv., 2021,11, 36836-36849

       Suvankar Ghosh, Gopal Pandit, Swapna Debnath, Sunanda Chatterjee, Priyadarshi Satpati 

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• Effect of differential geminal substitution of gamma amino acid residues at the (i+2) position of αγ turn segments on the conformation of template β hairpin peptides  J. Org. Chem. 2021, 86, 17, 11310–11323

       Swapna Debnath, Subhankar Ghose, Gopal Pandit, Priyadarshi Satapati and Sunanda Chatterjee 

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• Antimicrobial peptides and proteins: From nature’s reservoir to the laboratory and beyond Front. Chem. 2021, 9:691532

       Tanumoy Sarkar, Monikha Chetia and Sunanda Chatterjee 

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• Co-assembly of charge complementary peptides and their applications as organic dye/heavy metal ion (Pb2+, Hg2+) absorbents and arsenic(III/V) detectors RSC Adv., 2020,10, 42062-42075

       Karabi Roy, Monikha Chetia, Ankan Kumar Sarkar and Sunanda Chatterjee 

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• Effect of Secondary Structure and Side Chain Length of Hydrophobic Amino Acid Residues on the Antimicrobial Activity and Toxicity of 14‐Residue‐Long de novo AMPs  ChemMedChem 2021, 16, 355.

       Gopal Pandit, Nabarupa Chowdhury, Sk. Abdul Mohid, Anil P. Bidkar, Anirban Bhunia and Sunanda Chatterjee 

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• Peptide Hydrogels as Platforms for Sustained Release of Antimicrobial and Antitumor Drugs and Proteins

       ACS Appl. Bio Mater. 2020, 3, 9, 6251–6262

       Karabi Roy, Gopal Pandit, Monikha Chetia, Ankan Kumar Sarkar, Sumit Chowdhury, Anil P. Bidkar and Sunanda                     Chatterjee 

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• Rationally designed antimicrobial peptides: Insight into the mechanism of eleven residue peptides against microbial infections.  Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Biomembranes 2020, 1862(4), 183177

      Gopal Pandit, Karishma Biswas, Suvankar Ghosh, Swapna Debnath, Anil P. Bidkar, Priyadarshi Satpati, Anirban Bhunia           and Sunanda Chatterjee 

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• Self-assembly and multifunctionality of peptide organogels: oil spill recovery, dye absorption and synthesis of conducting biomaterials. RSC Adv., 2020,10, 5220-5233

       Monikha Chetia, Swapna Debnath, Sumit Chowdhury and Sunanda Chatterjee 

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• Dicyclohexylurea derivatives of amino acids as dye absorbent organogels and anion sensors. Org. Biomol. Chem., 2019,17, 3026-3039

       Karabi Roy, Suvankar Ghosh, Monikha Chetia, Priyadarshi Satpati and Sunanda Chatterjee  

 

• Uptake and intracellular fate of nona-arginine peptide in yeast. Peptide Science. 2019; 111:e24101

       Riddhi Banerjee, Rachayeeta Deb, Karabi Roy, Sunanda Chatterjee and Shirisha Nagotu 

 

• Insights into the Mechanism of Antimicrobial Activity of Seven-Residue Peptides. J. Med. Chem. 2018, 61, 17, 7614–7629

       Gopal Pandit, Humaira Ilyas, Suvankar Ghosh, Anil Parsram Bidkar, Sk. Abdul Mohid, Anirban Bhunia, Priyadarshi                 Satpati, and Sunanda Chatterjee 

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• Self-Assembly Mechanism of a Peptide-Based Drug Delivery Vehicle.  ACS Omega 2018, 3, 3, 3143–3155

       Gopal Pandit, Karabi Roy, Umang Agarwal, and Sunanda Chatterjee 

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• Efficient and facile oxidation of cyclic mouse hepcidine analog to biologically active conformation with the help of Fe(III). 

       Sari, MA ; Chatterjee, S; Galardon, E ; Artaud, I; Deschemins, JC ; Leduc, M; Camoin, L; Vaulont, S

       AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HEMATOLOGY (Vol. 88, No. 5, pp. E70-E71)

 

• Synthesis and biological activity of mouse hepcidin peptide analogs containing three disulfide bridges: manual and microwave-assisted solid-phase peptide synthesis.

       Khemtemourian L, Desbenoit N, Mahesh P, Chatterjee S, Deschemin JC, Vaulont S, Tomas A, Sari MA, Artaud I. Protein         and Peptide Letters. 2012, 19(2), 219-227.

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• Gabapentin: A Stereochemically Constrained γ - Amino Acid Residue in Hybrid Peptide Design.

       P.G.Vasudev, Sunanda Chatterjee, N. Shamala and P Balaram  Acc. Chem. Res. 2009, 42, 10, 1628–1639

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• Structural Chemistry of peptides containing backbone homologated amino acid residues: Conformational features of  β , γ  and hybrid peptides. 

       P.G.Vasudev, Sunanda Chatterjee, N. Shamala and P Balaram  Chem. Rev. 2011, 111, 2, 657–687

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• Expanding the peptide β-turn in  αγ  hybrid sequences: 12 atom hydrogen bonded helical and hairpin turns.

       Sunanda Chatterjee, P.G. Vasudev,  S. Raghothama, C. Ramakrishnan, N. Shamala and P Balaram J. Am. Chem. Soc.                 2009, 131, 16, 5956–5965

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• Multiple conformational states in crystals and in solution in  αγ  hybrid peptides. Fragility of C12 helix in short sequences.

       Sunanda Chatterjee, P.G. Vasudev, K. Ananda,  S. Raghothama, N. Shamala and P Balaram J. Org. Chem. 2008, 73, 17,           6595–6606

 

• Solid state and solution conformations of  a hybrid  αγααγα hexapeptide Characterization of backbone expanded analog of the polypeptide 310 helix. 

       Sunanda chatterjee, P.G. Vasudev, S. Raghothama, N. shamala and P. Balaram Biopolymers 2008, 90: 759-771.

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• Conformational Choices for the Stereochemically Constrained  γ- Amino Acid Residue Gabapentin. Theoretical Studies and Correlation with Experimental Results.

       P.G. Vasudev, Sunanda Chatterjee, C. Ramakrishnan, N. Shamala and P Balaram Biopolymers 2009, 92: 426-435

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• Hybrid  αγ  Polypeptides: Structural Characterization of a C12/C10 Helix with Alternating Hydrogen Bond Polarity.

       Prema G. Vasudev, Sunanda Chatterjee, Kuppanna Ananda, Narayanaswamy Shamala and Padmanabhan                                   Balaram Angewandte Chemie 2008, 120: 6530-6532

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• Hybrid peptide design. Hydrogen bonded conformations in peptides containing the stereochemically constrained  γ amino acid residue Gabapentin.

      P. G Vasudev, K. Ananda, Sunanda Chatterjee, S. Aravinda, N. Shamala and P. Balaram  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 13,        4039–4048