Selected Publications:
- Gowrishankar, J., and R. Harinarayanan. 2004. Why is transcription coupled to translation in bacteria? Molecular Microbiology 54:598-603.
- Laishram, R. S., and J. Gowrishankar. 2007. Environmental regulation operating at the promoter clearance step of bacterial transcription. Genes and Development 21:1258-1272.
- Saxena, S., and J. Gowrishankar. 2011. Modulation of Rho-dependent transcription termination in Escherichia coli by the H-NS family of proteins. Journal of Bacteriology 193:3832-3841.
- Anupama, K., J. K. Leela, and J. Gowrishankar. 2011. Two pathways for RNase E action in Escherichia coli in vivo and bypass of its essentiality in mutants defective for Rho-dependent transcription termination. Molecular Microbiology 82:1330-1348. Corrigendum. (2019) 112: 1371.
- Marbaniang, C. N., and J. Gowrishankar. 2012. Transcriptional cross-regulation between Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria, demonstrated using ArgP-argO of Escherichia coli and LysG-lysE of Corynebacterium glutamicum. Journal of Bacteriology 194:5657-5666.
- Leela, J. K., A. H. Syeda, K. Anupama, and J. Gowrishankar. 2013. Rho-dependent transcription termination is essential to prevent excessive genome-wide R-loops in Escherichia coli. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 110:258-263.
- Gowrishankar, J. 2015. End of the beginning: elongation and termination features of alternative modes of chromosomal replication initiation in bacteria. PLoS Genetics 11:e1004909.
- Raghunathan, N., R. M. Kapshikar, J. K. Leela, J. Mallikarjun, P. Bouloc, and J. Gowrishankar. 2018. Genome-wide relationship between R-loop formation and antisense transcription in Escherichia coli. Nucleic Acids Research 46:3400-3411.
- Kapshikar, R.M. and J. Gowrishankar. 2019. Direct inhibition of transcription in vitro by the isolated N-terminal domain of the Escherichia coli nucleoid protein H-NS and by its paralogue Hha. Microbiology 165:463-474.
- Raghunathan, N., S. Goswami, J. K. Leela, A. Pandiyan, and J. Gowrishankar. 2019. A new role for Escherichia coli Dam DNA methylase in prevention of aberrant chromosomal replication. Nucleic Acids Research 47:5698-5711.
- Ali, N. and J. Gowrishankar. 2019. Cross-subunit catalysis and a new phenomenon of recessive resurrection in Escherichia coli RNase E. Nucleic Acids Research DOI:10.1093/nar/gkz1152.
- Leela, J. K., N. R. Raghunathan, and J. Gowrishankar. 2021. Topoisomerase I essentiality, DnaA-independent chromosomal replication, and transcription-replication conflict in Escherichia coli. Journal of Bacteriology 203:e00195-21.
- Mallikarjun, J., L. SaiSree, P. Himabindu, K. Anupama, M. Reddy, and J. Gowrishankar. 2022. Modulation of RecFORQ- and RecA-mediated homologous recombination in Escherichia coli by isoforms of translation initiation factor IF2. Journal of Bacteriology 204:e00569-21.
- Mallikarjun, J. and J. Gowrishankar. 2022. Essential role for an isoform of Escherichia coli translation initiation factor IF2 in repair of two-ended DNA double-strand breaks. Journal of Bacteriology 204:e00571-21.
- Goswami, S. and J. Gowrishankar. 2022. Role for DNA double strand end-resection activity of RecBCD in control of aberrant chromosomal replication initiation in Escherichia coli. Nucleic Acids Research 50:8643-8657.
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