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Sayanta Bera

University of Maryland
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[HTML][HTML] Production, optimization and partial purification of protease from Bacillus subtilis

G Pant, A Prakash, JVP Pavani, S Bera… - Journal of taibah …, 2015 - Elsevier
Proteases have characteristics of biotechnological interest and have thus become important
industrial enzymes. We report the production of thermostable protease and its …

[HTML][HTML] Structural analysis and whole genome mapping of a new type of plant virus subviral RNA: umbravirus-like associated RNAs

J Liu, E Carino, S Bera, F Gao, JP May, AE Simon - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
We report the biological and structural characterization of umbravirus-like associated RNAs (ulaRNAs),
a new category of coat-protein dependent subviral RNA replicons that infect …

The effect of organic farming on water reusability, sustainable ecosystem, and food toxicity

S Parizad, S Bera - Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2023 - Springer
Water is a fundamental necessity for people’s well-being and the ecosystem’s sustainability;
however, its toxicity due to agrochemicals usage for food production leads to the …

[HTML][HTML] The Potyviral Protein 6K1 Reduces Plant Proteases Activity during Turnip mosaic virus Infection

S Bera, GD Arena, S Ray, S Flannigan, CL Casteel - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
Potyviral genomes encode just 11 major proteins and multifunctionality is associated with
most of these proteins at different stages of the virus infection cycle. Some potyviral proteins …

-1 Programmed ribosomal frameshifting in Class 2 umbravirus-like RNAs uses multiple long-distance interactions to shift between active and inactive structures and …

AA Mikkelsen, F Gao, E Carino, S Bera… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Plus-strand RNA viruses frequently employ -1 programmed ribosomal frameshifting (-1 PRF)
to maximize their coding capacity. Ribosomes can frameshift at a slippery sequence if …

Impact of two different dehydration methods on saffron quality, concerning the prevalence of Saffron latent virus (SaLV) in Iran

…, S Parizad, MK Habibi, S Winter, S Kalantari, S Bera… - Food Chemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
The dehydration process is a prerequisite to preserve saffron for a long time. According to
this process, saffron shows differences in the main compounds responsible for its quality (…

Responses to predation risk cues and alarm pheromones affect plant virus transmission by an aphid vector

BW Lee, S Basu, S Bera, CL Casteel, DW Crowder - Oecologia, 2021 - Springer
Herbivores assess predation risk in their environment by identifying visual, chemical, and
tactile predator cues. Detection of predator cues can induce risk-avoidance behaviors in …

Analysis of fitness trade-offs in the host range expansion of an RNA virus, tobacco mild green mosaic virus

S Bera, A Fraile, F García-Arenal - Journal of Virology, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
The acquisition of new hosts provides a virus with more opportunities for transmission and
survival but may be limited by across-host fitness trade-offs. Major causes of across-host trade-…

Molecular aggregation kinetics of Heteropolyene: An Experimental, topological and solvation dynamics studies

SK Panja, S Kumar, AD Fazal, S Bera - Journal of Photochemistry and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Herein, we have demonstrated the solvent specific ground state and excited state aggregates
of the molecule ((1E,2E)-1,2-bis((E)-3-phenylallylidene)hydrazine: BISCH) in solution. The …

[HTML][HTML] Conserved Structure Associated with Different 3′ CITEs Is Important for Translation of Umbraviruses

S Bera, M Ilyas, AA Mikkelsen, AE Simon - Viruses, 2023 - mdpi.com
The cap-independent translation of plus-strand RNA plant viruses frequently depends on 3′
structures to attract translation initiation factors that bind ribosomal subunits or bind directly …