Education

Ph.D. in Chemistry, Warwick University, UK, 1985

Current position

Chief Scientist and Group Head, CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad 500007, India

Publications (selected)

1. Sharma, R., Sahu, B., Ray, M. K. and Deshmukh, M. V. (2014). Backbone and stereospecific ¹³C methyl Ile (δ1), Leu and Val side-chain chemical shift assignments of Crc. Biomolecular NMR assignments: 1-5.
   
2. Sinha, A. K., Pavankumar, T. L., Kamisetty, S., Mittal, P. and Ray, M. K. (2013). Replication arrest is a major threat to growth at low temperature in Antarctic Pseudomonas syringae Lz4W. Mol Microbiol 89(4): 792-810.
   
3. Pandiyan, A. and Ray, M. K. (2013). Draft Genome Sequence of the Antarctic Psychrophilic Bacterium Pseudomonas syringae Strain Lz4W. Genome Announc 1(3).
   
4. Sulthana, S., Rajyaguru, P. I., Mittal, P. and Ray, M. K. (2011). rnr gene from the antarctic bacterium Pseudomonas syringae Lz4W, encoding a psychrophilic RNase R. Appl Environ Microbiol 77(22): 7896-7904
   
5. Sahu, B. and Ray, M. K. (2008). Auxotrophy in natural isolate: minimal requirements for growth of the Antarctic psychrotrophic bacterium Pseudomonas syringae Lz4W. J Basic Microbiol 48(1): 38-47.
   
6. Satapathy, A. K., Pavankumar, T. L., Bhattacharjya, S., Sankaranarayanan, R. and Ray, M. K. (2008). ATPase activity of RecD is essential for growth of the Antarctic Pseudomonas syringae Lz4W at low temperature. FEBS J 275(8): 1835-1851.
   
7. Purusharth, R. I., Madhuri, B. and Ray, M. K. (2007). Exoribonuclease R in Pseudomonas syringae is essential for growth at low temperature and plays a novel role in the 3' end processing of 16 and 5 S ribosomal RNA. J Biol Chem 282(22): 16267-16277.
   
8. Ray, M. K. (2006). Cold-stress response of low temperature adapted bacteria. In: Sreedhar, A. S. and Srinivas U. K. (eds). In Stress Response: A Molecular Biology Approach. Research Signpost, pp.1-23.
   
9. Purusharth, R. I., Klein, F., Sulthana, S., Jager, S., Jagannadham, M. V., Evguenieva-Hackenberg, E., Ray, M. K. and Klug, G. (2005). Exoribonuclease R interacts with endoribonuclease E and an RNA helicase in the psychrotrophic bacterium Pseudomonas syringae Lz4W. J Biol Chem 280(15): 14572-14578.
   
10. Regha, K., Satapathy, A. K. and Ray, M. K. (2005). RecD plays an essential function during growth at low temperature in the antarctic bacterium Pseudomonas syringae Lz4W. Genetics 170(4): 1473-1484.
    
11. Janiyani, K. L. and Ray, M. K. (2002). Cloning, sequencing, and expression of the cold-inducible hutU gene from the antarctic psychrotrophic bacterium Pseudomonas syringae. Appl Environ Microbiol 68(1): 1-10.
    
12. Kumar, G. S., Jagannadham, M. V. and Ray, M. K. (2002). Low-temperature-induced changes in composition and fluidity of lipopolysaccharides in the antarctic psychrotrophic bacterium Pseudomonas syringae. J Bacteriol 184(23): 6746-6749.