Assistant Professor

Dr Pulak Kar

Department of Biological Sciences

Interests

  • Cell biology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Biochemistry

Education

2001

University of Calcutta
India
BSc

2003

University of Kalyani
India
MSc

2009

University of Kalyani
India
PhD

Research Interest

  • ADP-Ribosylation signalling pathways
  • Ca2+-ion channel signalling pathways which are connected with numerous human diseases in the immune system, neuronal system, cardiac system along several types of cancers.
  • Publications

  • Đukić N, Strømland Ø, Elsborg JD, Munnur D, Zhu K, Schuller M, Chatrin C, Kar P, Duma L, Suyari O, Matthias JGR,Baretić D, Crudgington DR, Groslambert J, Fowler G, Wijngaarden S, Prokhorova E, Rehwinke J, Schüler H, Filippov VD,Sanyal S, Ahel D, Nielsen M, Smith R, Ahel I: PARP14 is a PARP with both ADP-ribosyl transferase and hydrolase activities. Science Advances, 2023
  • Kar P, Lin YP, Bharadwaj R, Tucker CJ, Bird GS, Hediger MA, Monico C, Amin N, Parekh AB: The N-terminus of Orai1 couples to the AKAP79 signalling complex to drive NFAT1 activation by local Ca2+ entry: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), 2021, 118(19), e2012908118
  • Kar P, Mirams G, Christine H, Parekh AB: Control of NFAT isoform-specific gene expression through two co-incidents and segregated Ca2+ microdomains. Molecular Cell, 2016, 64(4): 746-759.
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