Rajpurohit, Y.S., Gopalakrishnan, R., and Misra, H.S. (2008).
Involvement of a protein kinase activity inducer in DNA double strand break repair and radioresistance of Deinococcus radiodurans. J. Bacteriol. 190(11):3948-3954. PMID: 18375565; PMCID: PMC2395052. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental Material]

Kamble, V.A., Rajpurohit, Y.S., Srivastava, A.K., and Misra, H.S. (2010).
Increased synthesis of signaling molecules coincides with reversible inhibition of nucleolytic activity during postirradiation recovery of Deinococcus radiodurans. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 303(1):18-25. PMID: 20015337. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Rajpurohit, Y.S. and Misra, H.S. (2010).
Characterization of a DNA damage-inducible membrane protein kinase from Deinococcus radiodurans and its role in bacterial radioresistance and DNA strand break repair. Mol. Microbiol. 77(6):1470-1482. PMID: 20633226. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supporting Information]

Kota, S., Kamble, V.A., Rajpurohit, Y.S., and Misra, H.S. (2010).
ATP-type DNA ligase requires other proteins for its activity in vitro and its operon components for radiation resistance in Deinococcus radiodurans in vivo. Biochem. Cell Biol. 88(5):783-790. PMID: 20921990. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Shrivastava, M., Rajpurohit, Y.S., Misra, H.S., and D'Souza, S.F. (2010).
Survival of phosphate-solubilizing bacteria against DNA damaging agents. Can. J. Microbiol. 56(10):822-830. PMID: 20962905. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Desai, S.S., Rajpurohit, Y.S., Misra, H.S., and Deobagkar, D.N. (2011).
Characterization of the role of the RadS/RadR two-component system in the radiation resistance of Deinococcus radiodurans. Microbiology 157(Pt 10):2974-2982. PMID: 21737498. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Table S1] [Supplementary Figure Legends] [Supplementary Figures S1-S3]

Misra, H.S., Rajpurohit, Y.S., and Khairnar, N.P. (2012).
Pyrroloquinoline-quinone and its versatile roles in biological processes. J. Biosci. 37(2):313-325. PMID: 22581337. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Rajpurohit, Y.S., Desai, S.S., and Misra, H.S. (2013).
Pyrroloquinoline quinone and a quinoprotein kinase support γ-radiation resistance in Deinococcus radiodurans and regulate gene expression. J. Basic Microbiol. 53(6):518-531. PMID: 22961447. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supporting Information]

Rajpurohit, Y.S. and Misra, H.S. (2013).
DR1769, a protein with N-terminal beta propeller repeats and a low-complexity hydrophilic tail, plays a role in desiccation tolerance of Deinococcus radiodurans. J. Bacteriol. 195(17):3888-3896. PMID: 23794625; PMCID: PMC3754602. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures] [Supplemental material]

Rajpurohit, Y.S. and Misra, H.S. (2013).
Structure-function study of deinococcal serine/threonine protein kinase implicates its kinase activity and DNA repair protein phosphorylation roles in radioresistance of Deinococcus radiodurans. Int. J. Biochem. Cell Biol. 45(11):2541-2552. PMID: 23994692. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Kota, S., Rajpurohit, Y.S., Charaka, V.K., Satoh, K., Narumi, I., and Misra, H.S. (2016).
DNA Gyrase of Deinococcus radiodurans is characterized as Type II bacterial topoisomerase and its activity is differentially regulated by PprA in vitro. Extremophiles 20(2):195-205. PMID: 26847200. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental Information]

Rajpurohit, Y.S., Bihani, S.C., Waldor, M.K., and Misra, H.S. (2016).
Phosphorylation of Deinococcus radiodurans RecA Regulates Its Activity and May Contribute to Radioresistance. J. Biol. Chem. 291(32):16672-16685. PMID: 27255712; PMCID: PMC4974381. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Siddiqui, M.Q., Choudhary, R.K., Thapa, P., Kulkarni, N., Rajpurohit, Y.S., Misra, H.S., Gadewal, N., Kumar, S., Hasan, S.K., and Varma, A.K. (2016).
Structural and biophysical properties of h-FANCI ARM repeat protein. J. Biomol. Struct. Dyn. Nov 10:1-11, doi: 10.1080/07391102.2016.1235514. PMID: 27686023. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]