Women in Science talk
My journey from cytosol to cell wall
by Prof. Manjula Reddy, CCMB Hyderabad
A reception will be held afterward in the 10th floor lobby of MBI.
Research Interests: Our laboratory is interested in studying prokaryotic cell division (cytokinesis) and its regulation using a Gram-negative model bacterium, Escherichia coli K12 and Mycobacterium smegmatis, a surrogate model organism that is used to understand the biology of M. tuberculosis, a human pathogen that causes tuberculosis.
Selected Publications
- Parveen, S., and M. Reddy (2017) Identification of YfiH (PgeF) as a factor contributing to the maintenance of bacterial peptidoglycan composition (in press, Mol Microbiol)
- Singh SK, Parveen S, SaiSree L, Reddy M. (2015) Regulated proteolysis of a cross-link specific peptidoglycan hydrolase contributes to bacterial morphogenesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 112: 10956-10961.
- Mahalakshmi, S., M. R. Sunayana, L. SaiSree, and M. Reddy. (2014) yciM is an essential gene required for regulation of lipopolysaccharide synthesis in Escherichia coli. Mol Microbiol 91: 145-157.
- Singh SK, L SaiSree, RN Amrutha and M Reddy. 2012. Three redundant murein endopeptidases catalyse an essential cleavage step in peptidoglycan synthesis of Escherichia coli. Mol Microbiol 86: 1036-1051
