Publications

Submitted and Published Papers

RESEARCH ARTICLE

2024

Tirumala, A.T., Redpath, G.M., Skerhut, S.V., Dolai, P., Kaushik, N.K., Ariotti, N., Kumar, K.V., and Ananthanarayanan, V.*  Single molecule Imaging of stochastic interactions that drive dynein activation and cargo movement in cells. J. Cell Bio – PDF

INVITED REVIEW

2023

Redpath, G.M. and Ananthanarayanan, V.* Endosomal sorting sorted – motors, adaptors and lessons from in vitro and cellular studies. J. Cell Sci – PDF

INVITED REVIEW

2023

Ul Fatima, N. and Ananthanarayanan, V.* Mitochondrial movers and shapers: Recent insights into regulators of fission. fusion and transport. Current Opinion in Cell Biology – PDF

RESEARCH ARTICLE

2023

Chacko, L.A. , Mikus, F. , Ariotti, N. , Dey, G. and Ananthanarayanan, V.* Microtubule–mitochondrial attachment facilitates cell division symmetry and mitochondrial partitioning in fission yeast. J. Cell Sci – PDF

INVITED REVIEW

2021

Shah, M., Chacko, L. A., Joseph, J. P., Ananthanarayanan, V. * Mitochondrial dynamics, positioning and function mediated by cytoskeletal interactions. Cell Mol. Life Sci – PDF

REVIEW

2021

Kumar, H., and Ananthanarayanan, V.* Friend or foe? The role of the host cytoskeleton in cellular responses to bacterial pore forming toxins. J IISc – PDF

INVITED REVIEW

2020

Tirumala, A. T.* and Ananthanarayanan, V.* Role of dynactin in the intracellular localization and activation of cytoplasmic dynein. Biochemistry (Invited review as a part of Future of Asia-Pacific Special Issue) PDF

RESEARCH ARTICLE

2019

Chacko, L. A., Mehta, K., Ananthanarayanan, V.* Cortical tethering of mitochondria by the anchor protein Mcp5 enables uniparental inheritance. J. Cell Biol. 218 (11) 3560-3571 – PDF

RESEARCH ARTICLE

2019

Mehta, K., Chacko, L. A., Chug, M. K., Jhunjhunwala, S., Ananthanarayanan, V.* Association of mitochondria with microtubules inhibits mitochondrial fission by precluding activity of the fission protein Dnm1. J. Biol. Chem. 294(10) 3385–3396 – PDF

PROTOCOL

2019

Chacko, L. A. and Ananthanarayanan, V.* Quantification of mitochondrial dynamics in fission yeast. Bio-protocol 9(23): e3450. – PDF

RESEARCH ARTICLE

2017

Thankachan, J. M., Nuthalapati, S. S., Tirumala, N. A., Ananthanarayanan, V.* Fission Yeast Myosin I Facilitates PI(4,5)P2 –mediated Anchoring of Cytoplasmic Dynein to the Cortex. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 114: E2672-E2681 – PDF

RESEARCH ARTICLE

2017

Meka, S., Chacko, L. A., Ravi, A., Chatterjee, K., Ananthanarayanan, V.* Role of Microtubules in Osteogenic Differentiation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells on 3D Nanofibrous Scaffolds. ACS Biomater. Sci. Eng. 3: 551-559 – PDF

PERSPECTIVE

2016

Ananthanarayanan, V.*, Activation of the motor protein upon attachment: Anchors weigh in on cytoplasmic dynein regulation. Bioessays 38(6): 514-25 – PDF

METHODS

2015

Krull, A., Steinborn. A, Ananthanarayanan, V., Ramunno-Johnson, D., Petersohn, U., Tolić-Nørrelykke, I*. A divide-and-conquer strategy for the maximum likelihood localization of low intensity objects. Opt. Express 22(1), 210-228 – PDF

PROTOCOL

2014

Ananthanarayanan, V.* and Tolić, I. Single-molecule imaging of cytoplasmic dynein in vivo. Methods Cell Biol. 125 – PDF

RESEARCH ARTICLE

2013

Ananthanarayanan, V., Schattat, M., Vogel, S. K., Krull, A., Pavin, N.*, Tolić-Nørrelykke, I.*. Dynein Motion Switches from Diffusive to Directed upon Cortical Anchoring. Cell 153: 1526-1536 – PDF

METHODS

2010

Ananthanarayanan, V.* and Thies, W.*, BioCoder: A programming language for standardizing and automating Biology protocols. J. Biol. Eng. 4: 13 – PDF

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