User:Rajamanickam Murugan

Contact Info



 * Rajamanickam Murugan
 * 506 Biosciences Building
 * Department of Biotechnology
 * Indian Institute of Technology Madras
 * Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India 600036.
 * email: rmurugan at gmail.com or rmurugan at iitm.ac.in

Education

 * 2006, PhD Chemistry, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India

Research interests

 * 1) Theoretical Biology and Biophysics
 * 2) Rate processes in biology

Publications

 * 1) R Murugan. 2010. Theory on the mechanism of distal-action of transcription factors: Looping of DNA versus tracking along DNA, J. Phys. A: Math. & Theor. 43, 415002–17.
 * 2) R Murugan. 2010. Theory of site-specific DNA-protein interactions in the presence of conformational fluctuations of DNA binding domains, Biophys. J. 99, 353-359.
 * 3) R Murugan. 2010. Theory of site-specific interactions of the combinatorial transcription factors with DNA, J. Phys. A: Math. & Theor. 43, 195003–23.
 * 4) R Murugan. 2009. Directional dependent dynamics of protein molecules on DNA, Phys. Rev. E. 79, 041913–20.
 * 5) R Murugan. 2009. Packaging effects on site-specific DNA-protein interactions, Phys. Rev. E. 79, 061920–29.
 * 6) R Murugan. 2008. Multiple stochastic point processes in gene expression, J. Stat. Phys. 131, 153–165.
 * 7) R Murugan. 2007. Action at distance along the DNA: a random jump model on enhancer action. J. Theor. Biol. 248, 696–705
 * 8) R Murugan. 2007. Generalized theory of site-specific DNA protein interactions, Phys. Rev. E. 76, 011901–9.
 * 9) R Murugan. 2006. Stochastic transcription initiation: Time dependent transcription rates, Biophys. Chem. 121, 51–56.
 * 10) R Murugan. 2006. Mean first passage time calculation for random walk with random step size, J. Phys. A: Math & Theor. 39, 1575–1580.
 * 11) R Murugan. 2006. Mean first passage time calculation for one dimensional random walk with random absorbing boundary, J. Phys. A: Math & Theor. 39, L199–L255.
 * 12) R Murugan. 2006. Effect of external fluctuations on the affinity-specificity negative correlation in DNA probe interactions, Phys. Rev. E. 73, 051915–23.
 * 13) R Murugan. 2006. Critical jump sizes in DNA protein interactions, Biophys. Chem. 120, 143–147.
 * 14) R Murugan. 2005. On the origin of affinity-specificity negative correlation in DNA- probe interactions, Biophys. Chem. 116, 105–9.
 * 15) R Murugan. 2004. DNA-protein interactions under random jump conditions, Phys. Rev. E. 69, 011911-17.
 * 16) R Murugan. 2003. Competitive model on denaturant-mediated protein unfolding, Biophys. J. 84, 770–774.
 * 17) R Murugan. 2003. A stochastic model on DNA renaturation kinetics, Biophys. Chem. 104, 535–541.
 * 18) R Murugan. 2003. A theory on the origin of cooperativity in DNA renaturation kinetics, Biophys. Chem. 106, 173–178.
 * 19) R Murugan. 2002. Revised theory on DNA renaturation kinetics and its experimental verification, Biophys. Biochem. Res. Commun. 293, 870–873.
 * 20) R Murugan. 2002. Solution to Michaleis-Menten enzyme kinetic equation via undetermined gauge functions: Resolving the non-linearity of Lineweaver-Burk plot, J. Chem. Phys. 117, 4178–84.
 * 21) R Murugan. 2002. Sample size autocorrelation of kinetic data: Resolving reaction path heterogeneity, J. Chem. Phys. 117, 6372–78.

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