Selected publications:

1) Kumari, J., Uthaman, A., Bose, S., Kundu, A., Sharma, V., Dutta, S., Dhar, A., Rou, S., Srinivasan, R., Pande, S., Vinothkumar, K.R., Pananghat, G., Palani, S. Distinct filament morphology and membrane tethering features of the dual FtsZs in Odinarchaeota (2025) EmboJ, https://doi.org/10.1038/s44318-025-00529-7.  

2) Harisundar, V., Sotelo-Parrilla, P., Raju, S., Jha, S., Gireesh, A., Harshith, CY., Gut, F., Vinothkumar K.R.,Berger, F., Jeyaprakash, A., Shivaprasad, PV. Oryza genera-specific novel Histone H4 variant predisposes H4 Lysine5 Acetylation marks to modulate salt stress responses (2025) Nature Plants 11, 790-807.

3) Goyal, P., Dhanabalan, K., Scalise, M., Friemann, R., Indiveri, C., Dobson, R., Vinothkumar, K.R., Ramaswamy, S. Molecular determinants of Neu5Ac binding to a tripartite ATP independent periplasmic (TRAP) transporter. (2025), eLife,  https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.98158

4) Cannone, G., Berto, L., Malhaire, F., Ferguson, G., Fouillen, A., Balore, S., Font-Ingles, J., Llebaria, A., Goudet, C., Koetcha, A., Vinothkumar, K.R., & Lebon, G. Conformational diversity in class C GPCR positive allosteric modulation. (2025), Nat. Comm. 16.619

5) Yadav, S & Vinothkumar, K.R., Factors affecting macromolecule orientations in thin films formed in cryo-EM. (2024), Acta Cryst. D80, 535-550.

6) Hussain, N., Apotikar, A., Shabareesh, P., Mukherjee, S., Burada, AP., Sikdar, SK., Vinothkumar, K.R., Penmatsa, A. Structural insights into pore dynamics of human Pannexin isoforms (2024), Nat Commun. 15, 2942.

7) Singh, J., Raina, R., Vinothkumar, K.R., Anand, R. Decoding the Mechanism of Specific RNA targeting by ribosomal methyltransferases (2022) ACS Chem Biol., 17(4):829-839.

8) Chen, S., Li, J., Vinothkumar, K.R., Henderson, R. Interaction of human erythrocyte catalase with air–water interface in cryoEM (2022) Microscopy, 71(S1), i51-i59.

9) Nasrallah, C., Cannone, G., Briot, J., Rottier, K., Berizzi, AE., Huang, CY., Quast, RB., Hoh, F., Baneres, JL., Malhaire, F., Berto, L., Dumazer, A., Font-Ingles, J., Gomes-Santacana, X., Catena, J., Kniazeff, J., Goudet, C., Llebaria, A., Pin, JL., Vinothkumar, K.R., Lebon, G. Agonists and allosteric modulators promote signalling from different metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 conformations (2021), Cell Reports 36, 109648

10) Vinothkumar, K.R., Arya, CA., Ramanathan, G., Ramaswamy, S. Comparison of CryoEM and X-ray structures of dimethylformamidase (2021), Prog Biophy. Mol Bio. 160:66-78

11) Arya, CA., Yadav, S., Fine, J., Casanal, A., Chopra, G., Ramanthan, G., Vinothkumar, KR., Ramaswamy, S. A 2-Tyr-1-Carboxylate Mononuclear Iron Center is the Active Site of Dimethylformamidase (2020), Angew.Chem.Int.Ed.Engl. V47, 868. DOI: 10.1002/anie.202005332

12) Kumari, A., Kesarwani, S., Javoor, MG., Vinothkumar, KR., Sirajuddin, M. Structural insights into actin filament recognition by commonly used cellular actin markers (2020), Embo J V10 3058.

13) Sathyanarayanan, N., Cannone, G., Gakher, L., Katagihallimath, N., Sowdhamini, R., Ramaswamy, S., & Vinothkumar, KR. Molecular basis for metabolite channelling in a ring opening enzyme of the Phenylacetate degradation pathway (2019), Nat Commun 10(1):4127

14) Vinothkumar, K.R., Montogomery, MG., Liu, S., & Walker J. Structure of the mitochondrial F-ATPase from Pichia angusta determined by electron cryo-microscopy (2016), PNAS 113 (45) 12709-714.   

15) Zhu, J., Vinothkumar, K.R., & Hirst, J. Structure of mammalian respiratory complex I (2016), Nature 536 (7616); 354-8.