Publications

A. Refereed Papers

1. Chu JF#, Majumder P#*, Chatterjee B#, Huang SL, and Shen CK* (2019). TDP-43 Regulates Coupled Dendritic mRNA Transport-Translation Processes in Co-operation with FMRP and Staufen1. Cell Reports (IF:7.815), 29, 3118–3133.

2. Majumder P*, Chatterjee B, Shen C.-K.J* (2017). Epitranscriptome and FMRP Regulated mRNA Translation. Epigenomes (first IF will come in 2021) 1, 11, doi:10.3390/epigenomes1020011.

3. Majumder P, Chu JF, Chatterjee B, Swamy KBS, and Shen CK (2016). Co-Regulation of mRNA Translation by TDP-43 and Fragile X Syndrome Protein FMRP. Acta Neuropathologica (IF: 18.174), 132: 721-738..

4. Huang CC, Bose JK, Majumder P, Lee KH, Huang JT, Huang JK, Shen CK (2014). Metabolism and Mis-Metabolism of the Neuropathological Signature Protein TDP-43. Journal of cell science (IF: 4.517), 127, 3024-3038.

5. Majumder P, Chen YT, Bose JK, Wu CC, Cheng WC, Cheng SJ, Fang YH, Chen YL, Tsai KJ, Lien CC, Shen CK. (2012). TDP-43 regulates the mammalian spinogenesis through translational repression of Rac1. Acta Neuropathologica (IF: 18.174), 124, 231-245.

6. Banerjee M, Datta M, Majumder P, Mukhopadhyay D, Bhattacharyya NP (2010). Transcription regulation of caspase-1 by R393 of HIPPI and its molecular partner HIP-1. Nucleic Acid Research (IF: 11.147), 38, 878-892.

7. Bhattacharyya NP, Banerjee M, Majumder P (2008). Huntington's Disease: Roles of Huntingtin-interacting protein 1 (HIP-1) and its molecular partner HIPPI in the regulation of apoptosis and transcription. FEBS Journal (IF: 4.739), 275, 4271-4279.

8. Roychaudhury S, Majumder P, Sarkar S, Giri K, Mukhopadhyay D, Bhattacharyya NP (2008). Huntingtin interacting protein HYPK is intrinsically unstructured. Proteins: Structure, Function, Bioinformatics (IF: 2.501), 71, 1686-1698.

9. Majumder P, Raychaudhuri S, Chattopadhyay B, Bhattacharyya NP (2007). Increased caspase-2, calpain activations and decreased mitochondrial complex II activity in cells expressing exogenous Huntingtin exon1 containing CAG repeat in the pathogenic range. Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology (IF: 3.811), 27, 1127-1145.

10. Majumder P, Choudhury A, Banerjee M, Lahiri A, Bhattacharyya NP (2007). Interactions of HIPPI, a molecular partner of Huntingtin interacting protein HIP1, with the specific motif present at the putative promoter sequence of the caspase-1, caspase-8, and caspase-10 genes. FEBS Journal (IF: 4.739), 274, 3886-3899.

11. Majumder P, Chattopadhyay B, Sukanya S, Ray T, Banerjee M., Mukhopadhyay D, Bhattacharyya NP (2007). Interaction of HIPPI with putative promoter sequence of caspase-1 in vitro and in vivo. BBRC (IF: 2.705), 353, 80-85.

12. Banerjee M, Majumder P, Bhattacharyya NP, Dattagupta JK, Sen U (2006). Cloning, Expression, Purification, Crystallization, and Preliminary Crystallographic Analysis of Pseudo Death Effector domain of HIPPI, a molecular partner of Huntingtin interacting protein HIP1. Crystallography. Acta Crystallographica Section F (IF: 1.199), 62, 1247-1250.

13. Majumder P, Chattopadhyay B, Mazumder A, Das P, Bhattacharyya NP (2006). Induction of apoptosis in cells expressing exogenous Hippi, a molecular partner of huntingtin-interacting protein Hip1. Neurobiology of Diseases (IF: 5.16), 22, 242-256.

Manuscript under preparation

Chatterjee B1, Majumder P, Chen CC1, Shen CK. DNMT3A/3B mediated DNA demethylation responsible for tumor progression and metastasis through EMT. B.

B. Conference papers

a. International Conference

1. Pritha Majumder, Biswanath Chatterjee, Nitai P. Bhattacharyya.―Increased caspase-9 mediated cell death in HeLa cell containing 40 glutamine repeats in huntingtin gene n Two-day symposium on Comperative and Functional Genomics, CCMB, Hyderabad, India, January 2004.

2. Pritha Majumder, Biswanath Chatterjee, Nitai P. Bhattacharyya.―Exogenous expression of Hippi, an interactor of huntingtin-interacting protein Hip-1, in HeLa cells increased apoptosis by releasing cytochrome-c and apoptosis induction factor (AIF) from mitochondria in Cell biology conference, Chandigarh, India, December 2004.

3. Pritha Majumder, S.Sukanya, Tanusree Ray, and Nitai P. Bhattacharyya. ―Interaction of Hippi, a Molecular partner of Huntingtin interacting protein Hip-1 with the upstream sequences (promoters) of Caspase-1 and PARP-1‖ in SBC, Kolkata chapter, Kolkata, India, February 2006.

4. Pritha Majumder, Yi-Ting Chen, Yen-Hsin Fang, Cheng-Chang Lien, and C.-K. James Shen. ―Role of TDP-43 in Spinogenesis‖ in Annual Retreat of Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, December 2011.

5. Pritha Majumder and C.-K. James Shen. ―TDP-43 regulates the mammalian spinogenesis through repression of Rac1 n 8th FENS Forum of Neuroscience. Barcelona, Spain, July 14-18, 2012.

6. Pritha Majumder and Che-Kun James Shen. "TDP-43: A Regulator of mRNA translation, neuron structure development , and memory formation" in Academia Sinica – NHRI Mini Symposium on RNA Biology, Miaoli, Taiwan, November 19-20, 2013.

7. Pritha Majumder and Che-Kun James Shen. "TDP-43: A Regulator of Rac1 mRNA Translation and Hippocampal Spinogenesis" in Developmental Biology Meeting, Taipei, November 17, 2014.

8. Pritha Majumder, Jen-Fei Chu, Biswanath Chatterjee, Che-Kun James Shen. "TDP-43: A Regulator of Rac1 mRNA Translation and Hippocampal Spinogenesis" in EMBO Conference on Neuron Development, Taipei Taiwan, December 4-8, 2015.

9. Pritha Majumder, Jen-Fei Chu, Biswanath Chatterjee, Che-Kun James Shen. "Role of TDP-43 in endritic local translation and beyond" in RPAS meeting, Taiwan, December 2017.

10. Pritha Majumder, Jen-Fei Chu, Biswanath Chatterjee, Che-Kun James Shen. "Role of TDP-43 in endritic local translation and beyond" Heritance and Etiology of Neurological Genetic Disorders, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, June 2018.

Poster presentation

C. Invited book chapters

1. Chattopadhyay B, Baksi K, Majumder P, Bhattacharyya NP. Genetics (2005). Molecular Genetics and Biology of poly glutamine expansion diseases. Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology (Eds. Thakur MK and Prasad S), Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi. pp 270-282.

D. Seminar Paper

1. Chattopadhyay B, Baksi K, Majumder P, Bhattacharyya NP (2005). Genetic Modifiers in Huntington's disease and Spinocerebellar ataxia type 2. Proceedings of the International Seminar on Frontiers of Basic and Applied Molecular (Eds. Poddar RK et al). pp 37-49.