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Vasu, Kommireddy and Nagamalleswari, Easa and Nagaraja, Valakunja (2012) Promiscuous restriction is a cellular defense strategy that confers fitness advantage to bacteria. In: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 109 (20). E1287-E1293.

Nagamalleswari, Easa and Vasu, Kommireddy and Nagaraja, Valakunja (2012) Ca2+ Binding to the ExDxD Motif Regulates the DNA Cleavage Specificity of a Promiscuous Endonuclease. In: BIOCHEMISTRY, 51 (44). pp. 8939-8949.

Vasu, Kommireddy and Saravanan, Matheshwaran and Nagaraja, Valakunja (2011) Endonuclease Active Site Plasticity Allows DNA Cleavage with Diverse Alkaline Earth and Transition Metal Ions. In: ACS Chemical Biology, 6 (9). pp. 934-942.

Vasu, Kommireddy and Saravanan, Matheshwaran and Rajendra, Boggavarapu VRN and Nagaraja, Valakunja (2010) Generation of a Manganese Specific Restriction Endonuclease with Nicking Activity. In: Biochemistry, 49 (38). pp. 8425-8433.

Saravanan, Matheshwaran and Vasu, Kommireddy and Nagaraja, Valakunja (2008) Evolution of sequence specificity in a restriction endonuclease by a point mutation. In: PNAS, 105 (30). pp. 10344-10347.

Vasu, Kommireddy and Saravanan, Matheshwaran and Bujnicki, Janusz M and Nagaraja, Valakunja (2008) Structural integrity of the Beta Beta Alpha-Metal finger motif is required for DNA binding and stable protein–DNA complex formation in R.KpnI. In: Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins & Proteomics, 1784 (2). pp. 269-275.

Saravanan, Matheshwaran and Vasu, Kommireddy and Ghosh, Soumitra and Nagaraja, Valakunja (2007) Dual Role for $Zn^{2+}$ in Maintaining Structural Integrity and Inducing DNA Sequence Specificity in a Promiscuous Endonuclease. In: Journal of Biological Chemistry, 282 (44). pp. 32320-32326.

Saravanan, Matheshwaran and Vasu, Kommireddy and Kanakaraj, Radhakrishnan and Rao, Desirazu N. and Nagaraja, Valakunja (2007) R.KpnI, an HNH superfamily REase, exhibits differential discrimination at non-canonical sequences in the presence of $Ca^{2+}$ and $Mg^{2+}$. In: Nucleic Acids Research, 35 (8). pp. 2777-2786.