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Navaratnarajah, Anushandan and Daniel, Chris and Bhakta, Sanjib (2024) Modified HT-SPOTi: an antimicrobial susceptibility testing to evaluate formulated therapeutic combinations against bacterial growth and viability. In: Gillespie, S.H. (ed.) Antibiotic Resistance Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology 2833 2833. Springer Publications, pp. 35-42. ISBN 9781071639801.

Shyam, M. and Bhattacharje, G. and Daniel, C. and Kumar, A. and Yadav, P. and Mukherjee, P. and Singh, S. and Das, A.K. and Narender, T. and Singh, A. and Jayaprakash, V. and Bhakta, Sanjib (2023) Rationally designed novel Phenyloxazoline Synthase Inhibitors: chemical synthesis and biological evaluation to accelerate the discovery of new antimycobacterial antibiotics. Molecules 28 (24), p. 8115. ISSN 1420-3049.

Daniel, Chris and Bhakta, Sanjib (2022) Immunobiology of tubercle bacilli and prospects of immunomodulatory drugs to tackle tuberculosis (TB) and other non-tubercular mycobacterial infections. Immunobiology 227 (3), ISSN 0171-2985.

Shyam, M. and Verma, H. and Bhattacharje, G. and Mukherjee, P. and Singh, S. and Kamilya, S. and Jalani, P. and Das, S. and Dasgupta, A. and Mondal, A. and Das, A.K. and Singh, A. and Brucoli, F. and Bagneris, Claire and Dickman, R. and Basavanakatti, V.N. and Naresh Babu, P. and Sankaran, V. and Dev, A. and Sinha, B.N. and Bhakta, Sanjib and Jayaprakash, V. (2022) Mycobactin analogues with excellent pharmacokinetic profile demonstrate potent antitubercular specific activity and exceptional efflux pump inhibition. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 65 (1), pp. 234-256. ISSN 0022-2623.

Maitra, Arundhati and Nukala, Syamasundari and Dickman, R. and Martin, Liam T. and Munshi, Tulika and Gupta, Antima and Shepherd, Adrian J. and Arnvig, K.B. and Tabor, A.B. and Keep, Nicholas H. and Bhakta, Sanjib (2021) Characterization of the MurT/GatD complex in Mycobacterium tuberculosis towards validating a novel anti-tubercular drug target. JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance 3 (1), ISSN 2632-1823.

Shyam, M. and Shilkar, D. and Verma, H. and Dev, A. and Sinha, B. and Brucoli, F. and Bhakta, Sanjib and Jayaprakash, V. (2021) The Mycobactin biosynthesis pathway: a prospective therapeutic target in the battle against Tuberculosis. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 64 (1), pp. 71-100. ISSN 0022-2623.

Maitra, A. and Evangelopoulos, D. and Chrzastek, A. and Martin, L.T. and Hanrath, A. and Chapman, E. and Hailes, H.C. and Lipman, M. and McHugh, T.D. and Waddell, S.J. and Bhakta, Sanjib (2020) Carprofen elicits pleiotropic mechanisms of bactericidal action with the potential to reverse antimicrobial drug resistance in tuberculosis. The Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 75 (11), pp. 3194-3201. ISSN 1460-2091.

Hellewell, L. and Bhakta, Sanjib (2020) Chalcones, stilbenes and ketones have anti-infective properties via inhibition of bacterial drug-efflux and consequential synergism with antimicrobial agents. Access Microbiology 2 (4), ISSN 2516-8290.

Lu, L. and Arranz-Trullén, J. and Prats-Ejarque, G. and Pulido, D. and Bhakta, Sanjib and Boix, E. (2019) Human Antimicrobial RNases inhibit intracellular bacterial growth and induce Autophagy in Mycobacteria-Infected Macrophages. Frontiers In Immunology 10 , ISSN 1664-3224.

Maitra, Arundhati and Munshi, Tulika and Healy, J. and Martin, L.T. and Vollmer, W. and Keep, Nicholas H. and Bhakta, Sanjib (2019) Cell wall peptidoglycan in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis: an Achilles’ heel for the TB-causing pathogen. FEMS Microbiology Reviews 43 (5), pp. 548-575. ISSN 1574-6976.

Abo-Ashoura, M.F. and Eldehnab, W.M. and George, R.F. and Abdel-Azizd, M.M. and Elaasser, M.M. and Abdel Gawad, N.M. and Gupta, Antima and Bhakta, Sanjib and Abou-Seric, S.M. (2018) Novel indole-thiazolidinone conjugates: Design, synthesis and whole-cell phenotypic evaluation as a novel class of antimicrobial agents. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 160 , pp. 49-60. ISSN 0223-5234.

Evangelopoulos, Dimitrios and Bhakta, Sanjib (2018) Arylamine N-Acetyltransferase in Mycobacteria. In: Laurieri, N. and Sim, E. (eds.) Arylamine N-acetyltransferases in Health and Disease: From Pharmacogenetics to Drug Discovery and Diagnostics. World Scientific, pp. 303-324. ISBN 9789813232006.

Quay, D.H.X. and Qureshi, A. and Bhakta, Sanjib and Keep, Nicholas H. (2018) Mutation studies of the Gene Encoding YuiC, a Stationary Phase Survival Protein in Bacillus subtilis. Malaysian Journal of Microbiology 14 (2), ISSN 2231-7538.

Danquah, C.A. and Kakagianni, E. and Khondkar, P. and Maitra, Arundhati and Rahman, M. and Evangelopoulos, D. and McHugh, T.D. and Stapleton, P. and Malkinson, J. and Bhakta, Sanjib and Gibbons, Simon (2018) Analogues of Disulfides from Allium stipitatum demonstrate potent anti-tubercular activities through drug efflux pump and Biofilm inhibition. Scientific Reports 8 (1), p. 1150. ISSN 2045-2322.

Arranz-Trullén, J. and Lu, L. and Pulido, D. and Bhakta, Sanjib and Boix, E. (2017) Host Antimicrobial Peptides: the promise of new treatment strategies against Tuberculosis. Frontiers In Immunology 8 , ISSN 1664-3224.

Bullo, S. and Maitra, Arundhati and Chrzastek, Alina and Naeemullah, B. and Fakurazi, S. and Bhakta, Sanjib and Hussein, M.Z. (2017) Nano-formulation of Ethambutol with multifunctional Graphene Oxide and magnetic nanoparticles retains Its anti-tubercular activity with prospects of improving chemotherapeutic efficacy. Molecules 22 (10), p. 1697. ISSN 1420-3049.

Saifullah, B. and Chrzastek, A. and Maitra, Arundhati and Naeemullah, B. and Fakurazi, S. and Bhakta, Sanjib and Hussein, M.Z. (2017) Novel anti-Tuberculosis nanodelivery formulation of Ethambutol with Graphene Oxide. Molecules 22 (10), ISSN 1420-3049.

Ryan, A. and Polycarpou, E. and Lack, N.A. and Evangelopoulos, Dimitrios and Sieg, C. and Halman, A. and Bhakta, Sanjib and Eleftheriadou, O. and McHugh, T.D. and Keany, S. and Lowe, E.D. and Ballet, R. and Abuhammad, A. and Jacobs, W.R. and Ciulli, A. and Sim, E. (2017) Investigation of the mycobacterial enzyme HsaD as a potential novel target for anti-tubercular agents using a fragment-based drug design approach. British Journal of Pharmacology 174 (14), pp. 2209-2224. ISSN 0007-1188.

Scalacci, N. and Brown, A.K. and Pavan, F.R. and Ribeiro, C.M. and Manetti, F. and Bhakta, Sanjib and Maitra, Arundhati and Smith, D.L. and Petricci, E. and Castagnolo, D. (2017) Synthesis and SAR evaluation of novel thioridazine derivatives active against drug-resistant tuberculosis. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 127 , pp. 147-158. ISSN 0223-5234.

Maitra, Arundhati and Kamil, T.K. and Shaik, M. and Danquah, C.A. and Chrzastek, A. and Bhakta, Sanjib (2017) Early diagnosis and effective treatment regimens are the keys to tackle antimicrobial resistance in tuberculosis (TB): a report from Euroscicon’s international TB Summit 2016. Virulence 8 (6), pp. 1005-1024. ISSN 2150-5594.

Bhakta, Sanjib and Guzman, Juan David and Evangelopoulos, Dimitrios and Munshi, Tulika and Mcmahon, Eleanor (2016) DNA sequence-selective C8-linked pyrrolobenzodiazepine(PBD)-heterocyclic polyamide conjugates show anti-tubercular specific activities. The Journal of Antibiotics 69 , pp. 843-849. ISSN 0021-8820.

Kerai, L.V. and Hilton, S. and Maugueret Minerve, Tafie and Kazi, Bilkis Banu and Nicklin, Jane and Bhakta, Sanjib and Murdan, S. (2016) UV-curable gels as topical nail medicines: in vivo residence, anti-fungal efficacy and influence of gel components on their properties. International Journal of Pharmaceutics 514 (1), pp. 244-254. ISSN 0378-5173.

Maitra, Arundhati and Bhakta, Sanjib and Evangelopoulos, Dimitrios (2016) Repurposing drugs for treatment of tuberculosis (TB): a role for non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. British Medical Bulletin 118 (1), pp. 138-148. ISSN 1471-8391.

Maitra, Arundhati and Bates, S. and Shaik, M. and Evangelopoulos, Dimitrios and Abubakar, I. and McHugh, T.D. and Lipman, M. and Bhakta, Sanjib (2016) Repurposing drugs for treatment of tuberculosis: a role for non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. British Medical Bulletin 118 (1), pp. 138-148. ISSN 1471-8391.

Brucoli, F. and Guzman, Juan David and Basher, M.A. and Evangelopoulos, Dimitrios and Mcmahon, Eleanor and Munshi, Tulika and McHugh, T.D. and Fox, K.R. and Bhakta, Sanjib (2016) DNA sequence-selective C8-linked pyrrolobenzodiazepine–heterocyclic polyamide conjugates show anti-tubercular-specific activities. The Journal of Antibiotics 69 , pp. 843-849. ISSN 0021-8820.

Bhakta, Sanjib (2016) Design and synthesis of 1-((1,5-bis(4-chlorophenyl)-2-methyl-1H-pyrrol-3-yl)methyl)-4-methylpiperazine (BM212) and N-Adamantan-2-yl-N'-((E)-3,7-dimethyl-octa-2,6-dienyl)-ethane-1,2-diamine (SQ109) pyrrole hybrid derivatives: discovery of potent anti-tubercular agents effective against multi-drug resistant mycobacteria. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 59 (6), pp. 2780-2793. ISSN 0022-2623.

Amaning Danquah, C. and Maitra, Arundhati and Gibbons, S. and Nicklin, Jane and Bhakta, Sanjib (2016) HT-SPOTi: a rapid Drug Susceptibility Test (DST) to evaluate antibiotic resistance profiles and novel chemicals for anti-infective drug discovery. Current Protocols in Microbiology 40 , ISSN 1934-8533.

Chandrashekhar Lele, A. and Amarnath Mishra, D. and Karmila Kamil, T. and Bhakta, Sanjib and Sohel Degani, M. (2016) Repositioning of DHFR Inhibitors. Current Topics In Medicinal Chemistry 16 (19), pp. 2125-2143. ISSN 1568-0266.

Rizi, K. and Murdan, S. and Danquah, Cynthia A. and Nicklin, Jane and Bhakta, Sanjib (2015) Development of a rapid, reliable and quantitative method – “SPOTi” for testing antifungal efficacy. Journal of Microbiological Methods 117 , pp. 36-40. ISSN 0167-7012.

Phelan, J. and Maitra, A. and McNerney, R. and Nair, M. and Gupta, Antima and Coll, F. and Pain, A. and Bhakta, Sanjib and Clark, T.G. (2015) The draft genome of Mycobacterium aurum, a potential model organism for investigating drugs against Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium leprae. International Journal of Mycobacteriology 4 (3), pp. 207-216. ISSN 2212-5531.

Quay, Doris H.X. and Cole, Ambrose R. and Cryar, A. and Thalassinos, Konstantinos and Williams, Mark A. and Bhakta, Sanjib and Keep, Nicholas H. (2015) Structure of the stationary phase survival protein YuiC from B.subtilis. BMC Structural Biology 15 (12), ISSN 1472-6807.

Brucoli, F. and Guzman, Juan D. and Maitra, Arundhati and James, C.H. and Fox, K.R. and Bhakta, Sanjib (2015) Synthesis, anti-mycobacterial activity and DNA sequence-selectivity of a library of biaryl-motifs containing polyamides. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry 23 (13), pp. 3705-3711. ISSN 0968-0896.

Guzman, Juan D. and Pesnot, T. and Barrera, D.A. and Davies, H.M. and McMahon, E. and Evangelopoulos, Dimitrios and Mortazavi, Parisa Nakhostin and Munshi, Tulika and Maitra, Arundhati and Lamming, E.D. and Angell, R. and Gershater, M.C. and Redmond, J.M. and Needham, D. and Ward, J.M. and Cuca, L.E. and Hailes, H.C. and Bhakta, Sanjib (2015) Tetrahydroisoquinolines affect the whole-cell phenotype of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by inhibiting the ATP-dependent MurE ligase. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 70 (6), pp. 1691-1703. ISSN 0305-7453.

Hochfellner, C. and Evangelopoulos, Dimitrios and Zloh, M. and Wube, A. and Guzman, J.D. and McHugh, T.D. and Kunert, O. and Bhakta, Sanjib and Bucar, F. (2015) Antagonistic effects of indoloquinazoline alkaloids on antimycobacterial activity of evocarpine. Journal of Applied Microbiology 118 (4), pp. 864-872. ISSN 1364-5072.

Maitra, A. and Bates, S. and Kolvekar, T. and Devarajan, P.V. and Guzman, Juan D. and Bhakta, Sanjib (2015) Repurposing — a ray of hope in tackling extensively drug resistance in tuberculosis. International Journal of Infectious Diseases 32 , pp. 50-55. ISSN 1201-9712.

Maitra, Arundhati and Danquah, Cynthia A. and Scotti, Francesca and Howard, Tracey K. and Kamil, Tengku K. and Bhakta, Sanjib (2015) Tackling tuberculosis: insights from an international TB Summit in London. Virulence 6 (6), pp. 661-672. ISSN 2150-5594.

Evangelopoulos, Dimitrios and Gupta, Antima and Lack, N. and Maitra, Arundhati and ten Bokum, A.M.C. and Kendall, Sharon L. and Sim, E. and Bhakta, Sanjib (2014) Characterisation of a putative AraC transcriptional regulator from Mycobacterium smegmatis. Tuberculosis 94 (6), pp. 664-671. ISSN 1472-9792.

Zhao, J. and Evangelopoulos, Dimitrios and Bhakta, Sanjib and Gray, A.I. and Seidel, V. (2014) Antitubercular activity of Arctium lappa and Tussilago farfara extracts and constituents. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 155 (1), pp. 796-800. ISSN 0378-8741.

McGuigan, C. and Derudas, M. and Gonczy, B. and Hinsinger, K. and Kandil, S. and Pertusati, F. and Serpi, M. and Snoeck, R. and Andrei, G. and Balzarini, J. and McHugh, T.D. and Maitra, A. and Akorli, E. and Evangelopoulos, Dimitrios and Bhakta, Sanjib (2014) ProTides of N–(3-(5-(2’-deoxyuridine))prop-2- ynyl)octanamide as potential anti-tubercular and anti-viral agents. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry 22 (9), pp. 2816-2824. ISSN 1464-3391.

Maitra, A. and Bhakta, Sanjib (2014) TB Summit 2014. Virulence 5 (5), pp. 638-644. ISSN 2150-5594.

Maitra, Arundhati and Bhakta, Sanjib (2014) TB Summit 2014: Prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of tuberculosis—a meeting report of a Euroscicon conference. Virulence 5 (5), pp. 638-644. ISSN 2150-5594.

Shiu, W.K.P. and Malkinson, J.P. and Rahman, M.M. and Curry, J. and Stapleton, P. and Gunaratnam, M. and Neidle, S. and Mushtaq, S. and Warner, M. and Livermore, D.M. and Evangelopoulos, Dimitrios and Basavannacharya, Chandrakala and Bhakta, Sanjib and Schindler, B.D. and Seo, S.M. and Coleman, D. and Kaatz, G.W. and Gibbons, S. (2013) A new plant-derived antibacterial is an inhibitor of efflux pumps in Staphylococcus aureus. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents 42 (6), pp. 513-518. ISSN 0924-8579.

Guzman, Juan D. and Evangelopoulos, Dimitrios and Gupta, Antima and Prieto, J.M. and Gibbons, S. and Bhakta, Sanjib (2013) Antimycobacterials from Lovage Root (Ligusticum officinale Koch). Phytotherapy Research 27 (7), pp. 993-998. ISSN 0951-418X.

Guzman, Juan D. and Evangelopoulos, Dimitrios and Gupta, Antima and Birchall, K. and Mwaigwisya, S. and Saxty, B. and McHugh, T.D. and Gibbons, S. and Malkinson, J. and Bhakta, Sanjib (2013) Antitubercular specific activity of ibuprofen and the other 2-arylpropanoic acids using the HT-SPOTi whole-cell phenotypic assay. BMJ Open 3 (6), e002672. ISSN 2044-6055.

Munshi, Tulika and Gupta, Antima and Evangelopoulos, Dimitrios and Guzman, Juan D. and Gibbons, S. and Keep, Nicholas H. and Bhakta, Sanjib (2013) Characterisation of ATP-Dependent Mur Ligases Involved in the Biogenesis of Cell Wall Peptidoglycan in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. PLoS One 8 (3), e60143. ISSN 1932-6203.

Maitra, A. and Bhakta, Sanjib (2013) Mycobacterium tuberculosis... can we beat it? Report from Euroscicon 2013. Virulence , pp. 14-18. ISSN 2150-5594.

Gupta, Antima and Bhakta, Sanjib (2012) An integrated surrogate model for screening of drugs against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 67 (6), pp. 1380-1391. ISSN 0305-7453.

Gupta, Antima and Kaul, Akshay and Tsolaki, A.G. and Kishore, U. and Bhakta, Sanjib (2012) Mycobacterium tuberculosis: immune evasion, latency and reactivation. Immunobiology 217 (3), pp. 363-374. ISSN 0171-2985.

Guzman, Juan D. and Gupta, Antima and Bucar, F. and Gibbons, S. and Bhakta, Sanjib (2012) Antimycobacterials from natural sources: ancient times, antibiotic era and novel scaffolds. Frontiers in Bioscience 17 (1), pp. 1861-1881. ISSN 1093-9946.

Kottakota, S.K. and Benton, M. and Evangelopoulos, Dimitrios and Guzman, Juan D. and Bhakta, Sanjib and McHugh, T.D. and Gray, M. and Groundwater, P.W. and Marrs, E.C.L. and Perry, J.D. and Harburn, J.J. (2012) Versatile routes to marine sponge metabolites through Benzylidene Rhodanines. Organic Letters 14 (24), pp. 6310-6313. ISSN 1523-7060.

Evangelopoulos, Dimitrios and Cronin, Nora and Daviter, Tina and Sim, E. and Keep, Nicholas H. and Bhakta, Sanjib (2011) Characterization of an oxidoreductase from the arylamine N-acetyltransferase operon in Mycobacterium Smegmatis. FEBS Journal 278 (24), pp. 4824-4832. ISSN 1742-464X.

Guzman, Juan D. and Wube, A. and Evangelopoulos, Dimitrios and Gupta, Antima and Hufner, A. and Basavannacharya, Chandrakala and Rahman, M.M. and Thomaschitz, C. and Bauer, R. and McHugh, T.D. and Nobeli, Irene and Prieto, J.M. and Gibbons, S. and Bucar, F. and Bhakta, Sanjib (2011) Interaction of N-methyl-2-alkenyl-4-quinolones with ATP-dependent MurE ligase of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: antibacterial activity, molecular docking and inhibition kinetics. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 66 (8), pp. 1766-1772. ISSN 0305-7453.

Osman, Khadijo and Evangelopoulos, Dimitrios and Basavannacharya, Chandrakala and Gupta, Antima and McHugh, T.D. and Bhakta, Sanjib and Gibbons, S. (2011) An antibacterial from Hypericum acmosepalum inhibits ATP-dependent MurE ligase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents 39 (2), pp. 124-129. ISSN 0924-8579.

Basavannacharya, Chandrakala and Moody, P.R. and Munshi, T. and Cronin, Nora and Keep, Nicholas H. and Bhakta, Sanjib (2010) Essential residues for the enzyme activity of ATP-dependent MurE ligase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Protein & Cell 1 (11), pp. 1011-1022. ISSN 1674-800X.

Guzman, Juan D. and Gupta, Antima and Evangelopoulos, Dimitrios and Basavannacharya, Chandrakala and Pabon, L.C. and Plazas, E.A. and Munoz, D.R. and Delgado, W.A. and Cuca, L.E. and Ribon, W. and Gibbons, S. and Bhakta, Sanjib (2010) Anti-tubercular screening of natural products from Colombian plants: 3-methoxynordomesticine, an inhibitor of MurE ligase of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 65 (10), pp. 2101-2107. ISSN 0305-7453.

Basavannacharya, Chandrakala and Robertson, Giles and Munshi, T. and Keep, Nicholas H. and Bhakta, Sanjib (2010) ATP-dependent MurE ligase in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: biochemical and structural characterisation. Tuberculosis 90 (1), pp. 16-24. ISSN 1472-9792.

Westwood, I.M. and Bhakta, Sanjib and Russell, A.J. and Fullam, E. and Anderton, M.C. and Akane Kawamura, A. and Mulvaney, A.W. and Vickers, R.J. and Bhowruth, V. and Besra, G.S. and Lalvani, A. and Davies, S.G. and Sim, E. (2010) Identification of arylamine N-acetyltransferase inhibitors as an approach towards novel anti-tuberculars. Protein & Cell 1 (1), pp. 82-95. ISSN 1674-800X.

Gupta, Antima and Bhakta, Sanjib and Kundu, S. and Gupta, M. and Srivastava, B.S. and Srivastava, R. (2009) Fast-growing, non-infectious and intracellularly surviving drug resistant Mycobacterium aurum: a model for high-throughput antituberculosis drug screening. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 64 (4), pp. 774-781. ISSN 0305-7453.

O’Donnell, G. and Poeschl, R. and Zimhony, O. and Gunaratnam, M. and Moreira, J.B.C. and Neidle, S. and Evangelopoulos, Dimitrios and Bhakta, Sanjib and Malkinson, J. and Boshoff, H.I. and Lenaerts, A. and Gibbons, S. (2009) Bioactive Pyridine-N-oxide Disulfides from Allium stipitatum. Journal of Natural Products 72 (3), pp. 360-365. ISSN 0163-3864.

Sim, E. and Sandy, J. and Evangelopoulos, Dimitrios and Fullam, E. and Bhakta, Sanjib and Westwood, I.M. and Krylova, A. and Lack, N. and Noble, M. (2008) Arylamine N-acetyltransferases in mycobacteria. Current Drug Metabolism 9 (6), pp. 510-519. ISSN 1389-2002.

Smellie, I. and Bhakta, Sanjib and Sim, E. and Fairbanks, A. (2007) Synthesis of putative chain terminators of mycobacterial arabinan biosynthesis. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry 5 (14), pp. 2257-2266. ISSN 1477-0520.

Anderton, M.C. and Bhakta, Sanjib and Besra, G.S. and Jeavons, P. and Eltis, L.D. and Sim, E. (2006) Characterization of the putative operon containing arylamine n-acetyltransferase (nat) in mycobacterium bovis BCG. Molecular Microbiology 59 (1), pp. 181-192. ISSN 0950-382X.

Bhakta, Sanjib (2006) Tuberculosis: a big challenge whether East or the West. East-West Times 1 (1), pp. 28-31.

Westwood, I.M. and Holton, S.J. and Rodrigues-Lima, F. and Dupret, J.M. and Bhakta, Sanjib and Noble, M.E. and Sim, E. (2005) Expression, purification, characterization and structure of pseudomonas aeruginosa arylamine N-acetyltransferase. Biochemical Journal 385 (2), pp. 605-612. ISSN 0264-6021.

Bhakta, Sanjib and Besra, G.S. and Upton, A.M. and Parish, T. and Sholto-Douglas-Vernon, C. and Gibson, K.J. and Knutton, S. and Gordon, S. and DaSilva, R.P. and Anderton, M.C. and Sim, E. (2004) Arylamine N-acetyltransferase is required for synthesis of mycolic acids and complex lipids in Mycobacterium bovis BCG and represents a novel drug target. The Journal of Experimental Medicine 199 (9), pp. 1191-1199. ISSN 0022-1007.

Sim, E. and Pinter, K. and Mushtaq, A. and Upton, A. and Sandy, J. and Bhakta, Sanjib and Noble, M. (2003) Arylamine N-acetyltransferases: a pharmacogenomic approach to drug metabolism and endogenous function. Biochemical Society Transactions 31 (3), pp. 615-619. ISSN 0300-5127.

Datta, P. and Dasgupta, A. and Bhakta, Sanjib and Basu, J. (2002) Interaction between FtsZ and FtsW of mycobacterium tuberculosis. Journal of Biological Chemistry 277 (28), pp. 24983-24987. ISSN 0021-9258.

Choudhuri, B.S. and Bhakta, Sanjib and Barik, R. and Basu, J. and Kundu, M. and Chakrabarti, P. (2002) Overexpression and functional characterization of an ABC (ATP-binding cassette) transporter encoded by the genes drrA and drrB of mycobacterium tuberculosis. Biochemical Journal 367 (1), pp. 279-285. ISSN 0264-6021.

Bhakta, Sanjib and Basu, J. (2002) Overexpression, purification and biochemical characterization of a class A high-molecular-mass penicillin-binding protein (PBP), PBP1* and its soluble derivative from Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Biochemical Journal 361 (6), pp. 635-639. ISSN 0264-6021.

Mahapatra, S. and Bhakta, Sanjib and Ahamed, J. and Basu, J. (2000) Characterization of derivatives of the high-molecular-mass penicillin-binding protein (PBP) 1 of Mycobacterium leprae. Biochemical Journal 350 (1), pp. 75-80. ISSN 0264-6021.