Publications

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1. Vinayachandran V,  Kumar Y,  Shivaswamy S, Shukla A, Kendyala N, Pullepu D, Das K,  Sanyal K, Bhargava P (2026) Terminator-dependent facilitated recycling of RNA polymerase III provides gene-specific transcriptional activation in vivo. Science Advances (in press)

2. Narayanan A, Joshi S, Harchand R, Prasad R, Rudramurthy S, Nishant KT, Sanyal K* (2026) Segmental duplications and supernumerary chromosomes drive antifungal drug resistance in Candida auris. Nature Communications  (in press)

3. Palliwal S, ......Goyal R, Sanyal K, Nishant KT, Shinohara A, Mehta G (2026) The dynamic pool of Rec8-cohesin is crucial for meiotic recombination and transcription regulation in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Journal of Biological Chemistry

4. Polisetty SD, Dutta S, Vadnala RN, Notani D, Padinhateeri R, Sanyal K* (2025) Organization principles of dynamic three-dimensional genome architecture associated with centromere clustering states. PNAS 

5. Dutta S, Bhat K, Aggarwal R, Sanyal K* (2025) Fungi as models of centromere innovation: from DNA sequence to 3-dimensional arrangements. Chromosome Research 

6. Narayanan A Shaji AA, Pullepu D, Bhattacharya J, Sanyal K* (2025) Pathogenic features, experimental models and molecular tools of human fungal pathogens: Who's on WHO's radar?  ACS Infectious Disease 

7. Shaoo B, Goyal R, Dutta S, Joshi P, Sanyal K* (2025) Candida albicans: Insights into the biology and experimental innovations of a commonly isolated human fungal pathogen. ACS Infectious Disease  

8. Chauhan A,........Narayanan A, .... Sanyal K, Prasad R (2025) The experimentally evolved fluconazole-resistant clade II isolates of Candidozyma exhibit a distinct lipid compositional landscape, highlighting interclade spigolipid heterogeneity.  FEMS Yeast Research 

9. Kumar P,........Narayanan A, .... Sanyal K.....Prasad R (2025) Multiomics analysis of experimentally evolved Candida auris isolates reveals modulation of sterols, spingolipids, and oxidative stress in acquired amphotericin B resistance. Molecular Microbiology 

10. Sanyal K, Haldar J (2025) Fungal pathogens: Life cycle, infection, host immunity, and drug discovery. ACS Infectious Disease

11. Reza H, Aggarwal R, Verma J, Podh NK, Chowdhury R, Mehta G, Manjithaya R, Sanyal K* (2025) Autophagy-related protein Atg11 is essential for microtubule-mediated chromosome segregation. PLOS Biology 

12. Sanyal K*, Narayanan A (2025) Ploidy plasticity drives fugal resistance to azoles used in agriculture and clinics. PLOS Biology  

13. Polisetty SD, Bhat K, Das K, Clark I, Hardwick K, Sanyal K* (2025) The dependence of shugoshin on Bub1-kinase activity is dispensable for the maintenance of spindle assembly checkpoint response in Cryptococcus neoformans. PLOS Genetics 

14. Reza MH, Dutta S, Goyal R, Shah H, Dey G,* Sanyal K* (2025) Expansion microscopy reveals characteristic ultrastructural features of pathogenic budding yeast species. Journal of Cell Science 

15. Rai L, .... Sanyal K, ....D'Efert C (2024) Metabolic reprogramming during Candida albicas planktonic-biofilm transition is modulated by the transcription factor Zcf15 and Zcf26. PLOS Biology  

16. Narayanan A, Reza MH, Sanyal K* (2024) Behind the scenes: Centromere-driven genomic innovations in fungal pathogens. PLOS Pathogens  

17. Narayanan A*, Selvakumar P, Siddharthan R, Sanyal K* (2024) Identification of C. auris clade5 isolates using ClaID. Medical Mycology 

18. Das K*, Balaram H*, Sanyal K* (2024) Amino acid chirality: Stereospecific conversion and physiological implications. ACS Omega 

19. Sankaranarayanan SR, Polisetty SD, Das K, Dumbrepatil A, Medina-Pritchard B, Singleton M, Jeyaprakash AA, Sanyal K* (2023)  Functional plasticity in kinetochore-microtubule coupling on the evolutionary time scale. Life Science Alliance 

20. Bramha P, Aggarwal R, Sanyal K* (2023) Biased eviction of variant H3 nucleosomes triggers biofilm growth in Candida albicans. mBio 

21. Coelho MA, Ianiri G, David-Palma M, Theelen B, Goyal R, Narayanan A, Lorch JM, Sanyal K, Boekhout T, Heitman J (2023) Frequent transitions in mating-type locus chromosomal organization in Malassezia and early steps in sexual reproduction. PNAS 

22. Singha R, Aggarwal R, Sanyal K* (2023) Negative regulation of biofilm development by the CUG-Ser1 clade-specific histone H3 variant is dependent on the canonical histone chaperone CAF1 complex in Candida albicans. Molecular Microbiology

23. Narayanan A^, Kumar P^, Chauhan A, Kumar M, Yadav K, Banerjee A, Sharma RD, Rudramurthy SM, Chakrabarti A, Sanyal K*, Prasad R*  (2022) Directed evolution detects supernumerary centric chromosomes conferring resistance to azoles in Candida auris. mBio PDF  

24. Jaitly P, Legrand M, Das A, Patel T, Chauvel M, Maufrais C, d’Enfert C*, Sanyal K* (2022) A phylogenetically-restricted essential cell cycle progression factor in the human pathogen Candida albicans. Nature Communications  PDF     Recommended by F1000  

25. Narayanan A*, Selvakumar P, Siddharthan R, Sanyal K* (2022) ClaID: A rapid method of clade-level identification of the multidrug-resistant human fungal pathogen Candida auris. Microbiology Spectrum PDF

26. Panchal S*, Sanyal K* (2022) Loss of nucleosome assembly protein 1 affects growth and appressorium structure in blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae. microPublication Biology PDF

27. Rudramurthy S, Kashyap N, Bhattacharya S, Soman R, Sankaranarayan S, Chavan D, Singh S, Das P, Kaur H, Ghosh A, Prasad S, Sanyal K, and Chakrabarti A (2022) Impact of FKS1 genotype on echinocandin in-vitro susceptibility in Candida auris and in-vivo response in a murine model of infection. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy PDF

28. Mehta G, Sanyal K, Abhishek S, Rajakumara E, Ghosh SK (2022) Minichromosome maintenance proteins in eukaryotic chromosome segregation. BioEssays PDF

29. Padmanabhan S, Sanyal K*, Dubey DD* (2021) Identification and in silico analysis of the origin recognition complex in the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans. microPublication Biology PDF

30. Sane A, Sridhar S, Sanyal K, Ghosh SK (2021) Shugoshin ensures maintenance of the spindle assembly checkpoint response and efficient spindle disassembly. Molecular Microbiology PDF

31. Chatterjee S, Som S, Varshney N, Satyadev PVS, Sanyal K, Paul R (2021) Mechanics of microtubule organizing center clustering and spindle positioning in budding yeast Cryptococcus neoformans. Physical Review E PDF

32. Reza H*, Patkar R*, Sanyal K* (2021) Vacuolar transporter Mnr2 safeguards organellar integrity in aged cells. Molecular Microbiology PDF

33. Narayanan A, Vadnala RN, Ganguly P, Selvakumar P, Rudramurthy SM, Prasad R, Chakrabarti A, Siddharthan R, Sanyal K* (2021) Functional and comparative analysis of centromeres reveals clade-specific rearrangements in Candida auris and a chromosome number change in related species. mBio. PDF                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Commentary I Stable Positions of Epigenetically Inherited Centromeres in the Emerging Fungal Pathogen Candida auris and Its Relatives. mBio. PDF  Commentary I The curious case of nonrepetitive centromeric DNA sequences in Candida auris and related species . mBio. PDF

34. Sreekumar L, Kumari K, Guin K, Bakshi A, Varshney N, Thimmappa BC, Narlikar L, Padinhateeri R, Siddharthan R, Sanyal K* (2021) Orc4  spatiotemporally stabilizes centromeric chromatin. Genome Research. PDF

35. Sridhar S, Hori T, Nakagawa R, Fukagawa T*, Sanyal K* (2021) Bridgin connects the outer kinetochore to centromeric chromatin. Nature Communications. PDF  Recommended by F1000  

36. Guin K^*, Sreekumar L^*, Sanyal K* (2020) Implications of the evolutionary trajectory of centromeres in the fungal kingdom. Annual Review of Microbiology.  PDF; Invited Review

37. Guin K, Chen Y, Mishra R, Siti R, Thimmappa BC, O'Brien C, Butler G, Sanyal A*, Sanyal K* (2020) Spatial inter-centromeric interactions facilitated the emergence of evolutionary new centromeres. eLIFE.  PDF  Recommended by F1000  

38. Fang YF, Coelho MA, Sue H, Schotanus K, Thimmappa BC, ...., Sanyal K, Dong S, Nowrousian M, Heitman J  (2020) Long transposon-rich centromeres in an oomycete reveal divergence of centromere features in Stramenopila-Alveolata-Rhizaria lineages. PLOS Genetics.  PDF

39. Sankaranarayanan SR, Ianiri G, Coelho M, Reza H, Thimmappa BC, Ganguly P, Vadnala RN, Sun S, Siddharthan R, Tellgren-Roth C, Dawson TL, Heitman J*, Sanyal K* (2020) Loss of centromere function drives karyotype evolution in closely related Malassezia species. eLIFE. PDF                        eLife digest: The yeast that reorganised its centromeres 

40. Navarro-Mendoza M, Perez-Arques C, Panchal S, Nicolas FE, Mondo SJ, Ganguly P, Pangilinan J, Grigoriev IV, Heitman J*, Sanyal K* and Garre V* (2019) Early diverging fungus Mucor circinelloides lacks centromeric histone CENP-A and displays a mosaic of point and regional centromeres. Current Biology.  PDF Recommended by F1000  ;                                                                                                                                                 Commentary I  Evolution: A mosaic-type centromere in an early diverging fungus. Current Biology. PDF

41. Rai LS, Singha R, Sanchez H, Chakraborty T, Chand B, Bachellier-Bassi S, Chowdhury S, d’Enfert C, Andes DR, Sanyal K* (2019) The Candida albicans biofilm gene circuit modulated at the chromatin level by a recent molecular histone innovation, PLOS Biology.  PDF  Recommended by F1000  

42. Yadav V^, Yang F^, Reza H, Liu S, Valent B, Sanyal K*, Naqvi NI* (2019) Cellular dynamics and genomic identity of centromeres in cereal blast fungus, mBio. PDF

43. Prasad P, Sanyal K, Ghosh SK (2019) Sth1, the key subunit of the RSC chromatin remodeling complex, is essential in maintaining chromosomal integrity and mediating high fidelity chromosome segregation in the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans,  Frontiers in Microbiology.   PDF

44. Varshney N*, Sanyal K* (2019) Nuclear migration in budding yeasts: position before division, Current Genetics.  PDF; Invited Review

45. Sreekumar L, Jaitly P, Chen Y, Thimmappa BC, Sanyal A, Sanyal K* (2019) Cis and trans chromosomal interactions define pericentric boundaries in the absence of conventional heterochromatin, Genetics.  PDF

46. Suneet K^, Sridhar S^, Agiwal P, Sridhar MS, Sanyal K, Jain S (2019) Magnetic hyperthermia adjunctive therapy for fungi: in vitro studies against Candida albicans,  International Journal of Hyperthermia.  PDF

47. Varshney N, Sanyal K* (2019) Aurora kinase Ipl1 facilitates bilobed distribution of clustered kinetochores to ensure error‐free chromosome segregation in Candida albicans, Molecular Microbiology. PDF

48. Legrand M, Jaitly P, Feri A, d’Enfert C*, Sanyal K* (2019) Candida albicans: an emerging yeast model to study eukaryotic genome plasticity, Trends in Genetics. PDF; Invited Review

49. Varshney N, Som S^, Chatterjee S^, Sridhar S, Bhattacharyya D, Paul R*, Sanyal K* (2019) Spatio-temporal regulation of nuclear division by Aurora B kinase Ipl1 in Cryptococcus neoformans, PLOS Genetics. PDF

50. Kakade P, Mahadik K, Balaji KN, Sanyal K, Nagaraja V (2019) Two negative regulators of biofilm development exhibit functional divergence in conferring virulence potential to Candida albicans, FEMS Yeast Research. PDF

51. Hoque J, Yadav V, Prakash RG, Sanyal K, Haldar J (2018) Dual-Function Polymer–Silver Nanocomposites for Rapid Killing of Microbes and Inhibiting Biofilms, ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering. PDF

52. Yadav V, Sreekumar L, Guin K, Sanyal K* (2018) Five pillars of centromeric chromatin in fungal pathogens, PLOS Pathogens. PDF Invited Review

53. Yadav V*, Sanyal K* (2018) Sad1 spatiotemporally regulates kinetochore clustering to ensure high-fidelity chromosome segregation in the human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans, mSphere.  PDF

54. Yadav V, Sun S, Billmyre RB, Thimmappa BC, Shea T, Lintner R, Bakkeren G, Cuomo CA, Heitman J, Sanyal K* (2018) RNAi is a critical determinant of centromere evolution in closely related fungi, PNAS. PDF

55. Rai LS, Singha R, Brahma P, Sanyal K*. (2018) Epigenetic determinants of phenotypic plasticity in Candida albicans, Fungal Biology Reviews. PDF;  Invited Review

56. Sun S, Yadav V, Billmyre RB, Cuomo CA, Nowrousian M, Wang L, Souciet JL, Boekhout T, Porcel B, Wincker P, Granek JA, Sanyal K, Heitman J. (2017) Fungal genome and mating system transitions facilitated by chromosomal translocations involving intercentromeric recombination, PLOS Biology. PDF

57. Altamirano S, Fang D, Simmons C, Sridhar S, Wu P, Sanyal K, Kozubowski L. (2017) Fluconazole-induced ploidy change in Cryptococcus neoformans results from the uncoupling of cell growth and nuclear division, mSphere. PDF; Recommended by F1000  

58. Ghosh C, Yadav V, Younis W, Mohammad H, Hegazy YA, Seleem MN, Sanyal K, Haldar J. (2017) Aryl-alkyl-lysines: membrane-active fungicides that act against biofilms of Candida albicans, ACS Infectious Diseases. PDF

59. Zhu Y, Engström PG, Tellgren-Roth C, Baudo CD, Kennell JC, Sun S, Billmyre RB, Schröder MS, Sankaranarayanan SR, Sanyal K, Andersson A, Holm T, Sigurgeirsson B. (2017) Proteogenomics produces comprehensive and highly accurate protein-coding gene annotation in a complete genome assembly of Malassezia sympodialis. Nucleic Acids Research. PDF

60. Hoque J, Adhikary U, Yadav V, Samaddar S, Konai MM, Prakash RG, Paramanandham K, Shome BR, Sanyal K, Haldar J. (2016) Chitosan derivatives active against multidrug-resistant bacteria and pathogenic fungi: in vivo evaluation as topical antimicrobials, Molecular Pharmaceutics. PDF

61. Datta A^, Yadav V^, Ghosh A, Choi J, Bhattacharyya D, Kar RK, Ilyas H, Dutta A, An E, Mukhopadhyay J, Sanyal K, Lee D, Ramamoorthy, A Bhunia A (2016) Mode of action of a designed antimicrobial peptide: high potency against Cryptococcus neoformans, Biophysical Journal. PDF

62. Kakade P, Sadhale P, Sanyal K, Nagaraja V. (2016) ZCF32, a fungus-specific Zn (II) 2 Cys6 transcription factor, is a repressor of the biofilm development in the human pathogen Candida albicans, Scientific Reports. PDF

63. Chatterjee G, Sankaranarayanan SR, Guin K, Thattikota Y, Padmanabhan S, Siddharthan R, Sanyal K* (2016) Repeat-associated fission yeast-like regional centromeres in the ascomycetous budding yeast Candida tropicalis, PLOS Genetics. PDF

64. Mitra S, Rai LS, Chatterjee G, Sanyal K* (2016) Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) assay in Candida albicans, Methods in Molecular Biology.  PDF

65. Suryanarayanan TS, Gopal V, Sahal D and Sanyal K (2015) Establishing a national fungal genetic resource to enhance the bioeconomy, Current Science. PDF

66. Sutradhar S^ Yadav V^, Sridhar S^, Sreekumar L, Bhattacharyya D, Ghosh SK, Paul R* and Sanyal K* (2015) A comprehensive model to predict mitotic division in budding yeasts, Molecular Biology of the Cell. PDF 

67. KT Nishant* and Sanyal K* (2015) The good, the bad and the ugly: How to protect genome stability from potential threats, Bioessays. PDF Meeting Highlights

68. Varshney N^, Schakel A^, Singha R, Chakraborty T, Wijlick LV, Ernst JF* and Sanyal K* (2015),  A surprising role for the Sch9 protein kinase in chromosome segregation in Candida albicans, Genetics.  PDF

69. Hoque J, Akkapeddi P, Yadav V, Manjunath GB, Uppu DSSM, Konai MM, Yarlagadda V, Sanyal K and Haldar J (2015) Broad-spectrum antibacterial and antifungal polymeric paint materials: synthesis, structure-activity relationship and membrane-active mode of action, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces.   PDF

70. Mitra S, Gomez-Raja J, Larriba G, Dubey DD and Sanyal K* (2014) Rad51-Rad52 mediated maintenance of centromeric chromatin in Candida albicans, PLOS Genetics. PDF

71. Janbon G, Ormerod KL, Paulet D, Byrnes III EJ, Yadav V, Chatterjee G, (+41 authors), Sanyal K, Heitman J, Fraser JA, Cuomo CA and Dietrich FS (2014) Analysis of the genome and transcriptome of Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii reveals complex RNA expression and microevolution leading to virulence attenuation, PLOS Genetics. PDF; Recommended by F1000  

72. Kozubowski L^, Yadav V^, Chatterjee G, Sridhar S, Yamaguchi M, Kawamoto S, Bose I, Heitman J and Sanyal K* (2013) Ordered kinetochore assembly in the human fungal pathogen basidiomycetous yeast Cryptococcus neoformans, mBIO. PDF

73. Chakraborty U, Mohamed A, Kakade P, Mugasimangalam, R, Sadhale PP and Sanyal K* (2013) A stable hybrid containing haploid genomes of two obligate diploid Candida species, Eukaryotic Cell.   PDF

74. Thakur J and Sanyal K* (2013) Efficient neocentromere formation is suppressed by gene conversion to maintain centromere function at native physical chromosomal loci in Candida albicans, Genome Research. PDF

75. Roy B, Varshney N, Yadav V and Sanyal K* (2013) The process of kinetochore assembly in yeasts, FEMS Microbiology Letters. PDF  Invited Review

76. Thakur J and Sanyal K* (2012) A coordinated interdependent protein circuitry stabilizes the kinetochore ensemble to protect CENP-A in the human pathogenic yeast Candida albicans, PLOS Genetics. PDF

77. Sanyal K* (2012) How do microbial pathogens make CENs?, PLOS Pathogens. PDF Invited Review

78. Laha S, Das SP, Hajra S,  Sanyal K  and Sinha P (2011) Functional characterization of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae protein Chl1 reveals the role of sister chromatid cohesion in the maintenance of spindle length during S-phase arrest, BMC Genetics. PDF

79. Roy B and Sanyal K* (2011) Diversity in Requirement of Genetic and Epigenetic Factors for Centromere Function in Fungi, Eukaryotic Cell. PDF  Invited Review

80. Thakur J and Sanyal K* (2011) The essentiality of the fungus specific Dam1 complex is correlated with one kinetochore one microtubule interaction present throughout the cell cycle, independent of the nature of a centromere, Eukaryotic Cell. PDF

81. Roy B, Burrack LS, Lone MA, Berman J and Sanyal K* (2011) CaMtw1, a member of the evolutionarily conserved Mis12 kinetochore protein family, is required for efficient inner kinetochore assembly in the pathogenic yeast Candida albicans, Molecular Microbiology. PDF

82. Padmanabhan S^, Thakur J^, Siddharthan R and Sanyal K* (2008) Rapid evolution of Cse4p-rich centromeric DNA sequences in closely-related pathogenic yeasts, Candida albicans and Candida dubliniensis, PNAS.  PDF  Recommended by F1000  

83. Baum M^, Sanyal K^, Mishra PK, Thaler N and Carbon J (2006) Formation of functional centromeric chromatin is specified epigenetically in Candida albicans, PNAS.  PDF; Recommended by F1000   

84. Sanyal K, Baum M and Carbon J (2004) Centromeric DNA sequences in the pathogenic yeast Candida albicans are all different and unique, PNAS.  PDF

85. Sanyal K and Carbon J (2002) The CENP-A homolog CaCse4p in the pathogenic yeast Candida albicans in a centromere protein essential for chromosomes transmission, PNAS. PDF

86. Ghosh SK, Poddar A, Hajra S, Sanyal K and Sinha P (2001) The IML3/MCM19 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is required for a kinetochore-related process during chromosome segregation, Molecular Genetics and Genomics.   PDF

87. Sanyal K, Ghosh SK and Sinha P (1998) The MCM16 gene of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is required for chromosome segregation, Molecular and General Genetics.  PDF                                                                                                                                                                                                                         ^ Equally contributed;  *Corresponding author​

US Patent

Sanyal K, Padmanabhan S, Thakur J (2014) Polynucleotide sequences of Candida dubliniensis and probes for its detection.  ​