Sankaramakrishnan's research is focused on mechanism of membrane protein function using computational approaches.[2] He is known to have carried out research on aquaporin genes in plants, Asx turns, molecular dynamic simulations of protein-protein interactions, GPCR peptide hormones as well as nonAUG start codons and AUG codons.[5] His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles[6][note 1] and ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 98 of them.[7] Besides, he has also contributed chapters to books published by others[8] and his articles have drawn many citations.[9][10][11] He is the co-author of MIPModDB, a database of structure models of Major intrinsic proteins.[12] He has also delivered invited or keynote speeches at various national and international seminars.[13][14][15]
Sankararamakrishnan is a member of the National Network for Mathematical and Computational Biology,[16] an agency funded by the Science and Engineering Research Board of the Government of India for promoting scientific research and advanced training in the discipline.[17] He is also a life member of the National Academy of Sciences, India, one of the three major Indian science academies.[18]
Awards and honors
The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards in 2008.[19] He has also held the Joy Gill Chair Professorship for Young Faculty and the U.S.V. Chair Professorship of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur during 2007-2010 and 2011-2014 respectively.[2]
Iyer, Abhishek Hariharan; Krishna Deepak, Rama Nagesh Venkata; Sankararamakrishnan, Ramasubbu (27 December 2017). "Imidazole Nitrogens of Two Histidine Residues Participating in N-H…N Hydrogen Bonds in Protein Structures: Structural Bioinformatics Approach Combined with Quantum Chemical Calculations". The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 122 (3): 1205–1212. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b11737. ISSN1520-6106. PMID29278913.
Krishna Deepak, R.N.V.; Chandrakar, Brijesh; Sankararamakrishnan, Ramasubbu (2017). "Comparison of metal-binding strength between methionine and cysteine residues: Implications for the design of metal-binding motifs in proteins". Biophysical Chemistry. 224: 32–39. doi:10.1016/j.bpc.2017.02.007. PMID28363089.