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Sarath Chandra Janga, PhD  
Institute for Genomic Biology Fellow,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 
Institute for Genomic Biology, 
1206 W. Gregory Drive, MC-195
  
Urbana, IL - 61801, USA

Tel: +1-217-244-5404
Fax: +1-217-333-0508 
Email:
sarath AT igb.uiuc.edu 

Publications in Peer-reviewed Journals:
*indicates corresponding author either jointly or alone , + indicates joint first author 

• Conservation of adjacency as evidence of paralogous operons (PDF) (PUBMED)
Sarath Chandra Janga and Gabriel Moreno-Hagelsieb
Nucleic Acids Research, 2004 Vol.32, No. 18, 5392-5397

• Nebulon: a system for the inference of functional relationships of gene products from the rearrangement of predicted operons (PDF) (PUBMED) (Supplementary Material) (Web interface of Nebulon)
Sarath Chandra Janga , Julio Collado-Vides and Gabriel Moreno-Hagelsieb
Nucleic Acids Research, 2005 Vol.33, No. 8, 2521-2530

• The network of transcriptional interactions imposes linear constrains in the genome (PDF) (PUBMED )
Ricardo Menchaca-Mendez + , Sarath Chandra Janga + and Julio Collado-Vides
OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology Jun 2005, Vol.9, No. 2: 139-145

• Internal sensing machinery directs the activity of the regulatory network in Escherichia coli (PDF) (PUBMED) (Supplementary Material)
Agustino Martínez-Antonio, Sarath Chandra Janga , Heladia Salgado and Julio Collado-Vides
Trends in Microbiology, 2006 Vol.14, No. 1, 22-27

• The Partitioned Rhizobium etli Genome: Genetic and Metabolic Redundancy in Seven Interacting Replicons (PDF) (PUBMED) (Open Access article) (Web access to the Genome Sequence and RetliDB at Center for Genomic Sciences)
Víctor González, Rosa I. Santamaría, Patricia Bustos, Ismael Hernández-González, Arturo Medrano-Soto, Gabriel Moreno-Hagelsieb, Sarath Chandra Janga , Miguel A. Ramírez, Verónica Jim énez-Jacinto, Julio Collado-Vides and Guillermo Dávila
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A. 103(10): 3834-9, 2006

• Operons and the effect of genome redundancy in deciphering functional relationships using phylogenetic profiles (PDF) (PUBMED)
Gabriel Moreno-Hagelsieb and Sarath Chandra Janga
Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, 70(2):344-352, 2007

• The distinctive signatures of promoter regions and operon junctions across Prokaryotes (PDF) (PUBMED) (Supplementary Material)
Sarath Chandra Janga * , Warren F. Lamboy, Araceli M. Huerta and Gabriel Moreno-Hagelsieb
Nucleic Acids Research, 2006 Vol.34, No. 14, 3980-3987

• Bacterial regulatory networks are extremely flexible in evolution (PDF) (PUBMED) (Supplementary Material)
Irma Lozada-Chávez, Sarath Chandra Janga * and Julio Collado-Vides
Nucleic Acids Research, 2006 Vol.34, No. 12, 3434-3445
+ Featured in the list of hot research papers on NAR website

• Identification and analysis of DNA-binding Transcription Factors in Bacillus subtilis and other Firmicutes- A genomic approach (PDF) (PUBMED) (Supplementary Material available online at BMC genomics)
Samadhi Moreno-Campuzano, Sarath Chandra Janga and Ernesto Perez-Rueda
BMC Genomics . 2006 Jun 13;7(1):147
+ Accessed over 800 times in less than 5 months according to BMC report

• Prediction and evolution of transcription factors and their evolutionary families in prokaryotes (PDF)
Sarath Chandra Janga *
BMC Systems Biology, 2007, 1(Suppl 1):P3 (tutorial presentation as part of the proceedings of the BioSysBio conference)

• Internal versus external effector and transcription factor gene pairs differ in their relative chromosomal position in Escherichia coli (PDF) (PUBMED) (Supplementary Material)
Sarath Chandra Janga * , Heladia Salgado, Julio Collado-Vides and Agustino Martinez-Antonio
Journal of Molecular Biology, 2007 Vol. 368(1):263-72

• Conservation of Transcriptional Sensing Systems in prokarya: A perspective from Escherichia coli (PDF) (PUBMED)
Heladia Salgado, Agustino Martinez-Antonio and Sarath Chandra Janga *
Febs letters, 2007 Vol. 581:3499-3506

• Operome: A comprehensive resource of predicted operon structures in complete prokaryotic genomes
Sarath Chandra Janga * , Juan Segura-Salazar and Gabriel Moreno-Hagelsieb
Submitted to Genome Biology

• Highlights from the Third International Society for Computational Biology Student Council Symposium (PDF) (PUBMED)
Nils Gehlenborg, Manuel Corpas and Sarath Chandra Janga *
BMC Bioinformatics 2007, 8(Suppl 8):I1

• Structure and evolution of gene regulatory networks in microbial genomes (PDF) (PUBMED)
Sarath Chandra Janga * and Julio Collado-Vides
Research in Microbiology , 2007 158(10):787-94
+ Featured on the cover page of the issue & selected as journals' representative image

• Co-ordination logic of sensing machinery in the transcriptional regulatory network of Escherichia coli (PDF) (PUBMED)
Sarath Chandra Janga * , Heladia Salgado, Agustino Martinez-Antonio and Julio Collado-Vides
Nucleic Acids Research, 2007 Vol.35, No. 20, 6963-6972

• Ten simple rules for organising a successful scientific meeting (PDF) (PUBMED)
Manuel Corpas, Nils Gehlenborg, Sarath Chandra Janga and Philip E. Bourne
PLoS Comput Biol 2008 4(6):e1000080

• Functional organization of E. coli transcriptional regulatory network (PDF) (PUBMED)
Agustino Martinez-Antonio, Sarath Chandra Janga and Denis Thieffry
Journal of Molecular Biology, 2008 Vol. 381(1):238-247

• Transcriptional regulation constrains the organization of genes on eukaryotic chromosomes (PDF) (PUBMED)
Sarath Chandra Janga * , Julio Collado-Vides and M. Madan Babu
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A , 2008 105(41): 15761-6, 2008
+ Featured on the news and highlights section of the journal Molecular Biosystems

• Eukaryotic gene regulation in three dimensions and its impact on genome evolution (PDF) (PUBMED)
M. Madan Babu, Sarath Chandra Janga , Ines Santiago and Ana Pombo
Curr Opin Genet Dev., 2008 Vol. 18(6):571-582
+ Featured on the cover page of the issue

• Transcript stability in the protein interaction network of Escherichia coli (PDF) (PUBMED)
Sarath Chandra Janga* and M. Madan Babu
Molecular Biosystems, 2008 , 5(2):154-62
+ Featured on the cover page of the issue

• Highlights from the Fourth International Society for Computational Biology Student Council Symposium (PDF) (PUBMED)
Lucia Peixoto, Nils Gehlenborg and Sarath Chandra Janga
BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9(Suppl 10):I1

• Network approaches for linking metabolism with environment (PDF) (PUBMED)
Sarath Chandra Janga * and M. Madan Babu
Genome Biology, 2008, 9(11):239
+ Featured on the title page of the journal's website

• Transcriptional regulation shapes the organization of genes on bacterial chromosomes (PDF) (PUBMED)
Sarath Chandra Janga * , Heladia Salgado and Agustino Martinez-Antonio
Nucleic Acids Research, 2009 Vol.37, No. 11, 3680-3688

• A global functional atlas of Escherichia coli encopassing the previously uncharacterized protein repertoire (PDF) (PUBMED)
Pingzhao Hu + , Sarath Chandra Janga + , Mohan Babu +, J. Javier Díaz-Mejía +, Gareth Butland + , et.al
PLoS Biology , 2009, 7(4), e96

Structural coupling between RNA polymerase composition and DNA supercoiling in coordinating transcription: a global role for the omega subunit?
Marcel Geertz, Andrew Travers, Sanja Mehandziska, Patrick Sobetzko, Sarath Chandra Janga, Nobuo Shimamoto and Georgi Muskhelishvili
MBio, 2011, (Accepted, In Press)

Plasticity of transcriptional machinery in bacteria is increased by the repertoire of regulatory families (PDF) (PUBMED)
Sarath Chandra Janga * and Ernesto Perez-Rueda
Computational Biology and Chemistry, 2009, Vol. 33, No. 4, 261-268

Structure and organization of drug-target networks : Insights from genomic approaches for drug discovery (PDF) (PUBMED)
Sarath Chandra Janga * and Andreas Tzakos
Molecular Biosystems , 2009, 5(12):1536-48

Scaling relationship in the gene content of transcriptional machinery in bacteria (PDF) (PUBMED)
Ernesto Perez-Rueda, Sarath Chandra Janga * and Agustino-Martinez-Antonio
Molecular Biosystems, 2009, 5(12):1494-501

Dissecting the expression dynamics of RNA-binding proteins in post-transcriptional regulatory networks (PDF) (PUBMED)
Nitish Mittal, Nilanjan Roy, M. Madan Babu and Sarath Chandra Janga *
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A. 106(48): 20300-05, 2009

Interfacing systems biology and synthetic biology (PDF) (PUBMED)
Allyson Lister, Varodom Charoensawan, Subhajyoti De, Katherine James, Sarath Chandra Janga and Julian Huppert
Genome Biology, 2009 , 10(6):309

Identification and genomic analysis of transcription factors in archaeal genomes exemplifies their functional architecture and evolutionary origin (PDF) (PUBMED)
Ernesto Perez-Rueda and Sarath Chandra Janga *
Mol. Biol. Evol. 27(4): 1-11, 2010

Dissecting the expression patterns of transcription factors across conditions using an integrated network-based approach (PDF) (PUBMED)
Sarath Chandra Janga * and Bruno Contreras-Moreira
Nucleic Acids Research, 2010, Vol.38, No.10, 6841-56

Polypharmacological approaches to fight antibacterial resistance : Insights from drug-target networks
Sarath Chandra Janga * and Andreas Tzakos
(Submitted)

Transcriptional profiling of fetal hypothalamic TRH neurons
Magdalena Guerra-Crespo, Carlos Pérez-Monter, Sarath Chandra Janga , Santiago Castillo-Ramírez, Rosa Maria Gutierrez-Rios, Patricia Joseph-Bravo, Leonor Pérez-Martínez and Jean-Louis Charli
BMC Genomics, 2011 (Accepted, In Press)

Genome-wide analysis of RNA decay patterns during early Drosophila development (PDF) (PUBMED)
Stefan Thomsen, Simon Anders, Sarath Chandra Janga , Wolfgang Huber and Claudio R. Alonso
Genome Biology, 2010, 11(9):R93

A screen for RNA-binding proteins in yeast indicates dual functions for many enzymes (PDF) (PUBMED)
Tanja Scherrer, Nitish Mittal, Sarath Chandra Janga , André P Gerber
PLoS ONE, 2010, 5(11): e15499

Network-based function prediction and interactomics: the case for metabolic enzymes (PDF) (PUBMED)
Sarath Chandra Janga * , Javier Díaz-Mejía and Gabriel Moreno-Hagelsieb
Metab Eng. 2011, 13(1):1-10

• Interplay between post-transcriptional and post-translational interactions of RNA-binding proteins (PDF) (PUBMED)
Nitish Mittal, Tanja Scherrer, André P Gerber and Sarath Chandra Janga*
Journal of Molecular Biology, 2011 (Advanced online, In Press)

Dissecting the interactome of RNA-binding proteins in post-transcriptional regulatory networks
Sarath Chandra Janga *, Nitish Mittal and M. Madan Babu
(Submitted)

Genome organization and transcriptional control in archaea
Sarath Chandra Janga * and Ernesto Perez-Rueda
(To be Submitted)

Intrinsic modularity in the genomic organization of eubacterial transcription factors
Sarath Chandra Janga * and Gabriel Moreno-Hagelsieb
(In Preparation)

 

Book chapters :

•  Sarath Chandra Janga * and M. Madan Babu
Invited book chapter on transcriptional regulatory networks for Cambridge University Press for the book entitled 'Networks in Cell Biology' (Ed: Michele Vendruscolo et.al , Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, U.K)
(Print version can be purchased from http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521882736 )

•  Sarath Chandra Janga *
Invited book chapter on 'DNA polymerases and their regulation in bacteria and eukarya' for Nova Science Publishers for an edited book on 'DNA-dependent DNA polymerases'

•  Sarath Chandra Janga * and Gabriel Moreno-Hagelsieb
Invited book chapter on 'Operons and bacterial genome organization' for Horizon Scientific Press for an edited book on 'Bacterial Gene Regulation and Transcriptional Networks' (Ed: M. Madan Babu, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, U. K)

•  Sarath Chandra Janga * and Nitish Mittal
Invited book chapter on 'Construction, structure and dynamics of post-transcriptional network directed by RNA-binding proteins' for Springer/Landes Bioscience Press for an edited book on 'RNA infrastructure: RNA processing and regulatory networks' (Ed: Lesley Collins, Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Biology and Ecology & Institute of Molecular BioSciences, Massey University)
(Print version can be purchased from http://www.landesbioscience.com/books/special/id/3701/ )

•  Sarath Chandra Janga * and Swati Vallabhaneni
Invited book chapter on 'MicroRNAs as post-transcriptional machines and their interplay with cellular networks' for Springer/Landes Bioscience Press for an edited book on 'RNA infrastructure: RNA processing and regulatory networks' (Ed: Lesley Collins, Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Biology and Ecology & Institute of Molecular BioSciences, Massey University)
(Print version can be purchased from http://www.landesbioscience.com/books/special/id/3701/ )

 

Posters presented or co-authored:

•  Keystone meeting on 'Biomolecular Interaction Networks: Function and Disease' (2010) ' Dissecting the expression dynamics of RNA-binding proteins in post-transcriptional networks '

•  CSHL meeting on 'Systems Biology: Global Regulation of Gene Expression' (2010) ' Systematic identification of RNA-binding proteins in yeast suggests dual functions for enzymes '

•  Proteins and their networks meeting, Spetses, Greece (2009) ' Dissecting the expression dynamics of RNA-binding proteins in post-transcriptional networks '

•  Cambridge Life Sciences symposium (CamLS) (2008) ' Transcriptional regulation constrains genome organization '

•  Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) (2008) ' Prokaryotic-wide gold standards and phylogenetic profiles '

•  First Portuguese Forum on Computational Biology (2008) ' Insights into bivalent domains in murine stem cells '

•  MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology graduate student symposium, Cambridge (2008) ' Transcriptional regulatory complexity constraints genome organization in eukaryotic organisms '

•  Sanger-Cambridge Phd Symposium (Annual graduate symposium in biological sciences at Cambridge University) (2008) ' Evidence for the influence of transcriptional regulation in shaping the organization of genes in eukaryotic organisms '

•  Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) (2006) ' Plasticity of transcriptional regulatory machinery revealed from a comparison of complete regulatory reportoires. ' (Poster as PNG image)

•  International Conference on Systems Biology ( ICSB) (2005) ' Understanding operon recombinations in multi-replicon genomes: A perspective from Rhizobium etli .' (Poster as PNG image)

•  International Conference on Systems Biology ( ICSB) (2005) ' Internal Sensing Machinery directs the activity of the regulatory network in Escherichia coli .' (Poster as PNG image)

•  Arrowhead Conference, California , September 2004 & ISMB (2005) ' Nebulon: a system for the inference of functional relationships of gene products from the recombination of predicted operons ' (Poster as PNG image)

•  RECOMB (2005) ' No evidence for relation between co-regulation and transcriptional regulatory interactions in the evolution of regulatory networks.' (Poster as PNG image)

•  6 th European Nitrogen Fixation Conference (2004) ' The Complete Genome Sequence of Rhizobium etli.' (Poster as PNG image)

•  Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) ( 2004) ' Gene Ontology Network of Interactions among Operons in E.coli and B.subtilis '(Poster as PNG image)

•  Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) (2004) ' Finding modules using network motifs as building blocks ' (Poster as PNG image)

•  Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) (2004) ' Inference of Biological Modules in Escherichia coli Regulatory Network.' (Poster as PNG image)

•  HUGO Human Genome Meeting, Cancun , Mexico (2003) ' A Study of Paralogous Operons ' (Poster as PNG image)

•  Biohorizon 2003, India ' Gene Order Conservation in S. cerevisiae ' (adjudged the best poster)



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