Srividhya Sundaram

About

I am a protein biochemist interested in metabolic pathways. I have experience working with bacterial secondary metabolite and lipoprotein biosynthetic pathways with a special focus on the novel enzymatic mechanisms. I have expertise in the use of techniques spanning protein biochemistry, analytical chemistry, enzymology, microbiology, and molecular biology. I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology.

Employment

• Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology Postdoctoral researcher
  2017 - Present
• Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knöll Institute PhD researcher
  2012 - 2017
• Anna University Chennai Department of Biotechnology research fellow
  2008 - 2010

Education

• Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knöll Institute PhD
  2012 - 2017
• Anna University Chennai Masters (By Research) in Biochemistry
  2007 - 2010
• K.S.Rangasamy College of Technology - Anna University Bachelors in Industrial Biotechnology
  2002 - 2006

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (9)

• Understanding Substrate Selectivity of Phoslactomycin Polyketide Synthase by Using Reconstituted in Vitro Systems
  Chembiochem 2020
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• On‐line Polyketide Cyclization into Diverse Medium‐Sized Lactones by a Specialized Ketosynthase Domain
  Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2018
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• Cryptic indole hydroxylation by a non-canonical terpenoid cyclase parallels bacterial xenobiotic detoxification
  Nature Communications 2017
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• A widespread bacterial phenazine forms S-conjugates with biogenic thiols and crosslinks proteins
  Chemical Science 2016
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• On-line enzymatic tailoring of polyketides and peptides in thiotemplate systems
  Current Opinion in Chemical Biology 2016
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• Polyketide synthase chimeras reveal key role of ketosynthase domain in chain branching
  Nature Chemical Biology 2015
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• Twofold polyketide branching by a stereoselective enzymatic Michael addition
  Chemical Communications 2015
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• Enzymatic polyketide chain branching to give substituted lactone, lactam, and glutarimide heterocycles
  Angewandte Chemistry International Edition 2014
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• The first nonradioactive fluorescence assay for phosphatidylglycerol: prolipoprotein diacylglyceryl transferase that initiates bacterial lipoprotein biosynthesis
  Analytical Biochemistry 2012
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