Mysore A. Viswamitra
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Mysore Ananthamurthy Viswamitra (14 November 1932 – 10 April 2001) was an Indian
Biography
Born on 14 November 1932, in Shimoga, in the south Indian state of Karnataka, Viswamitra did his early education at the University of Mysore and Banaras Hindu University before securing a PhD from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and joined IISc in 1954.[4] He served IISc till his superannuation in 1993 during which time he founded the School of Biocrystallography and the Bioinformatics Centre at the institution. He is reported to have determined the structure of a number of mononucleotides for the first time and, along with Olga Kennard, elucidated the oligonucleotide dp(AT)2 structure leading to the first atomic detail view of a DNA duplex.[1] His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles[note 1] and ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 141 of them.[5]
Viswamitra was an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz. the
Viswamitra died, succumbing to a heart attack, on 10 April 2001, at the age of 68, survived by his wife and son. The death occurred immediately after he delivered a public speech at the condolence meeting of his colleague, G. N. Ramachandran.[4]
Selected bibliography
- Viswamitra, M. A.; Latha, K. S.; Rao, Jagannatha K. S.; Suram, Anitha (1 December 2002). "First evidence to show the topological change of DNA from B-DNA to Z-DNA conformation in the hippocampus of Alzheimer's brain". NeuroMolecular Medicine. 2 (3): 289–297. S2CID 29059186.
- Siddaramaiah Latha, Kallur; Suram, Anitha; Jagannatha, Rao; Ananthamurthy Viswamitra, Mysore (1 November 2002). "Molecular understanding of aluminum-induced topological changes in (CCG)12 triplet repeats: Relevance to neurological disorders". Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease. 1588 (1): 56–64. PMID 12379314.
- Narayana, Narendra; Shamala, N.; Ganesh, Krishna N.; Viswamitra, M. A. (1 January 2006). "Interaction between the Z-Type DNA Duplex and 1,3-Propanediamine: Crystal Structure of d(CACGTG)2 at 1.2 Å Resolution". Biochemistry. 45 (4): 1200–1211. PMID 16430216.
- Eswaran, S. V.; Neela, H. Y.; Ramakumar, S.; Viswamitra, M. A. (1997). "ChemInform Abstract: The Unusual Formation of Methyl α-(5,6-Dimethoxycarbonyl-2,3- dimethoxyazepin-7-ylidene)-α-(5-methoxycarbonyl-2,3- dimethoxypyrid-6-yl)acetate (V) During the Pyrolysis of "Azido-meta- hemipinate" (IV). First Example of a Reaction Involving a Concomitant Ring Expansion and Ring Extrusion". ChemInform. 28 (1): no. ISSN 1522-2667.
- Viswamitra, Mysore A.; Padmaja, Natarajan; Prabhakar, Chebiyyam; Mehta, Goverdhan (1 January 1992). "New triquinane-based host molecules: binding with diamines". Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1 (14): 1747–1749. ISSN 1364-5463.
- Padmaja, N.; Ramakumar, S.; Viswamitra, M. A. (1991). "ChemInform Abstract: Structure of 5-Methylcytidine". ChemInform. 22 (40): no. ISSN 1522-2667.
See also
- Nucleic acid double helix
- List of TWAS Prize laureates
Notes
- ^ Please see Selected bibliography section
References
- ^ a b "Mysore Ananthamurthy Viswamitra - NeglectedScience". www.neglectedscience.com. 18 December 2018. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
- ^ "Endowed chairs for the Faculty". Indian Institute of Science. 18 December 2018. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
- ^ a b "INSA - Deceased Fellow Detail". www.insaindia.res.in. 18 December 2018. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
- ^ a b c "Scientist dies after addressing condolence meet". The Hindu. 11 April 2001. Retrieved 18 December 2018.[dead link]
- ^ "M. A. Viswamitra's research works - Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bengaluru (JNCASR) and other places". ResearchGate. 18 December 2018. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
- ^ "Fellowship - Indian Academy of Sciences". www.ias.ac.in. 18 December 2018. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
- ^ "The National Academy of Sciences, India Deceased Fellows". www.nasi.org.in. 18 December 2018. Archived from the original on 28 May 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
- ^ "TWAS Fellow". TWAS. 18 December 2018. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
- ^ "SIR C V RAMAN AWARD". Acoustical Society of India. 14 March 2018. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
Further reading
- "Crystallography in India". www.iucr.org. 18 December 2018. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
External links
- Donald Voet; Judith G. Voet; Charlotte W. Pratt (29 February 2016). Fundamentals of Biochemistry: Life at the Molecular Level. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 1–. ISBN 978-1-118-91840-1.
- World Directory of Crystallographers: And of Other Scientists Employing Crystallographic Methods. Springer Science & Business Media. 11 November 2013. pp. 86–. ISBN 978-94-017-3703-6.
- Yves Epelboin (11 November 2013). World Directory of Crystallographers: And of Other Scientists Employing Crystallographic Methods. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 87–. ISBN 978-94-017-3699-2.