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{{short description|Indian molecular biologist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2019}}
{{Use Indian English|date=February 2019}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Tapas Kumar Kundu
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1962|1|2}}
| birth_place = [[Hili, Dakshin Dinajpur|Hili]], [[West Bengal]], India
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| fields = {{ublist | [[Molecular biology]] }}
| workplaces = {{ublist | [[Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research]] }}
| alma_mater = {{ublist | [[Indian Institute of Science]] | [[National Institute of Genetics]] | [[Rockefeller University]] }}
| doctoral_advisor = [[M. R. S. Rao]]
| doctoral_students =
| known_for = Studies on regulation of [[Gene expression]]
| awards = 1993 International Council of Scientific Union Award 1995 [[Indian Institute of Science|IISc]] Giri Memorial Award 2005 [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]] 2005 [[National Bioscience Award for Career Development|N-BIOS Prize]] 2008 [[National Academy of Sciences, India|NASI]]-[[Reliance Industries|Reliance]] Platinum Jubilee Award 2011 [[G. D. Birla Award for Scientific Research]] 2011 Ranbaxy Research Award 2012 [[Merck Millipore|MM]] India Innovation Award
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'''Tapas Kumar Kundu''' (born 2 January 1962) is an Indian molecular biologist, academician and at present the [[Director (business)|Director]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Prof. Tapas Kundu as Director, CDRI (CSIR), Lucknow|url=http://www.cdri.res.in/Directorpro.aspx}}</ref> of [[Central Drug Research Institute]], a prestigious research institute of [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]] at [[Lucknow]]. He is the head of the Transcription and Disease Laboratory of [[Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research]].<ref name="Prof. Tapas Kumar Kundu - TDL">{{cite web | url=http://www.jncasr.ac.in/tapas/tkk_pro.php | title=Prof. Tapas Kumar Kundu - TDL | publisher=Transcription and Disease Laboratory | date=2016 | access-date=20 October 2016}}</ref> He is known for his studies on the regulation of [[Gene expression]] and his contributions in cancer diagnostics and the development of new drug candidates for cancer and AIDS therapeutics.<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{cite web | url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/content/Detail.aspx?AID=168 | title=Brief Profile of the Awardee | publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | date=2016 | access-date=5 October 2016}}</ref> He is an elected fellow of the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]],<ref name="Fellow profile - T K Kundu">{{cite web | url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Kundu,_Dr_Tapas_Kumar | title=Fellow profile - T K Kundu | publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences | date=2016 | access-date=6 October 2016}}</ref> [[Indian National Science Academy]]<ref name="Indian fellow - T K Kundu">{{cite web | url=http://www.insaindia.res.in/detail.php?id=P10-1515 | title=Indian fellow - T K Kundu | publisher=Indian National Science Academy | date=2016 | access-date=11 October 2016}}</ref> and the [[National Academy of Sciences, India]]<ref name="NASI fellows">{{cite web | url=http://www.nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=K | title=NASI fellows | publisher=National Academy of Sciences, India | date=2016 | access-date=20 October 2016 | archive-date=15 March 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315081652/http://nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=K | url-status=dead }}</ref> and a J. C. Bose National Fellow of the [[Department of Science and Technology (India)|Department of Science and Technology]]. The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]], the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]], one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2005, for his contributions to biological sciences.<ref name="View Bhatnagar Awardees">{{cite web | url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx | title=View Bhatnagar Awardees | publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | date=2016 | access-date=5 October 2016}}</ref> He is also a recipient of the [[National Bioscience Award for Career Development]] of the [[Department of Biotechnology]].<ref name="Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development">{{cite web | url=http://dbtindia.nic.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/list_of_bioscience_awardees.pdf | title=Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development | publisher=Department of Biotechnology | date=2016 | access-date=17 October 2016 | archive-date=4 March 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180304191331/http://dbtindia.nic.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/list_of_bioscience_awardees.pdf | url-status=dead }}</ref>

== Biography ==
Born on 2 January 1962 at [[Hili, Dakshin Dinajpur|Hili]], a border town near Balurghat in Dakshin Dinajpur district in the Indian state of [[West Bengal]] to Kalachand Kundu and Dipali couple, Tapas Kumar Kundu graduated in agriculture (BSc hons) from [[Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya]] in 1986 and completed his master's degree in biochemistry from [[University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore]] in 1989, winning a gold medal for standing first in the master's degree examination.<ref name="Biographical Information">{{cite web | url=http://www.jncasr.ac.in/tdl/cvsir.html | title=Biographical Information | publisher=Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research | date=2016 | access-date=20 October 2016}}</ref> He enrolled for doctoral studies at the [[Indian Institute of Science]] in 1990 and secured a PhD under the guidance of [[M. R. S. Rao]]<ref name="Academic Profile">{{cite web | url=http://www.jncasr.ac.in/profile/tapas.html | title=Academic Profile | publisher=Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research | date=2016 | access-date=22 October 2016}}</ref> in 1995 for his thesis, ''Zinc-Metalloprotein Nature of Rat Spermatidal Protein TP2 and its Interactions with DNA''.<ref name="IISc Alumni">{{cite web | url=http://alumni.iisc.ernet.in/profile/view/tapas-kumar-kundu | title=IISc Alumni | publisher=Indian Institute of Science | date=2016 | access-date=22 October 2016}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|His thesis won the Giri Memorial Award for best thesis in Biochemistry.<ref name="Tapas K. Kundu on ICRD">{{cite web | url=http://www.incredb.org/investigator.php?incredb_id=65 | title=Tapas K. Kundu on ICRD | publisher=India Cancer Research Database | date=2016 | access-date=22 October 2016}}</ref>}} After a short stint at the [[National Institute of Genetics]], Japan during 1995–96 as a visiting foreign research associate, he did his post-doctoral studies at the Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of [[Rockefeller University]] during 1996–99. Returning to India the same year, he joined [[Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research]] at their Molecular Biology and Genetics Unit where he became an assistant professor in 2005 and heads the Transcription and Disease Laboratory of the institution in the capacity of a JNCASR Silver Jubillee Professor since 2015.<ref name="Prof. Tapas Kumar Kundu - TDL" />

Kundu is a life member and a former vice president of the Society of Biological Chemists, India<ref name="Life members">{{cite web | url=http://iiscp.iisc.ernet.in/sbci/images/LIST%20-OF%20-LIFE-MEMBERS.pdf | title=Life members | publisher=Society of Biological Chemists, India | date=2016 | access-date=20 October 2016}}</ref> and is its incumbent president.<ref name="SBC(I) Presidents">{{cite web | url=http://iiscp.iisc.ernet.in/sbci/images/SBCpastpresident.pdf | title=SBC(I) Presidents | publisher=Society of Biological Chemists, India | date=2016 | access-date=20 October 2016 | archive-date=9 October 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161009173227/http://iiscp.iisc.ernet.in/sbci/images/SBCpastpresident.pdf | url-status=dead }}</ref> He is a nominated member of [[American Chemical Society]] and [[American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology]] and a member of the [[American Society for Microbiology]].<ref name="Prof. Tapas Kumar Kundu - TDL" /> He was among the biologists who founded the Chemical Biology Society, India of the [[Indian Institute of Chemical Biology]] in 2013 and serves as it secretary.<ref name="Present Council">{{cite web | url=http://iicb.res.in/chemical_biology_society/pc.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140330104444/http://iicb.res.in/chemical_biology_society/pc.htm | url-status=dead | archive-date=2014-03-30 | title=Present Council | publisher=Chemical Biology Society, India | date=2016 | access-date=20 October 2016 }}</ref> An adjunct professor at the Special Centre for Molecular Medicine of [[Jawaharlal Nehru University]], he served as a member of the Reader Panel of ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' and is a former member of the editorial board of the [[Journal of Biological Chemistry]] (June 2011–September 2016).<ref name="Prof. Tapas Kumar Kundu - TDL" /> In 2019, the School of Biological Sciences, [[Madurai Kamaraj University]] had appointed him as a distinguished member of the national and international advisory committee to organize ICGB'19 (International Conference on Genome Biology 2019).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.readkong.com/page/school-of-biological-sciences-madurai-kamaraj-university-6308630|title= School of Biological Sciences Madurai Kamaraj University Madurai - 625021, India|publisher= School of Biological Sciences Madurai Kamaraj University|access-date=1 May 2010}}</ref>

== Legacy ==
[[File:Nucleosome 1KX5 2.png|thumb|235px|DNA associates with histone proteins to form chromatin]]
Kundu's researches are principally focused on the regulation of [[Transcription (genetics)|transcription]] and [[P53]] function using [[chromatin]] and associated proteins as well as on the functional genomics of [[Coactivation (Transcription)|transcriptional co-activators]].<ref name="Tapas K. Kundu on ICRD" /> His researches assisted in the identification of [[PC4]] and its role as a functional component of chromatin and as an activator of P53.<ref name="Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners">{{cite web | url=http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | title=Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners | publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research | date=1999 | access-date=5 October 2016 | pages=34}}</ref> He demonstrated the [[histone]] [[Chaperone (protein)|chaperone]] activity and the [[acetylation]] of chromatin transcription and these findings have been reported to have helped in identifying new drug candidates.<ref name="2005 Biological Sciences ">{{cite web | url=http://csir.res.in/csir/external/heads/career/award/ssb2005.pdf | title=2005 Biological Sciences | publisher=CSIR | date=2016 | access-date=22 October 2016}}</ref> Extending his researches to cancer and AIDS therapeutics, he has identified ''small molecule modulators of chromatin modifying enzymes'', a discovery which is reported to be helpful in developing new therapeutic protocols.<ref name="Indian fellow - T K Kundu" />

Kundu has published one book, ''Epigenetics: Development and Disease'',<ref name="Kundu2012">{{cite book|author=Tapas Kumar Kundu|title=Epigenetics: Development and Disease|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O2OBaKOyavwC|date=13 November 2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-94-007-4525-4}}</ref> and a number of articles in peer-reviewed journals{{Refn|group=note|Please see Selected bibliography section}} and [[Google Scholar]], an online article repository, has listed 215 of them.<ref name="T K Kundu on Google Scholar">{{cite web | url=https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=tXbKltMAAAAJ | title=T K Kundu on Google Scholar | publisher=Google Scholar | date=2015 | access-date=21 October 2016}}</ref> Several of his research findings have been put to commercial use by various companies and he holds several patents for his works which include processes and compounds.<ref name="T K KUndu Patents">{{cite web | url=http://patents.justia.com/inventor/tapas-kumar-kundu | title=T K KUndu Patents | publisher=Justia Patents | work=2016 | access-date=21 October 2016}}</ref> He has delivered a number of featured lectures<ref name="Epigenetic Regulation of Chromatin Dynamics and Gene Expression: Implications in Differentiation, Disease and Therapeutics">{{cite web | url=http://www.iitbbs.ac.in/events-archives.php?id=119 | title=Epigenetic Regulation of Chromatin Dynamics and Gene Expression: Implications in Differentiation, Disease and Therapeutics | publisher=Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar | date=8 August 2014 | access-date=22 October 2016}}</ref> and is one of the organizers of the ''Asian Forum for the Chromatin and Chromosome Biology'', a biennial event for the students and researchers of [[epigenetics]] and chromatin biology from Asian countries. He is also involved in popularizing science in the rural areas through science outreach programs and has delivered a series of lectures on ''Genes, Disease and Therapeutics'', with student community as the audience.<ref name="Prof. Tapas K. Kundu on JNU">{{cite web | url=http://www.jnu.ac.in/SCMM/PROF-KUNDU-CV.pdf | title=Prof. Tapas K. Kundu on JNU | publisher=Jawaharlal Nehru University | date=2016 | access-date=22 October 2016}}</ref>

== Awards and honors ==
The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]] (CSIR) awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]], one of the highest Indian science awards in 2005<ref name="View Bhatnagar Awardees" /> and he received the [[National Bioscience Award for Career Development]] (N-BIOS Prize) from the [[Department of Biotechnology]], the same year.<ref name="Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development" /> Three years later, he was selected for the [[National Academy of Sciences, India]]-[[Reliance Industries]] Platinum Jubilee Award in 2008 for his contributions to biological sciences.<ref name="NASI-Reliance Platinum Jubilee Award">{{cite web | url=http://nasi.nic.in/ripja.htm | title=NASI-Reliance Platinum Jubilee Award | publisher=National Academy of Sciences, India | date=2016 | access-date=22 October 2016}}</ref> In 2011, he received the [[G. D. Birla Award for Scientific Research]] of the [[K. K. Birla Foundation]]<ref name="Tapas Kumar Kundu receives GD Birla Award for research">{{cite web | url=http://www.indiaeducationreview.com/news/tapas-kumar-kundu-receives-gd-birla-award-research | title=Tapas Kumar Kundu receives GD Birla Award for research | publisher=India Education Review | date=2 September 2012 | access-date=22 October 2016}}</ref> and the Ranbaxy Research Award.<ref name="Ranbaxy honours scientists, scholars in pharma, medical research">{{cite web | url=http://www.pharmabiz.com/NewsDetails.aspx?aid=73580&sid=2 | title=Ranbaxy honours scientists, scholars in pharma, medical research | publisher=Pharma Biz | date=5 February 2013 | access-date=22 October 2016}}</ref> He is also a recipient of the ''India Innovation Award 2012'' of [[Merck Millipore]].<ref name="Kundu on IITB">{{cite web | url=http://www.iitbbs.ac.in/docs2/Prof%20Kundu%20Biography.pdf | title=Kundu on IITB | publisher=Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar | date=2016 | access-date=22 October 2016}}</ref>

Kundu, a recipient of the 1993 International Council of Scientific Union Award,<ref name="Tapas K. Kundu on ICRD" /> is an elected member of the [[Guha Research Conference]] and a fellow of the [[Union for International Cancer Control]] (2001 and 2005).<ref name="Honors and Awards">{{cite web | url=http://www.jncasr.ac.in/tdl/cvsir.html | title=Honors and Awards | publisher=Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research | date=2016 | access-date=22 October 2016}}</ref> He was elected as a fellow by the [[National Academy of Sciences, India]] in 2005<ref name="NASI fellows" /> and he became an elected fellow of the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]] and the [[Indian National Science Academy]] in 2008<ref name="Fellow profile - T K Kundu" /> and 2009 respectively. The [[Department of Science and Technology (India)|Department of Science and Technology]] awarded him the J. C. Bose National Fellowship in 2010 and he has delivered several award orations including the 2010 lecture of the Tohoku Medical Society, Japan.<ref name="Indian fellow - T K Kundu" /> He is also a recipient of [[Monbukagakusho Scholarship]] of the Government of Japan (1996), Post-doctoral fellowship of the [[Human Frontier Science Program]] (2001) and Collaborative Research fellowship of ARCUS-India (2005–08).<ref name="Tapas K. Kundu on ICRD" />

== Selected bibliography ==
=== Books ===
* {{cite book|author=Tapas Kumar Kundu|title=Epigenetics: Development and Disease|date=13 November 2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-94-007-4525-4}}

=== Articles ===
* {{cite journal | title=HATs off: selective synthetic inhibitors of the histone acetyltransferases p300 and PCAF |author1=Ontario D Lau |author2=Tapas K Kundu |author3=Raymond E Soccio |author4=Slimane Ait-Si-Ali |author5=Ehab M Khalil |author6=Alex Vassilev |author7=Alan P Wolffe |author8=Yoshihiro Nakatani |author9=Robert G Roeder |author10=Philip A Cole | journal=Molecular Cell | date=March 2000 | volume=5 | issue=3 | pages=589–595 | pmid=10882143|doi=10.1016/S1097-2765(00)80452-9|doi-access=free }}
* {{cite journal | title=Activator-dependent transcription from chromatin in vitro involving targeted histone acetylation by p300 |author1=Tapas K Kundu |author2=Vikas B Palhan |author3=Zhengxin Wang |author4=Woojin An |author5=Philip A Cole |author6=Robert G Roeder | journal=Molecular Cell | date=September 2000 | volume=6 | issue=3 | pages=551–561 | pmid=11030335 | doi=10.1016/s1097-2765(00)00054-x| doi-access=free }}
* {{cite journal | title=Human STAGA complex is a chromatin-acetylating transcription coactivator that interacts with pre-mRNA splicing and DNA damage-binding factors in vivo |author1=Ernest Martinez |author2=Vikas B Palhan |author3=Agneta Tjernberg |author4=Elena S Lymar |author5=Armin M Gamper |author6=Tapas K Kundu |author7=Brian T Chait |author8=Robert G Roeder | journal=Molecular and Cellular Biology | date=October 2001 | volume=21 | issue=10 | pages=6782–6795 | pmid=11564863 | doi=10.1128/MCB.21.20.6782-6795.2001 | pmc=99856}}
* {{cite journal | title=Small molecule modulators of histone acetyltransferase p300 |author1=Karanam Balasubramanyam |author2=V Swaminathan |author3=Anupama Ranganathan |author4=Tapas K Kundu | journal=Journal of Biological Chemistry | date=May 2003 | volume=278 | issue=21 | pages=19134–19140 | doi=10.1074/jbc.M301580200|pmid=12624111 | doi-access=free }}
* {{cite journal | title=Polyisoprenylated benzophenone, garcinol, a natural histone acetyltransferase inhibitor, represses chromatin transcription and alters global gene expression |author1=Karanam Balasubramanyam |author2=M Altaf |author3=Radhika A Varier |author4=V Swaminathan |author5=Aarti Ravindran |author6=Parag P Sadhale |author7=Tapas K Kundu | journal=Journal of Biological Chemistry | date=August 2004 | volume=279 | issue=32 | pages=33716–33726 | doi=10.1074/jbc.M402839200 | pmid=15155757| doi-access=free }}
* {{cite journal | title=Curcumin, a novel p300/CREB-binding protein-specific inhibitor of acetyltransferase, represses the acetylation of histone/nonhistone proteins and histone acetyltransferase-dependent chromatin transcription |author1=Karanam Balasubramanyam |author2=Radhika A Varier |author3=Mohammed Altaf |author4=Venkatesh Swaminathan |author5=Nagadenahalli B Siddappa |author6=Udaykumar Ranga |author7=Tapas K Kundu | journal=Journal of Biological Chemistry | date=December 2004 | volume=279 | issue=49 | pages=51163–51171 | doi=10.1074/jbc.M409024200 | pmid=15383533| doi-access=free }}
* {{cite journal | title=Human histone chaperone nucleophosmin enhances acetylation-dependent chromatin transcription |author1=V Swaminathan |author2=A Hari Kishore |author3=KK Febitha |author4=Tapas K Kundu | journal=Molecular and Cellular Biology | date=September 2005 | volume=25 | issue=17 | pages=7534–7545 | doi=10.1128/MCB.25.17.7534-7545.2005|pmid=16107701 |pmc=1190275 |url=http://repository.ias.ac.in/18943/1/310.pdf }}
* {{cite journal | title=Intrinsically fluorescent carbon nanospheres as a nuclear targeting vector: delivery of membrane-impermeable molecule to modulate gene expression in vivo |author1=B Ruthrotha Selvi |author2=Dinesh Jagadeesan |author3=BS Suma |author4=G Nagashankar |author5=M Arif |author6=K Balasubramanyam |author7=M Eswaramoorthy |author8=Tapas K Kundu | journal=Nano Letters | date=September 2008 | volume=8 | issue=10 | pages=3182–3188 | doi=10.1021/nl801503m|pmid=18800851 |bibcode=2008NanoL...8.3182S }}

== Patents ==
The list may be incomplete.
* {{cite web | title=Nanosphere-histone acetyltransferase (HAT) activator composition, process and methods thereof | work=A composition including nanosphere and histone acetyltransferase (HAT) activator - Patent No. 9314539 | date=19 April 2016 |author1=Tapas Kumar Kundu |author2=Anne-Laurence Boutillier |author3=Snehajyoti Chatterjee |author4=Muthusamy Eswaramoorthy |author5=Pushpak Mizar |author6=Chantal Mathis |author7=Jean-Christophe Cassel |author8=Romain Neidl |author9=Mohankrishna Dalvoy Vasudevarao |author10=Vedamurthy Bhusainahalli Maheshwarappa }}
* {{cite web | title=Intrinsically fluorescent carbon nanospheres and a process thereof | work=Delivery of active molecules to nucleus - Patent No. 9034387 | date=19 May 2016 |author1=Tapas Kumar Kundu |author2=Eswaramoorthy Muthusamy, Sr. |author3=Ruthrotha Selvi Bharatha Vikru |author4=Dinesh Jagadeesan }}
* {{cite web | title=Julolidine conjugates and methods for their preparation and use | work=Compounds that selectively bind to copper ions in a sample and methods of preparation and use - Patent No. 8642764 | date=4 February 2014 |author1=Govindaraju Thimmaiah |author2=Debabrata Maity |author3=Swapan Kumar Pati |author4=Tapas Kumar Kundu |author5=Arun Kumar Manna |author6=Karthigeyan Dhanasekaran }}
* {{cite web | title=Inhibition of Histone Acetyltransferases by CTK7A and Mthods thereof | work=Method for inhibiting histone acetyltransferases by derivative of curcumin, particularly CTK7A - Patent No. 20120165384 | date=28 June 2012 |author1=Tapas Kumar Kundu |author2=Mohammed Arif |author3=Kempegowra Mantelingu |author4=Gopinath Kadaganur Srinivasachar }}
* {{cite web | title=Site-specific inhibitors of histone methyltransferase (HMTASE) and process of preparation thereof | work=compounds of structural formula I as site-specific inhibitors of histone methyltransferase - Patent No. 8003698 | date=23 August 2011 |author1=Tapas Kumar Kundu |author2=Ruthrotha Selvi Bharatha Vikru |author3=Hari Kishore Annavarapu |author4=Mantelingu Kempegowda }}
* {{cite web | title=Modulators (inhibitors/activators) of histone acetyltransferases | work=Use of certain benzoic acid and benzamide compounds as modulators of enzymes histone acetyltransferases - Patent No. 7332629 | date=6 July 2010 |author1=Tapas Kumar Kundu |author2=Kanchugarakoppal Subbegowda Rangappa |author3=Badi Sri Sailaja |author4=Radhika Ashish Varier |author5=Nanjundaswamy Shivananju }}

== See also ==
{{Div col|colwidth=30em}}
* [[Gene expression]]
* [[Transcriptome]]
* [[Coactivation (Transcription)]]
* [[Epigenetics]]
* [[Chromatin]]
* [[Chaperone (protein)]]
* [[M. R. S. Rao]]
{{div col end}}
{{portal|India|Biology}}

== Notes ==
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== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{cite web | url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Kundu%20TK%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true&cauthor_uid=11030335 | title=Kundu TK [Author] | work=Author profile | date=2016 | access-date=22 October 2016}}
* {{cite web | url=http://www.jncasr.ac.in/tapas/ | title=Transcription and Disease Laboratory | publisher=Molecular Biology and Genetics Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research | date=2016 | access-date=22 October 2016}}

== Further reading ==
* {{cite web | url=http://www.iitbbs.ac.in/docs2/Prof%20Kundu%20talk%20abstract.pdf | title=Epigenetic Regulation of Chromatin Dynamics and Gene Expression: Implications in Differentiation, Disease and Therapeutics | publisher=Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar | work=Abstract of the lecture | date=5 August 2014 | access-date=22 October 2016}}

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