14. David Nedrud, Hui Lin, Gilsinia Lopez, Santosh K. Padhi, Graig A. Legatt, Romas Kazlauskas, Uncovering                  divergent evolution of α/β-hydrolases: a surprising residue substitution needed to convert Heavea brasiliensis        hydroxynitrile lyase into an esterase. Chemical Science, 2014, 5, 4265-4277. 

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13. Henrike brundiek, Santosh Kumar Padhi, Robert kourist, Andrew Evitt, and Uwe T. Bornscheuer, Altering the            scissile fatty acid binding site of Candia antarctica lipase A by protein engineering for the selective hydrolysis          of medium chain fatty acids. Eur. J. Lipid Sci. Tech., 2012, 114, 1148-1153. 

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12. Santosh Kumar Padhi, Michael Haas, and Uwe T Bornscheuer, Lipase catalyzed transesterification to remove            saturated monoglycerides from biodiesel. Eur. J. Lipid Sci. Tech., 2012, 114, 875-879. 

 

11. Geoffrey A. Behrens, Anke Hummel, Santosh K. Padhi, Sebastian Schätzle and Uwe T Bornscheuer, Discovery          and protein engineering of biocatalysts for organic synthesis. Adv. Synth. Catal. 2011, 353, 2191-2215. 

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10. Helge Jochens, Martin Hesseler, Konstanz Stiba, Santosh Kumar Padhi, Romas J Kazlauskas and Uwe T                    Bornscheuer, Protein engineering of α/β hydrolase fold enzymes. ChemBioChem. 2011, 12, 1508-1517.

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9. Santosh Kumar Padhi, Ryota Fujii, Graig Legatt, Sara Fossum, Reto Berchtold and Romas J Kazlauskas,                     Switching from an esterase to a hydroxynitrile lyase mechanism requires only two amino acid substitutions.            Chem. Biol. 2010, 17,863-871.

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8. Robert Kourist, Helge Jochens, Sebastian Bartsch, Remko Kuipers, Santosh Kumar Padhi, Markus Gall,                    Dominique Bottcher, Henk-Jan Joosten and Uwe T Bornscheuer, The α/β hydrolase fold 3DM database                    (ABHDB) as a tool for protein engineering. ChemBioChem. 2010, 11, 1635-1643. 

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7. Santosh Kumar Padhi, Despina Boughkou and Jon D Stewart, Site saturation mutagenesis of tryptophan 116 of      Saccharomyces pastorianus old yellow enzyme uncovers stereocomplementary variants. J. Am. Chem. Soc.            2009, 131, 3271-3280. 

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6. Santosh Kumar Padhi, Iwona A Kaluzna, Didier Buisson, Robert Azerad and Jon D Stewart, Reductions of cyclic       β-keto esters by individual Saccharomyces cerevisiae dehydrogenases and a chemo-enzymatic route to                   (1R,2S)-2-methyl-1-cyclohexanol. Tetrahedron Asymmetry, 2007, 18, 2133-2138.

 

5. Santosh Kumar Padhi, D. Titu, N. Ganesh Pandian and Anju Chadha, Deracemisation of b-hydroxy esters using      immobilised whole cells of Candida parapsilosis ATCC 7330: Substrate specificity and mechanistic                            investigation.  Tetrahedron, 2006, 62, 5133-5140. 

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4. Santosh Kumar Padhi and Anju Chadha, Deracemisation of aromatic b-hydroxy esters using immobilised whole      cells of Candida parapsilosis ATCC 7330 and determination of absolute configuration by 1H NMR. Tetrahedron      Asymmetry, 2005, 16, 2790-2798. 

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3. Santosh Kumar Padhi, N. Ganesh Pandian and Anju Chadha, Microbial deracemisation of aromatic b-hydroxy        acid esters.  J. Mol. Catal. B. Enzym. 2004, 29, 25-29. 

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2. Santosh Kumar Padhi, N. Ganesh Pandian and Anju Chadha, Microbial deracemisation of β-hydroxy esters - An      important strategy towards various chiral intermediates. Chem. Listy 2003, 97,479-480. 

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1. Santosh Kumar Padhi and Anju Chadha, Sodium borohydride reduction and selective transesterification of b-         keto esters in one pot reaction. Synlett, 2003, 05, 639-642.