V. A.  Kumar, ?Modified nucleic acid substructures in medicinal chemistry and drug development?, Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry, vol. 7, no. 7, p. 639, 2007.

V. A.  Kumar and Ganesh, K. N., ?Structure-editing of nucleic acids for selective targeting of RNA?, Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry, vol. 7, no. 7, pp. 715-726, 2007.

K.  Gogoi, Mane, M. V., Kunte, S. S., and Kumar, V. A., ?Versatile method for the preparation of conjugates of peptides with DNA/PNA/analog by employing chemo-selective click reaction in water?, Nucleic Acids Research, vol. 35, no. 21, p. e139, 2007.

K.  Gogoi and Kumar, V. A., ?Chimeric (alpha-amino acid plus nucleoside-beta-amino acid)(n) peptide oligomers show sequence specific DNA/RNA recognition?, Chemical Communications, no. 6, pp. 706-708, 2008.

A. N.  Patwa, Gupta, S., Gonnade, R. G., Kumar, V. A., Bhadbhade, M. M., and Ganesh, K. N., ?Ferrocene-linked thymine/uracil conjugates: base pairing directed self-assembly and supramolecular packing?, Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 73, no. 4, pp. 1508-1515, 2008.

V. A.  Kumar, ?CARB 36-Novel and structurally biased backbone modifications of nucleic acids?, Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society, vol. 238, p. Meeting Abstract : 36-CARB, 2009.

S.  Bagmare, D'Costa, M., and Kumar, V. A., ?Effect of chirality of L/D-proline and prochiral glycine as the linker amino acid in five-atom linked thymidinyl-(alpha-aminoacid)-thymidine dimers?, Chemical Communications, no. 43, pp. 6646-6648, 2009.

H.  Kaur, Arora, A., Gogoi, K., Solanke, P., Gunjal, A. D., Kumar, V. A., and Maiti, S., ?Effects for the incorporation of five-atom thioacetamido nucleic acid (TANA) backbone on hybridization thermodynamics and kinetics of DNA duplexes?, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 113, no. 9, pp. 2944-2951, 2009.

S. S.  Gokhale and Kumar, V. A., ?Amino/guanidino-functionalized N-(pyrrolidin-2-ethyl)glycine-based pet-PNA: design, synthesis and binding with DNA/RNA?, Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, vol. 8, no. 16, pp. 3742-3750, 2010.

V.  Madhuri and Kumar, V. A., ?Design, synthesis and DNA/RNA binding studies of nucleic acids comprising stereoregular and acyclic polycarbamate backbone: polycarbamate nucleic acids (PCNA)?, Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, vol. 8, no. 16, pp. 3734-3741, 2010.

A. N.  Patwa, Gonnade, R. G., Kumar, V. A., Bhadbhade, M. M., and Ganesh, K. N., ?Ferrocene-Bis(thymine/uracil) conjugates: base pairing directed, spacer dependent self-assembly and supramolecular packing?, Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 75, no. 24, pp. 8705-8708, 2010.

S. S.  Gokhale, Gogoi, K., and Kumar, V. A., ?Probing binding preferences of DNA and RNA: backbone chirality of thioacetamido-linked nucleic acids and iso-thioacetamido-linked nucleic acids to differentiate DNA versus RNA selective binding?, Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 75, no. 21, pp. 7431-7434, 2010.

N. D.  Erande, Gunjal, A. D., Fernandes, M., and Kumar, V. A., ?Probing the furanose conformation in the 2 `-5 ` strand of isoDNA:RNA duplexes by freezing the nucleoside conformations?, Chemical Communications, vol. 47, no. 13, pp. 4007-4009, 2011.

M.  Varada, Kotikam, V., and Kumar, V. A., ?Robust synthesis of enantiopure cyclohexenyl analogues of 2/3-deoxyribose sugars as carbocyclic nucleoside precursors?, Tetrahedron, vol. 67, no. 32, pp. 5744-5749, 2011.

V.  Madhuri and Kumar, V. A., ?Design and synthesis of dephosphono dna analogues containing 1,2,3-triazole linker and their UV-melting studies with DNA/RNA?, Nucleosides Nucleotides & Nucleic Acids, vol. 31, no. 1-3, pp. 97-111, 2012.

K. M.  Patil, Naik, R. J., Rajpal,, Fernandes, M., Ganguli, M., and Kumar, V. A., ?Highly efficient (R-X-R)-type carbamates as molecular transporters for cellular delivery?, Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 134, no. 17, pp. 7196-7199, 2012.

A.  Banerjee and Kumar, V. A., ?C-3 `-endo-puckered pyrrolidine containing PNA has favorable geometry for RNA binding: novel ethano locked PNA (ethano-PNA)?, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, vol. 21, no. 14, pp. 4092-4101, 2013.

K.  Soni, Gupta, S., Gokhale, S. S., Dey, R., Gunjal, A. D., Kumar, V. A., and Pillai, B., ?Detection and knockdown of MicroRNA-34a using thioacetamido nucleic acid?, Nucleic Acid Therapeutics, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 195-202, 2013.

V.  Kotikam and Kumar, V. A., ?Synthesis and properties of 2 `-O-[R- and S-(2-amino-3-methoxy)propyl] (R-AMP and S-AMP) nucleic acids?, Tetrahedron, vol. 69, no. 31, pp. 6404-6408, 2013.

N. D.  Erande, Gunjal, A. D., Fernandes, M., Gonnade, R. G., and Kumar, V. A., ?Synthesis and structural studies of S-type/N-type-locked/frozen nucleoside analogues and their incorporation in RNA-selective, nuclease resistant 2 `-5 ` linked oligonucleotides?, Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 746-757, 2013.

S.  Bagmare, Varada, M., Banerjee, A., and Kumar, V. A., ?Synthesis of all four nucleoside-based beta-amino acids as protected precursors for the synthesis of polyamide-DNA with alternating alpha-amino acid and nucleoside-beta-amino acids?, Tetrahedron, vol. 69, no. 3, pp. 1210-1216, 2013.

A. D.  Gunjal, Fernandes, M., Erande, N. D., Rajamohanan, P. R., and Kumar, V. A., ?Functional isoDNA aptamers: modified thrombin binding aptamers with a 2'-5'-linked sugarphosphate backbone (isoTBA)?, Chemical Communications, vol. 50, no. 5, pp. 605-607, 2014.

K. M.  Patil, Naik, R. J., Vij, M., Yadav, A. K., Kumar, V. A., Ganguli, M., and Fernandes, M., ?Second generation, arginine-rich (R-X `-R)(4)-type cell-penetrating alpha-omega-alpha-peptides with constrained, chiral omega-amino acids (X `) for enhanced cargo delivery into cells?, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, vol. 24, no. 17, pp. 4198-4202, 2014.

T.  Bose and Kumar, V. A., ?Simple molecular engineering of glycol nucleic acid: progression from self-pairing to cross-pairing with cDNA and RNA?, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, vol. 22, no. 21, pp. 6227-6232, 2014.

T.  Bose, Banerjee, A., Nahar, S., Maiti, S., and Kumar, V. A., ?Beta, gamma-Bis-substituted PNA with configurational and conformational switch: preferred binding to cDNA/RNA and cell-uptake studies?, Chemical Communications, vol. 51, no. 36, pp. 7693-7696, 2015.

M.  Varada, Erande, N. D., and Kumar, V. A., ?Ene-nucleic acids: a different paradigm to DNA chemistry?, RSC Advances, vol. 5, no. 118, pp. 97824-97830, 2015.

A.  Banerjee, Bagmare, S., Varada, M., and Kumar, V. A., ?Glycine-linked nucleoside-beta-amino acids: polyamide analogues of nucleic acids?, Bioconjugate Chemistry, vol. 26, no. 8, pp. 1737-1742, 2015.

S.  Bagmare, Gunjal, A. D., and Kumar, V. A., ?Investigation of the effect of amino acid chirality in the internucleoside linker on DNA:DNA and DNA : RNA duplex stability?, Tetrahedron, vol. 71, no. 16, pp. 2442-2449, 2015.

P.  Natarajan, Patil, K. M., Vij, M., Yadav, A. K., Kumar, V. A., Ganguli, M., and Fernandes, M., ?RXR-carbamate - a novel molecular transporter for skin?, Molecular Therapy, vol. 23, pp. S64-S64, 2015.

M. N.  Aher, ?Unimolecular antiparallel G-quadruplex folding topology of 2'-5'-isoTBA sequences remains unaltered by loop composition?, Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, vol. 13, no. 48, pp. 11696-11703, 2015.

S.  Bagmare, Puranik, V. G., Fernandes, M., and Kumar, V. A., ?4 `-Epi-DNA: A DNA Mimic Containing 4 `-hydroxymethyl-alpha-l-Xylo-thymidine with compact backbone like RNA?, Nucleosides Nucleotides & Nucleic Acids, vol. 35, no. 9, pp. 445-458, 2016.

M.  Vij, Natarajan, P., Yadav, A. K., Patil, K. M., Pandey, T., Gupta, N., Santhiya, D., Kumar, V. A., Fernandes, M., and Ganguli, M., ?Efficient cellular entry of (r-x-r)-type carbamate-plasmid DNA complexes and its implication for noninvasive topical DNA delivery to skin?, Molecular Pharmaceutics, vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 1779-1790, 2016.

V. A.  Kumar, ?Evolution of specific 3 `-5 `-linkages in RNA in pre-biotic soup: a new hypothesis?, Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, vol. 14, no. 43, pp. 10123-10133, 2016.

S.  Nahar, Kotikam, V., Kumar, V. A., and Maiti, S., ?Inhibition of miR-21 by 3 `/5 `-serinyl-capped 2 `-O-Methyl RNA Interspersed with 2 `-O-(2-Amino-3-Methoxypropyl) uridine units?, Nucleic Acid Therapeutics, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 327-334, 2016.

T.  Bose and Kumar, V. A., ?Critical role of select peptides in the loop region of G-rich PNA in the preferred G-quadruplex topology and stability?, Tetrahedron, vol. 73, no. 12, pp. 1534-1540, 2017.

R.  Awachat, Wagh, A. A., Aher, M., Fernandes, M., and Kumar, V. A., ?Favorable 2 '-substitution in the loop region of a thrombin-binding DNA aptamer?, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, vol. 28, no. 10, pp. 1765-1768, 2018.

M. N.  Aher, Erande, N. D., Kumar, V. A., Fernandes, M., and Gonnade, R. G., ?Influence of fluorine substitution on the molecular conformation of 3 `-deoxy-3 `-fluoro-5-methyluriaine?, Acta Crystallographica Section C-Structural Chemistry, vol. 76, p. 346+, 2020.

M.  Varada, Aher, M., Erande, N., Kumar, V. A., and Fernandes, M., ?Methoxymethyl threofuranosyl thymidine (4 `-MOM-TNA-T) at the T7 position of the thrombin-binding aptamer boosts anticoagulation activity, thermal stability, and nuclease resistance?, ACS Omega, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 498-506, 2020.

M.  Aher, Kumar, V. A., and Fernandes, M., ?Implications of natural 3?-5?- linkages in the loop region of isomeric 2?-5?-linked thrombin-binding aptamer?, Chemistryselect, vol. 9, no. 14, 2024.