Publications of 2021

  1. Babu N, Nanjappa DP, Arjuna S, V R, Shetty V, Chakraborty A. 2021. Poly(A)- specific ribonuclease shows altered expression in solid tumours and hematopoietic malignancies. Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research.2021 Dec;15(12): XC16-XC19
  2. Suneetha C, Nagesha N, Nataraja A, Kavitha Kandpal, Vinayaka Muttu, Hegde S. Ethnobotanical importance of pteridophytes of Agumbe Ghats. Indian Ferm Journal. 2021 Dec; 38: 115-124
  3. Apoorva Kenjar, Juliet R M Raj, Joshika Bhandary, Banavasi S Girisha, Gunimala Chakraborty, Indrani Karunasagar. Development of a rapid and low-cost method for the extraction of dermatophyte DNA. 2021 Dec; 66(6):668-673
  4. Divyashree M, Madhu K Mani, Shama Prakash K. Detection and Real-time PCR assay for the quantification of carbapenemase gene bla NDM-1 in hospital effluent. Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology. Dec 2021, 15(4), 2403-2408
  5. Rajeish M, Dechamma MM, Mani MK, Rai P, Karunasagar I, Bossier P, Karunasagar I, Maiti B. Different expression pattern of thrombospondin gene in the presence and absence of β-glucan fed Penaeus monodon challenged with white spot syndrome virus. Fish and Shellfish Immunology Reports.2021 Dec: 2:100020
  6. van Deuren RC, Arts P, Cavalli G, Jaeger M, Steehouwer M, van de Vorst M, Gilissen C, Joosten LA, Dinarello CA, Mhlanga MM, Kumar V. Impact of rare and common genetic variation in the interleukin-1 pathway on human cytokine responses. Genome Medicine. 2021 Dec;13:94
  7. Dechamma Pandyanda Nanjappa, Nishith Babu, Arati Khanna-Gupta, Marie-Françoise O'Donohue, Patrick Sips, Anirban Chakraborty. Poly (A)-specific ribonuclease (PARN): More than just “mRNA stock clearing”. Life Sciences. 2021 Nov;285:119953
  8. Adiga R, Nayak V. Emergence of Novel SARS-CoV-2 variants in India: Second Wave Journal of Infection in Developing Countries. J Infect Dev Ctries. 2021 Nov 30;15(11):1578-1583
  9. Augusto DG, de Almeida RC, Farias TD, Magalhaes WC, Malheiros D, Lima-Costa MF, Barreto ML, Horta BL, Kumar V, Wittig M, Franke A. Unsuspected Associations of Variants within the Genes NOTCH4 and STEAP2-AS1 Uncovered by a GWAS in Endemic Pemphigus Foliaceus. Journal of Investigative Dermatology.2021 Nov; 141(11):2741-44
  10. Kulkarni V, Shetty S, Subramanya K, Chakraborty A, Patil P, Bhandary R, Kundapur R. Correlation of serum lipoprotein (a) levels with angiographic lesion severity in coronary artery disease. Biomedical and Biotechnology Research Journal. 2021 Oct ; 5(4):458-462
  11. Alva P P, Suresh S, D'souza C, Premanath R, Increased expression of genes involved in biofilm formation in a multi-drug resistant environmental Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolate. Journal of Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences University.2021 Oct; 16:357-362
  12. Morajkar S, Hegde S. Biodiversity, richness and spatial distribution of extant Pteridophytes in Kudremukh National Park, Western Ghats, India. Plant Science Today.2021 Oct;8(4): 848-858
  13. Scholtz V, Vaňková E, Kašparová P, Premanath R, Karunasagar I, Julák J. Non-thermal Plasma Treatment of ESKAPE Pathogens: A Review. Frontiers in microbiology. 2021 Oct;12:737635
  14. D’Cruz A, Dechamma PN, Saldanha M, Maben S, Shetty P, Chakraborty A. Non-Invasive Saliva-based Detection of Gene Mutations in Oral Cancer Patients by Oral Rub and Rinse Technique. Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention.2021 Oct; 22(10):3287-3291
  15. Puneeth, Akhila DS, Dechamma M M, Santhosh SK, Girish, S.K, Venugopal M.N. Protective efficacy of recombinant wsy477 protein against white spot syndrome virus infections in shrimp, Penaeus mondon. Indian Journal of Fisheries, 2021 Sept; 68(4): 76-81
  16. Safarulla S, Khillar PS, Kini S, Jaiswal AK. Tissue engineered scaffolds as 3D models for prostate cancer metastasis to the bone. Materials Today Communications.2021 Sept; 28:102641
  17. Bharti Mittal, Dechamma Pandyanda Nanjappa, Gunimala Chakraborty, Anirban Chakraborty, Arati Khanna-Gupta. A patient with Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome presenting with anesthetic challenges: not an exception, but the rule. Gene Reports. 2021 Sept; 24(101289)
  18. Prithvisagar KS, Krishna Kumar B, Kodama T, Rai P, Iida T, Karunasagar I, Karunasagar I. Whole genome analysis unveils genetic diversity and potential virulence determinants in Vibrio parahaemolyticus associated with disease outbreak among cultured Litopenaeus vannamei (Pacific white shrimp) in India. Virulence.2021 Aug; 12(1):1936-49
  19. Dubey S, Maiti B, Girisha SK, Das R, Lamkhannat M, Mutoloki S, Chen SC, Karunasagar I, Evensen Ø. Aeromonas species obtained from different farmed aquatic species in India and Taiwan show high phenotypic relatedness despite species diversity. BMC Research Notes.2021 Aug 16; 14(1):313
  20. Rai P, Kille S, Kotian A, Kumar BK, Deekshit VK, Ramakrishna MS, Karunasagar I, Karunasagar I. Molecular investigation of the dengue outbreak in Karnataka, South India, reveals co-circulation of all four dengue virus serotypes. Infection, Genetics and Evolution.2021 Aug; 92:104880
  21. Yathish U.G, Iddya Karunasagar, Mamatha BS. Bioactivity and functional properties of protein hydrolysate from muscle and visceral waste of ribbonfish (Lepturacanthus savala) extracted by three different proteolytic enzymes, Journal of Biologically Active Products from Nature. 2021 Aug ;11 (4): 363 – 379
  22. Matzaraki, V., Le, K. T., Jaeger, M., Aguirre-Gamboa, R., Johnson, M. D., Sanna, S…., & Kumar, V. (2021). Inflammatory Protein Profiles in Plasma of Candidaemia Patients and the Contribution of Host Genetics to Their Variability. Frontiers in immunology, 2021 Aug; 12:662171
  23. Paul MW, Sidhu A, Liang Y, van Rossum-Fikkert SE, Odijk H, Zelensky AN, Kanaar R, Wyman C. Role of BRCA2 DNA-binding and C-terminal domain on its mobility and conformation in DNA repair. eLife 2021 July; 10: e67926
  24. Ashwath P, Sannejal AD. The Action of Efflux Pump Genes in Conferring Drug Resistance to Klebsiella Species and Their Inhibition. Journal of Health and Allied Sciences. NU.2021 Jul 30
  25. Bruno M, Matzaraki V, van de Veerdonk FL, Kumar V, Netea MG. Challenges and opportunities to understanding genetics of fungal diseases: towards a functional genomics approach. Infection and Immunity.2021 Jul 15;89(8):e0000521
  26. Bhat I, Mamatha BS. Genetic factors involved in modulating lutein bioavailability. Nutrition Research (New York, NY). 2021 July; 91:36-43
  27. Morajkar S, Hegde S. DNA Barcoding Identifies a Potential New Ecotype of Chinese Brake Fern, Pteris vittata L. Nano. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences. 2021 June; 13: 91(2):335-341
  28. Jayaweera TS, Ruwandeepika HA, Deekshit VK, Vidanarachchi JK, Kodithuwakku SP, Karunasagar I, Cyril HW. Prevalence of Salmonella Pathogenisity Island (SPI1, SPI2, SPI3 and SPI5) Genes in Salmonella Species Isolated from fresh Broiler Chicken Meat in Sri Lanka. The Journal of Agricultural Sciences. Sri Lanka. 2021 May; 16(2)333-351
  29. NaveenKumar S, Rai P, Karunasagar I, Karunasagar I. Recombinant viral proteins delivered orally through inactivated bacterial cells induce protection in Macrobrachium rosenbergii (de Man) against White Tail Disease. Journal of Fish Diseases.2021 May; 44(5):601-612
  30. Venkatraja B, Srilakshminarayana G, Kumar BK, Hegde MN, Kanchan J, Karuvaje G, Rai P. Preliminary Evidence from a Cross-sectional Study on Epidemiology and Early Transmission Dynamics of COVID-19 in Karnataka State of India. Journal of Health and Allied Sciences NU. 2021 May 11
  31. Vittal R, Kumar BK, Karunasagar I, Raj JR. Genetic Diversity of the Legionella pneumophila dotA Gene Detected on Surfaces of Respiratory Therapy Equipment. Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology.2021 Jun 1; 15(2):695-701
  32. Harshitha KP, Dechamma PN, Nishith B, Krithika Kalladka, Shanti Priya Dias, Gunimala Chakraborty, Sudhindra M Rao, Anirban Chakraborty. TP53 Codon 72 polymorphism and Type 2 Diabetes: A case-control study in South Indian Population. Molecular Biology Reports 2021 Jun; 48(6):5093-5097
  33. Venkataram R, Arjuna S, Hosmane GB, Chakraborty A. Quantitative analysis of cell-free DNA by droplet digital PCR reveals the presence of EGFR mutations in non-malignant lung pathologies. Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease.2021 May 4; 91(3)
  34. Adiga R. Benchmarking Datasets from Malaria Cytotoxic T-cell Epitopes Using Machine Learning Approach. Avicenna Journal of Medical Biotechnology. 2021 Apr;13(2):87-91
  35. Bakker OB, Ramírez-Sánchez AD, Borek ZA, de Klein N, Li Y, Modderman R, Kooy-Winkelaar Y, Johannesen MK, Matarese F, Martens JH, Kumar V. Potential impact of celiac disease genetic risk factors on T cell receptor signaling in gluten-specific CD4+ T cells. Scientific Reports.2021 Apr 29; 11(1):1-5
  36. Boahen CK, Joosten LA, Netea MG, Kumar V. Conceptualization of population-specific human functional immune-genomics projects to identify factors that contribute to variability in immune and infectious diseases. Heliyon.2021 April ; 7(4): e06755
  37. Apine E, Rai P, Mani MK, Subramanian V, Karunasagar I, Godhe A, Turner LM. Comparative analysis of the intestinal bacterial communities in mud crab Scylla serrata in South India. MicrobiologyOpen. 2021 April ;10(2): e1179
  38. Jazeela K, Chakraborty A, Kotian A, Aditya V, Kumar BK, Rai P, Karunasagar I, Deekshit VK. Phenotypic characterization of auxotrophic mutant of nontyphoidal Salmonella and determination of its cytotoxicity, tumor inhibiting cytokine gene expression in cell line models. Archives of Microbiology. 2021 March; 203(6):2925-2939
  39. Hegde S, Karunasagar I. Building Research Competence in Undergraduate Students. Resonance. 2021 March;26(3):415-427
  40. Morajkar S, Sajeev S, Hegde S. Spore morphology of Selected Pteridophytes Found in the Western Ghats of India. Biosciences Biotechnology Research Asia. 2021 March; Vol. 18(1): 99-106
  41. Nayak PP, Nijil S, Narayanan A, Badekila AK, Kini S. Nano medicine in Cancer Clinics: Are We There Yet? Current Pathobiology Reports. 2021 March; 9: 43–55
  42. Bhat I, Haripriya G, Jogi N, Mamatha BS. Carotenoid composition of locally found seaweeds of Dakshina Kannada district in India. Algal Research. 2021 March ; 53(7): 102154
  43. Rohit A, Rajasekaran S, Shenoy S, Rai S, Iddya K, Dorairajan SK. Reprocessing of N95 masks: Experience from a resource-limited setting in India. International Journal of Infectious Diseases.2021 March; 104:41-44
  44. Rao A, D’Souza C, Subramanyam K, Rai P, Thomas B, Gopalakrishnan M, Karunasagar I, Kumar BK. Molecular analysis shows the presence of periodontal bacterial DNA in atherosclerotic plaques from patients with coronary artery disease. Indian Heart Journal. 2021 Mar 1;73(2):218-20
  45. Suresh S, Alva PP, Premanath R. Modulation of quorum sensing-associated virulence in bacteria: carbohydrate as a key factor. Archives of Microbiology.2021 Feb; 203: 1881–1890
  46. Pulukkunadu Thekkeveedu R, Hegde S. In vitro spore germination and phytoremediation of Hg and Pb using gametophytes of Pityrogramma calomelanos. International Journal of Phytoremediation. 2021 Feb ;23(3):307-15
  47. Rama Adiga, Jyothi Bhatkal. In Silico study of gene expression changes in prostate cancer due to endocrine-disrupting chemicals. Research Journal of Chemistry and Environment.2021 February; 25(2):133-137
  48. Rajeish M, Mani MK, Dechamma MM, Bossier P, Rai P, Karunasagar I, Maiti B. Expression profile of heat shock protein 70 in lymphoid organs of Penaeus monodon in response to white spot syndrome virus infection. Aquaculture Research.2021 Mar; 52(3):1316-20
  49. Alva PP, Suresh S, Nanjappa DP, James JP, Kaverikana R, Chakraborty A, Sarojini BK, Premanath R. Isolation and identification of quorum sensing antagonist from Cinnamomum verum leaves against Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Life Sciences.2021 Feb; 267:118878
  50. Kulkarni A, Krishnan S, Anand D, Kokkattunivarthil Uthaman S, Otta SK, Karunasagar I, Kooloth Valappil R. Immune responses and immunoprotection in crustaceans with special reference to shrimp. Reviews in Aquaculture. 2021 Jan;13(1):431-459
  51. Vittal R, Raj JR, Kumar BK, Karunasagar I. Iron Content as an Indicator for Legionella Species in Artificial Water Systems. Medico Legal Update.2021 Jan; 21(1):803
  52. Jayaweera TS, Ruwandeepika HA, Deekshit VK, Kodithuwakku SP, Cyril HW, Karunasagar I, Vidanarachchi JK. Biofilm Forming Ability of Broiler Chicken Meat Associated Salmonella spp. on Food Contact Surfaces. Tropical Agricultural Research.2021 Jan; 32(1):17-26
  53. Rai P, Kumar BK, Deekshit VK, Karunasagar I, Karunasagar I. Detection technologies and recent developments in the diagnosis of COVID-19 infection. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology.2021 Jan; 105(2):441-455
  54. Anupama KP, Nayak A, Karunasagar I, Karunasagar I, Maiti B. Evaluation of loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay along with conventional and real-time PCR assay for sensitive detection of pathogenic Vibrio parahaemolyticus from seafood sample without enrichment. Molecular Biology Reports.2021 Jan; 48(1):1009-1016
  55. Kumar BK, Rohit A, Prithvisagar KS, Rai P, Karunasagar I, Karunasagar I. Deletion in the C-terminal region of the envelope glycoprotein in some of the Indian SARS-CoV-2 genome. Virus Research. 2021 Jan; 291:198221
  56. Paithankar JG, Saini S, Dwivedi S, Sharma A, Chowdhuri DK. Heavy metal associated health hazards: An interplay of oxidative stress and signal transduction. Chemosphere.2021 Jan; 262: 128350
  57. Badekila AK, Kini S, Jaiswal AK. Fabrication techniques of biomimetic scaffolds in three‐dimensional cell culture: A review. Journal of Cellular Physiology. 2021 Feb; 236(2):741-6

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