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Manuscripts under preparation

4. Effect of protein-protein interaction in the formation of liquid-like DNA-protein clusters

Rakesh Krishnan, Vinoth Manivannan and R Padinahteeri (Manuscript Under preparation).

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3. Mining of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins for Antimicrobial Peptides

Rakesh Krishnan, Marcelo D. T. Torres, Fangping Wan, Hyun-Su Lee, Sufen Li, Cesar de la Fuente-Nunez (Manuscript Under preparation).

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2. Decoding D-Peptides: Deep Learning Approaches for Structural Conformer Prediction

Rakesh Krishnan, Fangping Wan, Cesar de la Fuente-Nunez (Manuscript Under preparation).

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1. Free Energy Landscapes of Antimicrobial Peptide Insertion into Lipid Bilayers from multiple organisms

Rakesh Krishnan, Marcelo D. T. Torres, Cesar de la Fuente-Nunez (Manuscript Under preparation).

Publications/ Conferences Abstracts

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8. Defining the importance of the arginine loop region of protegrin-1 for antimicrobial activity towards colistin-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae.

Christina M DeBarro, Sofia Assent, Hannah Makhecha, Noor Radde, Rakesh Krishnan, Justin Randall, Cesar de la Fuente-Nunez, Renee Fleeman

Biorxiv 2025.

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7. Mitochondrial NDUFA4 is a functional switch controlling TAMs and tumor immunity.

Megan L. Clark, Kamen P. Simeonov, Walter K. Mowel, Michael F. Michieletto, Leonel Joannas, Jasmine M. Wright, Isabel Erickson, Lexus Johnson, Rakesh Krishnan, Cesar de la Fuente, Andy J. Minn, Jorge Henao-Mejia

Immunity 2025, 58, 1–18.

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6. Synthetic peptides targeting an orphan GPCR display anti-infective potential.

Aetas Amponnawarat, Marcelo D. T. Torres, Rakesh Krishnan, Cesar de la Fuente-Nunez, Hydar Ali

Cell Biomaterials, 2025 1, 100088.

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5. SUMO1 hinders α-Synuclein fibrillation by inducing structural compaction.

Rajlaxmi Panigrahi, Rakesh Krishnan, Jai Singh, Ranjith Padinhateeri, Ashutosh Kumar. 

Protein Science. 2023; 32( 5):e4632.

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4. Role of non-specific interactions in the phase-separation and maturation of macromolecules

Rakesh Krishnan, Srivastav Ranganathan, Samir Maji, Ranjith Padinhateeri 

PLoS Comput Biol 18(5): e1010067

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3. Spatiotemporal solidification of α-synuclein inside the liquid droplets

Soumik Ray, Debdeep Chatterjee, Semanti Mukherjee, Komal Patel, Jaladhar K Mahato, Sangram Kadam, Rakesh Krishnan, Ajay Singh Sawner, Manisha Poudyal, Guruswamy Krishnamoorthy, Arindam Chowdhury, Ranjith Padinhateeri, Samir K Maji

bioRxiv 2021

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2. Probing the role of non-specific interactions in promoting functional protein-protein complexes

Rakesh Krishnan, Srivastav Ranganathan, Samir Maji, Ranjith Padinhateeri

Biophysical Journal 121 (3), 526a

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1. Computational Characterization of a Cryptic Intermediate in the Unfolding Kinetics of An All β-Sheet Protein

Rakesh Krishnan, Anand Srinivasan, Thirunavukarasu Sivaraman

Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research 7 (11), 978

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