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Publications

2024

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  • S. Mazumder, H. Agarwal, N. Jain* and R. Vankayala*. A Strategy to Combat Bacterial Biofilms Mediated by Plant-Derived Carbon Dots: A Green Shield for Clean Water. Accepted in ACS ES&T Water.

  • N. Jain*. The molecular interplay between human and bacterial amyloids: Implications in neurodegenerative diseases. Biochim Biophys Acta Proteins Proteom. 2024, 17;1872(4):141018. This article has been accepted for the “BBA Proteins & Proteomics. Rising Star Awards 2024” finalist

  • M. Elkins, N. Jain, and C. Tükel. The menace within: Bacterial amyloids as a trigger for autoimmune and neurodegenerative diseases. Curr Opin Microbiol. 2024, 10;79:102473.

  • K. Ahlawat, R. Jangra, A. Ish, N. Jain, and R. Prakash. A dielectric barrier discharge based low pressure narrow band far UV-C 222 nm excimer lamp and its efficiency analysis. Physica Scripta. 2024, 99, 025018.

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  • K. Ahlawat, R. Jangra, A. Ish, A. Dixit, D. Fulwani, N. Jain, and R. Prakash. Analysis of a UV photocatalytic oxidation-based disinfection system for hydroxyl radicals, negative air ions generation and their impact on inactivation of pathogenic micro-organisms. Rev. Sci. Instrum. 2023, 94, 104103.

  • K. Rani, A Pal, B. Gurnani, P. Agrawala, D. K. Sasmal, and N. Jain*. An innate host defense protein; β2-microglobulin keeps a check on α-synuclein amyloid assembly: Implications in Parkinson's disease. J. Mol. Biol. 2023, 22;435(22):168285. Selected for front cover of the journal.

  • V. Antony, Y. Gaikwad, H. Agarwal, N. Jain, and R. Vankayala. A label-free and ultrasensitive prussian blue-based dipstick sensor for bacterial and biofilm Detection. ACS Langmuir, 2023, 39, 40, 14246–14255.

  • R. Kumar, V. Antony, K. Rani, N. Jain, S. Singh, A. Agarwal, and R. Vankayala. Facile synthesis of multifunction carbon dots derived from camel milk for mn7+ sensing and antiamyloid and anticancer activities. ACS Omega, 2023, 8, 39, 36521–36533.

  • A. S. Yadav, S. Malik, I. De, B. Pippal, M. Singh, N. Jain, and J. K. Yadav. Isolation of Amyloid-like Protein Aggregates (APA) from white bread and their characterisation. Biophysical Chemistry, 2023, 302, 107097.

  • K. Rani, B. Pippal, S. K. Singh, A. Karmakar, R. Vankayala and N. Jain*. Effects of aspect ratio of plasmonic gold nanorods on the inhibition of lysozyme amyloid formation. Biomater. Sci., 2023,11, 4200-4209. Selected for Inside Front Cover of the journal.

  • B. Pippal, P. Chaudhuri, K. Rani, J. K. Yadav and N. Jain*. Discerning modulation of α-synuclein amyloid assembly by α-crystallin. ACS Chem Neurosci. 2023, 14, 9, 1659–1671. Selected for front cover of the journal.

2023

2022

  • L. K. Nicastro, J. D. Anda, N. Jain, S.A. Tursi, K. C. M. Grando, L. S. Le, A. L. Miller, B. A. Buttaro, G. J. Silverman, S. Gallucci, G. C. L. Wong and C. Tükel. Structural organization of DNA in curli fibrils during biofilm formation dictates the type I interferon signature and autoantibody response. PLoS Pathogens. 2022 Aug; 18(8): e1010742.

  • K. Ahlawat, R. Jangra, S. Chaturvedi, C. Prakash, A. Dixit, D. Fulwani, A. Gupta, N. Jain, V. Tak, and R. Prakash. Photocatalytic Oxidation Conveyor 'PCOC' system for large scale surface disinfection. Review of Scientific Instruments. 2022. DOI: 10.1063/5.0082222.

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  • K. Khambhati, J. Patel, V. Saxena, A. P. and N. Jain*. Gene regulation of biofilm-associated functional amyloids. Pathogens 2021, 10, 490. *Corresponding author.

2021

2020

  • K. Bhasne, N. Jain, R. Karnawat, S. Arya, A. Majumdar, A. Singh and S. Mukhopadhyay. Discerning dynamic signatures of membrane-boundα-synuclein using site-specific fluorescence depolarization kinetics. J. Phys. Chem. B 2020, 124, 5, 708-717.

  • T. R. Sampson, C. Challis C#, N. Jain#, G. Shastri, T. Thron, P. Wittung-Stafshede, V. Gradinaru, M. R. Chapman, and S. K. Mazmanian. A gut bacterial amyloid promotes α-synuclein aggregation and motor impairment in mice. eLife 2020, 9:e53111 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.53111. #Equal contribution.

  • N. Jain* and A. Mohammad. Stopping the unstoppable: Unconventional strategies to combat biofilm growth. Current Drug Discovery Technologies 2020;17(4):515-522. *Corresponding author.

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  • N. Jain* and M. R. Chapman*. Bacterial functional amyloids: Order from disorder. BBA: Proteins and Proteomics 2019, 1867(10):954-960.

2019

2018

  • Klein, R. D., Shu, Q., Cusumano, Z. T., Nagamatsu, K., Gualberto, N. C., Lynch, A. J., Wu, C., Wang W., Jain, N. ... & Chapman, M. R.(2018). Structure-function analysis of the curli accessory protein CsgE defines surfaces essential for coordinating amyloid fiber formation. mBio, 9(4), e01349-18.

  • Bhasne, K., Sebastian, S., Jain, N., & Mukhopadhyay, S. (2018). Synergistic amyloid switch triggered by early heterotypic oligomerization of intrinsically disordered α-synuclein and tau. Journal of Molecular Biology, 430(16), 2508-2520. Recommended by Faculty by 1000

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  • R. D. Klein, Q. Shu, Z. Cusumano, K. Nagamatsu, N. Gualberto, A. Lynch, C. Wu, W. Wang, N. Wagner, N. Jain, J. Pinkner, S. Hultgren, C. Frieden, and M. R. Chapman. Structure-function analysis of CsgE reveals regions essential for amyloid fiber formation in E. coli. mBio 2018, 9:e01349-18.

  • K. Bhasne, S. Sebastian, N. Jain, and S. Mukhopadhyay. Synergistic amyloid switch triggered by early heterotypic oligomerization of intrinsically disordered α-synuclein and tau. J. Mol. Biol. 2018, 430(16):2508-2520. Recommended by Faculty of 1000.

  • N. Jain, N. D. Hammer, X. Wang, B. A. McGuffie, and M. R. Chapman. Amyloid: Friend and Foe. Handbook of Infection and Alzheimer’s disease 2017, J. Miklossy (Ed.) IOS Press (5) 297-311.

2017

2016

  • Jain, N., Narang, D., Bhasne, K., Dalal, V., Arya, S., Bhattacharya, M., & Mukhopadhyay, S. (2016). Direct observation of the intrinsic backbone torsional mobility of disordered proteins. Biophysical Journal, 111(4), 768-774. Recommended by Faculty by 1000.

  • Horowitz S, Koepnick B, Martin R, Tymieniecki A, Winburn A, Cooper S, Flatten J, Rogawski D, Koropatkin N, Hailu T,   Jain N, Chapman MR, Sikkema A, Skiba M, Maloney F, Beinlich F, Players F, Students UM, Popović Z , Baker D, Khatib F, and Bardwell JCA (2016). Determining crystal structures through crowdsourcing and coursework. Nat. Commun. 7:12549.

  • Taylor, J. D., Hawthorne, W. J., Lo, J., Dear, A., Jain, N., Meisl, G., ... & Matthews, S. J. (2016). Electrostatically-guided inhibition of Curli amyloid nucleation by the CsgC-like family of chaperones. Scientific Reports, 6(1), 24656.

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  • Chorell, E., Andersson, E., Evans, M. L., Jain, N., Götheson, A., Åden, J., ... & Wittung-Stafshede, P. (2015). Bacterial chaperones CsgE and CsgC differentially modulate human α-synuclein amyloid formation via transient contacts. PloS One, 10(10), e0140194.

  • Jain, N., & Mukhopadhyay, S. (2015). Applications of fluorescence anisotropy in understanding protein conformational disorder and aggregation. Applied Spectroscopy and the Science of Nanomaterials, 41-57.

2015

2013

  • Jain, N., Bhasne, K., Hemaswasthi, M., & Mukhopadhyay, S. (2013). Structural and dynamical insights into the membrane-bound α-synuclein. PloS one, 8(12), e83752.

  • Bhattacharya, M., Jain, N., Dogra, P., Samai, S., & Mukhopadhyay, S. (2013). Nanoscopic amyloid pores formed via stepwise protein assembly. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 4(3), 480-485.

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  • Jain, N., Bhattacharya, M., & Mukhopadhyay, S. (2011). Chain collapse of an amyloidogenic intrinsically disordered protein. Biophysical Journal, 101(7), 1720-1729. Recommended by Faculty by 1000.

  • Bhattacharya, M., Jain, N., & Mukhopadhyay, S. (2011). Insights into the mechanism of aggregation and fibril formation from bovine serum albumin. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 115(14), 4195-4205.

  • Bhattacharya, M., Jain, N., Bhasne, K., Kumari, V., & Mukhopadhyay, S. (2011). pH-induced conformational isomerization of  bovine serum albumin studied by extrinsic and intrinsic protein fluorescence. Journal of Fluorescence, 21, 1083-1090.

  • Jain, N., Bhattacharya, M., & Mukhopadhyay, S. (2011). Kinetics of surfactant-induced aggregation of lysozyme studied by fluorescence spectroscopy. Journal of Fluorescence, 21, 615-625.

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  • Kumar, S., Jain, N., & Mukherjee, T. K. (2009). Role of RAGE in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: Promising prospects.  Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology, 2(165), 121-122.

  • Shivaprakash, M. R., Jain, N., Gupta, S., Baghela, A., Gupta, A., & Chakrabarti, A. (2009). Allergic fungal rhinosinusitis caused by Neosartorya hiratsukae from India. Medical Mycology, 47(3), 317-320.

2011

2009

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