Publications
Selected peer-reviewed publications
1. Devendra Kumar Biswal, Manish Debnath, Shakti Kumar and Pramod Tandon (2012) "Phylogenetic reconstruction in the Order: Nymphaeales: ITS2 secondary structure analysis and in silico testing of maturase K (matK) as a potential marker for DNA bar coding". BMC Bioinformatics, 13(Suppl 17): S26, 2012 (Impact Factor: 2.86).
2. Shakti Kumar, Devendra Kumar Biswal and Veena Tandon. (2013) "In-silico analysis of caspase-3 and -7 proteases from blood-parasitic Schistosoma species (Trematoda) and their human host" Bioinformation, 9(9): 456-463, 2013. (Impact Factor: 1.00).
3. Sarita Saraswati, Shakti Kumar and Abdulqader A. Alhaider (2013) "Alpha-santalol inhibits the angiogenesis and growth of human prostate tumor growth by targeting vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2-mediated AKT/mTOR/P70S6K signaling pathway". BMC Molecular Cancer, 12:147. (Impact Factor: 5.4).
4. Pawan Kumar Kanaujia, Priyanka Bajaj, Shakti Kumar, Neelja Singhal and Jugsharan Singh Virdi (2015) "Proteomic analysis of Yersinia enterocolitica biovar 1A under iron-rich and iron-poor conditions indicates existence of efficiently regulated mechanisms of iron homeostasis". Journal of proteomics, 124: 39-49. (Impact Factor: 3.9)
5. Kaushik Bhattacharjee, Shakti Kumar, Narasinga Rao Palepu, Pradeep Kumar Patra Kollipara Mohan Rao, Santa Ram Joshi (2017) "Structure elucidation and in silico docking studies of a novel furopyrimidine antibiotics synthesized by endolithic bacterium Actinomadura sp. AL2". World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 33(10):178. (Impact Factor: 1.658)
6. Sarwar Azam, Sunil Parthasarathy, Chhaya Singh, Shakti Kumar, Dayananda Siddavattam (2019) "Genome Organization and Adaptive Potential of Archetypal Organophosphate Degrading Sphingobium fuliginis ATCC 27551" Genome Biology and Evolution, 11(9):2557-2562. (Impact Factor:3.726)
7. Shakti Kumar, Naina Kumari, Daizee Talukdar, Akansha Kothidar, Mousumi Sarkar, Ojasvi Mehta, ... & GARBH-Ini Study Group. (2021). The Vaginal Microbial Signatures of Preterm Birth Delivery in Indian Women. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 11, 402. (Impact Factor:4.123)
8. Zaigham Abbas Rizvi, Rajdeep Dalal, Siikanth Sadhu, Yashwant Kumar, Shakti Kumar, Sonu Kumar Gupta, Manas Ranjan Tripathy, Deepak Kumar Rathore, Amit Awasthi (2021). "High-salt diet mediates interplay between NK cells and gut microbiota to induce potent tumor immunity". Science Advances. 7(37): eabg5016 (Impact Factor: 14.136)
9. Tanshi Mehrotra, T Barani Devi, Shakti Kumar#, Daizee Talukdar, Sonali Porey Karmakar, Akansha Kothidar, Jyoti Verma, Shashi Kumari, Sneha Mary Alexander, R J Retnakumar, Krishnadas Devadas, Animesh Ray, Ankur Mutreja, G Balakrish Nair, Santanu Chattopadhyay, Bhabatosh Das. (2021) "Antimicrobial resistance and virulence in Helicobacter pylori: Genomic insights." Genomics 113(6):3951-3966. (Impact Factor: 5.736, #equally contributed)
10. Sourabh Dutta, Bhabatosh Das, Tarini Shankar Ghosh, Shakti Kumar, Raj Kumari Kaushal, Pallab Ray, Vanita Suri, and Gopinath Balakrish Nair. (2021) "Human Milk Microbiome of Healthy Indian Mothers is Dominated by Genus Pseudomonas." Journal of Human Lactation (2021): 08903344211048415. (Impact Factor: 2.219)
11. Srikanth Sadhu, Rajdeep Dalal, Jyotsna Dandotiya, Akshay Binayke, Virendra Singh, Manas Ranjan Tripathy, Vinayaka Das, Sandeep Goswami, Shakti Kumar, Zaigham Abbas Rizvi & Amit Awasthi. (2023) "IL-9 aggravates SARS-CoV-2 infection and exacerbates associated airway inflammation." Nature Communications 14, no. 1 (2023): 4060.
12. Mehrotra, Tanshi and Konar, Dipasri and Pragasam, Agila Kumari and Kumar, Shakti and Jana, Pradipta and Babele, Prabhakar and Paul, Deepjyoti and Purohit, Ayushi and Tanwar, Subhash and Bakshi, Susmita and Das, Santanu and Verma, Jyoti and Talukdar, Daizee and Narendrakumar, Lekshmi and Kothidar, Akanksha and Karmakar, Sonali Porey and Chaudhuri, Susmita and Pal, Sujoy and Jain, Kajal and Srikanth, Chittur V. and Sankar, Jeeva and Atmakuri, Krishnamohan and Agarwal,