Publications

    Selected peer-reviewed publications

    1. Sharma S, Sati B, Pant D, Kumar S, Basu S. Rhizosphere Microbiome Dynamics in Hydroponics: Core Taxa, Fungal Pathogen Infestations and Probiotic-Based Management. Plant Pathology. 2026 Jan;75(1):e70103.
    2. Dalal R, Sadhu S, Batra A, Goswami S, Dandotiya J, K. V V, Yadav R, Singh V, Chaturvedi K, Kannan R, Kumar S. Gut commensals-derived succinate impels colonic inflammation in ulcerative colitis. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes. 2025 Mar 13;11(1):44.
    3. Pragasam AK, Maurya S, Jain K, Pal S, Raja C, Yadav R, Kumar S, Purohit A, Pradhan D, Kajal K, Talukdar D. Invasive Salmonella typhimurium colonizes gallbladder and contributes to gallbladder carcinogenesis through activation of host epigenetic modulator KDM6B. Cancer Letters. 2025 May 28;618:217621.
    4. Purohit, Ayushi, Bharti Kandiyal, Shakti Kumar, Agila Kumari Pragasam, Parul Kamboj, Daizee Talukdar, Jyoti Verma et al. “Collinsella aerofaciens linked with increased ethanol production and liver inflammation contribute to the pathophysiology of NAFLD.” iScience 27, no. 2 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.108764.
    5. Kumar, Vikram, Neetu Kumra Taneja, Shakti Kumar, Atul Vashist, Jayesh J. Ahire, and Vijendra Mishra. “Complete genome sequence of Lactiplantibacillus plantarum BBC32B isolated from human feces sample.” Microbiology Resource Announcements 12, no. 11 (2023): e00645-23. https://doi.org/10.1128/MRA.00645-23.
    6. Mehrotra, Tanshi, Dipasri Konar, Agila Kumari Pragasam, Shakti Kumar, Pradipta Jana, Prabhakar Babele, Deepjyoti Paul et al. “Antimicrobial resistance heterogeneity among multidrug-resistant Gram-negative pathogens: Phenotypic, genotypic, and proteomic analysis.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120, no. 33 (2023): e2305465120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2305465120.
    7. Shakti Kumar, Tanshi Mehrotraa Daizee Talukdar, Jyoti Verma, Bipul Chandra Karmakar, Sangita Paul, Sujit Chaudhuri, Agila Kumari Pragasama, Susmita Bakshi, Shashi Kumari, Meenal Chawla, Ayushi Purohit, Sonali Porey Karmakar, Ankur Mutreja, Sayantan Banerjee, Animesh Ray, Thandavarayan Ramamurthy, Asish K Mukhopadyay, Bhabatosh Das. (2022), “Region-specific genomic signatures of multidrug-resistant Helicobacter pylori isolated from East and South India”, Gene 2022 Dec 30;847:146857, doi: 10.1016/j.gene.2022.146857. (Impact Factor: 3.913).
    8. Tayyeba Rizwan, Akansha Kothidar, Himanshu Meghwani, Vaibhav Sharma, Rahul Shobhawat, Rajpal Saini, Hemendra Kumar Vaishnav, Vikramaditya Singh, Mukut Pratap, Hitaishi Sihag, Shakti Kumar, Joy Kumar Dey, Sanjay Kumar Dey (2022). “Comparative analysis of SARS-CoV-2 envelope viroporin mutations from COVID-19 deceased and surviving patients revealed implications on its ion-channel activities and correlation with patient mortality”. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2021.1944319. (Impact Factor: 2.689)
    9. 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).
    10. 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)
    11. 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)
    12. 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)
    13. 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)
    14. 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 AL2”. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 33(10):178. (Impact Factor: 1.658)
    15. Veena Tandon, Bidyadhar Das, Shakti Kumar (2017) “Proteases of parasitic helminths: their metabolic role in establishment of infection in the host”. Book Title: Proteases in human diseases, Editors: Sajal Chakraborti, Naranjan S. Dhalla and Tapati Chakraboirti, Publisher: Springer, ISBN: 978-981-10-3161-8.
    16. Priyanka Bajaj, Pawan Kumar Kanaujia, Somendro Singh Nambram, Shalu Sharma, Shakti Kumar, Jugsharan Singh Virdi (2016) “Quinolone co-resistance in ESBL- or AmpC-producing Escherichia coli from an Indian urban aquatic environment and their public health implications”. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 23(2):1954-1959. (Impact Factor: 2.83)
    17. 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)
    18. Shakti Kumar, Devendra Kumar Biswal, Sankarampadi Aravamudhan and Veena Tandon. (2013) “CAVS (Computer-aided Virtual Screening): A command line program for automated virtual screening of large set ligands against multiple protein targets”. Proceeding of International Conference on Health, Environment and Industrial Biotechnology (ICHEIB) BioSangam-2013, 21-23 November 2013, Allahabad, Edited by Shivesh Sharma, McGraw Hill Education (India) New Delhi, ISBN (13):978-9-33-290137-7, 288-291.
    19. Sarita Saraswati, Pawan Kumar Kanaujia, Shakti Kumar, Ranjeet Kumar and Abdulqader A. Alhaider (2013) “Tylophorine, a Phenanthraindolizidine alkaloid isolated from Tylophora indica exerts antiangiogenic and antitumor activity by targeting vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2–mediated angiogenesis”. BMC Molecular Cancer, 12:82. (Impact Factor: 5.4)
    20. 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).
    21. 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)