
Rohit ShuklaJaypee University of Information Technology | JUIT, J. P. University of Information Technology · Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics
Rohit Shukla
Doctor of Philosophy
Actively looking for postdoctoral opportunities.
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Introduction
Mr. Rohit Shukla has completed his Ph.D. from the Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Jaypee University of Information Technology, Solan, Himachal Pradesh, India. Currently, He is working on the structural characterization of microtubule-associated binding protein (MAPT) which is a major cause of Alzheimer’s disease. Mr. Shukla is also working on the identification of novel inhibitors by using ligand-based approaches (QSAR and Pharmacophore methods) and structure-based drug designing
Additional affiliations
August 2018 - present
November 2017 - July 2018
October 2015 - October 2017
Education
July 2010 - July 2012
July 2007 - July 2010
Publications
Publications (64)
Missense Non-synonymous single nucleotide polymorphisms (nsSNPs) of Galactose Mutarotase (GALM) are associated with the Novel type of Galactosemia (Galactosemia type 4) together with symptoms such as high blood galactose levels and eye cataracts. The objective of the present study was to identify deleterious nsSNPs of GALM recorded on the dbSNP dat...
Polymorphisms of Thiopurine S-methyltransferase (TPMT) are known to be associated with leukemia, inflammatory bowel diseases, and more. The objective of the present study was to identify novel deleterious missense SNPs of TPMT through a comprehensive in silico protocol. The initial SNP screening protocol used to identify deleterious SNPs from the p...
The apoptotic balance of the cell is governed by Bcl-2 protein family. Increased expression of pro-survival members of Bcl-2 family is indicative of cell death evasion and cancer metastasis. The current therapeutic approach to regulate the Bcl-2 overexpression using small molecule approach, although effective, is limited by dose related toxicity. I...
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a chronic intensifying neurodegenerative disorder and accounts for three fourths of dementia cases. To date, there is no effective treatment available which can completely cure AD. The available medications can slower AD progression and can provide symptomatic relaxation. The N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) plays a...
Malate dehydrogenase enzyme plays an essential role in energy metabolism in all eukaryotes. It catalyzes the interconversion of malate to oxaloacetate, producing NAD+/NADH. In the current study, we monitored the urea-induced conformational changes in Fasciola gigantica malate dehydrogenase (FgMDH) structure using multiple spectroscopic techniques c...
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/356406323_Book_of_Abstracts_Inbix2021
Background
Alzheimer’s disease is a leading neurodegenerative disease worldwide and is the 6th leading cause of death in the USA. AD is a very complex disease and the drugs available in the market cannot fully cure it. The glycogen synthase kinase 3 beta plays a major role in the hyperphosphorylation of tau protein which forms the neurofibrillary t...
With the advancement of computational and sequencing methods, a large amount of biological data are generated by using various techniques, such as high-throughput screening, next-generation sequencing, Chipseq analysis, microarray analysis, and mass spectroscopy. These generated data sets (genome, transcriptome, proteome, and metabolome) are very c...
With the advancement of computational and sequencing methods, a large amount of biological data are generated by using various techniques, such as high-throughput screening, next-generation sequencing, Chipseq analysis, microarray analysis, and mass spectroscopy. These generated data sets (genome, transcriptome, proteome, and metabolome) are very c...
Alzheimer's Disease is a gradual, irreversible brain disease that deteriorates a patient's memory, cognitive functions and shrinks the brain's size, eventually leading to death. Based on recent research, it is found that AD is the third leading cause of death. Presently there is no available medication for the treatment of AD. Though, diagnosis of...
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a chronic intensifying neurodegenerative disorder and accounts for three-fourths of dementia cases. To date, there is no effective treatment available which can completely cure AD. The available medications can slower AD progression and can provide symptomatic relaxation. The N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) plays a...
Drug discovery is the process used to discover new candidate medications. In the past, most drugs were discovered by identification of active-ingredients or by serendipity. Modern drug discovery is more focused and streamlined. It starts with target identification, followed by the identification of inhibitors that bind to the target and inhibit its...
Prodrugs are biologically inactive drug molecules that may be developed through rational drug design with an objective to improve a drug’s pharmaceutical and pharmacokinetic properties. Paclitaxel, a highly potent anticancer drug, is directed against many cancers like breast cancer, ovarian cancer, lung cancer, head and neck tumors, non-small cell...
Expert systems are a rapidly emerging technology in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), having an immense impact on human healthcare. The main objective of a medical expert system is to help medical professionals in arriving at correct diagnostics. Information gathering is an important part of disease diagnosis, and traditional methods of di...
The pandemic of COVID-19 emerged at the end of 2019 and spread rapidly in
almost all the countries around the world. This has become a severe global
health concern. COVID-19 pandemic is still spreading and reoccurring, so
vaccines are urgently needed to control the spreading of this epidemic. Facts
have shown that vaccines are the most successful a...
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a multifactorial complex and wide spreading global disease. It is a chronic neurodegenerative disorder characterized by amyloid beta (Aβ) and neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs). Several enzymes are involved in which CDK5 is a major tau phosphorylation enzyme. We have screened (n = 5,36,801) compounds against CDK5 and 392 com...
Biomacromolecules, including proteins and their complexes, adopt multiple conformations that are linked to their biological functions. Though some of the structural heterogeneity can be studied by methods like X-ray crystallography, NMR, or cryo-electron microscopy, these methods fail to explain the detailed conformational transitions and dynamics....
The liver fluke zoonoses, Fasciola spp. are parasitic helminths infecting humans and animals globally. Recent delineation of the genome of Fasciola gigantica has provided a basis to understand the biochemistry of this parasite. In the present study, we identified malate dehydrogenase in F. gigantica (FgMDH) and characterized the enzyme biochemicall...
The meaningful data extraction from the biological big data or omics data is a remaining challenge in bioinformatics. The deep learning methods, which can be used for the prediction of hidden information from the biological data, are widely used in the industry and academia. The authors have discussed the similarity and differences in the widely ut...
Fascioliasis, a neglected food-borne disease caused by liver flukes (genus Fasciola), affects more than 200 million people worldwide. Despite technological advances, little is known about the molecular biology and biochemistry of these flukes. We present the draft genome of Fasciola gigantica for the first time. The assembled draft genome has a siz...
Mycobacterium tuberculosis remains one of the most successful bacterial pathogens worldwide. The development of drug-resistant strains and the ability of the bacteria to persist in a latent form in the host are major problems for tuberculosis (TB) control. Glyoxylate shunt is a metabolic bypass of the Krebs cycle and is the key for M. tuberculosis...
Paclitaxel drug is administered in the treatment of ovarian and breast cancer and also in Kaposi sarcoma. In spite of being nanomolar active, use of this drug is confined because of its low aqueous solubility, hence many prodrugs for increasing paclitaxel's solubility were formed, but the formation process was not rational. In the current study, qu...
Alzheimer's disease is a rapidly increasing neurodegenerative disease. It is a multifactorial disease and also a global threat. Several enzymes are implicated in the disease in which Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3 beta is a key enzyme to increase the disease progression by the hyperphosphorylation of the tau protein. We have used an integrative chemoin...
Protein-protein interactions are crucial for all biological processes. Compiling this network provides many new insights into protein function and gives directions for the development of new drugs targeted to the pathogen. Mycobacterium tuberculosis Nucleoside diphosphate kinase (Mtb Ndk) has been reported to promote survival of mycobacterium withi...
Fasciola gigantica is an important food-borne trematode responsible for the hepatobiliary disease, commonly known as fascioliasis. In F. gigantica, the glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (FgGAPDH) is a key enzyme of the glycolytic pathway and catalyzes the reversible oxidative phosphorylation of D-glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate (G-3-P) to 1,3-bis...
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the progressive neurodegenerative disorder and characterized by the brain cell death, memory loss and is the most common form of dementia. Although AD has devastating effects however, drugs which can treat the AD remain limited. The cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (CDK5) has been involved in the pathological hyperphosphorylati...
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder and characterized by brain cell death, memory loss and is the most common form of dementia. Although AD has devastating effects, however, drugs which can treat the AD remain limited. The cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (CDK5) has been recognized as being involved in the pathological hyp...
Blood coagulation is a complex and dynamic process wherein the body activates its emergency mechanism to stop bleeding and wound healing via the interactions of prothrombotic and antithrombotic agents. Von Willebrand factor (VWF) is a complex glycoprotein and initial component of the hemostasis pathway which serves a multipurpose role in blood coag...
Peptidoglycan (PG) is the main constituent of the bacterial cell wall. The enzyme UDP-N-acetylglucosamine enolpyruvyl transferase (MurA) catalyzes the transfer of enolpyruvate from phosphoenolpyruvate to uridinediphospho-N-acetylglucosamine, which is the first committed step of PG biosynthesis. In this study, we have systematically examined the ure...
Fascioliasis is a neglected food-borne disease caused by liver flukes (genus Fasciola) and affects more than 200 million people worldwide. Despite technological advances, little is known about the molecular biology and biochemistry of the fluke. We present the draft genome of Fasciola gigantica for the first time. The assembled draft genome has a s...
The Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common progressive neurodegenerative disease of the modern era including the most common cause of dementia with ageing. According to a report, the Alzheimer disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States of America and by the year 2050 it will affect approximately 14 million individuals. Re...
There is a huge demand for big data analysis with the generation of next-generation sequencing. Next-generation sequencing falls in various omics categories viz. Genomics, Transcriptomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics. Data scattered in various omics layers need to be integrated to get understanding of regulatory interactions and hub nodes. Regulat...
The asparaginyl-tRNA synthetase (NRS) catalyzes the attachment of asparagine to its cognate tRNA during translation. NRS first catalyzes the binding of Asn and ATP to form the NRS-asparaginyl adenylate complex, followed by the esterification of Asn to its tRNA. We investigated the role of constituent domains in regulating the structure and activity...
Solute carrier family 24 member 5 (SLC24A5) is a gene that is associated with Oculocutaneous albinism type 6 (OCA 6) disorder and is involved in skin and hair pigmentation. It is involved in the maturation of melanosomes and melanin synthesis. SLC24A5 gene is located in the chromosomal position of 15q21.1. The present study involves the use of comp...
Multidrug resistance (MDR) is the major cause, by which cancer cells expel the drugs out, developing a challenge against the current chemotherapeutic drugs regime. This mechanism is attributed to the over expression of ABC transporters like MRP1 on the surface of cells. Since nucleotide binding domains (NBD) of ABC transporters are the site of ATP...
Persistent infection by Mycobacterium tuberculosis requires the glyoxylate shunt. This is a bypass to the tricarboxylic acid cycle in which isocitrate lyase (ICL) and malate synthase (MS) catalyze the net incorporation of carbon during mycobacterial growth on acetate or fatty acids as the primary carbon source. To identify a potential anti-tubercul...
Accurate chromosomal segregation is crucial for themaintenance of genomic integrity. Rna14 is amajor component
of the yeast pre-mRNA 3′-end processing factor, the cleavage factor IA complex, and is involved in cleavage
and polyadenylation of mRNA in the nucleus. Rna14 is also essential for themaintenance of genomic integrity in
fission yeast Schizo...
Plants are a valuable source of pharmacologically important compounds since these are traditionally important in medicinal systems. Medicinal plant-based ancient wisdom could serve as a powerful tool to facilitate focused research on natural compounds for the drug discovery process. Medicinal plants are more important sources for drug discovery, sp...
Glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) are enzymes that are involved in the detoxification of harmful electrophilic endogenous and exogenous compounds by conjugating with glutathione (GSH). The liver fluke GSTs have multi-functional roles in the host-parasite interaction, such as general detoxification and bile acid sequestration to synthase activity. T...
Cytochrome P450 (CYP450) forms an enzyme superfamily that is ubiquitously distributed in nature and represents one of the largest and oldest gene superfamilies. CYP450 is important for the biotransformation of sterols and xenobiotics including drugs and is useful in the synthesis and degradation of signaling molecules. cyp450 gene encodes heme mono...
Xanthine oxidoreductase plays an important role in formation of uric acid and its regulation during purine catabolism. Uncontrolled expression of this enzyme is responsible for overproduction and deposition of uric acid in blood that is potentially injurious because it can breakdown DNA and protein molecules, triggering many diseases. Human Xanthin...
Fascioliasis is caused by the helminth parasites of genus Fasciola. Thioredoxin glutathione reductase (TGR) is an important enzyme in parasitic helminths and plays an indispensable role in its redox biology. In the present study, we conducted a structure-based virtual screening of natural compounds against the Fasciola gigantica TGR (FgTGR). The co...
Alterations in conformational topology and interaction dynamics caused by L418A mutation leads to activity loss of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isocitrate lyase Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isocitrate lyase (ICL), a potential anti-tubercular drug target, catalyzes the first step of the glyoxylate shunt. It catalyzes the cleavage of isocitrate to succin...
Mycobacterium tuberculosis isocitrate lyase (MtbICL) is a crucial enzyme of the glyoxylate cycle and is a validated anti-tuberculosis drug target. Structurally distant, non-active site mutation (H46A) in MtbICL has been found to cause loss of enzyme activity. The aim of the present work was to explore the structural alterations induced by H46A muta...
Glutathione S‒transferases (GSTs) play an important role in the detoxification of xenobiotics. They catalyze the nucleophilic addition of glutathione (GSH) to nonpolar compounds, rendering the products water-soluble. In the present study, we investigated the catalytic and structural properties of a mu-class GST from Fasciola gigantica (FgGST1). The...
Distant Leu418 mutation compromises the activity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isocitrate lyase by modulating its structural flexibility and interaction dynamics Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isocitrate lyase (ICL), a potential anti-tubercular drug target, catalyzes the first step of the glyoxylate shunt. It catalyzes the cleavage of isocitrate to suc...
Opisthorchis felineus is the etiological agent of opisthorchiasis in humans. O. felineus cytochrome P450 (OfCYP450) is an important enzyme in the parasite xenobiotic metabolism. To identify the potential anti-opisthorchid compound, we conducted a structure-based virtual screening of natural compounds from the ZINC database (n= 1,65,869) against the...
http://www.natureasia.com/en/nindia/article/10.1038/nindia.2017.103
Fasciola gigantica is the causative organism of fascioliasis and is responsible for major economic losses in livestock production globally. F. gigantica thioredoxin1 (FgTrx1) is an important redox-active enzyme involved in maintaining the redox homeostasis in the cell. To identify a potential anti-fasciolid compound, we conducted a structure-based...
Mycobacterium tuberculosis isocitrate lyase (MtbICL) is a key enzyme of the glyoxylate cycle that catalyzes the cleavage of isocitrate to succinate and glyoxylate and is a potential antituberculosis drug target. The aim of this research was to explore the structural alterations induced by L418A point mutation that caused the loss of enzyme activity...
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the etiological agent of tuberculosis in humans and is responsible for more than two million deaths annually. M. tuberculosis isocitrate lyase (MtbICL) catalyzes the first step in the glyoxylate cycle, plays a pivotal role in the persistence of M. tuberculosis, which acts as a potential target for an anti-tubercular dr...
Isocitrate lyase (ICL), a potential anti-tubercular drug target, catalyzes the first step of the glyoxylate shunt. In the present investigation, we studied the conformational flexibility of MtbICL to better understand its stability and catalytic activity. Our biochemical results showed that a point mutation at Phe345, which is topologically distant...
Alternaria brassicae and Alternaria brassicicola are two major phytopathogenic fungi which cause Alternaria blight, a recalcitrant disease on Brassica crops throughout the world, which is highly destructive and responsible for significant yield losses. Since no resistant source is available against Alternaria blight, therefore , efforts have been m...
Distant Phe345 mutation compromises the stability and activity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isocitrate lyase (MtbICL) by modulating its structural flexibility Isocitratelyase (ICL), one of the key enzymes of glyoxylate shunt, catalyzes the transformation of isocitrate to succinate and glyoxylate. It is important for carbon anaplerosis in the TCA c...
Abstract The thyroid pathway represents a complex interaction of different glands for thyroid hormone synthesis. Thyrotropin releasing hormone is synthesized in the hypothalamus and regulates thyrotropin stimulating hormone gene expression in the pituitary gland. In order to understand the complexity of the thyroid pathways, and using experimental...
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Dear Researcher,
I am working in a machine learning project. I have just started from scratch and very beginner in this field. I want some suggestions to select the negative data-set for my Project.
I want to develop a tool which can identify the disease based on the sequence information. I have downloaded 600 annotated protein sequences (Positive data-set) from various databases which belongs from the diverse protein families and do not share a common domain. And I have selected the Negative data-set from the humans which are not identical (>50%) to the positive sequence. When I run the job using SVM, random forest, ANN etc. so it gives only 60% identity which is not good enough to make a good model. After that I have changed the negative data-set many times but the result was same. Then I have selected the negative data set from the plant and the accuracy is increased (>80%). So I have following doubts please clear that:
" Is it OK to select the plant sequence or any other sequence not from human in the negative data-set when we are working on human disease identification. (Note: We have selected only Research article annotated data related to the disease)."
Dear researcher,
I want to simulate my protein with the denaturants (MW-139 Da). I am using Gromacs 2018.2 version and the extra molecules were added by using gmx insert-molecule command.
I want to add different concentration of denaturants like 10, 20............. til 90%. I have successfully added the 20% denaturants in the simulation box and run the simulation while I want to add more than 20% so the command adds a particular number and terminate with a massage (2241 is successfully added out of 3271 requested).
I have increased the box size so the number of denaturants were also increased due to increase of water molecules, so problem is same. I also read the gromacs mailing list but i can not find any solution.
Please suggest me how i can add the total molecules in the simulation box.
Thanks for your response in advance.
Dear researcher,
I want to find the Alzheimer paitient data in .bed file format for SNP related study. Several gene expression data are available in various databases but i can not find the link of the data which present in .bed file format.
Please suggest me some database or research articles.
Dear researcher,
I want to simulate my protein in different concentrations of Guanidinium chloride. I successfully added 4M GdnHCl in a cubic box. But when i want to neutrilize the system with the addition of 3915 chloride ions then it gave following error.
Fatal error:
Too many LINCS warnings (1030)
If you know what you are doing you can adjust the lincs warning threshold in your mdp file
or set the environment variable GMX_MAXCONSTRWARN to -1,
but normally it is better to fix the problem
For more information and tips for troubleshooting, please check the GROMACS
website at http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Errors
please suggest me that how i can solve my problem.
Dear researcher,
I want to simulate a protein-DNA complex. I can simulate the whole DNA but i want to simulate the nicked DNA. When i try to generate the topology of that ligand complex using GROMOS force field, it is giving the error.
Residue 'DC' not found in residue topology database
How can i solve this problem. please suggest me.
Dear researcher,
I want to simulate a selenium containing enzyme. But when i processed the selenium containing enzyme using pdb2gmx command so it is showing an error.
"Atom SE46 in residue CYS 597 was not found in rtp entry CYS with 11 atoms while sorting atoms"
please give me any suggestion how i can add the selenium during MDS.
Dear researcher,
I want to generate a free energy landscape using Essential dynamics analysis. I calculated a free energy landscape using g_sham tool. But it is not giving the idea about the minimized structure.
So my question is
1- How to predict a least energy confirmation of protein for docking using MDS
2- I attach a figure and i want to generate this type of figure
please provide me a solution.
Thanks in advance.
Dear researcher,
I want to dock a small protein in the interface of diamer protein. When i submit the diamer structure in to HADDDOCK server it terminates the jobs and do not produce the result. But when i delete the one chain of diamer and proceed the docking it accept and produce the result.
So question is:
is there any problem in diamer construction. If yes please suggest me how to create the diamer.
is there any problem in docking then how can i resolve it.
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Projects (6)
To use high-throughput protein interface design complemented with mutational mapping to provide insight into the functional outcome of mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 proteins. The knowledge of the potential residues prone to mutation improves our understanding and management of drug resistance, COVID-19 pathogenesis and will guide the scientists to identify non-conventional therapeutic strategies against SARS-CoV-2.