About Dr. Gajendra Azad Laboratory

In silico study identifies hub genes and regulatory network associated with the pathogenesis of Japanese Encephalitis Virus Authors Arvind Kumar, Gyanendra Bahadur Chand, Gajendra Kumar Azad Accepted for publication in Egyptian Journal of Medical Human Genetics (Impact Factor: 1.2)

In silico identification, characterization and expression analysis of the shaggy-like kinase genes in Cicer arietinum (chickpea). Mayank Kumar, Ruchika Bharti, Gajendra Kumar Azad. Discover Plants 2, 3 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s44372-024-00084-1

Human Gene In silico analysis of the effects of non-synonymous SNPs associated with human GSK3B gene on its structure and function. Mayank Kumar, Ruchika Bharti, Gajendra Kumar Azad. Human Gene, Volume 42, December 2024, 201332, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.humgen.2024.201332 

Histone H3 N-terminal tail provides tolerance to Tartrazine induced stress in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Smriti Anand, Sushant Kumar, Khushboo Kumari, Gajendra Kumar Azad.  Biologia, 6 March 2024, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11756-024-01653-1 (Impact Factor: 1.5) 

Mystery Unfolding: The Curious Case of Histone H3 Clipping, Gajendra Kumar Azad. Accepted for publication in Biology Bulletin (Impact Factor: 0.5)

Yasmin, S., Kumar, S. & Azad, G.K. A computational study on mitogenome-encoded proteins of Pavo cristatus and Pavo muticus identifies key genetic variations with functional implications. J Genet Eng Biotechnol 21, 80 (2023). 

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s43141-023-00534-5

An immunoinformatics approach to study the epitopes of SARS-CoV-2 helicase, Nsp13. Sushant Kumar, Khushboo Kumari, Gajendra Kumar Azad. Vacunas, Volume 24, Issue 3, July–September 2023, Pages 190-202

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1576988723000092?via%3Dihub

Potential health risk assessment through the consumption of arsenic-contaminated groundwater in parts of the middle Gangetic plain Maya Jha, Suresh Kumar, T. B. N. Singh, S. K. Srivastava, Gajendra Kumar Azad & Shahla Yasmin. Bulletin of the National Research Centre volume 47, Article number: 77 (2023)

https://bnrc.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42269-023-01054-5

RNA-degradation eliminates developmental transcripts during murine embryonic stem cell differentiation via CAPRIN1-XRN2. Juliane O. Viegas, Gajendra Kumar Azad, Yuan Lv, Tal Paltiel, Sundararaghavan Pattabiraman, Jung Eun Park, Daniel Kaganovich, Siu Kwan Sze, Michal Rabani, Miguel Esteban, Eran Meshorer. Accepted for publication in Developmental Cell. (Impact Factor: 13.42)

Immunoinformatics study of SARS-CoV-2 Nucleocapsid Phosphoprotein identifies promising epitopes with mutational implications. Sushant Kumar, Khushboo Kumari,  Gajendra Kumar Azad. Accepted for publication in Moscow University Biology Sciences Bulletin.

Assessment of the effect of Valproic Acid on Regeneration in Eisenia fetida. Tanvi Singh, Sneh Mani, Anupriya Bhakta, Gajendra Kumar Azad, Shahla Yasmin. Accepted for publication in Biology Bulletin (Impact Factor: 0.492)

Single-cell RNA-seq reveals early heterogeneity during ageing in yeast. Yi Zhang, Jincheng Wang, Yuchen Sang, Shengxian Jin, Xuezheng Wang, Gajendra Kumar Azad, Mark A. McCormick, Brian K. Kennedy, Qing Li, Jianbin Wang, Xiannian Zhang, Yanyi Huang. Accepted for publication in Aging Cell (Impact Factor: 11.005)

Non-Uniform Aspects of SARS-CoV-2 Intraspecies Evolution Reopen Questions on Its Origin. Sk. Sarif Hassana, Vaishnavi Kodakandla, Elrashdy M. Redwan, Kenneth Lundstrom, Pabitra Pal Choudhury, Angel ´Serrano-Aroca, Gajendra Kumar Azad, Alaa A. A. Aljabali, Giorgio Palui, Tarek Mohamed Abd El-Aziz, Debmalya Barh, Bruce D. Uhal, Parise Adadi, Kazuo Takayama, Nicolas G Bazan, Murtaza Tambuwala, Samendra P Sherchan, Amos Lal, Gaurav Chauhan, Wagner Baetas-da-Cruz, Vladimir N. Uversky. Accepted for publication in International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, Sept 2022 (Impact Factor: 8.025)

Periodically Aperiodic Pattern of SARS-CoV-2 Mutations Underpins the Uncertainty of Its Origin and Evolution. Sk. Sarif Hassan, Pallab Basu, Elrashdy M Redwan, Pabitra Pal Choudhury, Angel Serrano-Aroca, Gajendra Kumar Azad, Alaa AA Aljabali, Giorgio Palu, Tarek Mohamed Abd El-Aziz, Debmalya Barh, Bruce D Uhal, Parise Adadi, Kazuo Takayama, Nicolas G Bazan, Murtaza Tambuwala, Amos Lal, Gaurav Chauhan, Wagner Baetas-de-Cruz, Samendra P Sherchan, Vladimir N Uversk. Environmental Research, 2022 Mar;204(Pt B):112092. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2021.112092 (Impact Factor: 8.431)

Autoimmunity roots of the thrombotic events after COVID-19 vaccination. Fatma Elrashdy, Murtaza M Tambuwala, Sk Sarif Hassan, Parise Adadi, Murat Seyran, Tarek Mohamed Abd El-Aziz, Nima Rezaei, Amos Lal, Alaa A A Aljabali, Ramesh Kandimalla, Nicolas G Bazan, Gajendra Kumar Azad, Samendra P Sherchan, Pabitra Pal Choudhury, Ángel Serrano-Aroca, Kazuo Takayama, Gaurav Chauhan, Damiano Pizzol, Debmalya Barh, Pritam Kumar Panda, Yogendra K Mishra, Giorgio Palù, Kenneth Lundstrom, Elrashdy M Redwan, Vladimir N Uversky. Autoimmun Rev . 2021 Nov;20(11):102941. doi: 10.1016/j.autrev.2021.102941(Impact Factor: 17.39)

Emerging genetic diversity of SARS-CoV-2 RNA dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) alters its B-cell epitopes. Sushant Kumar, Khushboo Kumari, Gajendra Kumar Azad#. Biologicals, 2021 Nov 17;S1045-1056(21)00091-9. doi:10.1016/j.biologicals.2021.11.002 (Impact Factor: 1.760)

Questions concerning the proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2. Seyran M, Pizzol D, Adadi P, El-Aziz TMA, Hassan SS, Soares A, Kandimalla R, Lundstrom K, Tambuwala M, Aljabali AAA, Lal A, Gajendra Kumar Azad, Choudhury PP, Uversky VN, Sherchan SP, Uhal BD, Rezaei N, Brufsky AM. J Med Virol. 2020 Sep 3. doi: 10.1002/jmv.26478. (Impact factor: 20.69)