Publications

1. ZBTB12 is a molecular barrier to dedifferentiation in human pluripotent stem cells. Nature Communications, 2023. PMID: 36759523

Dasol Han, Guojing Liu, Yujeong Oh, Seyoun Oh, Seungbok Yang, Lori Mandjikian, Neha Rani, Maria C. Almeida, Kenneth S. Kosik & Jiwon Jang

2. Regulation of Cell-Type-Specific Transcriptomes by miRNA Networks During Human Brain Development. Nature Neuroscience, 2018. PMID: 30455455  

Nowakowski T. J.*, Rani, N.*, Golkaram M.*, Zhou H.*, Alvarado B., Huch K., West J., Leyrat A., Pollen A., Kriegstein A. R., Petzold L. R., Kosik, K. S. (* Shared First Author). 

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3. A Primate lncRNA Mediates Notch Signaling During Neuronal Development by Sequestering miRNA. Neuron, 2016. PMID: 27263970

Rani, N., Nowakowski T. J., Zhou, H., Godshalk S, Lisi V., Kriegstein A. R., and Kosik, K. S. 

* Editor's Choice in Science (Highlight) (22 July 2016, Vol 353, Issue 6297)

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*Preview on this article: “Junk DNA used in Cerebral Cortical Evolution”, Neuron, 2016 by Thomas Pratt, David J. Price.

4. Novel primate miRNAs co-evolved with ancient target genes in germinal zone specific expression patterns. Neuron, 2014. PMID: 24583023

Arcila, M. L., Betizeau, M, Cambronne, X. A., Guzman, E., Doerflinger, N., Bouhallier, F., Zhou, H., Wu, B., Rani,  N., Bassett, D. S., Huissoud, C., Goodman, R. H., Dehay, C., Kosik, K.S.

5. FAT10 and NUB1L bind to the VWA domain of Rpn10 and Rpn1 to enable proteasome-mediated proteolysis. Nature Communications, 2012. PMID: 22434192

Rani, N., Kreft S. G., Schmidtke, G., Aichem, A. and Groettrup, M.

6. USE1 is a bispecific conjugating enzyme for ubiquitin and FAT10 which FAT10ylates itself in cis. Nature Communications, 2010. PMID: 20975683

Aichem, A., Pelzer, C., Lukasiak, S., Kalveram, B., Sheppard, P. W., Rani, N., Schmidtke, G. and Groettrup, M. 

7. Host genes that affect progression of AIDS/HIV in India and novel gene therapeutic approaches against HIV (Review). Indian Journal of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 2008.

 Sood, V., Rathore, A., Husain, S., Khan, S., Patra, S., Shankar, V., Kumar, H., Rani, N., Bano, A.S., Neogi,U., Ramachandran, V.G., and  Banerjea, A.C.