Dr. Uma V Manjappara
Senior Scientist
Lipid Science
Central Food Technological Research Institute
India
Biography
Dr. Uma V Manjappara is currently a Senior Scientist in the Department of Lipid science Central Food Technological Research Institute, India. She completed B.Sc Bangalore University Physics, Chemistry, Maths, M.Sc Bangalore University Chemistry, Organic chemistry, Ph.D Indian Institute of Science Molecular Biophysics.
Research Interest
Establishment of a laboratory to study satiety peptides and their mimetics to counter obesity,road experience in protein chemistry, which includes protein interaction analysis, synthesis of proteins via native chemical ligation approach, solution and solid-phase peptide synthesis and introduction of ester bonds in synthetic proteins.
Publications
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Nishita, T. S. Shilpa, Uma V. Manjappara, Shylaja R. Dharmesh and H. K. Manonmani. Hexapeptide Fragment of Azurin Induces Apoptosis in Human Colon Carcinoma (Hct 116) Cell Line. K. P. International Journal of Current Research and Academic Review. 2015 Vol 3 No. 12 pp. 17-30.
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Nagaraj S, Manjappara UV. Studies on the influence of CCK-8 on the ability of obestatin to reduce food intake, gain in body weight and related lipid parameters. Biochimie. 2016 June; 125:126-30.
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Govardhan Singh R S and Uma V. Manjappara. Selective reduction of fat accumulation by soyasaponins A and B in high fat fed C57BL/6J mice. Journal of Functional Foods. 2016, 27, pp. 95-103.
