Kamat Siddhesh S
Assistant Professor
Biology
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune
India
Biography
B. Tech. (Pharmaceuticals & Fine Chemicals), UDCT 2003-2007 (Advisor: K. G. Akamanchi) Ph.D. Chemistry, Texas A&M University 2007-2012 (Advisor: Frank M. Raushel) Postdoc: The Scripps Research Institute 2013-2016 (Advisor: Benjamin F. Cravatt)
Research Interest
Chemical Biology, Metabolomics, Chemoproteomics, Lipid Metabolism, Protein Biochemistry
Publications
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Ogura, Y., Parsons, W. H., Kamat, S. S., Cravatt, B. F. (2016) A calcium-dependent acyltransferase that produces N-acyl phosphatidylethanolamines, Nature Chemical Biology 12, 669-671.
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Kolar, M. J., Kamat, S. S., Parsons, W. H., Homan, E., Maher, T., Peroni, O., Syed, I., Molven, A., Kahn, B. B., Cravatt, B. F., Saghatelian, A. (2016) Branched fatty acid esters of hydroxy fatty acids are the preferred substrates of the MODY8 gene carboxyl ester lipase Biochemistry 55, 4636-4641.
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13. Kory, N., Grond, S., Kamat, S. S., Li, Z., Krahmer, N., Chitraju, C., Zhou, P., Fronlich, F., Semova, I., Ejsing, C., Zechner, R., Cravatt, B. F., Farese, R. V., Walther, T. C. (2017) Mice lacking lipid droplet-associated hydrolase, a gene linked to human prostate cancer, have normal cholesterol ester metabolism Journal of Lipid Research 58, 226-235.
