Abhijit Mishra
Assistant Professor
Materials Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
India
Biography
Abhijit Mishra, PhD (University of Illinois) is Assistant Professor. His Research Interests include Peptide-lipid interactions, Design of antimicrobial peptides, Antibacterial coatings, Cell-penetrating peptides.
Research Interest
Peptide-lipid interactions, Design of antimicrobial peptides, Antibacterial coatings, Cell-penetrating peptides
Publications
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N. Schmidt, K. Tai, K. Kamdar, A. Mishra, G. Lai, K. Zhao, A. Ouellette & G. Wong*, “Arginine in α-defensins: differential effects on bactericidal activity correspond to geometry of membrane curvature generation and peptide-lipid phase behaviorâ€, J. Biol. Chem. (2012) 287, 21866.
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N. Schmidt, A. Mishra, J. Wang, W. DeGrado, G. Wong, Influenza Virus A M2 Protein Generates Negative Gaussian Membrane Curvature Necessary for Budding and Scission, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 135 (2013), 13710
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A. Mishra, Structural transitions in lipid membranes: Mechanism for cell penetrating peptides, Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes (2014) 19, 103. Editors Ales Iglic, Chandrashekhar V. Kulkarni. (invited chapter)