Mahalingam S

Biography

He is currently employed at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India and have good expertise in the field of Biotechnology. He is currently employed at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India and have good expertise in the field of Biotechnology.

Research Interest

Molecular pathogenesis of HIV In a factory, someone has to stand on the loading dock, checking the goods going out. By recognizing labels like bar codes on each shipment, the loading dock supervisor makes sure that the products get where they are supposed to go. A cell is like a factory: one of its most important jobs is to produce proteins, like transcription factors and nuclear transport receptors. But in cellular factories, the sorting task is complicated by the fact that proteins are used by the cell itself as well as delivered to outside “customers”. Scientists are succeeding at deciphering the cell’s complex bar-coding system. But, surprisingly, they have never managed to get at the loading dock itself to see how HIV genome is actually shipped to their destinations.