Ajay Kumar Saxena
Professor
School of Life Sciences
Jawaharlal Nehru University
India
Biography
03/2011- Present Professor, Structural Biology Section, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. 2005-2011 Associate Professor, Structural Biology Section, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. 1998-2005 Research Fellow, Structural Biology Section, NIAID, National Institutes of Health, USA. 1996-1998 Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Biophysics & X-ray Structure Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria, Europe
Research Interest
Structural Biology on Disease related proteins, Structure guided Drug/Vaccine development
Publications
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A. Manford, T. Xia, A. K. Saxena, C. Stefan, F. Hu, S. D. Emr and Y. Mao (2010). Crystal structure of the yeast Sac1: implications for its phosphoinositide phosphatase function. EMBO J. 29(9), 1489-1498.
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C. Chen, A. K. Saxena, W. N. Simcoke, D. N. Garboczi, P. L Pedersen and Y. H. Ko (2006). MITOCHONDRIAL ATP SYNTHASE: crystal structure of the catalytic F1 unit in a Vanadate-induced transition-like state and implications for mechanism (PDB-2F43). J. Biol. Chem. 281 (19), 13777-13783.
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Saxena, A. K.#, Singh, K., Su, H.P., Klein, M. M., Stower, A. W., Saul, A. J., Long, C. and Garboczi, D. N. (2006). Plasmodium P25 and P28, essential proteins for survival of the malaria parasite in the mosquito are tile-like triangular prism. Nature (Struc. & Mol. Biol.) 13(1), 90-91.
