Karunakar Kar
Assistant Professor
School of Life Sciences
Jawaharlal Nehru University
India
Biography
(3 years) Assistant Professor- Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, IIT Jodhpur, India. (7 years) Postdoctoral Associate- University of Pittsburgh and Rutgers University
Research Interest
1. Protein Biophysics, 2. Amyloids and Collagens, 3. Rationally Engineered Biomaterials and Nanoparticles
Publications
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3. Misra, P., Kodali, R., Chemuru, S., Kar, K., Wetzel, R. Rapid a-oligomer formation mediated by the Abeta C-terminus initiates an amyloid assembly pathway. Nature Communication (2016) 7:12419
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2. Kar, K., Jayaraman, M., Sahoo, B., Kodali, R., Wetzel, R., Critical nucleus size for disease-related polyglutamine aggregation is repeat length dependent. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, (2011) 18: 328-336
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1. Dubey, K., Anand, B.G., Shekhawat, D.S. and Kar, K.*, Eugenol prevents amyloid formation of proteins and inhibits amyloid-induced hemolysis. Scientific Reports (2017) 7: 40744
