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Education
  • 1980

    MSc (Chemistry)

    IIT Kanpur

  • 1989

    PhD (Biochemistry)

    Biochemistry, Bose Institute, University of Calcutta

  • 1990-1991

    Post- Doc

    MGH Cancer Ctr, Fellow Harvard Med School, Boston, USA

  • 1991-1993

    Post-doc

    Carnegie Mellon, Fellow University,Pittsburgh, USA

People
Shradha Suyal MSc

Senior Research Fellow

Pratiksha Dubey MSc

Senior Research Fellow

Nikita Vashist MSc

Senior Research Fellow

Shikha Gupta PhD

Research Associate

Teaching
BIO628 - Introduction to Synthetic Biology

BIO402 - Microbial Genetics and Physiology

BIO610 - Advanced topics in Molecular genetics

Publication
Efficient assembly of a synthetic attenuated SARS-CoV-2 genome in S. cerevisiae using multicopy yeast vectors. 2024, Singh, AK, Goar, H, Vashist, N, Sinha, P, Bachhawat, AK*.. J Genetics.

The potential of R. toruloides mevalonate pathway genes in increasing isoprenoid yields in S. cerevisiae: Evaluation of GGPPS and HMG-CoA reductase. 2024, Adusumilli SH, Dabburu GR, Kumar M, Arora P, Chattopadhyaya B, Behera D, Bachhawat AK.* . Enzyme Microb Technol. 174:110374.


Allosteric inhibition of MTHFR prevents futile SAM cycling and maintains nucleotide pools in one carbon metabolism. 2020, Muskan Bhatia, Jyotika Thakur, Shradha Suyal, Ruchika Oniel, Rahul Chakraborty, Shalini Pradhan, Monika Sharma, Shantanu Sengupta, Sunil Laxman, Shyam Kumar Masakapalli, Anand Kumar Bachhawat *. J Biol Chem , 295, 16037-16057.



The glutathione cycle: Glutathione metabolism beyond the γ-glutamyl cycle. 2018, Bachhawat AK*, Yadav S.. IUBMB Life. 70(7):585-592.


ChaC2: An Enzyme for Slow Turnover of Cytosolic Glutathione. 2017, Kaur A, Gautam R, Srivastava R, Chandel A, Kumar A, Karthikeyan,S *, Bachhawat AK* . J. BiolChem 292:638-651,2017


Mammalian proapoptotic factor ChaC1 and its homologues function as γ-glutamylcyclotransferasesacting specifically on glutathione. 2012, Kumar A, Tikoo S, Maity S, Sengupta S, Sengupta S, Kaur A, BachhawatAK.*.. EMBO Rep. 13:1095-101.

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Contact
Work Email: anand[at]iisermohali[dot]ac[dot]in Address: Sector 81 Knowledge City