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Kavita Shah is affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work primarily focuses on molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying cancer, with a significant emphasis on prostate cancer.

The scientist's research covers several main fields including:

  • Medicine
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within these fields, key subdisciplines featured in their publications include:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Cell Biology
  • Oncology

Kavita Shah's research engages with specialized topics relevant to cancer biology and treatment such as:

  • Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research
  • Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways
  • Microtubule and mitosis dynamics
  • Cancer-related Molecular Pathways
  • Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism
  • Cancer, Stress, Anesthesia, and Immune Response
  • Synthesis and Catalytic Reactions

Frequent publication venues for their work include journals focused on oncology and biomedical science. These venues are:

  • Cancer Letters
  • Cancers
  • Cureus
  • British Journal of Cancer
  • Journal of Biomedical Science

The following are some recent research papers authored or co-authored by Kavita Shah, listing the full titles, publication years, and venues:

  • Receptor-interacting protein kinase 2 (RIPK2) stabilizes c-Myc and is a therapeutic target in prostate cancer metastasis, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Aurora Kinase A-YBX1 Synergy Fuels Aggressive Oncogenic Phenotypes and Chemoresistance in Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer, 2020, Cancers
  • Negative cross talk between LIMK2 and PTEN promotes castration resistant prostate cancer pathogenesis in cells and in vivo, 2020, Cancer Letters
  • Phosphorylation-dependent regulation of SPOP by LIMK2 promotes castration-resistant prostate cancer, 2020, British Journal of Cancer
  • LIMK2-NKX3.1 Engagement Promotes Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer, 2021, Cancers

Kavita Shah collaborates regularly with several coauthors, including:

  • Mohini Kamra
  • Kumar Nikhil
  • Asif Raza
  • Hanan S. Haymour
  • Moloud Aflaki Sooreshjani

Best Publications

  • Effect of cadmium on lipid peroxidation, superoxide anion generation and activities of antioxidant enzymes in growing rice seedlings

    Kavita Shah;Ritambhara G Kumar;Shalini Verma;R.S Dubey

  • Targets of the cyclin-dependent kinase Cdk1

    Jeffrey A. Ubersax;Erika L. Woodbury;Erika L. Woodbury;Phuong N. Quang;Phuong N. Quang;Maria Paraz;Maria Paraz

  • Engineering unnatural nucleotide specificity for Rous sarcoma virus tyrosine kinase to uniquely label its direct substrates

    Kavita Shah;Yi Liu;Carl Deirmengian;Kevan M. Shokat

  • A Chemical-Genetic Strategy Implicates Myosin-1c in Adaptation by Hair Cells

    Jeffrey R. Holt;Susan K.H. Gillespie;D.William Provance;Kavita Shah

  • ERK phosphorylation drives cytoplasmic accumulation of hnRNP-K and inhibition of mRNA translation

    Hasem Habelhah;Kavita Shah;Lan Huang;Antje Ostareck-Lederer

  • Wnt-5A augments repopulating capacity and primitive hematopoietic development of human blood stem cells in vivo.

    Barbara Murdoch;Kristin Chadwick;Matthew Martin;Farbod Shojaei

  • Design of allele-specific inhibitors to probe protein kinase signaling

    Anthony C. Bishop;Kavita Shah;Yi Liu;Laurie Witucki

  • Synthesis and anticancer activity of 5-(3-indolyl)-1,3,4-thiadiazoles.

    Dalip Kumar;N. Maruthi Kumar;Kuei-Hua Chang;Kavita Shah

  • Engineering Src family protein kinases with unnatural nucleotide specificity

    Yi Liu;Kavita Shah;Feng Yang;Laurie Witucki

  • Unnatural ligands for engineered proteins: new tools for chemical genetics.

    Anthony Bishop;Oleksandr Buzko;Stephanie Heyeck-Dumas;Ilyoung Jung

  • Generation of Monospecific Nanomolar Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors via a Chemical Genetic Approach

    Anthony C. Bishop;Chi-yun Kung;Kavita Shah;Laurie Witucki

  • An efficient synthesis and biological study of novel indolyl-1,3,4-oxadiazoles as potent anticancer agents

    Dalip Kumar;Swapna Sundaree;Emmanuel O. Johnson;Kavita Shah

  • Cdk5 activity in the brain - multiple paths of regulation.

    Kavita Shah;Debomoy K. Lahiri

  • A molecular gate which controls unnatural ATP analogue recognition by the tyrosine kinase v-Src.

    Y. Liu;K. Shah;F. Yang;L. Witucki

  • A Chemical Genetic Screen for Direct v-Src Substrates Reveals Ordered Assembly of a Retrograde Signaling Pathway

    Kavita Shah;Kevan M Shokat;Kevan M Shokat

  • Identification of New JNK Substrate Using ATP Pocket Mutant JNK and a Corresponding ATP Analogue

    Hasem Habelhah;Kavita Shah;Lan Huang;Alma L. Burlingame

  • Effect of cadmium on proline accumulation and ribonuclease activity in rice seedlings: role of proline as a possible enzyme protectant

    K. Shah;R.S. Dubey

  • Fast adaptation in vestibular hair cells requires myosin-1c activity.

    Eric A. Stauffer;John D. Scarborough;Moritoshi Hirono;Emilie D. Miller

  • Identification of Novel ERK2 Substrates through Use of an Engineered Kinase and ATP Analogs

    Scott T. Eblen;N. Vinay Kumar;Kavita Shah;Michelle J. Henderson

  • Deregulated Cdk5 promotes oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction

    Kai-Hui Sun;Yolanda de Pablo;Fabien Vincent;Kavita Shah

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevan M. Shokat
Kevan M. Shokat University of California, San Francisco
Debomoy K. Lahiri
Debomoy K. Lahiri Indiana University
Tariq M. Rana
Tariq M. Rana University of California, San Diego
Dipanjan Chowdhury
Dipanjan Chowdhury Harvard University
Randall T. Moon
Randall T. Moon University of Washington
Mark A. Smith
Mark A. Smith Case Western Reserve University
Lan Huang
Lan Huang University of California, Irvine
Beatrice S. Knudsen
Beatrice S. Knudsen University of Utah
Alma L. Burlingame
Alma L. Burlingame University of California, San Francisco
Jeffrey R. Holt
Jeffrey R. Holt Boston Children's Hospital

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