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Overview

Mohanish Deshmukh is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a particular emphasis on Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cancer Research, Immunology, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The scientist's work covers several key topics including:

  • Cell death mechanisms and regulation
  • MicroRNA in disease regulation
  • Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Pluripotent Stem Cells Research
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Recent significant papers authored or co-authored by Mohanish Deshmukh include:

  • Apoptotic cell death in disease-Current understanding of the NCCD 2023, 2023, published in Cell Death and Differentiation
  • A reference human induced pluripotent stem cell line for large-scale collaborative studies, 2022, published in Cell Stem Cell
  • MicroRNA-29 is an essential regulator of brain maturation through regulation of CH methylation, 2021, published in Cell Reports
  • miR-29 is an important driver of aging-related phenotypes, 2024, published in Communications Biology
  • Constitutive High Expression of NOXA Sensitizes Human Embryonic Stem Cells for Rapid Cell Death, 2021, published in Stem Cells

Mohanish Deshmukh frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Émilie Hollville, Matthew J Geden, Richa Basundra, Selena E. Romero, and Vijay Swahari.

Their publications are commonly found in venues such as UNC Libraries, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cell Death and Differentiation, Cell Stem Cell, and Cell Reports.

Best Publications

  • Molecular mechanisms of cell death: recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee on Cell Death 2018

    Lorenzo Galluzzi;Ilio Vitale;Stuart A. Aaronson;John M. Abrams

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring cell death in higher eukaryotes

    L. Galluzzi;L. Galluzzi;L. Galluzzi;S. A. Aaronson;J. Abrams;E. S. Alnemri

  • Caspase inhibitor affords neuroprotection with delayed administration in a rat model of neonatal hypoxic-ischemic brain injury.

    Yu Cheng;Mohanish Deshmukh;Anselm D'Costa;Joseph A. Demaro

  • Bax Deletion Further Orders the Cell Death Pathway in Cerebellar Granule Cells and Suggests a Caspase-independent Pathway to Cell Death

    Timothy M. Miller;Krista L. Moulder;C. Michael Knudson;Douglas J. Creedon

  • Glucose metabolism inhibits apoptosis in neurons and cancer cells by redox inactivation of cytochrome c.

    Allyson E. Vaughn;Mohanish Deshmukh

  • BAX Translocation Is a Critical Event in Neuronal Apoptosis: Regulation by Neuroprotectants, BCL-2, and Caspases

    Girish V. Putcha;Mohanish Deshmukh;Eugene M. Johnson

  • Evidence of a Novel Event during Neuronal Death: Development of Competence-to-Die in Response to Cytoplasmic Cytochrome c

    Mohanish Deshmukh;Eugene M Johnson

  • Microbial Pathogen-Induced Necrotic Cell Death Mediated by the Inflammasome Components CIAS1/Cryopyrin/NLRP3 and ASC

    Stephen B. Willingham;Daniel T. Bergstralh;William O'Connor;Amy C. Morrison

  • Genetic and metabolic status of NGF-deprived sympathetic neurons saved by an inhibitor of ICE family proteases.

    M Deshmukh;J Vasilakos;T L Deckwerth;P A Lampe

  • Programmed Cell Death in Neurons: Focus on the Pathway of Nerve Growth Factor Deprivation-Induced Death of Sympathetic Neurons

    Mohanish Deshmukh;Eugene M. Johnson

  • miR-29b is activated during neuronal maturation and targets BH3-only genes to restrict apoptosis

    Adam J. Kole;Vijay Swahari;Scott M. Hammond;Mohanish Deshmukh

  • Caspase inhibition extends the commitment to neuronal death beyond cytochrome c release to the point of mitochondrial depolarization.

    Mohanish Deshmukh;Keisuke Kuida;Eugene M. Johnson

  • Distinct pathways mediate axon degeneration during apoptosis and axon-specific pruning

    Corey L. Cusack;Vijay Swahari;W. Hampton Henley;J. Michael Ramsey

  • Critical function of endogenous XIAP in regulating caspase activation during sympathetic neuronal apoptosis

    Patrick Ryan Potts;Shweta Singh;Malia Knezek;Craig B. Thompson

  • Mature neurons: equipped for survival

    A J Kole;R P Annis;M Deshmukh

  • Yeast ribosomal protein L1 is required for the stability of newly synthesized 5S rRNA and the assembly of 60S ribosomal subunits

    Mohanish Deshmukh;Yi Fang Tsay;Amanda G. Paulovich;John L. Woolford

  • Human Embryonic Stem Cells Have Constitutively Active Bax at the Golgi and Are Primed to Undergo Rapid Apoptosis

    Raluca Dumitru;Vivian Gama;B. Matthew Fagan;Jacquelyn J. Bower

  • Apoptotic cell death regulation in neurons.

    Emilie Hollville;Selena E. Romero;Mohanish Deshmukh

  • Neuronal Stress Pathway Mediating a Histone Methyl/Phospho Switch Is Required for Herpes Simplex Virus Reactivation

    Anna R. Cliffe;Jesse H. Arbuckle;Jodi L. Vogel;Matthew J. Geden

  • Reduced Apaf-1 levels in cardiomyocytes engage strict regulation of apoptosis by endogenous XIAP

    Malia B. Potts;Allyson E. Vaughn;Holly McDonough;Cam Patterson

Frequent Co-Authors

Eugene M. Johnson
Eugene M. Johnson Washington University in St. Louis
Lorenzo Galluzzi
Lorenzo Galluzzi Cornell University
Stuart A. Lipton
Stuart A. Lipton Scripps Research Institute
Carmen Garrido
Carmen Garrido University of Burgundy
Hinrich Gronemeyer
Hinrich Gronemeyer Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology
Rosario Rizzuto
Rosario Rizzuto University of Padua
Oliver Kepp
Oliver Kepp Institut Gustave Roussy
Ilio Vitale
Ilio Vitale University of Rome Tor Vergata
Guido Kroemer
Guido Kroemer Université Paris Cité
Pierre Golstein
Pierre Golstein Aix-Marseille University

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