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86
Citations
24211
World Ranking
827
National Ranking
437

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1994 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Sankar Adhya is affiliated with the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in the United Kingdom. Their research expertise spans biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with additional work relating to environmental science and medicine. They have contributed extensively in the fields of molecular biology, ecology, infectious diseases, genetics, and microbiology.

Their main research topics include bacteriophages and microbial interactions, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, microbial infections and disease research, bacterial genetics and biotechnology, genomics and chromatin dynamics, genomics and phylogenetic studies, and monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies research.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Sankar Adhya include Subhash Verma, Shayla Hesse, Manoj Rajaure, Michael Feiss, and Costa Georgopoulos.

Their publications have appeared predominantly in these venues:

  • mBio
  • Molecular Microbiology
  • Microbiology Resource Announcements
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Antibiotics

Selected recent papers illustrate the diverse scope of their work:

  • Phage Resistance in Multidrug-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae ST258 Evolves via Diverse Mutations That Culminate in Impaired Adsorption, 2020, mBio
  • Bacteriophage Treatment Rescues Mice Infected with Multidrug-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae ST258, 2021, mBio
  • Single-molecule tracking reveals that the nucleoid-associated protein HU plays a dual role in maintaining proper nucleoid volume through differential interactions with chromosomal DNA, 2020, Molecular Microbiology
  • Non-specific and specific DNA binding modes of bacterial histone, HU, separately regulate distinct physiological processes through different mechanisms, 2023, Molecular Microbiology
  • λ Recombineering Used to Engineer the Genome of Phage T7, 2020, Antibiotics

Sankar Adhya's scholarly contributions have been recognized by multiple awards. They are a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2009, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2004, and have been a Member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1994.

Best Publications

  • Evidence for two functional gal promoters in intact Escherichia coli cells.

    H Aiba;S Adhya;B de Crombrugghe

  • Transcriptional Regulation by cAMP and Its Receptor Protein

    A Kolb;S Busby;H Buc;S Garges

  • Control of Transcription Termination

    Sankar Adhya;Max Gottesman

  • DNA: Insertion Elements, Plasmids, and Episomes.

    A. I. Bukhari;James Allen Shapiro;Sankar Lal Adhya

  • Long-circulating bacteriophage as antibacterial agents

    C. R. Merril;Biswajit Biswas;R. Carlton;N. C. Jensen

  • Bacteriophage Therapy Rescues Mice Bacteremic from a Clinical Isolate of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium

    Biswajit Biswas;Sankar Adhya;Paul Washart;Brian Paul

  • Functional domains of Pseudomonas exotoxin identified by deletion analysis of the gene expressed in E. coli.

    Jaulang Hwang;David J. Fitzgerald;Sankar Adhya;Ira Pastan

  • Switches in bacteriophage lambda development.

    Amos B. Oppenheim;Oren Kobiler;Joel Stavans;Donald L. Court

  • A family of bacterial regulators homologous to Gal and Lac repressors.

    M J Weickert;S Adhya

  • The prospect for bacteriophage therapy in Western medicine

    Carl R. Merril;Dean Scholl;Sankar L. Adhya

  • Bending of DNA by gene-regulatory proteins: construction and use of a DNA bending vector

    Jin Kim;Christian W Zwieb;Carl Wu;Sankar Adhya

  • High-sensitivity bacterial detection using biotin-tagged phage and quantum-dot nanocomplexes.

    Rotem Edgar;Michael McKinstry;Jeeseong Hwang;Amos B. Oppenheim

  • Promoter occlusion: Transcription through a promoter may inhibit its activity

    Sankar Adhya;Max Gottesman

  • Isolation and characterization of conditional lethal mutants of Escherichia coli defective in transcription termination factor rho.

    A Das;D Court;S Adhya

  • Transcription antitermination by bacteriophage lambda N gene product

    M.E. Gottesman;S. Adhya;A. Das

  • Dual control for transcription of the galactose operon by cyclic AMP and its receptor protein at two interspersed promoters

    Richard E. Musso;Roberto Di Lauro;Sankar Adhya;Benoit de Crombrugghe

  • Bacteriophage K1-5 Encodes Two Different Tail Fiber Proteins, Allowing It To Infect and Replicate on both K1 and K5 Strains of Escherichia coli

    Dean Scholl;Scott Rogers;Sankar Adhya;Carl R. Merril

  • Release of Polarity in Escherichia coli by Gene N of Phage λ: Termination and Antitermination of Transcription

    Sankar Adhya;Max Gottesman;Benoit De Crombrugghe

  • Escherichia coli K1's Capsule Is a Barrier to Bacteriophage T7

    Dean Scholl;Sankar Adhya;Carl Merril

  • MULTIPARTITE GENETIC CONTROL ELEMENTS: COMMUNICATION BY DNA LOOP

    Sankar Adhya

Frequent Co-Authors

Ira Pastan
Ira Pastan Center for Cancer Research
David J. FitzGerald
David J. FitzGerald MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Amos B. Oppenheim
Amos B. Oppenheim Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Victor B. Zhurkin
Victor B. Zhurkin National Institutes of Health
Vijay K. Chaudhary
Vijay K. Chaudhary University of Delhi
Max E. Gottesman
Max E. Gottesman Columbia University Medical Center
Donald L. Court
Donald L. Court National Institutes of Health
Carolyn A. Larabell
Carolyn A. Larabell Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Sangryeol Ryu
Sangryeol Ryu Seoul National University
Michael Y. Tolstorukov
Michael Y. Tolstorukov Harvard University

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