top of page
Ashutosh headshot_edited.jpg

ASHUTOSH KUMAR RAI, PH.D.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Education

Postdoctoral Researcher

Indian Institute of Science

Ph.D. in Biotechnology

Banaras Hindu University

M.Sc. in Biotechnology

Himachal Pradesh University

B.Sc. in Biotechnology

Allahabad Agricultural Institute-Deemed University

​

Publications 

  • Rai AK, Carr JF*, Bautista DE*, Wang W, & Mitchell AM. 2021. ElyC and cyclic enterobacterial common antigen regulate synthesis of phosphoglyceride-linked enterobacterial common antigen. mBio. 12(6): e02846-21

  • Rai AK. & Ramteke PW. 2021. RNA Interference for Improvement of Secondary Metabolite Production in Plants, p 153-163 In Shahnawaz, M. (Ed.). Biotechnological Approaches to Enhance Plant Secondary Metabolites: Recent Trends and Future Prospects (1st ed.). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003034957

  • Rai AK. & Mitchell AM. 2020. Enterobacterial common antigen: synthesis and function of an enigmatic molecule. mBio. 11(4): e01914-20

  • Jha, RK*., Udupa, S*., Rai, AK., Rani, P., Singh, P., Govind, S., & Nagaraja, V. 2020. Conditional down-regulation of GreA impacts expression of rRNA and transcription factors, affecting Mycobacterium smegmatis survival. Scientific Reports. 10: 5802

  • Rai, A.K*., Singh, S*., Dwivedi, S., Srivastava A., Pandey, P., Kumar, S., Singh, B.N & Tripathi, A.K.  2018. Expression of catalases in Azospirillum brasilense Sp7 is regulated by a network of OxyR and two RpoH paralogs and including a regulatory cascade of RpoE1 and RpoH5. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 84:e01787-18

  • Rai, A.K., Dubey, A.P., Kumar, S., Dutta, D., Mishra, M.N., Singh, B.N & Tripathi, A.K.  2016. Carotenoid biosynthetic pathways are regulated by a network of multiple cascades of alternative sigma factors in Azospirillum brasilense Sp7. Journal of Bacteriology. 198: 2955-2964.

  • Srivastava, A., Brilisauer K., Rai, A.K., Ballal, A., Forchhammer, K., and Tripathi, A.K. 2016. Downregulation of the Alternative Sigma Factor SigJ confers a Photoprotective Phenotype to Anabaena PCC 7120. Plant & Cell Physiol. 1-11.

  • Kumar, S., Rai, A.K., Mishra, M.N., Shukla, M., Singh, P.K. & Tripathi, A.K. 2012. RpoH2 sigma factor controls the photooxidative stress response in a non-photosynthetic rhizobacterium, Azospirillum brasilense Sp7. Microbiology 158, 2891-2902.

  • Devi S, Kulshrestha A, Rai AK, Azmi W. 2012. Bench-scale Production of L-Asparaginase from Erwinia carotovora in a laboratory fermenter. International Journal of Life science and Pharma Research. 2:25-35.    

     

*These authors contributed equally

bottom of page