Federica Moccia,Chiara Platella, Domenica Musumeci, Sana Batool, , Hasan Zumrut, John Bradshaw, Prabodhika Mallikaratchy*, Daniela Montesarchio* “The role of G-quadruplex structures of LIGS-generated aptamers R1. 2 and R1. 3 in IgM specific recognition” : Int J Biol Macromol. 2019 Apr 22; 133:839-849. doi:10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2019.04.141; 2019.
US Patent application: 10/253,314, “Ligand-guided-selection method for screening antigen-specific ligands”
S Lingala, LU Nordstrøm, PR Mallikaratchy “Synthesis of stable azide and alkyne functionalized phosphoramidite nucleosides”: Tetrahedron Letters, 2019 January 17; 60(3):211-213. doi:10.1016/j.tetlet.2018.12.018
Sana Batool, Kimon V Argyropoulos, Roksana Azad, Precious Okeoma, Hasan Zumrut, Sanam Bhandari, Rigzin Dekhang, Prabodhika Mallikaratchy* ” Dimerization of an aptamer generated from Ligand-guided selection (LIGS) yields a high affinity scaffold against B-cells “Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-General Subjects 1863 (1), 232-240. doi:10.1016/j.bbagen.2018.10.006. Epub 2018 Oct 17.
Federica Moccia, Domenica Musumeci, Chiara Platella, John Bradshaw, Prabodhika Mallikaratchy, Daniela Montesarchio. “Conformational behaviour and molecularity of novel anti-IgM G-quadruplex forming aptamers” 2018 August 19; 256th ACS National Meeting
Hasan Zumrut, Sana Batool, Kimon Argyropoulos, Rigzin Dekhang, Prabodhika Mallikaratchy. “Ligand-guided selection (LIGS): A SELEX variant to identify specific aptamers against cell-surface markers” 2018 August 19. 256th ACS National Meeting.
Sana Batool, Hasan Ekrem Zumrut, Sanam Bhandari, Nabeela Van, Shanell George, Prabodhika Mallikaratchy. “Design of a dimeric aptamer against B-cell receptor” 2018 March 18. 255th ACS National Meeting.
Biochemistry
Sana Batool, Sanam Bhandari, Shanell George, Precious Okeoma, Nabeela Van, Hazan E. Zümrüt, and Prabodhika Mallikaratchy “Engineered Aptamers to Probe Molecular Interactions on the Cell Surface” Biomedicines. 2017 Aug 29;5(3). pii: E54. doi:10.3390/biomedicines5030054.
Undergraduate Research Assistant