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RESUME (CURRICULUM VITAE) ANIL KUMAR, Ph.D Professor & Head School of Biotechnology Devi Ahilya University, Khandwa Road, INDORE – 452 001, INDIA Telephone: 91-731-2470372, 2470373 (Off.), 2446802 (Res.); Mobile- 91-9425058373 Fax : 91-731-2470372 E.mail : ak_sbt@yahoo.com Website: http://www.biotech.dauniv.ac.in Date of Birth : January 1, 1954 Father's Name : Late Mr. Jagdish Prasad Place of Birth : Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, INDIA Citizenship : INDIAN Height : 5’ 4.5’’ Weight : 70 Kg Academic Qualifications :

Degree University Year Subject Div./Marks

B.Sc. Lucknow University

1971 Bot. , Zool. Chem., Eng

Ist, 585/900 39th position in Merit of Lucknow University

M.Sc. Lucknow University

1973 Biochemistry Ist, 691/1000 Ist position in Merit of Lucknow University

Ph.D. Lucknow University

1983 Biochemistry NA

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Research Experience : Approx. 44 years Teaching Experience : Approx. 36 years Administrative Experience :

1. Working as Head of the School of Biotechnology, Devi Ahilya University (DAVV), Indore, since 1991 and is founder member of the School of Biotechnology in D. A. University.

2. Worked as Acting Vice-Chancellor number of times (viz. July 08, 2007; March 24, 2008; April 23 to 25, 2008; May 02 to 03, 2008; May 10 to 15, 2008; May 19 to 20, 2008; May 22 to 23, 2008; May 29 to June 06, 2008; August 09 to 11, 2008; Aug. 27 to 28, 2012 and many times thereafter also).

3. Worked as Dean, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Devi Ahilya University, Indore from

January 06, 2000 to January 05, 2002.

4. Working as Officer-Incharge of the Distributed Bioinformatics Sub-centre (SUB-DIC) sanctioned by the Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India, New Delhi (DBT) since 1993.

5. Ex- Director, International Institute of Professional Studies, DAVV, Indore (from March 04

to November 25, 2004).

6. Worked as Chairperson, Admission Committee-2004 for Professional Courses, DAVV, Indore.

7. Member of the Executive Council of the University (under Professors category from May,

2009 to May, 2012). Earlier in 2001 also, was member of the Executive Council as Dean, Faculty of the Engineering Sciences.

Positions held Position Department Period i) Lecturer Biochem. Deptt. Jan. 1978 to Lucknow University Dec. 31, 1979 ii) Lecturer Biochem. Deptt. July 17, 1980 Lucknow University to Jan. 31,1986 iii) Visiting Research Biochem. Deptt. Aug, 1985 to Associate Michigan State Univ., Aug, 1988 U.S.A. iv) Scientist Pool Officer CSIR, New Delhi Aug., 1988 to (Biochem. Deptt. Sept., 1989 Lucknow University) v) Reader School of Biochem. Sept. 1989 to Devi Ahilya Univ. June 1991 Indore.

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vi) Professor School of Biotechnology June 1991 to and Head Devi Ahilya Univ. …Continued Indore. Specialization: Enzyme Technology. Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering Research Guidance: Dr. Anil Kumar guided 4-5 Ph.D. students of Prof. G.G. Sanwal when he worked in Lucknow University. Here in Indore, Under his supervision, the following students have been awarded Ph.D., in Biotechnology : 1. Mr. B. Venkaiah July, 1995. 2. Ms. Sadhana Srivastava Jan., 1996. 3. Mr. Anand Nighojkar Dec., 1996. 4. Mr. Sanjay Koul, April,1998. 5. Mr. B.N. Mishra, July, 1998. 6. Ms. Vanita Anand, July, 2000. 7. Mr. Arun Gupta Oct., 2000. 8. Mr. Vinay K.Singh March, 2001. 9. Ms. Puja Yadav Jan., 2002 10. Ms. Sunita Dhawan Jan., 2003 11. Ms. Suchi Srivastava Nov., 2003 12. Ms. Mamta Gupta Dec., 2003 13. Ms. Neel Kamal August, 2006 14. Ms. Priti Maheshwari February, 2007 15. Mr. Raghvendra K. Mishra Nov., 2009 16. Mr. Krityanand K. Mahatman Dec., 2010 17. Ms. Monika Dhote April, 2013 18. Ms. Meeta Sharma April.,2013 19. Ms. Rachana Tiwari May, 2013 20. Ms. Ritu Jain July, 2015

The following students have been awarded Ph.D. Biotechnology for whom he is Co-guide: 1. Ms. Savithri Bhat April, 2001. 2. Ms. Shipra Agrawal May, 2001. 3. Mr. P.P. Banerjee May 2002 4. Mr. D.Vijaya Raghava Prasad May 2002 5. Mr. Vrijesh Parekh April,2003 6. Ms. Meenal Banerjee August, 2006 7. Mr. Debargh Kumar S. Dutta June, 2008

Many students are registered under his supervision. Besides, he is co-guide of many Students. Besides, one Research Associate Dr. Seema Upadhye worked with him. One SRF, CSIR, Ms. Anjana Gupta worked with him.

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Research Projects funded by various funding agencies undertaken: 1. Purification, characterization and immobilization of starch phosphorylase and amylase from

sorghum DST project. 2. Purification, characterization and immobilization of pectinase and cellulase enzymes CSIR project. 3. Purification and characterization of starch phosphorylase from a C4 plant leaf

MPCOST project.

4. Assistance for up-grading Biotechnology facility- MPCOST project

5. Krityanand Kumar Mahatman DBT-TWAS Fellowship- TWAS-DBT project (PI- Dr. Anil Kumar)

6. Distributed Bioinformatics Sub Centre project – DBT project- (PI- Dr. Anil Kumar)

7. M.Sc. Biotechnology program- DBT project (PI-Dr. Anil Kumar) 8. Kamga Desiree Guebou DBT-TWAS Fellowship- TWAS-DBT project (PI- Dr. Anil Kumar)

9. Abebe Girma Demissie CV Raman International Fellowship for African Researchers- FICCI project ‘Production of glucose isomerase and laccase enzymes from novel bacteria isolate (Mentor- Dr. Anil Kumar). 10. Indo-Argentina Joint Research Project- Development of novel chimeric glycoside hydrolases and study of saccharification efficiency and their synergistic action in relation to combinations of pre- treatment methods and types of lignocellulosic biomass. Project sanctioned by DST ( PI- Dr. Supriya Ratnaparkhe & Co-PI- Dr. Anil Kumar)

Besides, many non-sponsored research projects like on waste management, cellulase, xylanase, crop improvement of millet, technology development for banana juice etc. have been/are being undertaken.

Others

1) Dr. Anil Kumar is the founder member of the School of Biotechnology in Devi Ahilya University.

Within few years, School of Biotechnology is having its own new building (about 11000 sq.ft.). In this period he made School of Biotechnology Nationally as well as Internationally recognized.

2) Dr. Anil Kumar is senior most Professor of Biotechnology in the entire MP.

3) Dr. Anil Kumar is officer In-charge of Bioinformatics Sub Center sponsored by the Department of

Biotechnology, Govt. of India, New Delhi.

4) Dr. Anil Kumar has published number of research papers in various reputed National and international journals. He has also produced 27 Ph.Ds. At present several Ph.D students are working under his supervision.

5) Dr. Anil Kumar and his team developed various low cost technologies.

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6) Various number of times he has been expert member in the Ministry of Human Resource development,

Govt. of India, New Delhi for the selection of candidates for Japan, Russia, Australia, Germany and Commonwealth etc.

7) He has been expert (Governor’s/Chancellor’s nominee) in the selection of teachers (Professors, Readers,

Lecturers) in number of universities.

8) Dr. Anil Kumar is member of Advisory board for the book ‘Dictionary of Biotechnology’ authored by Somani.

9) Dr. Anil Kumar is Chairperson of Board of Studies of Biotechnology, Devi Ahilya University, Indore. 10) Dr. Anil Kumar has been External member on the Board of Studies in Biotechnology at Amravati

University, Amravati. 11) Dr. Anil Kumar has been External member on the Faculty board of Life Science, Jiwaji University,

Gwalior. 12) Dr. Anil Kumar is Convener Indore Chapter and life member of Society of Biological Chemists, Plant

Research, and Indian Science Congress Association, India

13) Dr. Anil Kumar has received Distinguished Leadership award of American Biographical Institute and has been nominated as Deputy Governor in their Board.

14) Due to his contributions to Biotechnology, Dr. Anil Kumar’s name has been included in the

International Directory published by The American Chemical Society, USA. 15) Dr. Anil Kumar has been expert member of the Standing Committee of the Madhya Pradesh State

Government. 16) Dr. Anil Kumar has been elected Senate member for Devi Ahilya University Court. 17) Dr. Anil Kumar has been external member on the Post Graduate Board of Studies in Biotechnology at

Nagarjuna University, Nagarjuna Nagar, Guntur. 18) Dr. Anil Kumar is member of various International Societies like New York Academy of Sciences,

USA, Bioencapsulation Research Group, France. 19) Dr. Anil Kumar has been member of Biotechnology Club, BCIL, New Delhi.

20) Dr. Anil Kumar is working for popularization of Biotechnology. He has organized various conferences

and workshops. He has organized National Science Weeks in 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004. He has also organized Technician Training Programme of 3 months. He has also organized Popular Lecture Series in 1993 and in Aug. 1998 and Bioinformatics Workshops regularly since 1997.

21) CIMAP Lucknow (an organization of CSIR, New Delhi) felicitated Dr. Anil Kumar for his valuable

contributions in the field of Biotechnology.

22) Dr. Anil Kumar was awarded Fellow of the Year 2000 by the Society of Plant Research.

23) Dr. Anil Kumar has collaborations with other National Research Laboratories. He is also having collaborations with Institutions abroad

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24) Dr. Anil Kumar's name has been included in the book 'Curriculum Vitae International' of International

Biographical Research Foundation.

25) Dr. Anil Kumar’s name has been included in Marquis Who’s Who, Asian/American Who’s Who and in many other publications.

26) He is also engaged in social and charity services.

27) Dr. Kumar has been member of the Executive Council of Devi Ahilya University, Indore

28) Dr. Kumar is life member of Biotechnology Society of India

29) Dr. Kumar is member of the Society for Bioscience and Bioengineering, Japan

30) Dr. Kumar is ex- member of the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

31) Dr. Kumar is ex-member of the American Chemical Society.

32) Dr. Kumar has been awarded Biotechnology Overseas Associateship from DBT. He availed the

Associateship from Oct., 2003 to January , 2004 (in Jack Preiss Lab, MSU, USA)

33) Dr. Kumar was nominated member, International Scientific Committee of 4th World Congress of Cellular and Molecular Biology Society held on October 7-12, 2005 at Poitiers, France. He also Chaired a Symposium entitled ‘ Enzymes of carbohydrate metabolism and their exploitation in biotechnology’ in the Congress.

34) Dr. Anil Kumar has been nominated President for the Society for Science & Environment for the year

2007. He was Vice-President of the Society for the year 2006.

35) Dr. Anil Kumar organized and hosted National Conference on Biotechnology, Science & Environment on Dec. 28-29, 2006 at the School of Biotechnology of the University.

36) Dr. Kumar is Associate Editor for the Journal of Cell & Tissue Research. Besides, he is member of the Editorial Board/ Academic Editor of many journals Viz. Journal of Proteomics & Bioinformatics, Journal of Computer Science & Systems Biology, Current Trends in Biotechnology and Pharmacy, Biotechnology & Molecular Biology Reviews, Nano-Biomedicine and Engineering, British Biotechnology Journal, Journal of Advanced Biology & Biotechnology, Bioengineering and Biosciences etc.

37) Dr. Anil Kumar was the Organizer & President of the 5th World Congress of Cellular and Molecular

Biology held on Nov. 2-6, 2009 at the Devi Ahilya University, Indore, India (jointly in collaboration of World Society for Cellular & Molecular Biology).

38) Dr. Anil Kumar has been offered Honorary Fellowship of Association of Biotechnology & Pharmacy

39) Dr. Anil Kumar has been offered Honorary Fellowship of World Society of Cellular & Molecular

Biology, France

40) Dr. Anil Kumar was Director & Organizer of the International Conference ‘ Emerging Challenges in Biotechnology, Human Health and Environment’ held on Dec. 18-20, 2014 at the Devi Ahilya University, Indore, India.

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41) Dr. Anil Kumar has organized International Conference / Scenario of Biotechnology in 21st Century’ on

March 10 to 12, 2016 at the School of Biotechnology, Devi Ahilya University, Indore, India.

42) Dr. Anil Kumar is Honorary Adviser of H S Counseling, Canada

43) Dr. Anil Kumar is Editor-in-chief of Canadian Journal of Biotechnology No. of Research Publications: 138 No. of Books Published: Twelve (12) + 20 chapters in edited books

1. Sanwal, G.G. & Kumar, A. (1988) Regulation of starch biosynthesis in leaves of higher plants in Advances in Frontier Areas of Plant Biochemistry (Singh, R. & Sawhney, S.K. eds.) p. 147-167,

Prentice Hall of India Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi. 2. Hand book of Enzymes (2001) by Dr. Anil Kumar, Agrotech Publishing Academy,

Udaipur. (ISBN: 81-85680-42-6). Price of the book has been fixed Rs. 600/- by the publisher

3. Carbohydrate Metabolism: A Biotechnological perspective (2001) by Dr. Anil Kumar, Agrotech Publishing Academy, Udaipur. ((IISSBBNN:: 8811--8855668800--4466--99)) Price has been fixed

Rs.400/- by the publisher. 4. Advanced Topics in Molecular Biology (2001) by Dr. Anil Kumar and Dr. A. K.Srivastava,

Horizon Scientific Press, UK. (ISBN: 1-898486-28-X). Price has been fixed US$ 150/- ( or Sterling pound 80.00) by the publisher.

5. Text Book of Biotechnology (2003) by Dr. Anil Kumar and Ms. Priti Maheshwari,

Agrotech Publishing Academy, Udaipur. (ISBN: 81-85680-73-6). Price has been fixed Rs. 200/- by the publisher.

6. Srivastava, A.K. and Kumar, A. (2005) DNA replication. A Chapter in the book’ Animal

Biotechnology. Eds. . Dr. A.K. srivastava & Associates, p. 57-69, Oxford & IBH Press, New Delhi (Invited Chapter).

7. Kumar, A. (2005) Regulation of Gene Expression. A Chapter in Encyclopedia of

Molecular Cell Biology & Molecular Medicine ( Meyers, R.A. ed.) , 2nd Edition, Volume 12, p. 23-65, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA press, Weinheim , Germany (Invited Chapter)

8. Genetic Engineering (2006) by Dr. Anil Kumar & Neha Garg. Nova Science Publishers

Inc., New York, USA ( ISBN No. 1-59454-753-X ). Price has been fixed US$135.00.

9. Kumar, A. and Garg, N. (2008) ‘ Enzyme Purification’ A Chapter in e book on Enzymology being prepared by NISCAIR, CSIR, New Delhi http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/735 ( Invited Chapter).

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10. Kumar, A., Rathore, R.S., Singh R.K. and Garg, S. (2008) Proteomics studies to understand the molecular basis of stress tolerance in plants. In Plant Genomics & Bioinformatics (Rao, G.P., Wagner, C. , Singh, R.K.& Sharma, M. L. eds.) Studium Press LLC, Texas, USA pp. 271-301 ( Invited Chapter)

11. Kumar, A. and Garg, S. (2009) Immobilization of Enzymes and Biotechnological

Perspective. In Biotechnology Applications ( S.K. Mishra & Pascale Champaign eds.) I K International, New Delhi publisher, p. 39-52 (Invited Chapter ).

12. Yadav, S., Garg, N., Garg, S. and Kumar, A. (2010) Plant Transformation Technologies. In

Plant Genetic Transformation and Molecular Markers ( Ashwini Kumar Ed.) Pointer publishers, Jaipur. P. 1-32 (Invited Chapter ).

13. Yadav, S., Garg, N., Garg, S. and Kumar, A. (2010) Molecular markers for improvement

of quality traits in crops . In Plant Genetic Transformation and Molecular Markers ( Ashwini Kumar Ed.) Pointer publishers, Jaipur. P. 199-232 (Invited Chapter ).

14. Text Book of Enzymes and Enzyme Technology (2010) by Dr. Anil Kumar & Sarika Garg,

Anamaya Publishers, New Delhi & Anshan Ltd., United Kingdom (International edition).

15. Garg, N., Mahatman, K.K. and Kumar, A. (2010) Xylanase: Applications and Biotechnological Aspects. Monograph published by Lambert Academic Publishing AG & Co. KG, Koln, Germany ( ISBN 978-3-8383-7504-5). Price has been fixed Euro 49.00.

16. Kumar, A. (2011) Xylanase and Starch Phosphorylase and their Potential Exploitation..

Monograph published by Lambert Academic Publishing AG & Co. KG, Koln, Germany ( ISBN 978-3-8443-3151-6). Price has been fixed Euro 49.00.

17. Mahatman, K.K., Garg, N. and Kumar, A. (2011) Xylanase Production using Solid State

Fermentation. Monograph published by Lambert Academic Publishing AG & Co. KG, Koln, Germany ( ISBN 978-3-8465-5893-5). Price has been fixed Euro 49.00.

18. Kumar, A. , Garg, S. and Garg, N. (2012) Regulation of gene expression. A chapter in

Epigenetic Regulation and Epigenomics Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA press, Weinheim, Germany, p. 191-249 (Invited Chapter)

19. Biochemical Tests: Principles and Protocols (2012) by Anil Kumar, Sarika Garg and Neha

Garg Viva Books Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi 20. Kumar, A. and Maheshwari, P. (2013) Exploitation of medicinal plants for potential

bioactive compounds. Monograph published by Lambert Academic Publishing AG & Co. KG, Koln, Germany ( ISBN 978-3-659-31149-9).

21. Kumar, A. , Garg, S. and Garg, N. (2014) Regulation of gene expression. A chapter in

RNA Regulation, Ed. Robert A Meyers, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA press, Weinheim , Germany, p. 285-343 (Invited Chapter).

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22. Kumar, A. and Chordia, N. (2014) Relevance of Biological Databases in Post Genomic Era. A chapter in ‘Emerging Technologies of the 21st Century’ Ed. A.K. Roy, New India Publishing Agency, New Delhi, p. 533-547 (Invited Chapter).

23. Kumar, A. and Tyagi, S. (2014) Next Generation Sequencing Technologies: Relevance in

Post Genomic Era. A chapter in ‘Emerging Technologies of the 21st Century’ Ed. A.K. Roy, New India Publishing Agency, New Delhi, p. 41-59 (Invited Chapter).

24. Text Book of Enzymes and Enzyme Technology (2015) by Dr. Anil Kumar & Dr. Sarika

Garg, Publisher- MV Learning, London, United Kingdom.

25. Kumar, A. and Dhote, M. (2015) Microbial Associated Phytoremediation Technology for Management of Oil Sludge: Phytoremediation for oil sludge management. A Chapter in ‘Uncovering New Methods for Ecosystem Management Through Bioremediation’ Ed. Shivom Singh Rathore, IGI Global Publishers, USA, p./ 1-28 (Invited Chapter).

26. Kumar, A. and Chordia, N. (2015) In Silico PCR Primer Designing and Validation. A

chapter in Methods in Molecular Biology, Ed. Clifton, N.J., Vol. 1275; pp. 143-151, Humana Press, USA. (Invited Chapter)

27. Kumar, A. , Garg, S. and Garg, N. (2015) Regulation of gene expression. A chapter in

Synthetic Biology-Advances in Molecular Biology and Medicine. Ed. Robert A Meyers, Wiley- Blackwell, Germany, Vol. 1, p. 61-119. (Invited Chapter)

28. Kumar, A. and Chordia, N. (2017) Bacterial resistance against antibiotics. A chapter in

Drug Resistance in Bacteria, Fungi, Malaria and Cancer Eds. A. Sajid, G. Arora and V C Kalia, pp. 171-192, Springer Integrative Biotechnology Series. (Invited Chapter)

29. Kumar, A. (2017) . Botany: Introduction and Basics. In Botany: An introduction to plant biology (ed. S. Garg), Delve Publishing LLC (ISBN-10: 1680957538). 30. Kumar, A. (2017). Plant Tissue Culture: History and Basics. In Plant Tissue Culture: Basic and Applied (ed. S. Garg), Delve Publishing LLC (ISBN-10: 1680957635) 31. Garg, S., Chordia, N. and Kumar, A. (2017) Neurodegenerative Disorders: Present Clinical Drug Research and Future Perspectives. A Chapter in Frontiers in Clinical Drug Research- Anti-infectives. Ed. Atta-Ur-Rahman, Bentham Science Publishers. (Invited Chapter) 32. Chordia, N. and Kumar, A. (2017) In silico approaches for determination of anti-infective drug targets. A Chapter in Frontiers in Anti-infective Drug Discovery. Eds. Atta-Ur- Rahman and M Iqbal Choudhary, Bentham Science Publishers. (Invited Chapter)

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LIST OF PUBLICATIONS OF DR. ANIL KUMAR 1. Kumar, A. & Sanwal, G.G. (1977) Multiple forms of starch phosphorylase from banana leaves.

Phytochemistry 16, 327-328. 2. Kumar, A. & Sanwal, G.G. (1979) Polyglucan branching enzyme from banana leaves Indian J. Expl. Biol.

17, 385-387. 3. Kumar, A. & Sanwal, G.G. (1981) Immobilized starch phosphorylase from mature Banana (Musa

paradisiaca) leaves. Indian J. Biochem. Biophys. 18, 114-119. 4. Kumar, A. & Sanwal, G.G. (1981) Intracellular localization of starch phosphorylase from Banana (Musa

paradisiaca) leaves. Indian J. Biochem. Biophys. 18, 417-420. 5. Kumar, A. & Sanwal, G.G. (1981) Characterization of purified starch phosphorylase from mature Banana

(Musa paradisiaca) leaves. Indian J. Biochem. Biophys. 18, 421-424. 6. Kumar, A. & Sanwal, G.G. (1982) Amino acid composition of starch phosphorylase from Banana (Musa

paradisiaca) leaves. Indian J. Biochem. Biophys. 19, 62-63. 7. Kumar, A. & Sanwal, G.G. (1982) Purification and physico-chemical properties of starch phosphorylase

from young Banana leaves. Biochemistry 21, 4152-4159. 8. Kumar, A. & Sanwal, G.G. (1982) Starch phosphorylase from Tapioca leaves: Absence of pyridoxal

phosphate. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 217, 341-350. 9. Kumar, A. & Sanwal, G.G. (1982) Subcellular localization of multiple forms of Starch phosphorylase in

plant leaves during development. Indian J. Plant Physiol. 25, 317-323. 10. Kumar, A. & Sanwal, G.G. (1983) Starch phosphorylase from mature banana (Musa paradisiaca) leaves:

Part I- Kinetics and inhibition studies at optimum pH. Indian J. Biochem. Biophys. 20, 280-284. 11. Kumar, A. & Sanwal, G.G. (1983) Starch phosphorylase from mature Banana (Musa paradisiaca) leaves:

Part II- Aromatic amino acid inhibition at pH 7.0. Indian J. Biochem. Biophys. 20, 285-289. 12. Kumar, A. & Sanwal, G.G. (1984) Starch phosphorylase from Tapioca (Manihot utilissima) tuber: Isolation

and Some Physico-chemical Properties. Indian J. Biochem. Biophys. 21, 241-247. 13. Kumar, A. (1984) Partial purification and characterization of starch phosphorylase from cabbage

(Elephantopus scabar) leaves. Indian J. Plant Physiol. 27, 209-213. 14. Kumar, A. Larsen, C.E. & Preiss, J. (1986) Biosynthesis of Bacterial Glycogen Primary structure of

Escherichia coli ADP-glucose: a-1, 4-glucan,4-glucosyl transferase as deduced from the nucleotide sequence of the glgA gene. J.Biol.Chem. 261, 16256-16259.

15. Lee, Y.M., Kumar, A. & Preiss, J. (1987) Amino acid sequence of an Escherichia coli ADPglucose

synthetase allosteric mutant as deduced from the DNA sequence of the glg C gene Nucleic Acids Res. 15, 10603.

16. Kumar, A. & Sanwal, G.G. (1987) Dissociation constants and thermodynamic data of starch phosphorylase

from banana (Musa paradisiaca) leaves using affinity horizontal polyacrylamide slab gel electrophoresis. Indian J. Biochem. Biophys. 24, 70-73.

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17. Kumar, A. & Sanwal, G.G. (1988) Kinetics of starch phosphorylase from young banana leaves.

Phytochemistry 27, 983-988. 18. Romeo, T., Kumar, A. & Preiss, J. (1988) Analysis of the Escherichia coli glycogen gene cluster suggests

that catabolic enzymes are encoded among the biosynthetic genes, Gene 70, 363-376.

19. Kumar, A. Tanaka, T. Lee, Y.M. & Preiss, J. (1988) Biosynthesis of bacterial glycogen : Use of site directed mutagenesis to probe the role of Tyrosine 114 in the catalytic mechanism of ADP-glucose synthetase from Escherichia coli. J.Biol. Chem. 263, 14634 - 14639.

20. Chatterjee, U., Kumar, A. & Sanwal, G.G. (1989) Purification and properties of goat liver catalase: Two pH optima. Indian J. Biochem. Biophys. 26, 140-147. 21. Kumar, A. Ghosh, P. Lee, Y.M., Hill, M.A. & Preiss, J. (1989) Biosynthesis of bacterial glycogen:

Determination of the amino acid changes that alter the regulatory properties of a mutant Escherichia coli ADP-glucose synthetase. J. Biol. Chem. 264, 10464-10471.

22. Kumar, A. (1989) Starch phosphorylase in plants, J. Sci. Ind. Res. 48, 568-576, Review article. 23. Kumar, A. (1990) Predicted secondary structure of maltodextrin phosphorylase from Escherichia coli as

deduced using Chou-Fasman model. J. Biosci. 15, 53-58. 24. Chatterjee, U. Kumar, A. & Sanwal, G.G. (1990) Goat liver catalase immobilized on various solid supports.

J. Ferment. Bioeng. 70, 429-430. 25. Kumar, A. (1991) Biosynthesis of bacterial glycogen and its regulation. Current Science 60, 478-485,

Review article. 26. Venkaiah, B. & Kumar, A. (1991) Predicted secondary structure of glycogen phosphorylase from

Escherichia coli as deduced using Chou-fasman model. Indian J. Pathology Miorobiol. 34, 270-275. 27. Venkaiah, B., Srivastava, S. & Kumar, A. (1991) Dissociation of purified Starch phosphorylase from young

banana (Musa paradisiaca) leaves. Indian J. Plant Physiol. 34, 97-101. 28. Venkaiah, B., Srivastava, S. & Kumar, A. (1991) Starch phosphorylase from banana (Musa paradisiaca)

leaves. Plant physiol. Biochem. 18, 54-56. 29. Srivastava, S., Nighojkar, A. & Kumar, A. (1994) Multiple forms of Pectin methylesterase from cuscuta

reflexa filaments. Phytochemistry 37, 1233-1236. 30. Venkaiah, B. & Kumar, A. (1994) Egg shell bound starch phosphorylase packed bed reactor for the

continuous production of glucose 1 phosphate J. Biotech. 36, 11-17. 31. Nighojkar, A., Srivastava, S. & Kumar, A. (1994) Pectinmethylesterase from germinating Vigna sinensis

seeds. Plant Science 103, 115-120. 32. Venkaiah, B. & Kumar, A. (1995) A process for the recovery and immobilization of starch phosphorylase

from Starch- based Industrial wastewater. Biotechnol. Appl. Biochem. 21, 77-85. 33. Upadhye, S. & Kumar, A. (1995) Purification of starch phosphorylase from germinating Bengal gram (Cicer

arietinum L.) seeds. Crop Research J. 10, 360-367.

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34. Srivastava, S., Nighojkar, A. & Kumar, A. (1995) Purification and characterization of Starch phosphorylase

from Cuscuta reflexa filaments Phytochemistry 39, 1001-1005. 35. Nighojkar, A. Srivastava, S. & Kumar, A. (1995) Production of Low Methoxyl Pectin Using Immobilized

Pectinesterase Bioreactors J. Ferment Bioeng 80, 346-349. 36. Venkaiah, B. & Kumar, A. (1996) Multiple forms of Starch phosphorylase from Sorghum leaves

Phytochemistry 41, 713-717. 37. Srivastava, S., Nighojkar,A. & Kumar A. (1996) Immobilization of Cuscuta reflexa Starch phosphorylase :

Production of glucose-1-phosphate using bioreactors. J.Ferment Bioeng. 81, 354-356. 38. Nighojkar, A., Srivastava, S. & Kumar, A. (1996) Immobilization of endo-polygalacturonase from

germinating Vigna sinensis seeds. Indian J. Expl. Biol. 34, 1248-1253. 39. Nighojkar, A. Srivastava, S. & Kumar, A. (1996) Endo-Polygalacturonase from germinating Vigna sinensis

Seeds. Plant physiol Biochem. 23, 14-20. 40. Srivastava, S., Nighojkar, A. & Kumar, A. (1996) Demethoxylation of Pectin using immobilized Cuscuta

reflexa pectin methylesterase. The Genetic Engineer and Biotechnologist 16, 73-80. 41. Upadhye, S.P. & Kumar, A. (1996) Immobilization of starch phosphorylase from Bengal gram seeds:

Production of Glucose-1-phosphate. The Genetic Engineer and Biotechnologist 16, 145-151. 42. Nighojkar A., Srivastava S., & Kumar A., (1997) Pectin Carbohydrates and their commercial uses. J.

Nature conservation 9, 141-151. 43. Kumar, A. & Mishra, B.N. (1997) Primer Premier 4 Biotechnology Software&Internet J. 31-33, Review. 44. Koul, S., Verma, V., Kumar A. and Qazi, G.N. (1997) Efficient Recovery of Plasmid DNA from Erwinia

herbicola with High Nuclease Activity. Biotechniques 23, 600-603. 45. Koul, S., Verma, V., Kumar, A. and Qazi, G.N. (1997) plasmid profile of Erwinia herbicola ATCC 21998.

Current Science 72, 876-879. 46. Mishra, B.N., Singh S.P. & Kumar A. (1997) A biofilm model for fixed bed anaerobic reactors:

Performance analysis considering diffusional resistances and axial dispersion. The Genetic Engineer and Biotechnologist 17, 5-21.

47. Mishra, B.N. and Kumar A. (1997) Anaerobic treatment of potato-starch wastewater using a Foam bed

bioreactor. The Genetic Engineer & Biotechnologist 17, 165-173. 48. Nighojkar, S.A. & Kumar, A. (1997) Starch Phosphorylase: Biochemical, Molecular and Biotechnological

aspects. The Genetic Engineer & Biotechnologist 17, 189-202. Review article. 49. Kalia V.C., Anand V., Kumar A., and Joshi A. P. (1997) Effiecient biomethanation of plant materials by

immobilized bacteria. R'97 Recovery, Recycling, Reintegration Congress Proceedings. Vol.1, 200-205 50. Singh, V.K. and Kumar, A. (1998) Production and purificationof extracellular cellulase from Bacillus brevis

VS-1. Biochem.Mol. Biol. International 45, 443-452. 51. Mishra, B.N. and Kumar, A. (1998) Operational Characteristics of anaerobic fixed bed reactors: waste water

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treatment and methane production J. Nature Conservation 10, 37-45. 52. Mishra, B.N. Singh, S. P. and Kumar, A. (1998) Start-up and operational behaviour of an anaerobic fixed

bed bioreactor treating pharmaceutical wastewater. Crop Research 16 , 395-401. 53. Singh,V.K., Govindrajan, R., Naik, S. and Kumar, A. (2000) The effect of hairpin structure on PCR amplification efficiency. Mol.Biol.Today 1, 67-69 54. Felder, M., Gupta, A., Verma, V., Kumar,A., Qazi, G.N. and Cullum, J.(2000) The pyrroloquinoline quinone synthesis genes of Gluconobacter oxydans. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 193, 231-236. 55. Singh V.K. and Kumar A (2000) PCR Recipe: Software for setting up PCR reactions, Biotechnology

software and Internet Report, 1 , 276-277. 56. Singh V.K. and Kumar A (2000) OLREA: A faster restriction enzyme analysis using JAVA.

Biotechnology software and Internet Report 1 , 278-279. 57. Agrawal, S., Kumar, A., Banerjee, S., Gupta, M.M., Verma, R.K., Singh, D.V. and Kumar, S. (2000)

Production of bilobalide in cultures of clone GBC-1 of Ginkgo biloba J. Med. Arom. Plant Sci. 22/23, 194-196. 58. Gupta A, Singh V K, Qazi G N and Kumar A (2001) Gluconobacter oxydans: A Biotechnological perspective, J Mol. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 3, 445-456. Review 59. Singh, V.K., Mangalam, A.K., Kumar, A., and Naik, S., (2001) Universal primers can amplify tumor necrosis factor gene across species. Mol. Biol. Today 2, 11-12. 60 . Singh,V. K. and Kumar, A. (2001) PCR Primer Design. Mol. Biol. Today 2, 27-32. 61 . Bhat,S., Gupta, S.K., Tuli, R., Khanuja, S.P.S., Sharma, S., Bagchi, G.D., Kumar, A., and Kumar, S. (2001) Photoregulation of adventitious and axillary shoot proliferation in menthol mint, Mentha arvensis. Current Science 80, 878-881. 62. Samanta, J. and Kumar, A. (2001) TAXON: A Software for Management of Plant Database using Visual

Basic. Biotechnology Software and Internet Report. 2, 201-203. 63. Bhat, S., Maheshwari, P., Kumar, S. and Kumar, A. (2002) Mentha species: In vitro Regeneration and Genetic Transformation. Mol. Biol. Today 3, 11-23. 64. Prasad, D.V.R., Parekh, V.V., Joshi, B.N., Banerjee, P.P., Parab, P., Chattopadhyay, S., Kumar, A. and Mishra, G.C. (2002) The Th1-specific costimulatory molecule, M150, is a posttranslational isoform of LAMP-1. J. Immunology 169, 1801-1809. 65. Gupta, M., Kumar, A. and Dabadghao, S. (2002) Resistance of bcr-abl positive acute lymphoblastic leukaemia to daunorubicin is not mediated by mdr 1 gene expression . Am. J. Haematol. 71, 172-176. 66. Banerjee, P.P., Dass, S. V., Mathew, A., Parekh, V.V., Prasad, D.V.R., Joshi, B., Kumar, A. and Mishra, G.C. (2002) Evidence for GP96, a stress protein, functions as Th2 specific costimulatory molecule. J. Immunology 169, 3507-3518.

67. Gupta, M., Kumar, A. and Dabadghao, S. (2002) In vitro resistance of leukaemic blasts to prednisolone in bcr-abl positive childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. Ind. J. Med. Res. 116, 268-272.

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68. Parekh, V.V., Prasad, D.V.R., Banerjee, P.P., Joshi, B.N., Kumar, A. and Mishra, G.C. (2003) B-cells activated by lipopolysaccharide, but not by anti-Ig and anti-CD40 antibody, induce anergy in CD8+ T cells: Role of TGF-1. J. Immunology 170, 5897-5911.

69. Khan, I., Desai, D.V. and Kumar, A. (2004) Carbochips- a new energy for old biobuilder. J. Biosci.

Bioeng. 98, 331-337.

70. Banerjee, M., Kumar, A. and Bhonde, R.R. (2005) Reversal of Experimental Diabetes by multiple bone Transplantation. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 328, 318-325.

71. Neelkamal, Chowdhury, S., Madan, T., Sharma, D., Attreyi, M., Haq, W., Katti, S. B., Kumar, A. and

Usha Sarma, P. (2005) Tryptophan residue is essential for immunoreactivity of a diagnostically relevant peptide epitope of A. fumigatus. Mol. Cell. Biochem. 275, 223-231.

72. Maheshwari, P. and Kumar, A. (2006) In vitro high frequency of shoot regeneration in Abelmoschus

moschatus. J. Cell Tissue Res. 6, 627-632.

73. Nighojkar, S., Phanse, Y., Sinha, D., Nighojkar, A. and Kumar, A. (2006) Production of polygalacturonase by immobilized cells of Aspergillus niger using orange peel as inducer. Process Biochemistry 41, 1136-1140

74. Garg, N. and Kumar, A. (2006) Primer designing of DREB2A, a drought resistant gene in Glycine max.

J. Cell Tissue Res. 6, 807-813.

75. Maheshwari, P. and Kumar, A. (2006) Organogenesis, shoot regeneration and flowering response of Vernonia cinerea to different auxin / cytokinin combinations. In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology – Plant 42, 589-595.

76. Garg, S, Sohani, N., Pundhir, S. and Kumar, A. (2007) Primer designing for Endo-1, 4-- Xylanase gene. J. Cell Tissue Res. 7, 1147-1154. 77. Maheshwari, P., Songara, P., Kumar, S., Jain, P., Srivastava, K. and Kumar, A. (2007) Alkaloid

production in Vernonia cinerea: Callus, cell suspension and root cultures. Biotechnology Journal. 2, 1026-1032..

78. Maheshwari, P., Garg, S., Sood, P.P. and Kumar, A. (2007) Xylanase: A biotechnological

perspective. VAK 2, 44-56.

79. Garg, S. and Kumar, A. (2007) Immobilization of starch phosphorylase from seeds of Indian millet (Pennisetum typhoides) variety KB 560. African J. Biotech. 6, 2715-2720.

80. Garg, N. and Kumar, A. (2008) Immobilization of starch phosphorylase from cabbage leaves:

Production of glucose-1-phosphate. Brazilian J. Chem. Eng. 25, 229-235.

81. Pundhir, S., Vijayvargiya, H. and Kumar, A. (2008) PredictBias: a server for the identification of genomic and pathogenicity islands in prokaryotes. In Silico Biology 8, 223-234..

82. Garg, N., Pundhir, S., Prakash, A. and Kumar, A. (2008) Primer designing for DREB1A, A cold

induced gene. J. Proteomics Bioinformatics 1, 28-35.

83. Maheshwari, P., Garg, S. and Kumar, A. (2008) Taxoids: Biosynthesis and in vitro production. Biotechnology Molecular Biology Reviews 3(4), 71-87.

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84. Garg, N., Pundhir, S., Prakash, A. & Kumar, A. (2008) PCR Primer Design: DREB Genes J. Comp.

Sci. Syst. Biol. 1, 21-40.

85. Garg, S., Ali, R. and Kumar, A. (2009) Production of Alkaline Xylanase by an Alkalo-thermophilic Bacteria, Bacillus halodurans, MTCC 9512 Isolated from Dung. Curr. Trends Biotech. Pharm. 3, 90-96.

86. Rathore, R. S., Garg, N., Garg, S. and Kumar, A. (2009) Starch Phosphorylase: Role in Starch

Metabolism and Biotechnological Applications. Crirical Rev. Biotechnology 29, 214-224..

87. Mishra, R.K., Kumar, A. , Chaudhary, S. and Kumar, S., (2009) Mapping of the multifoliate pinna (mfp) leafblade morphology mutation in grain pea (Pisum sativum). J. Genetics 88, 227-232..

88. Mishra, R.K., Chaudhary, S., Kumar, A. and Kumar, S. (2009) Effects of MULTIFOLIATE-PINNA,

AFILA, TENDRILL-LESS and UNIFOLIATA genes on leafblade architecture in Pisum sativum. Planta 230, 177-190.

89. Barh, D. and Kumar, A. (2009) In silico Identification of candidate drug and vaccine targets from

various pathways in Neisseria gonorrhoeae. In Silico Biology 9, 225-231..

90. Kumar, S., Mishra, R. K., Kumar, A., Srivastava, S. and Chaudhary, S. (2009) Regulation of stipule development by COCHLEATA and STIPULE-REDUCED genes in peas Pisum sativum. Planta 230, 449-458..

91. Maheshwari, P. and Kumar, A. (2009) Antimicrobial activity of Abelmoschus moschatus leaf extracts. .

Curr. Trends Biotech. Pharm. 3, 260-266..

92. Barh, D., Kumar, A., Chatterjee, S. And Liloglou, T. (2009) Molecular features, markers, drug targets and prospective therapeutics in cardiac myxoma. Current Cancer Drug Targets, 9, 705-716.

93. Barh, D., Kumar, A. and Misra, A.N. (2009) Genomic Target Database (GTD): A database of potential

targets in human pathogenic bacteria. Bioinformation, 4, 50-51.

94. Chaudhary, N., Mahajan, L., Madan, T., Kumar, A., Raghav, G.P.S., Katti, S.B., Haq, W. and Sarma, P. U. (2009) Prophylactic and therapeutic potential of Asp f1 epitopes in naïve and sensitized BALB/e mice. Immune Network 9, 179-191.

95. Dhote, M., Juwarkar, A., Kumar, A., Kanade, G. S. and Chakrabarti, T. (2010) Biodegradation of

chrysene by the bacterial strains isolated from oily sludge. World J Microbiol. Biotechnol. 26, 329-335.

96. Barh, D., Misra, A. N. and Kumar, A. (2010) In Silico Identification of dual ability of N. gonorrhoeae ddl for developing drug and vaccine against pathogenic Neisseria and other human pathogens. J. Proteomics Bioinformatics 3, 082-090. doi: 10.4172/jpb.1000125

97. Barh, D., Misra, A. N. , Kumar, A. And Vasco, A. (2010) A novel strategy of epitope design in

Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Bioinformation 5, 77-85

98. Mahatman, K.K. and Kumar, A. (2010) Xylanase production using alkalo-thermophilic Bacillus halodurans KR-1 by solid state fermentation. Curr. Trends Biotechnol. Pharmacy 4, 871-880.

99. Mahatman, K.K., Garg, N., Chauhan, R. And Kumar, A. (2010) Production, purification and

characterization of xylanase using alkalo-thermophilic Bacillus halodurans KR-1. Iranica J. Energy

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Environ..1, 265-274.

100. Maheshwari, P. and Kumar, A. (2010) RAPD analysis of UB-B induced variation in somaclones of Veronia cinerea. Genes Genomes Genomics 4, 58-64.

101. Barh, D., Tiwari, S., Jain, N., Ali, A., Santos, A.R., Misra, A.N., Azevedo, V. and Kumar, A. (2011) In silico subtractive genomics for target identification in human bacterial pathogens. Drug Development Res. 72, 162-177.

102. Sethi, A., Parmar, H.S. and Kumar, A. (2011) Atherogenic diet induced diabetic mellitus: Antidiabetic role of aspirin. Basic Clin. Pharmacol. Toxicol. 108, 371-377..

103. Barh, D., Jain, N., Tiwari, S., D’Afonseca, V., Li, L., Ali, A., Santos, A.R., Guimaraes, L.C., Soares, S.D.C., Miyoshi, A., Bhattacharjee, A., Misra, A.N., Silva, A., Kumar, A. and Azevedo, V. (2011) A novel comparative genomics analysis for common drug and vaccine targets in Cornebacterium pseudotuberculosis and other CMN group of human pathogens. Chemical Biol. Drug Design 78, 73-84 104. Pundhir, S. and Kumar, A. (2011) SSPred: A prediction server based on SVM for the identification and

classification of proteins involved in bacterial secretion systems. Bioinformation 6, 380-382. . 105. Hollmann, A., Saviello, M., Delfederico, L., Luerce, T.D., Barh, D., Jain, N., Tiwari, S., Chandra, S., Gupta, K.K., Zambare, V., Kumar, A., Christopher, L., Misra, A.N., Kumavath, R.N. Azevedo, V., Semorile, L., Miyoshi, A. (2012) Tight controlled expression and secretion of Lactobacillus brevis SlpA in Lactobacillus lactis. Biotechnology Letters. 34, 1275-1281.

106. Sharma, M. and Kumar, A. (2012) Optimization of xylanase secretion from Paenibacillus macquariensis. Curr. Trends Biotechnol. Pharmac. 6, 190-195..

107. Parmar, H.S., Jain, P., Chauhan, D.S., Bhinchar, M.K., Munjal, V., Yusuf, M., Choube, K., Tawani, A.,

Tiwari, V., Manivannam, E. and Kumar, A. (2012) DPP-IV inhibitory potential of naringin : An in silico, in vitro and in vivo study. Diab., Res. Clin. Pract. 97, 105-111. Doi 10.1016/j.diabres.2012.02.011

108. Tiwari, R. and Kumar, A. (2012) Starch phosphorylase: Biochemical and Biotechnological

perspectives. Biotechnol. Mol. Biol. Rev. 7, 69-83.

109. Tyagi, S., Banke, J., Chawda, R. and Kumar, A. (2012) Suppression of glyphosate toxicity in plants following peroxide treatment. Toxicol. Environ. Chem. 94, 1331-1341. DOI:10.1080/02772248.2012.701103

110. Barve, N., Mandloi, P., Kumar, A. and Jain, A. (2012) 2D QSAR analysis of inositol derivatives as

inositol monophosphatase inhibitors. Adv. Res. Pharmaceut. Biol. 2, 79-87.

111. Hassan, S., Schneider, M.P., Ramos, R.T., Carneiro, A., Lima, A.R. , Guimarães, L.C., Ali, A., Bakhtiar, S., Pereira, U., Santos, A., Soares, S.C., Dorella, F., Pinto, A., Ribeiro, D., Barbosa, M.S., Almeida, S., Abreu, V.A., Aburjaile, F., Fiaux, K.K., Barbosa, E.G., Diniz, C., Rocha, F., Saxena, R., Tiwari, S., Zambare, V., Ghosh, P., Pacheco, L.G., Dowson, C., Kumar, A., Barh, D., Miyoshi, A., Azevedo, V. and Silva, A. (2012) Whole genome sequence of Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis strain 162 isolated from camel. J. Bacteriol. 194, 5718-5719.

112. Barh, D., Gupta, K.K., Jain, N., Khatri, G., Sicairos, N.L., Canizalez-Roman, A., Tiwari, S., Verma, A., Rahangdale, S., Hassan, S.S., dos-Santos, A.R., Ali, A., Guimaraes, L.C., Ramos, R.T.J., Devarapalli, P., Barve, N., Bakhtiar, M., Kumavath, R., Ghosh, P., Miyoshi, A., Silva, A., Kumar, A.,

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Misra, A.N., Blum, K., and Azevedo, V. (2012) Globally conserved inter-species bacterial PPIs based conserved host-pathogen interactome in C. pseudotuberculosis, C. diphtheria, M. tuberculosis, and Y. pestis: implementation in broad spectrum drug target identification. Integrative Biol. In press. Doi: 10.1039/c2ib20206a.

113. Dhote, M., Juwarkar, A., and Kumar, A. (2013) Bioremediation of oil sludge- Present and Future.

International J. Sustainable Biotechnol. 1, 1-19.

114. Barh, D., Barve, N., Gupta, K.K., Chandra, S., Jain, N., Tiwari, S., Sicairos, N.L., Canizalez-Roman, A., dos-Santos, A.R., Almeida, S., Ramos, R.T.J., de- Abreu, A.C., Carneiro, A.R., Soares, S.C., Castro, T.L.P., Miyoshi, A., Silva, A., Kumar, A., Misra, A.N., Blum, K., Braverman, E.R. and Azevedo, V. (2013) Exoproteome and secretome derived broad spectrum novel drug and vaccine candidates in Vibrio cholera targeted by Piper betel derived compounds. PLos ONE 8(1): e52773, doi: 1371/journal.pone.0052773.

115. Sharma, M., Mehta, S. and Kumar, A. (2013) Purification and characterization of alkaline xylanase secreted from Paenibacillus macquariensis. Adv. Microbiol. 3, 32-41.

116. Sharma, M. and Kumar, A. (2013) Xylanase: An Overview. British Biotechnol. J. 3, 1-28.

117. Barh, D., Jain, N., Tiwari, S., Field, J.K., Padin-Iruegas, E., Ruibal, A., Lopez, R., Herranz, M., Bhattacharya, A., Juneja, L., Viero, C., Silva, A., Miyoshi, A., Kumar, A., Blum, K. Azevedo, V., Ghosh, P. and Liloglou, T. (2013) A novel in silico reverse-transcriptomics based identification and blood based validation of a panel of sub0type specific biomarkers in lung cancer. BMC Genomics 14 (suppl. 6), S5..

118. Tiwari, R. and Kumar, A. (2014) Immobilization of starch phosphorylase from germinating wheat seeds. J Pharmacy Pharmacology 2, 201-210.

119. Parmar H.S., Bhinchar M.K., Bhatia M., Chordia N., Raval I., Chouhan D.S., Manivannan E., Jatwa R, Kumar A. (2014). Study on gluco-regulatory potential of glimepiride sulphonamide using in silico, in vitro and in vivo approaches. Current Pharmaceutical Design 20, 5212-5217.

120. Jain, R. and Kumar, A. (2015) Purification and Characterization of α-Glucan Phosphorylase Isoform Pho 2 from Spinach leaves. British Biotechnology J. 5, 182-195.

121. Jain, R., Garg, S. and Kumar, A. (2015) Starch Phosphorylase: An Overview of Biochemical Characterization, Immobilization and Peptide Mapping. British Biotechnology J. 5, 103-122.

122. Chordia, N., Sharma, N. and Kumar, A. (2015) An Interactomic approach for Identification of Putative Drug Targets in Listeria monocytogenes. Intl. J. Bioinform. Res. Appl. 11, 315-325. 123. Bhagwat, S., Ratnaparkhe, S. and Kumar, A. (2015) Biomass pre-treatment methods and their economic viability for efficient production of biofuel. British Biotechnology J. 8, 1-17. 124. Jain, R., Jain, N. and Kumar, A. (2015) Structural prediction, glucose-1-phosphate interaction and influence of broad leaves herbicides on spinach leaves α-glucan phosphorylase: An in silico study. Bioeng. Biosci. 3, 51-59.

125.Yadav R., Chordia N., Kumar A., Shobha S. (2015). Identification of Targetable Virulence Factor and Drug Screening For Bacterial Pneumonia. IOSR Journal of Phramacy and

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Biological Sciences : 10(2) : 20-24. 126. Barh, D., Kamapantula, B., Jain, N., Nalluri, J., Bhattacharya, A., Juneja, L., Barve, N., Tiwari, S., Miyoshi, A., Azevedo, V., Blum, K., Kumar, A., Silva, A. and Ghosh, P. (2015) miRegulone: a Knowledge base of miRNA regulomics and analysis. Scientific Reports in press Doi: 10.1038/srep12832. 127. Nijampurkar, B., Qureshi, F., Jain, N., Banerjee, T., Kumar, A. and Parmar, H. S. (2015) Anti-inflammatory role of thyroid hormones on rat air pouch model of inflammation. Inflamm Allergy Drug Targets. 14, 117-124. 128. Ratnaparkhe, S., Ratnaparkhe, M.B., Jaiswal, A.K. and Kumar, A. (2016) Strain Engineering For Improved Bio-fuel Production. Current Metabolomics 4, 38-48. 129. Chordia, N., Choudhary, S. and Kumar, A. (2016) Identification of Potential Vaccine candidates from Rickettsia species.: A Reverse Vaccinology Approach. BAOJ Biotechnology 1, 006. 130. Patidar, M., Nighojkar, A., Nighojkar, S. and Kumar, A. (2016) Purification and characterization of pectin methylesterase produced in solid state fermentation by Aspergillus tubingensis. British Biotechnology J. 12, 1-10. 131. Bhagwat, S., Girma, A. D. and Kumar, A. (2016) Statistical Optimization of Enzymatic Saccharification of Acid Pre-treated Parthenium hysterophorus Biomass using Response Surface Methodology. Biofuels 7, 501-509. 132. Patidar, M., Nighojkar, S., Kumar, A. and Nighojkar, A. (2016) Papaya peel valorization for production of acidic pectin methylesterase by Aspergillus tubingensis and its application for fruit juice clarification. Biocatalysis Agricul. Biotechnol. 6, 58-67. 133. Bhagwat, S., Khaire, K., Tiwari, S. and Kumar, A. (2016) Comparison of various pretreatments of biomass for increased enzymatic saccharification for the production of biofuel. Intl. J. Sci. Environ. 5, 2596-2604. 134. Kumar, A. (2016) Role of microbes in food and industrial microbiology. J. Food Ind. Microbiol. 2, e101. 135. Dhote, M., Kumar, A. and Juwarkar, A. (2016) Petroleum contaminated oil sludge degradation by defined consortium: Influence of biosurfactant production. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. India Sec. B Biol. Sci. Doi.10.1007/s40011-016-0778-z

136. Parmar H.S., Assaiya, A., Agrawal, R., Tiwari, S., Mufti, I., Jain, N., Manivannan, E.,

Banerjee, T., Kumar, A. (2016). Inhibition of Aβ (1-42) oligomerization, fibrillization and acetylcholinesterase activity by some anti-inflammatory drugs: An in vitro study. Anti-Inflammatory & Anti-Allergy Agents in Medicinal Chemistry. [Epub ahead of print, PMID: 28034279].

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137. Chordia, N., Lakhawat, K. and Kumar, A. (2017) Identification of Drug Target Properties and its validation on Helicobacter pylori. Canadian J Biotech. In press. 138. Patidar, M.K., Nighojkar, A., Nighojkar, S. and Kumar, A. (2017) Purification and Characterization of Polygalacturonase Produced by Aspergillus niger AN07 in Solid State Fermentation. Canadian J Biotech. In press. 139. Kumar, A. and Chordia, N. (2017) Role of Bioinformatics in Biotechnology. Res. Rev. Biosci. 12, 106. 140. Kumar, A. and Chordia, N. (2017) Role of Microbes in Human Health. Appl. Microbiol. Open Access in press. 141. Bhagwat, S. and Kumar, A. (2017) Design and Optimization of Enzymatic Saccharification for Bioethanol Production from Parthenium hysterophorus Biomass using Response Surface Methodology. Intl. J. Renew. Energ. Technol. In press. 142. Kumar, A. and Chordia, N. (2017) Role of Microbes in Dairy Industry. Nutr. Food Sci. Intl. J. In press.

Dr. Anil Kumar was invited to act as Guest Editor of a thematic issue ‘Role of Metabolomics in Advancing Biofuel Research’ by the Journal ‘ Current Metabolomics’. This issue is published in 2016.

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Papers accepted for Presentation at Conferences 1. Kumar A. & Sanwal, G.G. (1978) some physical properties of starch phosphorylase from mature banana (Musa paradisiaca) leaves. Proc. Soc. Biol. Chemists India, p.84, Oct., 1978 Delhi. Also published in Indian J. Biochem. Biophys. (1979) 16, S84. 2. Kumar,A. & Sanwal, G.G. (1979) Purification and properties of alpha glucan phosphorylase from tapioca Leaves. Proc. Indian Sci. Conger. Assoc, Section of Chemistry part IV p. 19, Jan. 1979, Hyderabad. 3. Kumar, A. & Sanwal, G.G. (1979) some immunological studies on starch phosphorylase from banana Leaves. Proc. Soc. Biol. Chemists India, p. 76, Oct. 1979, Lucknow. Also published in Indian J. Biochem. Biophys. 17, S91-92. 4. Kumar A. (1980) Intracellular localization of starch phosphorylase from Musa paradisiaca leaves. Proc. Indian Soi. Congr. Asso. Section of Botany part III, P. 79, Jan., 1980, Calcutta. 5. Kumar A. & Sanwal, G.G. (1981) Kinetics of Starch phosphorylase from mature banana (Musa paradisiaca) leaves. Proc. Soc. Biol. Chemists India Nov., 1981 Baroda. 6. Kumar A. (1982) Kinetics of starch phosphorylase from young banana (Musa paradisiaca) leaves. Proc. Indian Sci. Congr. Asso. Section of Chemistry Part III p. 138, January 1982, Mysore. 7. Kumar A. (1982) Subcellular localization of multiple forms of starch phosphorylase in different plant Leaves during development. Proc. Indian. Sci. Congr. Asso. Section of Botany part III p. 161-162, Jan., 1982, Mysore. 8. Kumar A & Sanwal, G.G. (1982) Biophysical Characterization of starch phosphorylase Proc. of All India Symposium of Biophys. Oct., 1982, Lucknow. 9. Kumar A. & Sanwal, G.G. (1982) Inhibition studies on starch phosphorylase isolated from young banana Leaves. Proc. Soc. Biol. Chemists India p.180-181, Nov.,1982. 10.Chatterjee, U. & Kumar A. (1982) Immobilized catalase from goat liver. Proc. Soc. Biol Chemists India p. 183, Nov., 1982, Chandigarh. 11.Kumar A. (1983) Studies on the inhibition of starch phosphorylase isolated from mature banana (Musa paradisiaca) leaves Proc. Indian Sci. Congr. Asso. Section of Chemistry, Part III p. 105, Jan., 1983, Tirupati. 12.Kumar A. & Sanwal, G.G. (1983) purification and physicochemical properties of starch phosphorylase From young banana leaves. Proc. Indian Sci. Congr. Asso. Section of Chemistry Part IV Jan., 1983, Tirupati. 13.Chatterjee U., Kumar, A. & Sanwal,G.G. (1983) Purification and partial characterization of goat liver Catalase. Proc. Soc. Biol. Chemists India p. 134, Nov., 1983, Pune. 14.Kumar A. & Sanwal, G.G. (1984) Starch Phosphorylase from topioca (Manihot utilissima) tuber : Isolation and some physico-chemical properties. Proc. Indian Sci. Congr. Asso. Section of Chemistry, Part III p. 75. Jan., 1984, Ranchi. 15.Kumar A (1984) Partial purification and characterization of Starch phosphorylase from cabbage (Elephantopus Scaber) leaves. Proc. Indian Soi. Congr. Asso. Section of Botany, Part III p.68, Jan.,

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1984, Ranchi. 16.Kumar, A. & Sanwal, G.G. (1985) Dissociation constants and thermodynamic data of starch Phosphorylase from banana leaves using horizontal polyacrylamide slab gel electrophoresis. Proc. Indian Sci. Congr. Asso. Section of Chemistry Part III p. 43, Jan. 1985, Lucknow. 17.Kumar A. & Preiss J. (1986) Nucleotide sequence determination of glg A from Escherichia coli, the Structural gene of glycogen synthase. Fed. Proc. 45, 1978. 18.Lea, Y.M., Kumar, A, Thelan, A.P. & Preiss J. (1986) Characterization of an E. coli ADPglucose Synthetase allosteric mutant enzyme. Sixth International Conference on Methods in Protein Sequence Analysis. Abs. D-70, Aug. 1986, Seattle, washington. 19.Kumar A., Romeo, T. & Preiss, J. (1987) Biosynthesis of bacterial glycogen : Sequence of an open reading Frame separating Escherichia coli glg B and glg C and in vitro exprssion of glycogen genes. Fed, Proc. 46, 1935. 20.Lee, Y.M., Kumar A., Tanaka, T. & Preiss J. (1987) An E. coli ADPglucose synthetase allosteric mutant Enzyme : DNA sequencing of the structural gene and site directed mutagenesis. Fed. Proc. 46,2045. 21.Kumar, A., Tanaka, T. Lee, Y.M. & Preiss, J. (1988) Biosynthesis of bacterial glycogen : Use of site Directed mutagenesis to probe the role of Tyrosine 114 in the catalytic mechanism of ADPglucose synthetase from Escherichia coli FASEB journal 2 (15) Abst. 6022, p. A1332. 22.Ghosh, P., Kumar A., Tanaka,T., Lee, Y.M. & Preiss, J. (1988) Altered allosteric properties of mutant E. Coli K-12 strain 618 is due to changes of Lys 296 and Gly 336. FASEB journal 3, Abst. 23.Kumar A. (1990) Secondary structure of glycogen phosphorylase from Escherichia coli. Proc. Indian Sci. Congr. Assoc. Section of Chemistry, Part III, p. 192, Feb., 1990, Cochin. 24.Kumar A. (1991) Predicted secondary structure of maltodextrin phosphorylase from Escherichia coli. Proc. Indian Sci. Congr. Assoc., Section of Biochemistry, p.19 Jan., 3-6, 1991, Indore. 25.Venkaiah, B. & Kumar, A (1992) Dissociation of purified starch phosphorylase from young banana (Musa paradisiaca) leaves. 79th Indian Science Congress held at Baroda. 26.Venkaiah, B. & Kumar A. (1993) Predicted secondary structure of a putative protein encoded by gene present synthetase enzyme in genome of Escherichia coli. 80th Indian Science Congress held at Goa, Jan. 3-7, 1993. 27.Venkaiah B., Sani, R.K., & Kumar A. (1994) Production of glucose-1-phosphate by immobilized cereal starch phosphorylase. XVI All India Cell Biology Conference & Symposia, Indore, Jan. 7-9, 1994. 28.Srivastava S., Nighojkar A. & Kumar, A. (1994) Pectinmethylesterase from Cuscuta reflexa filaments, XVI All India Cell Biology Conference & Symposia, Indore Jan. 7-9, 1994. 29.Venkaiah, B., Sani, R.K. & Kumar A. (1994) Egg shell bound enzyme packed bed reactor for the production of matose and glucose-1-p XVI IUBMB meeting held at New Delhi Sept. 19-22, 1994 Vol II., p.148. 30.Nighojkar, A., Srivastava, S. & Kumar A. (1994) Pectinmethylesterase from germinating Vigna sinensis seeds. XVI IUBMB meeting held at New Delhi Sept. 19-22, 1994. Vol. II., p.252.

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31.Srivastava S., Nighojkar A., & Kumar A. (1994) Pectinmethylesterase from Cuscuta reflexa (dodder), XVI IUBMB meeting held at New Delhi, Sept. 19-22, 1994, Vol. II, p.272. 32.Kumar A. (1996) Immobilization of Pectin methylestarase isolated form Vigna Sinensis seeds International workshop Bioencapsulation V Postdam, Germany, Sept. 24-26, 1996. 33.Upadhye, S., & Kumar A. (1996), Production of glucose-1-phosphate by bioreactor using immobilized Starch phosphorylase from bengal gram seeds. National sympsia on Modern Perspectives in Biochemistry and Biothechnology and Recent Developments in Green Vegetation and other Photosynthetic organisms Research. Oct 25-27 1996 Lucknow. 34.Upadhye, S., Singh, V. K., and Kumar, A. (1996) Partial purification and characterization of cellulase from cow pea (Vigna sinensis) seeds. 65th Annual meeting Soc. Biol. Chem. India, Nov. 20-23, 1996, Bangalore. 35.Kumar, A. & Srivastava, S. (1996) Demethoxylation of Pectin using immobilized Cuscuta reflexa pactin methylesterase 65th Annual meeting Soc. Biol. Chem. India, Nov. 20-23, 1996, Bangalore. 36.Kumar A. (1997) Demethoxylation of pectin using immobilized Cusucta reflexa pectin methylesterase Bioencapsulation VI Conference Aug. 30-Sept.1, 1997. 37.Kumar A. (1997) Production of glucose-1-phosphate using bioreactors Bioencapsulation VI conference Aug. 30-Sept.1,1997, Spain. 38.Mishra, B.N. & Kumar A. (1997) A mathematical model of biofilm for the production of biogas in a fixed bed bioreactor. National Symposium on Community and Institutional Biogas Complexes, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, June 19-20, 1997. 39.Mishra, B.N. & Kumar A. (1997) Mathematical modelling and simulation study of an anaerobic fixed film Bioreactors. 38th annual meeting, Association of Microbiologists of India and Conference on Microbes in Sustainable Development. Jamia Millia Islamia Campus, New Delhi, Dec. 12-14-1997. 40.Mishra B.N. & Kumar A. (1998) Start up and operational behavior of a fixed anaerobic bed bioreactor Treating pharmaceutical wastewater. 85th Indian Science Congress, Osmania University, Hyderabad, Jan. 3- 7, 1998. 41.Bhat S., Tewari V., Khanuja, S.P.S., Kumar A. and Kumar S. (1999) An Agrobacterium tumefaciens mediated transient gene expression system in the essential oil crop Mentha arvensis National symposium on Plant Physology and Biochemistry, Devi Ahilya University, Indore, Feb. 15-17, 1999. 42.Agarwal, S., Banerjee, S., Kumar, A., and Kumar, S. (2000) Somatic embryogenesis in cell cultures of the Himalayan yew Taxus wallichiana. National Seminar on the Frontiers of Research and Development in Medicinal Plants. September 16-18, 2000, Lucknow 43.Kumar, A. (2000) Plant and Microbial Cellulases. National conference on Plant Biotechnology, Biodiversity & Ecorestoration for Gobal prosperity. Nov. 24-26, 2000. 44.Menaria, K., Dubey, S., and Kumar, A (2000) Production of xylanase from thermo-alkanophillic microbe. 69th Annual meeting of Society of Biological Chemists (India), Calcutta. Dec. 7-9, 2000 45. Mathur, P., Menaria, K., and Kumar, A (2000) Mutational studies for maximised production of xylanase from thermophillic microbe. 69th Annual meeting of Society of Biological Chemists (India),

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46. Maheshwari, P. and Kumar, A. (2001) Xylanase from germinating Vigna sinensis seeds. 70th Annual meeting of Society of Biological Chemists (India), Hyderabad , Dec. 27-29, 2001. 47. Thomas, S.C., Dharkar, P., Dharkar, N. and Kumar, A. (2001) A Novel program for predicting plant gene sequences and its comparison with existing web based programs. 70th Annual meeting of Society of Biological Chemists (India), Hyderabad , Dec. 27-29, 2001. 48. Thomas, S.C., Dharkar, P., Dharkar, N. and Kumar, A. (2001) Application of base composition statistics to develop algorithm for gene identification in genomic sequences of rice and other monocots. 70th

Annual meeting of Society of Biological Chemists (India), Hyderabad , Dec. 27-29, 2001. 49. Kumar, A., Dhawan, S., and Khanuja, S. (2003) RAPD Analysis for somaclonal polymorphism in

regenerated plantlets of Mentha arvensis. XIX International Congress of Genetics, Melbourne, Australia, July 6-11, 2003.

50. Neel Kamal, Chowdhury, S., Madan, T., Haq, W., Katti, S. B., Kumar, A. and Usha Sarma, P. (2004) Tryptophan residue is essential for immuno-reactivity of a diagnostically relevant peptide epitope of A. fumigatus. 7th Federation Meeting of Immunological Societies of Asia-Oceania (FIMSA), Adelaide, Australia, December 12-16, 2004. 51. Kumar, A. (2005) Enzymes of carbohydrate metabolism and their exploitation in biotechnology.

4th World Congress of Cellular & Molecular Biology. Poitiers, France, October 7-12, 2005. 52. Garg, N. and Kumar, A. (2006) Primer Designing of DREB2A, a drought resistant gene in

soybean. 93rd Indian Science Congress Association meeting, Hyderabad, January 3 to 7, 2006. 53. Garg, N. and Kumar, A. (2006) Immobilization of starch phosphorylase and production of

glucose-1-phosphate. 3rd International Symposium on Signals, sensing and plant primary metabolites. Potsdam, Germany, April 26-29, 2006.

54. Maheshwari, P. and Kumar, A. (2006) Accumulation of anthocyanin pigments in rapidly

dividing callus and suspension cultures of Vernonia ceranea. 11th International Congress on Plant Tissue Culture, Beijing, China, August 13-18, 2006.

55. Pundhir, S., Vijayawargiya, H. and Kumar, A. (2006) PredictBias: Detection of pathogenic

islands in pathogenic bacteria. International Conference of Bioinformatics, Delhi, India, December 18-20, 2006.

56. Garg, S., Sohani, N., Pundhir, S. and Kumar, A. (2006) Primer designing of endo-1,4--xylanase

gene. National Conference on Biotechnology, Science & Environment. Indore, India, Dec. 28-29, 2006.

57. Maheshwari, P. and Kumar, A. (2006) Plant tissue culture technology for medicinal plant

propagation and production of secondary metabolites. National Conference on Biotechnology, Science & Environment. Indore, India, Dec. 28-29, 2006.

58. Pundhir, S. and Kumar, A. (2006) In Silico Classification of bacterial virulence factors. National

Conference on Biotechnology, Science & Environment. Indore, India, Dec. 28-29, 2006. Sachin Pundhir won Prof. Vimal Sharma Young Scientist Award on this paper. Award included a Gold

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Medal and a Certificate to him). 59. Dayma, Y., Singh, A. and Kumar, A. (2006) ‘Development of a novel approach to find out the

virulence factor in Mycobacterium tuberculosis CDC 1551 and Mycobacterium avium’. International Symposium on New Frontiers in Tuberculosis Research, Dec. 4 to 6, 2006, New Delhi, India.

60. Pundhir, S., Vijayawargiya, H. and Kumar, A. (2008) PredictBias: a server for the identification

of genomic and pathogenicity islands in prokaryotes. International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB2008), October 20-23, 2008 , Taipei, Taiwan.

61. Pundhir, S. and Kumar, A. (2008) SSPred: a prediction server based on SVM for the

identification and classification of proteins involved in bacterial secretion systems. International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB2008), October 20-23, 2008 , Taipei, Taiwan.

62. Mahatman, K. K., Chauhan, R. and Kumar, A. (2009) Production, purification and

characterization of xylanase from an alkalo-thermophilic bacteria, Bacillus halodurans strain KR-1. 5th World Congress of Cellular and Molecular Biology November 02 to 06, 2009, Indore, India.

63. Yadav, K., Pundhir, S., Singh, T.R. and Kumar, A. (2009) GGRP: GenBank Genome Record

Parser. 5th World Congress of Cellular and Molecular Biology November 02 to 06, 2009, Indore, India.

64. Patidar, M., Nighojkar, A. and Kumar, A. (2012) Screening and isolation of pectin degrading

microorganisms from decaying fruits. International Conference of Association of Microbiologists, India. November 21-24, 2012. KIIT University, Bhubneshwar, India.

65. Kumar, A. and Dhote, M. (2013) Microbial assisted bioremediation technology for management

of oil sludge. Ist International Conference of Emerging Industry (ICEI-2013) November 6-7, 2013, Shenzhen, China.

66. Patidar, M., Nighojkar, A. and Kumar, A. (2013) Fungal endopolygalacturonase production

using solid state fermentation. International Conference of Association of Microbiologists, India. November 17-20, 2013 M D University, Rohtak, India.

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LIST OF PUBLICATIONS OF DR. ANIL KUMAR DURING LAST 6 YEARS

1. Barh, D., Tiwari, S., Jain, N., Ali, A., Santos, A.R., Misra, A.N., Azevedo, V. and Kumar, A. (2011) In silico subtractive genomics for target identification in human bacterial pathogens. Drug Development Res. 72, 162-177

2. Sethi, A., Parmar, H.S. and Kumar, A. (2011) Atherogenic diet induced diabetic mellitus: Antidiabetic

role of aspirin. Basic Clin. Pharmacol. Toxicol. 108, 371-377.

3. Barh, D., Jain, N., Tiwari, S., D’Afonseca, V., Li, L., Ali, A., Santos, A.R., Guimaraes, L.C., Soares, S.D.C., Miyoshi, A., Bhattacharjee, A., Misra, A.N., Silva, A., Kumar, A. and Azevedo, V. (2011) A novel comparative genomics analysis for common drug and vaccine targets in Cornebacterium pseudotuberculosis and other CMN group of human pathogens. Chemical Biol. Drug Design 78, 73-84.

4. Pundhir, S. and Kumar, A. (2011) SSPred: A prediction server based on SVM for the identification

and classification of proteins involved in bacterial secretion systems. Bioinformation 6, 380-382.

5. Hollmann, A., Saviello, M., Delfederico, L., Luerce, T.D., Barh, D., Jain, N., Tiwari, S., Chandra, S., Gupta, K.K., Zambare, V., Kumar, A., Christopher, L., Misra, A.N., Kumavath, R.N. Azevedo, V., Semorile, L., Miyoshi, A. (2012) Tight controlled expression and secretion of Lactobacillus brevis SlpA in Lactobacillus lactis. Biotechnology Letters. 34, 1275-1281..

6. Sharma, M. and Kumar, A. (2012) Optimization of xylanase secretion from Paenibacillus macquariensis. Curr. Trends Biotechnol. Pharmac. 6, 190-195.

7. Parmar, H.S., Jain, P., Chauhan, D.S., Bhinchar, M.K., Munjal, V., Yusuf, M., Choube, K., Tawani,

A., Tiwari, V., Manivannam, E. and Kumar, A. (2012) DPP-IV inhibitory potential of naringin : An in silico, in vitro and in vivo study. Diab., Res. Clin. Pract. 97, 105-111. Doi 10.1016/j.diabres.2012.02.011

8. Tiwari, R. and Kumar, A. (2012) Starch phosphorylase: Biochemical and Biotechnological

perspectives. Biotechnol. Mol. Biol. Rev. 7, 69-83.

9. Tyagi, S., Banke, J., Chawda, R. and Kumar, A. (2012) Suppression of glyphosate toxicity in plants following peroxide treatment. Toxicol. Environ. Chem. 94, 1331-1341. DOI:10.1080/02772248.2012.701103

10. Barh, D., Gupta, K.K., Jain, N., Khatri, G., Sicairos, N.L., Canizalez-Roman, A., Tiwari, S., Verma, A., Rahangdale, S., Hassan, S.S., dos-Santos, A.R., Ali, A., Guimaraes, L.C., Ramos, R.T.J., Devarapalli, P., Barve, N., Bakhtiar, M., Kumavath, R., Ghosh, P., Miyoshi, A., Silva, A., Kumar, A., Misra, A.N., Blum, K., and Azevedo, V. (2012) Globally conserved inter-species bacterial PPIs based conserved host-pathogen interactome in C. pseudotuberculosis, C. diphtheria, M. tuberculosis, and Y. pestis: implementation in broad spectrum drug target identification. Integrative Biol. In press. Doi: 10.1039/c2ib20206a.

11. Barve, N., Mandloi, P., Kumar, A. and Jain, A. (2012) 2D QSAR analysis of inositol derivatives as

inositol monophosphatase inhibitors. Adv. Res. Pharmaceut. Biol. 2, 79-87.

12. Hassan, S., Schneider, M.P., Ramos, R.T., Carneiro, A., Lima, A.R. , Guimarães, L.C., Ali, A., Bakhtiar, S., Pereira, U., Santos, A., Soares, S.C., Dorella, F., Pinto, A., Ribeiro, D., Barbosa, M.S.,

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Almeida, S., Abreu, V.A., Aburjaile, F., Fiaux, K.K., Barbosa, E.G., Diniz, C., Rocha, F., Saxena, R., Tiwari, S., Zambare, V., Ghosh, P., Pacheco, L.G., Dowson, C., Kumar, A., Barh, D., Miyoshi, A., Azevedo, V. and Silva, A. (2012) Whole genome sequence of Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis strain 162 isolated from camel. J. Bacteriol. 194, 5718-5719.

13. Dhote, M., Juwarkar, A., and Kumar, A. (2013) Bioremediation of oil sludge- Present and Future.

International J. Sustainable Biotechnol. 1, 1-19.

14. Barh, D., Barve, N., Gupta, K.K., Chandra, S., Jain, N., Tiwari, S., Sicairos, N.L., Canizalez-Roman, A., dos-Santos, A.R., Almeida, S., Ramos, R.T.J., de- Abreu, A.C., Carneiro, A.R., Soares, S.C., Castro, T.L.P., Miyoshi, A., Silva, A., Kumar, A., Misra, A.N., Blum, K., Braverman, E.R. and Azevedo, V. (2013) Exoproteome and secretome derived broad spectrum novel drug and vaccine candidates in Vibrio cholera targeted by Piper betel derived compounds. PLos ONE 8(1): e52773, doi: 1371/journal.pone.0052773.

15. Sharma, M., Mehta, S. and Kumar, A. (2013) Purification and characterization of alkaline xylanase secreted from Paenibacillus macquariensis. Adv. Microbiol. 3, 32-41.

16. Sharma, M. and Kumar, A. (2013) Xylanase: An Overview. British Biotechnol. J. 3, 1-28.

17. Barh, D., Jain, N., Tiwari, S., Field, J.K., Padin-Iruegas, E., Ruibal, A., Lopez, R., Herranz, M., Bhattacharya, A., Juneja, L., Viero, C., Silva, A., Miyoshi, A., Kumar, A., Blum, K. Azevedo, V., Ghosh, P. and Liloglou, T. (2013) A novel in silico reverse-transcriptomics based identification and blood based validation of a panel of sub0type specific biomarkers in lung cancer. BMC Genomics 14 (suppl. 6), S5..

18. Tiwari, R. and Kumar, A. (2014) Immobilization of starch phosphorylase from germinating wheat seeds. J Pharmacy Pharmacology 2, 201-210.

19. Parmar H.S., Bhinchar M.K., Bhatia M., Chordia N., Raval I., Chouhan D.S., Manivannan E., Jatwa R, Kumar A. (2014). Study on gluco-regulatory potential of glimepiride sulphonamide using in silico, in vitro and in vivo approaches. Current Pharmaceutical Design 20, 5212-5217.

20. Jain, R. and Kumar, A. (2015) Purification and Characterization of α-Glucan Phosphorylase Isoform Pho 2 from Spinach leaves. British Biotechnology J. 5, 182-195.

21. Jain, R., Garg, S. and Kumar, A. (2015) Starch Phosphorylase: An Overview of Biochemical Characterization, Immobilization and Peptide Mapping. British Biotechnology J. 5, 103-122.

22. Chordia, N., Sharma, N. and Kumar, A. (2015) An Interactomic approach for Identification of Putative Drug Targets in Listeria monocytogenes. Intl. J. Bioinform. Res. Appl. 11, 315-325.

23. Bhagwat, S., Ratnaparkhe, S. and Kumar, A. (2015) Biomass pre-treatment methods and their economic viability for efficient production of biofuel. British Biotechnology J. 8, 1-17. 24 Jain, R., Jain, N. and Kumar, A. (2015) Structural prediction, glucose-1-phosphate interaction and influence of broad leaves herbicides on spinach leaves α-glucan phosphorylase: An in silico study. Bioeng. Biosci. 3, 51-59.

25. Yadav R., Chordia N., Kumar A., Shobha S. (2015). Identification of Targetable Virulence Factor and Drug Screening For Bacterial Pneumonia. IOSR Journal of Phramacy and Biological Sciences : 10(2) : 20-24.

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26. Barh, D., Kamapantula, B., Jain, N., Nalluri, J., Bhattacharya, A., Juneja, L., Barve, N., Tiwari, S., Miyoshi, A., Azevedo, V., Blum, K., Kumar, A., Silva, A. and Ghosh, P. (2015) miRegulone: a Knowledge base of miRNA regulomics and analysis. Scientific Reports in press Doi: 10.1038/srep12832. 27. Nijampurkar, B., Qureshi, F., Jain, N., Banerjee, T., Kumar, A. and Parmar, H. S. (2015) Anti-inflammatory role of thyroid hormones on rat air pouch model of inflammation. Inflamm Allergy Drug Targets. 14, 117-124. 28. Ratnaparkhe, S., Ratnaparkhe, M.B., Jaiswal, A.K. and Kumar, A. (2016) Strain Engineering for Improved Bio-fuel Production. Current Metabolomics 4, 38-48. 29. Chordia, N., Choudhary, S. and Kumar, A. (2016) Identification of Potential Vaccine candidates from Rickettsia species.: A Reverse Vaccinology Approach. BAOJ Biotechnology 1, 006. 30. Patidar, M., Nighojkar, S., Nighojkar, A. and Kumar, A. (2016) Purification and characterization of pectin methylesterase produced in solid state fermentation by Aspergillus tubingensis. British Biotechnology J. 12, 1-10. 31. Bhagwat, S., Girma, A. D. and Kumar, A. (2016) Statistical Optimization of Enzymatic Saccharification of Acid Pre-treated Parthenium hysterophorus Biomass using Response Surface Methodology. Biofuels 7, 501-509. 32. Patidar, M., Nighojkar, S., Kumar, A. and Nighojkar, A. (2016) Papaya peel valorization for production of acidic pectin methylesterase by Aspergillus tubingensis and its application for fruit juice clarification. Biocatalysis Agricul. Biotechnol.6, 58-67. 33. Bhagwat, S., Khaire, K., Tiwari, S. and Kumar, A. (2016) Comparison of various pretreatments of biomass for increased enzymatic saccharification for the production of biofuel. Intl. J. Sci. Environ. 5, 2596-2604. 34. Kumar, A. (2016) Role of microbes in food and industrial microbiology. J. Food Ind. Microbiol. 2, e101. 35. Dhote, M., Kumar, A. and Juwarkar, A. (2016) Petroleum contaminated oil sludge degradation by defined consortium: Influence of biosurfactant production. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. India Sec. B Biol. Sci. Doi.10.1007/s40011-016-0778-z 36. Parmar H.S., Assaiya, A., Agrawal, R., Tiwari, S., Mufti, I., Jain, N., Manivannan, E., Banerjee, T., Kumar, A. (2016). Inhibition of Aβ (1-42) oligomerization, fibrillization and acetylcholinesterase activity by some anti-inflammatory drugs: An in vitro study. Anti- Inflammatory & Anti-Allergy Agents in Medicinal Chemistry. [Epub ahead of print, PMID: 28034279].

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37. Chordia, N., Lakhawat, K. and Kumar, A. (2017) Identification of Drug Target Properties and its validation on Helicobacter pylori. Canadian J Biotech. In press. 38. Patidar, M.K., Nighojkar, A., Nighojkar, S. and Kumar, A. (2017) Purification and Characterization of Polygalacturonase Produced by Aspergillus niger AN07 in Solid State Fermentation. Canadian J Biotech. In press. 39. Kumar, A. and Chordia, N. (2017) Role of Bioinformatics in Biotechnology. Res. Rev. Biosci. 12, 106. 40. Kumar, A. and Chordia, N. (2017) Role of Microbes in Human Health. Appl. Microbiol. Open Access in press. 41. Bhagwat, S. and Kumar, A. (2017) Design and Optimization of Enzymatic Saccharification for Bioethanol Production from Parthenium hysterophorus Biomass using Response Surface Methodology. Intl. J. Renew. Energ. Technol. In press. 42. Kumar, A. and Chordia, N. (2017) Role of Microbes in Dairy Industry. Nutr. Food Sci. Intl. J. In press.

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