Publications by authors named "T R Viswanathan"

2'- -ribose methylation of the first transcribed base (adenine or A in SARS-CoV-2) of viral RNA mimics the host RNAs and subverts the innate immune response. How nsp16, with its obligate partner nsp10, assembles on the 5'-end of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA to methylate the A has not been fully understood. We present a ∼ 2.

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Obesity is a major risk factor for liver and cardiovascular diseases. However, obesity-driven mechanisms that contribute to the pathogenesis of multiple organ diseases are still obscure and treatment is inadequate. We hypothesized that increased , glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD), the key rate-limiting enzyme in the pentose shunt, is critical in evoking metabolic reprogramming in multiple organs and is a significant contributor to the pathogenesis of liver and cardiovascular diseases.

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Romiplostim is a Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved therapy for immune thrombocytopenia (ITP). Biosimilar is a biological product that has no clinical meaningful difference from an existing FDA-approved reference product. It has a potential of lowering health-care-related cost.

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A new set of multi-donor [ferrocene (D) and methoxyphenyl (D')] conjugated D-D'-π-A based dyes [Fc-(OCH-Ph)C[double bond, length as m-dash]CH-CH[double bond, length as m-dash]CN-R{R[double bond, length as m-dash]COOH (1) and CH-COOH (2)}] were synthesized as sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) applications. These dyes were characterized with the aid of analytical and spectroscopic techniques such as FT-IR, HR-Mass, and H and C NMR. The thermal stability of the dyes 1 and 2 were investigated using thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and was found to be stable around 180 °C for dye 1 and 240 °C for dye 2.

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