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PUBLICATION LIST

  1. Ojha, D. K., Mehra, A., Rout, S. S., Giri, S., & Nayak, S. (2025). Bactericidal activity of ZnO nanoparticles-anti TB drugs combination towards H37Rv strain and multidrug-resistant isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis via SufB splicing inhibition. Materials Advances. DOI: 10.1039/D4MA01224K

  2. Ojha, D. K., Polai, B., Nasker, S. S., Mehra, A., Das, S. R., Nayak, S. K., Ajayan, P. M., & Nayak, S. (2025). rGO‐Aluminium Substrates as Broad‐Spectrum Antimicrobial and Antibiofilm Functional Materials. Advanced Materials Interfaces, 12(5), 2400637. DOI: 10.1002/admi.202400637 

  3. Panda, S., Nanda, A., Nasker, S. S., Mehra, A., Ojha, D. K., Mohanty, P. S., & Nayak, S. (2023) Metal regulation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis SufB intein splicing at the host-pathogen crossroad. Clinical Science, 137(4), 1027-1048. DOI: 10.1042/CS20230307

  4. Nasker, S. S., Ajayan, P. M., & Nayak, S. (2023). Emerging Trends and Future Direction of Graphene Family of Materials as Potential Antimicrobials: A Critical Review. ACS Materials Letters, 5, 673-693. DOI: 10.1021/acsmaterialslett.2c01116

  5. Arega, A. M., Dhal, A. K., Pattanaik, K. P., Nayak, S., & Mahapatra, R. K. (2023). An Immunoinformatics-Based Study of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Region of Difference-2 Uncharacterized Protein (Rv1987) as a Potential Subunit Vaccine Candidate for Preliminary Ex Vivo Analysis. Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 1-29. DOI: 10.1007/s12010-023-04658-9

  6. Arega, A. M., Dhal, A. K., Nayak, S., & Mahapatra, R. K. (2022). In silico and in vitro study of Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv uncharacterized protein (RipD): an insight on tuberculosis therapeutics. Journal of Molecular Modeling, 28(6), 1-14. DOI: 10.1007/s00894-022-05148-1

  7. Panda, S., Nanda, A., Sahu, N., Ojha, D. K., Pradhan, B., Rai, A., Suryawanshi, A., Banavali, N., & Nayak, S., (2022). SufB intein splicing in Mycobacterium tuberculosis is influenced by two remote conserved N-extein histidines. Bioscience reports, 42(3), BSR20212207. DOI: BSR20212207

  8. Nanda, A., Nasker, S.S., Kushwaha, A.K., Ojha, D.K., Dearden, A.K., Nayak, S.K. and Nayak, S., (2021). Gold nanoparticles augment N-terminal cleavage and splicing reactions in Mycobacterium tuberculosis SufB. Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology, p.1213. DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2021.773303

  9. Nasker, S. S., Nanda, A., Ramadass, B., & Nayak, S. (2021). Epidemiological Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Dynamics in the State of Odisha, India: A Yearlong Exploratory Data Analysis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(21), p.11203. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph182111203

  10. Panda, S., Nanda, A., Nasker, S.S., Sen, D., Mehra, A. and Nayak, S., (2021). Metal effect on intein splicing: A review. Biochimie, 185, pp.53-67. DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2021.03.006

  11. Arega, A.M., Pattanaik, K.P., Nayak, S. and Mahapatra, R.K., (2021). Computational discovery and ex-vivo validation study of novel antigenic vaccine candidates against tuberculosis. Acta Tropica, 217, p.105870. DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2021.105870

  12. Nanda, A., Nasker, S.S., Mehra, A., Panda, S. and Nayak, S., (2020). Inteins in Science: Evolution to Application. Microorganisms, 8(12), p.2004. DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms8122004

  13. Panda, S., Rout, T.K., Prusty, A.D., Ajayan, P.M. and Nayak, S., (2018). Electron transfer directed antibacterial properties of graphene oxide on metals. Advanced Materials, 30(7), p.1702149. DOI: 10.1002/adma.201702149

  14. Topilina, N.I., Green, C.M., Jayachandran, P., Kelley, D.S., Stanger, M.J., Piazza, C.L., Nayak, S. and Belfort, M., (2015). SufB intein of Mycobacterium tuberculosis as a sensor for oxidative and nitrosative stresses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(33), pp.10348-10353. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1512777112

  15. Huang, Y. M., Nayak, S., & Bystroff, C. (2011). Quantitative in vivo solubility and reconstitution of truncated circular permutants of green fluorescent protein. Protein Science, 20(11), 1775-1780. DOI: 10.1002/pro.735

Intellectual Property (IP)

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  1. New Indian Patent Application No. 202511038188 dated 21.04.2025 entitled "A GOLD NANOPARTICLE AND PROBIOTIC COMBINATION HAVING ANTIMICROBIAL AND ANTIBIOFILM ACTIVITY, AND A METHOD OF PREPARATION THEREOF" was filed by Dr. Sasmita Nayak, Dr. S. K. Dash, Sourya Subhra Nasker, Manaswani Adhikari; in the name of DD Innovations Incorporated, U.S.A. ​

  2. New Indian Patent Application No. 202331055247 dated 17.08.2023 entitled “PROCESS FOR PREPARATION OF NANOPARTICLE BASED INTEIN SPLICING SYSTEM“ was filed by Dr. Sasmita Nayak, Deepak K. Ojha, Ananya Nanda, Sourya Subhra Nasker, Ashwaria Mehra; in the name of KIIT-DU and KARMA Pvt. Ltd., Bhubaneswar.

  3. New Indian Patent Application No. 202331026014 dated 06.04.2023 entitled “A PROCESS FOR PREPARATION OF BACTERIA-RESISTING GRAPHENE OXIDE AND GRAPHENE COATED ALUMINIUM USING ELECTROCHEMICAL DEPOSITION“ in the name of NATIONAL ALUMINIUM COMPANY LIMITED (NALCO) and KIIT-DU, Bhubaneswar.​

  4. S.Nayak, S. Panda and T. Rout filed an Indian Patent on “Process for the preparation of bacteria-resisting graphene-oxide steel, zinc, nickel, and tin composites”. Application No. 201931006349 A (Publication Date: 26/04/2019). 

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