Rajender K Motiani

Employment

• Regional Centre for Biotechnology Associate Professor
  2024 - Present
• Regional Centre for Biotechnology Assistant Professor
  2018 - 2023
• CSIR Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology INSPIRE Faculty Fellow
  2013 - 2018

Education

• Albany Medical College Ph.D.
  2007 - 2012
• Nagpur Veterinary College Bachelor in Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry
  2002 - 2007

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (44)

• Methotrimeprazine is a neuroprotective antiviral in JEV infection via adaptive ER stress and autophagy.
  EMBO molecular medicine 2024 17 citations DOI: 10.1038/s44321-023-00014-w
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• Remodeling Ca2+dynamics by targeting a promising E-box containing G-quadruplex atORAI1promoter in triple-negative breast cancer
  2024 0 citations DOI: 10.1101/2024.03.28.587164
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• A novel gain of function mutation in TPC2 reiterates pH-pigmentation interplay: Emerging role of ionic homeostasis as a master pigmentation regulator
  Cell Calcium 2023 11 citations DOI: 10.1016/j.ceca.2023.102705
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• Mitochondrial calcium signaling mediated transcriptional regulation of keratin filaments is a critical determinant of melanogenesis
  2023 2 citations DOI: 10.1101/2023.05.26.542250
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• Telomeres control regulation of the human Telomerase (hTERT) gene through non-telomeric TRF2 and independent of Telomere looping
  2023 1 citation DOI: 10.1101/2023.10.09.561466
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• MITF is a novel transcriptional regulator of the calcium sensor STIM1: Significance in physiological melanogenesis.
  The Journal of biological chemistry 2022 21 citations DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2022.102681
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• Potential of targeting host cell calcium dynamics to curtail SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 pathogenesis
  Cell Calcium 2022 16 citations DOI: 10.1016/j.ceca.2022.102637
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• Temporal analysis of melanogenesis identifies fatty acid metabolism as key skin pigment regulator.
  PLoS biology 2022 27 citations DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001634
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• Mitofusin-2 Negatively Regulates Melanogenesis by Modulating Mitochondrial ROS Generation
  Cells 2022 25 citations DOI: 10.3390/cells11040701
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• Molecular machinery regulating mitochondrial calcium levels: The nuts and bolts of mitochondrial calcium dynamics
  Mitochondrion 2021 68 citations DOI: 10.1016/j.mito.2020.12.001
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