My current work aims to identify the minimal peptide sequence derived from the kinesin-1 tail domain peptide (KTDP) that binds phosphatidic acid (PA) and disrupts the PA–kinesin interaction.
PhD scholar · Roop Mallik’s Lab · IIT Bombay
01 / Research
Metabolic disorders, lipid biology, and the molecular interactions behind them.
An extension of prior KTDP work in the lab, investigating how disrupting this interaction can affect VLDL formation and secretion.
- Lipid–protein interactions
- Phosphatidic acid
- Kinesin-1
- VLDL secretion
- Peptide design
- MASLD
- Mitophagy