Selected Publications
Controlling Nanopore Dynamics via Loop Stapling and Unstapling for Tunable Substrate Transport
Krishna A, Puthumadathil N, Sarkar DK, Majumdar BB, Vikraman D, Mondal J, Mahendran K R (2025)
ACS Nano doi: 10.1021/acsnano.5c16470.
Fabrication of cytotoxic mirror image nanopores
Neilah Firzan Ca, Kalyanashis Jana, Sreelakshmi Radhakrishnan, Rifat Aara, Mubeena S, Radhika Nair, Harsha Bajaj, Ulrich Kleinekathöfer, Kozhinjampara R Mahendran
Nature Communications doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-64025-6
A Dynamic Sugar-Selective Bacterial Nanopore for Targeted Antibiotic Transport
Sharavanakkumar SK, Bibhab Bandhu Majumdar, Devika Vikraman, Kajori Mahanta, Aparna Soman, Arumugam Rajavelu, Jagannath Mondal, Kozhinjampara R. Mahendran (2025)
Small doi.org/10.1002/smll.202502110
Functionally Active Synthetic α-Helical Pores
Smrithi Krishnan R, Neilah Firzan CA, and Kozhinjampara R. Mahendran (2024)
Accounts of Chemical Research https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.accounts.4c00101
Conformational flexibility driving charge-selective substrate translocation across a bacterial transporter
Devika Vikraman, Bibhab Bandhu Majumdar, Sharavanakkumar SK, Conrad Weichbrodt, Niels Fertig, Mathias Winterhalter, Jagannath Mondal and Kozhinjampara R. Mahendran (2024)
Chemical Science https://doi.org/10.1039/D4SC00345D
Sensing PEGylated Peptide Conformations Using a Protein Nanopore
Remya Satheesan, Devika Vikraman, Parvathy Jayan, Vinesh Vijayan, Catalin Chimerel, and Kozhinjampara R. Mahendran (2023)
Nano Letters doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c03247
Synthetic α-Helical Nanopore Reactor for Chemical Sensing
Anjali Devi Das, Vidhu K, Smitha Devi S, and Kozhinjampara R Mahendran (2023)
JACS Au doi.org/10.1021/jacsau.3c00221
Electrostatic Filtering of Polypeptides Through Membrane Protein Pores
Devika Vikraman, Smrithi Krishnan R, Remya Satheesan, Anjali Devi Das, Kozhinjampara R Mahendran (2022)
Chemistry: An Asian Journal doi.org/10.1002/asia.202200891
Assembly of transmembrane pores from mirror-image peptides
Smrithi Krishnan R, Kalyanashis Jana, Amina H. Shaji, Karthika S. Nair, Anjali Devi Das, Devika Vikraman, Harsha Bajaj, Ulrich Kleinekathöfer & Kozhinjampara R. Mahendran (2022)
Nature Communications doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33155-6
Selective Translocation of Cyclic Sugars through Dynamic Bacterial Transporter.
Devika Vikraman, Remya Satheesan, Mangaiyarkarasi Rajendran, Nisha Asok Kumar, John Bernet Johnson, Smrithi Krishnan R, and Kozhinjampara R. Mahendran (2022)
ACS Sensors doi.org/10.1021/acssensors.2c00943
Assembly of alpha-helical transmembrane pores through an intermediate state
Neethu Puthumadathil, Smrithi Krishnan R, Greeshma S Nair, Kozhinjampara R Mahendran(2022)
Nanoscale doi.org/10.1039/D2NR00556E
Designed alpha-helical barrels for charge-selective peptide translocation.
Krishnan R S, Puthumadathil N, Shaji A, Kumar KS, Mohan G, Mahendran KR* (2020)
Chemical Science https://doi.org/10.1039/D0SC04856A
Nanopore Passport Control for Substrate Specific Translocation.
Vikraman D, Satheesan R, Kumar KS, Mahendran KR* (2020)
*Corresponding author
ACS Nano doi: 10.1021/acsnano.9b09408.