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Arun Radhakrishnan, Ph.D.

Arun Radhakrishnan, Ph.D.

Professor

School
Medical School
Department
Molecular Genetics
Graduate Programs
Biological Chemistry, Molecular Biophysics
  • Education
    Undergraduate
    Univ of California-Berkeley (1997), Molecular & Cell Biology
    Undergraduate
    Univ of California-Berkeley (1997), Bioengineering
    Graduate School
    Stanford University (2002), Biophysics
  • Research Interest
    • How signaling by membrane cholesterol controls cell growth, maintains lipid homeostasis, and protects us from microbial infection
  • Publications

    Star Featured Publications

    Development of a monoclonal antibody to study MARCH6, an E3 ligase that regulates proteins that control lipid homeostasis.
    Xu S, Donnelly L, Kober DL, Mak M, Radhakrishnan A, J Lipid Res 2024 Sep 100650
    A cholesterol-binding bacterial toxin provides a strategy for identifying a specific Scap inhibitor that blocks lipid synthesis in animal cells.
    Xu S, Smothers JC, Rye D, Endapally S, Chen H, Li S, Liang G, Kinnebrew M, Rohatgi R, Posner BA, Radhakrishnan A, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2024 Feb 121 7 e2318024121
    DGAT2 inhibition blocks SREBP-1 cleavage and improves hepatic steatosis by increasing phosphatidylethanolamine in the ER.
    Rong S, Xia M, Vale G, Wang S, Kim CW, Li S, McDonald JG, Radhakrishnan A, Horton JD, Cell Metab 2024 Feb
    A concerted mechanism involving ACAT and SREBPs by which oxysterols deplete accessible cholesterol to restrict microbial infection.
    Heisler DB, Johnson KA, Ma DH, Ohlson MB, Zhang L, Tran M, Corley CD, Abrams ME, McDonald JG, Schoggins JW, Alto NM, Radhakrishnan A, Elife 2023 Jan 12
    Measuring and Manipulating Membrane Cholesterol for the Study of Hedgehog Signaling.
    Kinnebrew M, Johnson KA, Radhakrishnan A, Rohatgi R, Methods Mol Biol 2022 2374 73-87
    Patched 1 reduces the accessibility of cholesterol in the outer leaflet of membranes.
    Kinnebrew M, Luchetti G, Sircar R, Frigui S, Viti LV, Naito T, Beckert F, Saheki Y, Siebold C, Radhakrishnan A, Rohatgi R, Elife 2021 Oct 10
    Scap structures highlight key role for rotation of intertwined luminal loops in cholesterol sensing.
    Kober DL, Radhakrishnan A, Goldstein JL, Brown MS, Clark LD, Bai XC, Rosenbaum DM, Cell 2021 Jun
    The use of anthrolysin O and ostreolysin A to study cholesterol in cell membranes.
    Johnson KA, Radhakrishnan A, Methods Enzymol 2021 649 543-566
    Cholesterol access in cellular membranes controls Hedgehog signaling.
    Radhakrishnan A, Rohatgi R, Siebold C, Nat Chem Biol 2020 Dec 16 12 1303-1313
    Identification of a degradation signal at the carboxy terminus of SREBP2: A new role for this domain in cholesterol homeostasis.
    Kober DL, Xu S, Li S, Bajaj B, Liang G, Rosenbaum DM, Radhakrishnan A, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020 Oct