
Arun Radhakrishnan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
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 cells control their cholesterol levels
Publications
Featured Publications
- 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
- Accessible cholesterol is localized in bacterial plasma membrane protrusions.
- Abrams ME, Johnson KA, Radhakrishnan A, Alto NM, J. Lipid Res. 2020 Jul
- Accessibility of cholesterol at cell surfaces.
- Johnson KA, Radhakrishnan A, J. Lipid Res. 2020 Apr
- Oxysterols provide innate immunity to bacterial infection by mobilizing cell surface accessible cholesterol.
- Abrams ME, Johnson KA, Perelman SS, Zhang LS, Endapally S, Mar KB, Thompson BM, McDonald JG, Schoggins JW, Radhakrishnan A, Alto NM, Nat Microbiol 2020 Apr
- Cholesterol Stabilizes TAZ in Hepatocytes to Promote Experimental Non-alcoholic Steatohepatitis.
- Wang X, Cai B, Yang X, Sonubi OO, Zheng Z, Ramakrishnan R, Shi H, Valenti L, Pajvani UB, Sandhu J, Infante RE, Radhakrishnan A, Covey DF, Guan KL, Buck J, Levin LR, Tontonoz P, Schwabe RF, Tabas I, Cell Metab. 2020 Apr