publications

2025

1. 

   Split-luciferin Assay for Real-time Measurement of Cytosolic Drug Accumulation in Live Mycobacteria

   Rachita Dash, Andrew Spira, Noah Lucas, Sobika Bhandari, Mahendra Chordia, and Marcos Pires

   bioRxiv, 2025

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   @article{dash2025split,
     title = {Split-luciferin Assay for Real-time Measurement of Cytosolic Drug Accumulation in Live Mycobacteria},
     author = {Dash, Rachita and Spira, Andrew and Lucas, Noah and Bhandari, Sobika and Chordia, Mahendra and Pires, Marcos},
     journal = {bioRxiv},
     year = {2025},
     publisher = {Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory},
   }

2. 

   Profiling Cytosolic Drug Delivery in Mammalian Cells: A Generalizable Assay for Intracellular Accumulation

   Sobika Bhandari, George M Ongwae, Rachita Dash, Zichen Liu, Yuchen He, Mahendra D Chordia, and 1 more author

   bioRxiv, 2025

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   @article{bhandari2025profiling,
     title = {Profiling Cytosolic Drug Delivery in Mammalian Cells: A Generalizable Assay for Intracellular Accumulation},
     author = {Bhandari, Sobika and Ongwae, George M and Dash, Rachita and Liu, Zichen and He, Yuchen and Chordia, Mahendra D and Pires, Marcos},
     journal = {bioRxiv},
     year = {2025},
     publisher = {Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory},
   }

3. 

   Systematic Determination of the Impact of Structural Edits on Peptide Accumulation into Mycobacteria

   Rachita Dash, Zichen Liu, Irene Lepori, Mahendra D Chordia, Karl Ocius, Kadie Holsinger, and 5 more authors

   ACS Chemical Biology, 2025

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   @article{dash2025systematic,
     title = {Systematic Determination of the Impact of Structural Edits on Peptide Accumulation into Mycobacteria},
     author = {Dash, Rachita and Liu, Zichen and Lepori, Irene and Chordia, Mahendra D and Ocius, Karl and Holsinger, Kadie and Zhang, Han and Kenyon, Ryan and Im, Wonpil and Siegrist, M Sloan and others},
     journal = {ACS Chemical Biology},
     year = {2025},
     publisher = {ACS Publications},
   }

4. 

   Click-Based Determination of Accumulation of Molecules in Escherichia coli

   George M Ongwae, Zichen Liu, Shasha Feng, Mahendra D Chordia, Mohammad Sharifian Gh, Rachita Dash, and 5 more authors

   bioRxiv, 2025

   (Under Review, Nature Communications)

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   @article{ongwae2025click,
     title = {Click-Based Determination of Accumulation of Molecules in Escherichia coli},
     author = {Ongwae, George M and Liu, Zichen and Feng, Shasha and Chordia, Mahendra D and Sharifian Gh, Mohammad and Dash, Rachita and Dalesandro, Brianna E and Guo, Taijie and Sharpless, Karl Barry and Dong, Jiajia and others},
     journal = {bioRxiv},
     year = {2025},
     publisher = {Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory},
     note = {(Under Review, <i>Nature Communications</i>)},
   }

2024

1. 

   Bioluminescence-Based Determination of Cytosolic Accumulation of Antibiotics in Escherichia coli

   Rachita Dash, Kadie A Holsinger, Mahendra D Chordia, Mohammad Sharifian Gh, and Marcos M Pires

   ACS Infectious Diseases, 2024

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   @article{dash2024bioluminescence,
     title = {Bioluminescence-Based Determination of Cytosolic Accumulation of Antibiotics in Escherichia coli},
     author = {Dash, Rachita and Holsinger, Kadie A and Chordia, Mahendra D and Gh, Mohammad Sharifian and Pires, Marcos M},
     journal = {ACS Infectious Diseases},
     volume = {10},
     number = {5},
     pages = {1602--1611},
     year = {2024},
     publisher = {ACS Publications},
   }

2021

1. 

   Thanatin: An emerging host defense antimicrobial peptide with multiple modes of action

   Rachita Dash, and Surajit Bhattacharjya

   International journal of molecular sciences, 2021

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   @article{dash2021thanatin,
     title = {Thanatin: An emerging host defense antimicrobial peptide with multiple modes of action},
     author = {Dash, Rachita and Bhattacharjya, Surajit},
     journal = {International journal of molecular sciences},
     volume = {22},
     number = {4},
     pages = {1522},
     year = {2021},
     publisher = {MDPI},
   }