publications

2025

  1. systematic.tiff
    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, Han Zhang, and 4 more authors
    ACS Chemical Biology, 2025
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    Split-luciferin Assay for Real-time Measurement of Cytosolic Drug Accumulation in Live Mycobacteria
    Rachita Dash, Andrew Spira, Sobika Bhandari, Sarah E Newkirk, Noah Lucas, Mahendra Chordia, and Marcos Pires
    bioRxiv, 2025
    (Under Review, Cell Chemical Biology)
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    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, Brianna E Dalesandro, and 4 more authors
    (Accepted, Nature Communications), 2025
  4. profiling.tiff
    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 Marcos Pires
    (Accepted, Nature Communications Chemistry), 2025
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    Identification of chemical features that influence mycomembrane permeation and antitubercular activity
    Irene Lepori, Zichen Liu, Nelson Evbarunegbe, Shasha Feng, Turner P. Brown, Kishor Mane, Rachita Dash, and 13 more authors
    bioRxiv, 2025
    (Under Review, Nature Microbiology)

2024

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    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

2021

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    Thanatin: An emerging host defense antimicrobial peptide with multiple modes of action
    Rachita Dash, and Surajit Bhattacharjya
    International journal of molecular sciences, 2021