Area of specialization is Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Bioinformatics.The research group works in the area of Neurobiology and Disease biology. We are trying to understand mechanism(s) of function(s) of paired box genes and proteins (Pax6 and Pax5) in neurodegenerative diseases, neuropathy and immunological surveillance. The cell lines, yeast, and mouse are our working model systems. Age associated alterations in Pax6, its co-localization and interaction with SPARC (Secreted Protein Acidic Rich in Cysteine) and p53 in mouse brain and eyes indicates Smad3 and p53-mediated auto-regulation of regulator Pax6. Tissue specific isoform of Pax5 appears critical for activation of microglia in brain or B cell/T cell mediated immunity. Some other novel proteins interacting with Pax6 are being explored, and characterized. The up-stream and down-stream targets of Pax6 are also being investigated.

• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Sept. 2000-Feb. 2003, Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, U.T.-M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
• Honorable mention in the category of Basic Science Research for 1) In the top 10% for the abstract scores and 2) Ranked in the top 3 for the poster competition among Trainees of 2000-2001 at U.T.-M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
• Senior Research Associateship (Scientist Pool), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (C.S.I.R), India. (Jan. 1999-Sept. 1999).
• Young Scientist project Immunochemical Diagnosis of myocardial infarction (HR/SY/GB-01/96) award by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), India. (Jan. 1997-Dec. 1998).
• Research Associate Fellowship, University Grants Commission (U.G.C.), India. (April 1996-Dec. 1996).
• Senior Research Fellowship-NET, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (C.S.I.R), India. (Aug. 1992 to Aug. 1995).
• Junior Research Fellowship-NET, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (C.S.I.R), India. (Aug. 1990 to July 1992).

• Organized workshop on Applications of Bioinformatics and Proteomic Techniques in Neurobiology for 15 days during September 07-21, 2009.
• Honorary Director, BioInformatics Support & Analysis, URL: www.bisa.in
• Life membership of professional societies: Society of Biological Chemists, India (SBC); Indian Society of Cell Biology (ISCB); Society of Toxicology, India (STOX); Indian Immunology Society (IIS); Indian Academy of Neurosciences (IAN); Society of Gerontology.

List of 10 major Publications:

1. Bharti B, Shukla S, Tripathi R, Mishra S, Kumar M, Pandey M and Mishra R (2016) Level of PAX5 in differential diagnosis of Non-Hodgkin�s Lymphoma. Indian J.Med.Res., 143(Supplement), May 2016, 135-143 (IF: 1.396) ISSN 0971-5916
2. Bharti B and Mishra R (2015) Spleen-specific isoforms of Pax5 and Ataxin-7 as potential proteomic markers of lymphoma-affected spleen. Mol Cell Biochem 402: 181-191
3. Shukla S and Mishra R (2012), Predictions on impact of missense mutations on structure function relationship of PAX6 and its alternatively spliced isoform PAX6(5a). Interdiscip Sci.; 4(1):54-73.
4. Kumar Shubham and Rajnikant Mishra (2012), Pax6 interacts with SPARC and TGF-β in murine eyes, Mol Vis.;18:951-6. (IF: 2.205-2011) ISSN: 1090-0535.
5. Ratnakar Tripathi and Rajnikant Mishra (2012), Aging associated modulation in the expression of Pax6 in mouse brain, Cell Mol. Neurobiol., 32:209-218. (IF: 1.969-2011) ISSN: 0272-4340 (Print), 1573-6830 (Online)
6. Brij Bharti and Rajnikant Mishra (2011), Isoforms of Pax5 and co-regulation of T- and B-cells associated genes influence phenotypic traits of ascetic cells causing Dalton�s Lymphoma. Biochim. Biophys Acta, 1813(12):2071-8. (IF: 5.538-2011) ISSN: 0167-4889
7. Sachin Shukla and Rajnikant Mishra (2011) Functional analysis of missense mutations G36A and G51A in Pax6, and Pax6 (5a) causing ocular anomalies. Exp. Eye Res., 93:40-49. Impact Factor 2.817. (IF: 3.259-2011) ISSN: 0014-4835
8. Sanjaya Singh, Rajnikant Mishra, Nelson.A. Arango, Jian Min Deng, Richard R. Behringer, Grady F. Saunders, (2002), Iris hypoplasia in mice that lack the alternatively spliced Pax6(5a) isoform. Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.U.S.A 99 : 6812-6815. (IF9.681-2011), Online ISSN 1091-6490.
9. Rajnikant Mishra, I.P. Gorlov, L.Y. Chao, S. Singh, and G.F. Saunders, (2002), PAX6, paired domain influences sequence recognition by the homeodomain, J. Biol. Chem. 277 (51) 49488-49494. (IF 7.?????-2011), Print ISSN 0021-9258, Online ISSN 1083-351X.
10. Sanjaya Singh, Liyan Y. Chao, Rajnikant Mishra, Jonathan Davies and Grady F. Saunders, (2001), Missense mutation at the C-terminus of PAX6 negatively modulates homeodomain function, Hum. Mole. Genet. 10(9) 911-918. (IF7.636-2011), Online ISSN 1460-2083 - Print ISSN 0964-6906.

1. Bharti B, Shukla S, Tripathi R, Mishra S, Kumar M, Pandey M and Mishra R (2016) Level of PAX5 in differential diagnosis of Non-Hodgkin�s Lymphoma. Indian J.Med.Res., 143(Supplement), May 2016, 135-143 (IF: 1.396) ISSN 0971-5916
2. Maurya SK and Mishra R (2016) Putative role of Pax5 in immunological surveillance of brain. J. Sci. Res., 60: 43-51 ISSN 0447-9483 (Print)
3. Mishra S and Mishra R (2016) Biochemical and molecular characterization of mitochondrial membrane-bound arginase in Heteropneustes fossilis. Mol Biol. Rep., 43(5), 359-369 (IF: 2.024) ISSN 0301-4851 (Print), 1573-4978 (Online)
4. Mishra S and Mishra R (2016) Mitochondrial membrane-bound activity of arginase is independent of nitrogen excretion pattern in ureogenic and non-ureogenic vertebrates. Ind.J.Exp.Biol.., (IF: 0.89) (IF 0.835- 2014) ISSN 0019-5189 (Print), 0975-1009 (Online) In press
5. Srivastava K and Mishra R (2016) Impact of Pax6 on Ras dependent cell signaling in brain. J. Sci. Res., 60: 31-36 ISSN 0447-9483 (Print)
6. Mishra S and Mishra R (2016) KCl-Dependent Release of Mitochondrial Membrane-Bound Arginase Appears to be a Novel Variant of Arginase-II. Scientifica., (IF: Not yet available) DOI: 10.1155/2016/3675283.
7. Mishra S and Mishra R (2015) Molecular Integrity of Mitochondria Alters by Potassium Chloride. Int. J. Prot. Res., DOI 10.1155/2015/647408 (IF: Not yet available) ISSN 2090-2166 (Print), 2090-2174 (Online)
8. Yadav MK, Rajput G, Srivastava K, Singh RK, Mishra R, Drew MGB and Singh N (2015) Anti-leishmanial activity of Ni(II), Pd(II) and Pt(II) �-oxodithioester complexes. New J. Chem., 39, 6358-6366 (IF 3.159- 2014) ISSN 1144-0546
9. Mishra S and Mishra R (2015) Impact of Isoforms of Arginase on biology of ammonia and urea metabolism: A promising approach for metabolic therapy of various melignancies. J. Sci. Res., 59: 31-45 (IF: Not yet available) ISSN 0447-9483 (Print)
10. Mishra S, Maurya SK, Srivastava K, Shukla S and Mishra R (2015) Pax6 influences expression patterns of genes involved in neuro-degeneration. Ann Neurosci., 22: 226-231 (IF: Not yet available) ISSN 0967-3260
11. Bharti B, Mishra R (2015) Spleen-specific isoforms of Pax5 and Ataxin-7 as potential proteomic markers of lymphoma-affected spleen. Mol Cell Biochem., 402: 181-191 (IF 2.393) ISSN 1573-4919
12. Mishra M, Tiwari K, Shukla S, Mishra R, Singh VP (2014) Synthesis structural investigation, DNA and protein binding study of some 3d-metal complexes with N0-(phenyl-pyridin-2-yl-methylene)-thiophene-2-carboxylic acid hydrazide. Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy., 132: 452-464 (IF 2.353) ISSN 1386-1425
13. V. Kumar, Rakesh K. Mishra, Sachin Shukla, Rajnikant Mishra, Monali Singh,Ida Tiwari, Kamlesh Thapaliyal, K.K. Upadhyay (2013) Synthesis, crystal structure and nuclease activity of a Cu(II) complex having two different co-ordination geometries in the same unit cell., J.Mol. Str., 1047, 66-72. (IF 1.634) ISSN:0022-2860
14. Dixit R, Kumar P, Tripathi R, Basu S, Mishra R, Shukla VK, Chromosomal structural analysis in carcinoma of the gallbladder (2012),World J Surg Oncol, 2012 Sep 25;10(1):198 (IF 1.12) ISSN 1477-7819
15. Kumar Shubham and Rajnikant Mishra (2012), Pax6 interacts with SPARC and TGF-β in murine eyes, Mol Vis.;18:951-6. (IF: 2.205-2011) ISSN: 1090-0535.
16. Ratnakar Tripathi and Rajnikant Mishra (2012), Aging associated modulation in the expression of Pax6 in mouse brain, Cell Mol. Neurobiol., 32:209-218. (IF: 1.969-2011) ISSN: 0272-4340 (Print), 1573-6830 (Online)
17. Sachin Shukla and Rajnikant Mishra (2012), Predictions on impact of missense mutations on structure function relationship of PAX6 and its alternatively spliced isoform PAX6(5a). Interdiscip Sci.; 4(1):54-73. (IF: not yet available) ISSN: 1913-2751 (print version), ISSN: 1867-1462 (electronic version)
18. Ratnakar Tripathi and Rajnikant Mishra (2012) In Silico Analysis of Pax6 Interacting Proteins Indicates Missing Molecular Links in Development of Brain and associated Disease. International Journal of Biological and Life Sciences 8(3): 150-156. pISSN 2010-3824, eISSN 2010-3832(IF: not yet available)
19. Rakesh K. Mishra, Kaushal Kumar Upadhyay, Sachin Shukla and Rajnikant Mishra (2012), Zinc (II) Directed Triple-Stranded Helicate Incorporating Nine Membered Metallamacrocycle: Supramolecular Cylinders Mimicking P1 Nuclease. Chem. Commun., 2012, DOI: 10.1039/C2CC00094F. (IF: 6.169-2011) ISSN (printed): 1359-7345. ISSN (electronic): 1364-548X
20. Brij Bharti and Rajnikant Mishra (2011), Isoforms of Pax5 and co-regulation of T- and B-cells associated genes influence phenotypic traits of ascetic cells causing Daltons Lymphoma. Biochim. Biophys Acta, 1813(12):2071-8. (IF: 5.538-2011) ISSN: 0167-4889
21. Sachin Shukla and Rajnikant Mishra (2011) Functional analysis of missense mutations G36A and G51A in Pax6, and Pax6 (5a) causing ocular anomalies. Exp. Eye Res., 93:40-49. Impact Factor 2.817. (IF: 3.259-2011) ISSN: 0014-4835
22. Brij Bharti, Priyoneel Basu, Rajnikant Mishra and Muniyndi Singravel (2011) effect of induced Daltons lymphoma on circadian locomotor activity rhythm of adult male mice, Biological Rhythm Research, DOI 10.1080/09291016.2011.560054. (IF: 0.440-2011) 0929-1016 (Print), 1744-4179 (Online)
23. Priyoneel Basu, Ratnakar Tripathi, Rajnikant Mishra and Muniyandi Singaravel (2011) Effect of Chronic Jet Lag after induction of Daltons lymphoma in male and female mice, Biological Rhythm Research, DOI 10.1080/09291016.2011.579756. (IF: 0.440-2011), 0929-1016 (Print), 1744-4179 (Online)
24. Ratnakar Tripathi and Rajnikant Mishra, (2010) Interaction of Pax6 with SPARC and p53 in brain of mice indicates Smad3 dependent auto-regulation. J Mol Neurosci.; 41(3):397-403 (IF2.504-2011), ISSN: 0895-8696 (print version), ISSN: 1559-1166 (electronic version)
25. Brij Bharti and Rajnikant Mishra (2008) Lypmhoma affects enzyme and protein profile of non-lymphatic tissues in mice. IJIB. Vol. 3 (3): 175-181. (IF-not yet available-2011), ISSN (online): 0973-8363, ISSN (print): 0974-2816.
26. Liyan Y. Chao, Rajnikant Mishra, Louise C. Strong and Grady F. Saunders, (2003), Missense mutations in the DNA binding region and termination codon of PAX6, Hum. Mut., 21: 138-145. (IF5.686-2011) ISSN (Online) 1098-1004.
27. Rajnikant Mishra and S.P.Shukla, (2003) Endosulfan negatively modulates mitochondrial malate dehydrogenase from the freshwater catfish, Clarias batrachus, Ecotox. Environ. Safety, 56: 425-433. (IF2.294-2011), ISSN: 0147-6513.
28. Sanjaya Singh, Rajnikant Mishra, Nelson.A. Arango, Jian Min Deng, Richard R. Behringer, Grady F. Saunders, (2002), Iris hypoplasia in mice that lack the alternatively spliced Pax6(5a) isoform. Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.U.S.A 99 : 6812-6815. (IF9.681-2011), Online ISSN 1091-6490.
29. Rajnikant Mishra, I.P. Gorlov, L.Y. Chao, S. Singh, and G.F. Saunders, (2002), PAX6, paired domain influences sequence recognition by the homeodomain, J. Biol. Chem. 277 (51) 49488-49494. (IF 7.?????-2011), Print ISSN 0021-9258, Online ISSN 1083-351X.
30. Sanjaya Singh, Liyan Y. Chao, Rajnikant Mishra, Jonathan Davies and Grady F. Saunders, (2001), Missense mutation at the C-terminus of PAX6 negatively modulates homeodomain function, Hum. Mole. Genet. 10(9) 911-918. (IF7.636-2011), Online ISSN 1460-2083 - Print ISSN 0964-6906.
31. Rajnikant Mishra and S.P. Shukla (1999) Endosulfan mediated effects on protein composition of catfish mitochondria J. Sci. Res. 49: 131-136. ISSN 0447-9483. Impact Factor: Not available
32. Rajnikant Mishra and S.P. Shukla (1999) Immunochemical detection of serum LDH 1: An indigenous method in the diagnosis of myocardial infarction, Current Science, 76(4), 587 590. ISSN 11-3891. Impact Factor: 1.000
33. Rajnikant Mishra and S.P.Shukla, (1997) Impact of endosulfan on lactate dehydrogenase, from the freshwater catfish, Clarias batrachus, Pestic. Biochem. Physiol., 57: 425-433. (IF1.714-2011), ISSN: 0048-3575.
34. Rajnikant Mishra and S.P.Shukla, (1997), Impact of endosulfan on cytoplasmic and mitochondrial liver malate dehydrogenase, from the freshwater catfish, Clarias batrachus, Comp. Biochem. Physiol., 7: 425-433. (IF2.616-2011)
35. Rajnikant Mishra and S.P. Shukla (1995) Effects of endosulfan on bioenergetic properties of skeletal muscle mitochondria from the freshwater catfish, Clarias batrachus. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 112C (2): 153 161. (IF2.616-2011), ISSN: 742-8413.
36. Rajnikant Mishra and S.P. Shukla (1994) Effects of endosulfan on bioenergetic properties of liver mitochondria from the fresh water catfish, Clarias batrachus. Pestic. Biochem. Physiol. 50: 240 246. (IF1.714-2011), ISSN: 0048-3575.

1. Sachin Shukla, Ratnakar Tripathi, Brij Bharti and Rajnikant Mishra (2010) Bioinformatics for biologists: A concept of digital laboratory Journal of Scientific Research, 54 (1&2): 115-134.
2. Brij Bharti and Rajnikant Mishra (2009), A new insight towards proteomic and enzymatic markers of lymphoma. Journal of Scientific Research, 53: 89-102.
3. Sachin Shukla and Rajnikant Mishra (2009) PAX6 and its isoforms are critical to maintain functional status of brain and eyes. Journal of Scientific Research,. 53: 41-58.
4. Sachin Shukla and Rajnikant Mishra (2009) Predicted Secondary structure of PAX6 mutants show insight for their variable penetrance and expressivity. Published in Proceeding of The 4th International symposium on biomedical engineering, Bangkok.
5. Gene Targeting, In Cellular and Biochemical Science (2010) ISBN: 9788188237852 , I.K. International, New Delhi Editor(s): G. Tripathi