Department of Medicine
Contact Information:
University of Pittsburgh
Renal/Electrolyte Division
984 Scaife Hall
3550 Terrace Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15261
Telephone: 412-383-8892/
Fax: 412-383-8955/8956
E-mail: puk2@pitt.edu
Education and Training:
Undergraduate:
B.S., Microbiology, Delhi University, New Delhi, India, 1996
Graduate
M.S., Department of Biotechnology, Panjab University India, 1999
Ph.D., Department of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, 2004
Publications :
1. Singh A, Singh S., Waheed S. M., Khandelwal P., Bhatnagar R. Expression of anthrax lethal factor gene by osmolyt induction. FEMS Mirobiol Lett 2002, 209:301-305.
2. Khandelwal P., and Banerjee N. Insecticidal activity associated with the outer membrane vesicles of Xenorhabdus nematophilus. Appl Environ Microbiol 2003, 69:2031-2037.
3. Singh S, Aziz M. A., Khandelwal P., Bhat R., Bhatnagar R. The osmoprotectants glycine and its methyl derivatives prevent the thermal inactivation of protective antigen of Bacillus anthracis. Biochem Biopys RTes Commun 2004, 316:559-564.
4. Khandelwal P., Choudhury D., Bhatnagar R. and Banerjee N. Characterization of a cytotoxic pilin subunit of Xenorhbdus nematophila. Biochem Biophys Ress Commun. 2004, 314:943-949.
5. Khandelwal P., Choudhury D., Birah A., Reddy MK., Gupta G. P. and Banerjee N. An insecticidal pilin subunit from insect pathogenic bacterium Xenorhbdus nematophila. J1 of Bacteriology. 2004, 186:6465-6476.
6. Midha S, Mishra R, Aziz MA, Sharma M, Mishra A, Khandelwal P and Bhatnagar R. Cloning, expression, and characterizatioen of recombinant nitric oxide synthase-like protein from Bacillus anthracis. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2005, 336:346-356.
7. Khandelwal, P., Ruiz, W.G., Balestreire-Hawrluk, E., Weisz, O.A., Goldenring, J.R., and Apodaca, G. Rab11a-dependent exocytosis of discoidal/fusiform vesicles in bladder umbrella cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 105:15773-15778, 2008. (click here to download this article in PDF format)
8. Yu, W., Khandewal, P., and Apodaca, G. Distinct apical and basolateral membrane requirements for stretch-induced membrane traffic at the apical surface of umbrella cells. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 20: 282-295, 2009. (click here to download this article in PDF format)
9. Khandelwal, P., Abraham, S., and Apodaca, G. Cell Biology and Physiology of the Uroepithelium. American Journal of Physiology, in press, 2009.
