Kirti Kumar Tiwari

Mr. Kirti Kumar Tiwari

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Academic Career Length

3Years (2024-Present)

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24 March 2024 in Biomolecules
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KSKarthik Shastry Shastry
Karthik Shastry Shastry
KGKavya Ganapathy
Kavya Ganapathy
KIKazi Islam
Kazi Islam
HTHiran M. Thyagarajan
Hiran M. Thyagarajan
KTKirti Kumar Tiwari
Kirti Kumar Tiwari
MRMohammad Bazlur Rashid
Mohammad Bazlur Rashid
Peroxidative damage to human spermatozoa has been shown to be the primary cause of male infertility. The possible role of nitric oxide (NO) in affecting sperm motility, capacitation, and acrosome reaction has been reported, too. The overproduction of NO by the enzyme inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) could be responsible as it has been implicated in the pathogenesis of many diseases. There have been many studies on regulating iNOS function in various tissues, especially by protein–protein interaction; however, no study has looked for iNOS-interacting proteins in the human testis. Here, we have reported the identification of two proteins that interact with iNOS. We initially undertook a popular yeast two-hybrid assay to screen a human testis cDNA library in yeast using an iNOS-peptide fragment (amino acids 181–335) as bait. We verified our data using the mammalian chemiluminescent co-IP method; first, employing the same peptide and, then, a full-length protein co-expressed in HEK293 cells in addition to the candidate protein. In both cases, these two protein partners of iNOS were revealed: (a) sperm acrosome-associated 7 protein and (b) retinoblastoma tumor-suppressor binding protein.