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Prashant J. Desai

Johns Hopkins UniversityORCID 0009-0007-4787-2921Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Approach:experimental assay· 3 Organism:human· 3 Research Focus:drug response / drug discovery· 2 Research Focus:host-pathogen & immune response· 2 Research Focus:cell-cell communication· 1 Assay:DNA methylation· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1 Research Focus:protein structure prediction· 1

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Peter GrzesikiD· 2 shared Sanjay VasheeiD· 2 shared Adam Raviv· 1 shared Angelica Contreras· 1 shared Barbara J. Smith· 1 shared Bogdan Paun· 1 shared Gabriel GhiauriD· 1 shared Jennifer Petr· 1 shared

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Synthetic BiologybioRxivPreprintJun 18, 2026

Modular Assembly of an Infectious Clone of the Akata strain of EBV using Synthetic Genomics Methods in Yeast

Adam Raviv, Kristiana Smith, Sanjana Prasad…·Prashant J. Desai

The paper demonstrates the assembly of an infectious EBV clone using synthetic genomics in yeast, revealing the essential role of the small capsid protein BFRF3 in virus production.

DOI 10.64898/2026.06.16.732627

humanDNA methylation

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MicrobiologyJournal of General VirologyPeer-reviewedMar 13, 2025

The loss of both pUL16 and pUL21 in HSV-1 infected cells abolishes cytoplasmic envelopment.

Kellen Roddy, Peter Grzesik, Barbara J. Smith…·Prashant J. Desai

This paper shows that simultaneous loss of pUL16 and pUL21 in HSV-1 infected cells prevents cytoplasmic envelopment of viral capsids.

4 citations

humanexperimental assay

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MicrobiologybioRxivPreprintNov 28, 2023

Expression and fusogenic activity of SARS CoV-2 Spike protein displayed in the HSV-1 Virion.

Prashant J. Desai

This paper develops a pseudotyped HSV-1 virus expressing SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein to study its fusogenic activity and antibody neutralization.

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humanproteomics

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