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Sushant Kumar

European Bioinformatics Institute

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Epigenome-informed Polymer Modeling Reveals Chromosome Folding Landscapes across Distinct Genetic and Epigenetic Contexts

Saman Bazmi, Alexander Turco, Sushant Kumar

This study uses epigenome-informed polymer modeling to generate chromosomal conformational ensembles from epigenomic data, revealing how genetic and epigenetic contexts shape chromosome folding landscapes.

bioRxiv · Nov 6, 2026 · PreprintGenomics

Convergent Agonist and Heat Activation of Nociceptor TRPM3

Sushant Kumar, Fei Jin, Sung Jin Park, Wooyoung Choi, Sarah I. Keuning, Richard Patrick Massimino, Simon Vu, Wei Lü, Juan Du

This study characterizes TRPM3 activation by chemical agonists and heat, revealing a shared mechanism involving intracellular domain rearrangements.

bioRxiv · Jan 23, 2025 · PreprintBiophysics

Unique genomic features and deeply-conserved functions of long non-coding RNAs in the Cancer LncRNA Census (CLC)

Joana Carlevaro-Fita, Andrés Lanzós, Lars Feuerbach, Chen Hong, David Mas-Ponte, Jakob Skou Pedersen, PCAWG Drivers and Functional Interpretation Group, Federico Abascal, Samirkumar B. Amin, Gary D. Bader, Jonathan Barenboim, Rameen Beroukhim, Johanna Bertl, Keith A. Boroevich, Søren Brunak, , S. Cenk Şahinalp

The paper introduces the Cancer LncRNA Census (CLC), a curated resource of lncRNAs with causative roles in cancer, and shows their genomic and evolutionary features.

Communications Biology · Feb 5, 2020Peer-reviewedGenomics

Localized structural frustration for evaluating the impact of sequence variants

Sushant Kumar, Declan Clarke, Mark Gerstein

The paper evaluates the impact of sequence variants by analyzing localized structural frustration in protein structures, finding that disease-associated SNVs and rare variants cause greater local disruption.

Nucleic Acids Research · Oct 17, 2016Peer-reviewedBioinformatics