Anil Kumar Ojha

The paper visualizes zinc-starved, slow-replicating Mycobacterium tuberculosis using a fluorescent reporter and shows increased expression in neutrophil-rich lung lesions during infection.

This study identifies a novel actinobacteria-specific ribosome tunnel occlusion factor in Mtb that blocks nascent polypeptide exit and interferes with drug binding during ribosome hibernation.

This study shows that fatty acid metabolism in neutrophils worsens lung damage and bacterial replication in tuberculosis by promoting inflammation and neutrophil recruitment.

This study identifies how mycobacterial Rsh detects deacylated tRNA in translating ribosomes through structural and functional analysis, revealing its constitutive surveillance mechanism.