Aakash Saha

Also affiliated with Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Pilot corpus only

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Papers

Driven by 11 papers. Top paper: “An alpha-helical lid guides the target DNA toward catalysis in CRISPR-Cas12a”.

An alpha-helical lid guides the target DNA toward catalysis in CRISPR-Cas12a

Nature Communications(2024)10.1038/s41467-024-45762-6

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1.4DataRank · unranked

60 citations

Mohd Ahsan, Pablo Arantes, Michael Schmitz, Christelle Chanez, Martin Jínek +2 more

Structural basis for Cas9 off-target activity

Cell(2022)10.1016/j.cell.2022.09.026

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0.799DataRank · unranked

205 citations

Chun‐Han Lin, Antoine Cléry, Aakash Saha, Pablo Arantes, Katja Bargsten +7 more

A Cryptic Binding Pocket Regulates the Metal-Dependent Activity of Cas9

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.08.25.672025

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0.199DataRank · unranked

2 citations

Aakash Saha, Delisa Ramos, Isabel Strohkendl, Alexa L. Knight, Erin Skeens +4 more

GPU-Enhanced DFTB Metadynamics for Efficiently Predicting Free Energies of Biochemical Systems

ChemRxiv(2023)10.26434/chemrxiv-2023-vbdgm

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0DataRank · unranked

2 citations

Pablo R. Arantes, Aakash Saha, Giulia Palermo, Bryan M. Wong, Anshuman Kumar

Molecular Dynamics Reveals a DNA-Induced Dynamic Switch Triggering Activation of CRISPR-Cas12a

Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling(2020)10.1021/acs.jcim.0c00929

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0DataRank · unranked

64 citations

Pablo R. Arantes, Rohaine V. Hsu, Yogesh B. Narkhede, Martin Jínek, Giulia Palermo +1 more

Dimerization of the deaminase domain and locking interactions with Cas9 boost base editing efficiency in ABE8e

Nucleic Acids Research(2024)10.1093/nar/gkae1066

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0DataRank · unranked

24 citations

Xiaoyu Chen, Souvik Sinha, Aakash Saha, Amun C. Patel, Matthew Sample +4 more

Fine-tuning pH sensor H98 by remote essential residues in the hydrogen-bond network of mTASK-3

International Journal of Biological Macromolecules(2024)10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2024.132892

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0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Yifei Ye, Aakash Saha, Peng Li, Chinmai Pindi, Qi Wang +9 more

CRISPR-Cas12a REC2–Nuc interactions drive target-strand cleavage and constrain trans cleavage

Nucleic Acids Research(2025)10.1093/nar/gkaf988

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0DataRank · unranked

9 citations

Aakash Saha, Lora Starrs, Pablo R. Arantes, Giulia Palermo, Gaétan Burgio +1 more

Cas12a domain flexibility guides R-loop formation and forces RuvC resetting

Molecular Cell(2024)10.1016/j.molcel.2024.06.007

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0DataRank · unranked

60 citations

Aakash Saha, Catherine Moy, Alexander-Hoi Nguyen, Mohd Ahsan, Rick Russell +3 more

Enhancement of CRISPR/Cas12a trans-cleavage activity using hairpin DNA reporters

Nucleic Acids Research(2022)10.1093/nar/gkac578

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0DataRank · unranked

162 citations

Rosa Merlo, Neda Bagheri, Danila Moscone, Anna Valenti, Aakash Saha +10 more

GPU-Enhanced DFTB Metadynamics for Efficiently Predicting Free Energies of Biochemical Systems

Molecules(2023)10.3390/molecules28031277

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0DataRank · unranked

18 citations

Pablo R. Arantes, Aakash Saha, Giulia Palermo, Bryan M. Wong, Anshuman Kumar