Name: Bechan Sharma

Title: Professor

Affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Allahabad, Allahabad 211002, UP, India

Email: sharmabi@yahoo.com, bechansharma@gmail.com

Research fields:

Molecular Cell Biology

Virology, Cell Physiology

Cell Biophysics

Qualifications:

1988 Ph.D., Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi,& CSIR-CDRI-Lucknow India

1982 M.Sc., Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

1970 B.Sc. (Hons), Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Publications: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=4oGXy3UAAAAJ&hl=en

Molecular Virology/ Microbiology/Biotechnology (37)

1. Amit Dubey, Vishal Singh, Pawan Kumar Doharey, Md Palashuddin SK, Sintu Kumar Samanta,

Vijay Nema, Bechan Sharma, Pritish Kumar Varadwaj, and Amaresh Kumar Sahoo (2020) Modulating

Catalytic Activity of Human Topoisomerase II α Enzyme by Fluorescent Gold Nanoclusters. ADVANCED

FUNCTIONAL MATERIAL (Communicated).

2. Bechan Sharma (2020) Neurologic Disorders in the People Infected with HIV Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy

JOURNAL OF NEUROINFECTIOUS DISEASES 11(1):1-2. e108 Editorial

3. Jyotsna Jaiswal and Bechan Sharma (2020). A Comparative Study of Antimicrobial and Pharmacological Properties of

Argemone mexicana, Solanum xanthocarpum and Thevetia peruviana. ACTA SCIENTIFIC MICROBIOLOGY 3(3): 01-05.

4. Keiko Ishizuka, Yuto Tsutsumi, Misato Baba, Radhika Biyani, Chen Wei Meng, Manish Biyani, Masahiro Takagi, 

Jyotsna Jaiswal, Bechan Sharma, Kenji Kojima, Teisuke Takita, and Kiyoshi Yasukawa (2020) Inhibition of HIV-1 

Reverse Transcriptase Activity by the Extractsof Indian Plants. JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES 20(1):17-22. 

http://jsb.gr.jp/jbm/2020/2001.html, IF:4.784

5. Bechan Sharma and Jaiswal J. (2019) Drug interactions between antiHIV and antihepatitis agents: consequences and

remedies. REVIEWES IN ANTIVIRAL THERPAY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES 9: 65-66.

6. Khushboo and Bechan Sharma (2019) Factors inducing depression as effective tool in therapy. MEDICAL AND CLINICAL

ARCHIVES 3:3-4. doi: 10.15761/MCA.1000163

7. Shweta Singh, Bechan Sharma and Nikhat J Siddiqi (2019) Nucleoside and nucleotide reverse transcriptase

inhibitors induce aging by inhibiting telomerase function. JOURNAL OF CLINICAL RESEARCH IN HIV AIDS AND PREVENTION

( JCRHAP) 3(4):20-27.

8. Reetika Singh, Abhigyan Nath, Bechan Sharma (2019) Docking Studies of HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase and HIV-1

Integrase with Phytocompounds of Carissa Carandas L. JOURNAL OF CLINICAL RESEARCH IN HIV AIDS AND PREVENTION 3(4): 10-19.

9. Neetika Singh, Bechan Sharma (2019) Role of Toxicants in Oxidative Stress Mediated DNA Damage and Protection by

Phytochemicals”. EC Pharmacology and Toxicology 7.5 (2019): 325-330.

10. Neetika Singh, Bechan Sharma (2019) Comparative Phytochemical Characterization of the Argemone mexicana and

Thevetia peruviana Leaves extracts, ASIAN JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 13: 264-269.

11. SG Klochkov, ME Neganova, NS Yarla, M Parvathaneni, B Sharma, VV Tarasov, G Barreto, SO Bachurin, GM Ashraf, G

Aliev (2019) Implications of farnesyltransferase and its inhibitors as a promising strategy for cancer therapy. SEMINARS IN

CANCER BIOLOGY 56:128-134.doi:10.1016/j. IF:9.658

12. Bechan Sharma (2018) Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 reverse transcriptase (HIV-1RT) catalysed misinsertion

and mispair extension and drug resistance.In: Proceedings of an International Conference on Trends in Biochemical and

Biomedical Research: Advances and Challenges. RESEARCH REPORTS 2:e1-e205. doi:10.9777/rr.2018.1001-10319

(www.companyofscientists.com/index.php/chd)

13. Manish K Singh, Bechan Sharma and PK Tiwari (2017) The small heat shock protein Hsp27: Present understanding

and future prospects. JOURNAL OF THERMAL BIOLOGY 69:149–154; IF 2.23

14. Bechan Sharma and Shweta Singh (2016) HIV-AIDS and aging. Challenges and management.

JOURNAL OF HUMAN VIROLOGY AND RETROVIROLOGY 3(5): 1-6; 00109

15. Shweta Singh, Bechan Sharma and Nikhat Siddiqi (2016) Hydrazones as prospective antiHIV agent.

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES. 3(4): 454-458.

16. Bechan Sharma (2015) Advances in development of integrase inhibitors as antiHIV1 regimen.

JOURNAL OF HIV & RETROVIRUSES. 1(1): 1-3.

17. S Singh and Bechan Sharma (2015) Immunodeficiency and Microbial infections.

JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY AND MODERN TECHNIQUES 1(1):1-5.

18. Bechan Sharma (2015) Drug Resistance in HIV-1: Genetic and Molecular Bases, Mechanisms and Strategies

to Combat the Issue. BIOCHEMISTRY AND ANALYTICAL BIOCHEMISTRY, 4:e153.

19. A.S.Chauhan, N.J.Siddiqi, Bechan Sharma (2014) A novel promising strain of Trichoderma evansii (WF-3) for

extracellular a-galactosidase production by utilizing different carbon sources under optimized culture conditions.

BIOMED RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL Volume 2014, Article ID 640754, 26 pages; IF:2.706

(http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/640754), Citation 1

20. Tabish Qidwai, Farrukh Jamal, Mohd Y. Khan and B. Sharma (2014) Exploring Drug Targets in Isoprenoid

Biosynthetic Pathway for Plasmodium falciparum. BIOCHEMISTRY RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL, Volume 2014,

Article ID 657189, 12 pages; http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/657189, Citation18