Asif Mohmmed

Sheokand, P.K., Botté, Y.Y., Narwal, M., Thakur, V., Sebastien, C., Islam, M.M., Banday, M.M., Asad, M., Botté, C.Y., Mohmmed, A*. 2023. A Plasmodium falciparum lysophospholipase regulates host fatty acid chanelling through parasite lipid storage to enable controlled asexual schizogonic division. Cell Reports 42:112251. PubMed link

Singh, S., Datta, G., Jain, S., Thakur, V., Arora, P., Muneer, A., Asad, M., Ali, S., Mohmmed, A*. 2022. Dual role of an essential HtrA2/Omi protease in the human malaria parasite: maintenance of mitochondrial homeostasis and induction of apoptosis like cell death under cellular stress. PloS Pathogens. 18(10):e1010932. PubMed link

Asad, M., Yamaryo-Botté, Y., Hossain, M.E., Thakur, V., Jain, S., Datta, G., Botté, C.Y., Mohmmed, A*. 2021. An essential vesicular-trafficking phospholipase mediates neutral lipid synthesis and contributes to hemozoin formation in Plasmodium falciparum. BMC Biology 19(1):159. PubMed link

Rathore, S., Datta, G., Kaur, I., Malhotra, P., Mohmmed A*. 2015. Disruption of cellular homeostasis induces organelle stress and triggers apoptosis like cell-death pathways in malaria parasite. Cell Death and Disease 6:e1803. PubMed link

El Bakkouri, M., Rathore, S., Calmettes, C., Wernimont, A.K., Liu, K., Sinha, D., Asad, M., Jung, P., Hui, R., Mohmmed, A.*, Houry, W.A. 2013.  Structural Insights into the Inactive Subunit of the Apicoplast-Localized Caseinolytic Protease Complex of Plasmodium falciparum. J. Biol. Chem. 288(2):1022-31. PubMed link

Datta, G., Hossain, M.E., Asad, M., Rathore, S., Mohmmed, A*. 2017. Plasmodium falciparum OTU-like cysteine protease (PfOTU) is essential for apicoplast homeostasis and associates with noncanonical role of Atg8. Cell. Microbiol. 19(9), 19:e12748. PubMed link