Dr. Tofayel Ahmed

JOURNAL PAPERS (* Equal contribution) Tyagi A, Ahmed T, Jian S, Bajaj S, Ong ST, Goay SSM, Zhao Y, Vorobyov I, Tian C, Chandy KG, Bhushan S (2022) Rearrangement of a unique Kv1.3 selectivity filter conformation upon binding of a drug.  Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 119, 1-10. Ahmed T, Nisler CR, Fluck EC, Sotomayor M and Moiseenkova-Bell VY (2022) Structure of the ancestral TRPY1 channel from Saccharomyces cerevisiae reveals mechanisms of modulation by lipids and calcium. Structure, 30, 139-155. Tyagi A*, Ahmed T*, Shi J and Bhushan S (2020) A complex between the Zika virion and the Fab of a broadly cross-reactive neutralizing monoclonal antibody revealed by cryo-EM and single particle analysis at 4.1 Å resolution. J. Struct Biol: X, 4, 100028. Mishra S*, Ahmed T*, Tyagi A, Shi J and Bhushan S (2018) Structures of Mycobacterium smegmatis 70S ribosomes in complex with HPF, tmRNA, and P-tRNA. Sci Rep, 8, 13587. Ahmed T, Shi J and Bhushan S (2017) Unique localization of the plastid-specific ribosomal proteins in the chloroplast ribosome small subunit provides mechanistic insights into the chloroplastic translation. Nucleic Acids Res, 45, 14, 8581-8595. Belousoff MJ, Eyal Z, Radjainia M, Ahmed T, Bamert RS, Matzov D, Bashan A, Zimmerman E, Mishra S, Cameron D et al. (2017) Structural Basis for Linezolid Binding Site Rearrangement in the Staphylococcus aureus Ribosome. mBio, 8, 3. Ahmed T, Yin Z and Bhushan S (2016) Cryo-EM structure of the large subunit of the spinach chloroplast ribosome. Sci Rep, 6, 35793. Kumar V, Ero R, Ahmed T, Goh KJ, Zhan Y, Bhushan S and Gao YG (2016) Structure of the GTP Form of Elongation Factor 4 (EF4) Bound to the Ribosome. J Biol Chem, 291, 12943-12950. Kumar V, Chen Y*, Ero R*, Ahmed T*, Tan J, Li Z, Wong AS, Bhushan S and Gao YG (2015) Structure of BipA in GTP form bound to the ratcheted ribosome. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 112, 10944-10949. Tewari D, Ahmed T*, Chirasani VR*, Singh PK, Maji SK, Senapati S and Bera AK (2015) Modulation of the mitochondrial voltage dependent anion channel (VDAC) by curcumin. Biochim Biophys Acta, 1848, 151-158. JOURNAL REVIEW Pumroy RA, Fluck EC, Ahmed T and Moiseenkova-Bell VY (2020) Structural insights into the gating mechanisms of TRPV Channels. Cell Calcium, 87, 102168. BOOK CHAPTER Ahmed T and Saha, A (2024) Cryo-Electron Tomographic Imaging of Membrane Proteins from Mitochondria and Chloroplasts. Cryo-Electron Microscopy in Structural Biology (Taylor & Francis).