Rama Yakubu, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Laboratory Medicine
School of Medicine

Publications (11)

Top publication keywords:
Antigens, ProtozoanProtein Processing, Post-TranslationalParasite EncystmentToxoplasmosisMass SpectrometryToxoplasmaProtein Interaction MappingProtozoan ProteinsGlycosylationArginineLife Cycle StagesProtein-Arginine N-MethyltransferasesProteomeProteomicsApicomplexa

• Toxoplasma gondii Matrix Antigen 1 Is a Secreted Immunomodulatory Effector.
  mBio 2021 Tomita T, Mukhopadhyay D, Han B, Yakubu R, Tu V, Mayoral J, Sugi T, Ma Y, Saeij JPJ, Weiss LM
• MAG2, a Toxoplasma gondii Bradyzoite Stage-Specific Cyst Matrix Protein.
  mSphere 2020 Tu V, Mayoral J, Yakubu RR, Tomita T, Sugi T, Han B, Williams T, Ma Y, Weiss LM
• The Toxoplasma gondii Cyst Wall Interactome.
  mBio 2020 Tu V, Tomita T, Sugi T, Mayoral J, Han B, Yakubu RR, Williams T, Horta A, Ma Y, Weiss LM
• The Methods Employed in Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Posttranslational Modifications (PTMs) and Protein-Protein Interactions (PPIs).
  Advances in experimental medicine and biology 2019 Yakubu RR, Nieves E, Weiss LM
• Observations on bradyzoite biology.
  Microbes and infection 2017 Tu V, Yakubu R, Weiss LM

Show all (6 more) Hide

• Post-translational modifications as key regulators of apicomplexan biology: insights from proteome-wide studies.
  Molecular microbiology 2017 Yakubu RR, Weiss LM, Silmon de Monerri NC
• The role of microsporidian polar tube protein 4 (PTP4) in host cell infection.
  PLoS pathogens 2017 Han B, Polonais V, Sugi T, Yakubu R, Takvorian PM, Cali A, Maier K, Long M, Levy M, Tanowitz HB, Pan G, Delbac F, Zhou Z, Weiss LM
• Comparative Monomethylarginine Proteomics Suggests that Protein Arginine Methyltransferase 1 (PRMT1) is a Significant Contributor to Arginine Monomethylation in Toxoplasma gondii.
  Molecular & cellular proteomics : MCP 2017 Yakubu RR, Silmon de Monerri NC, Nieves E, Kim K, Weiss LM
• Making Home Sweet and Sturdy: Toxoplasma gondii ppGalNAc-Ts Glycosylate in Hierarchical Order and Confer Cyst Wall Rigidity.
  mBio 2017 Tomita T, Sugi T, Yakubu R, Tu V, Ma Y, Weiss LM
• Toxoplasma gondii Cyclic AMP-Dependent Protein Kinase Subunit 3 Is Involved in the Switch from Tachyzoite to Bradyzoite Development.
  mBio 2016 Sugi T, Ma YF, Tomita T, Murakoshi F, Eaton MS, Yakubu R, Han B, Tu V, Kato K, Kawazu S, Gupta N, Suvorova ES, White MW, Kim K, Weiss LM
• The Ubiquitin Proteome of Toxoplasma gondii Reveals Roles for Protein Ubiquitination in Cell-Cycle Transitions.
  Cell host & microbe 2015 Silmon de Monerri NC, Yakubu RR, Chen AL, Bradley PJ, Nieves E, Weiss LM, Kim K