Joanna Szlinder-Richert, Barbara Cybulska, Jolanta Grzybowska, Edward Borowski and Rajendra Prasad. Comparative studies on cell stimulatory, permeabilizing and toxic effects induced in sensitive and multidrug resistant fungal strains by amphotericin B (AMB) and N-methyl-N-D-fructosyl amphotericin B methyl ester (MFAME). Acta Biochimica Polonica, 47 (1), 133-140 (2000). 

Archana Varma, Brij Bhan Singh, Neerja Karnani, Hella Lichtenberg-Frate, Milan Hofer, B.B. Magee, Rajendra Prasad. Molecular cloning and functional characterisation of a glucose transporter, CaHGT1, of Candida albicans. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 182:15-21 (2000). 

Arnold S. Bayer, Rajendra Prasad, Jyotsna Chandra, Anjni Koul, M. Smriti, Archana Varma, Ronald A. Skurray, Neville Firth, Melissa H. Brown, Su-Pin Koo and Michael R. In vitro resistance of Staphyloccus aureus to thrombin-induced platelet microbicidal protein is associated with alterations in cytoplasmic membrane fluidity. Yeaman. Infection and Immunity, 68(6): 3548-3553 (2000). 

Sawomir Milewski, Fiorenzo Mignini, Rajendra Prasad and Edward Borowski. Unusual Susceptibility of a Multidrug-Resistant Yeast Strain to Peptidic Antifungals. Antimirobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 45(1): 223-228 (2001). 

Avmeet Kohli, Vinita Gupta, Shankarling Krishnamurthy, Seyed E Hasnain and Rajendra Prasad. Specificity of drug transport mediated by CaMDR1: a major facilitator of Candida albicans. J. Biosci., 26 (3): 333-339 (2001). 

Rajendra Prasad, Sneh Lata Panwar and Neeti Puri.  Sex & Drug ATPases in Fungi, in Bophysical Processes in Living Systems, Ed. Pardha Saradhi, P. Chapter 10, pp 171-190  (2001). 

Sneh Lata Panwar, Shankarling Krishnamurthy, Vinita Gupta, Anne-Marie Alarco, Martine Raymond, Dominique Sanglard, Rajendra Prasad. CaALK8, an alkane assimilating cytochrome p450 confers multidrug resistance when expressed in a hypersensitiive strain of Candida albicans Yeast, 18: 1117-1129 (2001).

Rajendra Prasad, Sneh Lata Panwar and S. Krishnamurthy. Drug Resistance Mechanism of Human Pathogenic Fungi in Fungal Pathogenesis ? Principles & Clinical Applications, Eds. Cihlar, R. L. and Calderone, R. A., Marcel Dekker, Chapter 26, pp 601-631, (2001).

Smriti, Krishnamurthy, S., Dixit, B. L., Gupta, C. M. and Rajendra Prasad. ABC transporters Cdr1p, Cdr2p and Cdr3p of a human pathogen Candida albicans are general phospholipid translocators. Yeast, 19: 303-318, (2002). 

Avmeet Kohli, Smriti, Kasturi Mukhopadhyay, Ashok Ratan and Rajendra Prasad. In vitro resistance to azoles in Candida albicans is associated with changes in membrane lipid fluidity and assymmetry. Antimicrobial Agents & Chemotherapy, 46(4), 1046-1052,  (2002). 

Sneh Lata Panwar, Smriti and Rajendra Prasad. Drug Resistance in yeasts ? an Emerging Scenario. Advances in Microbial Physiology, Review, Vol 46, pp 155-201 (2002). 

Kasturi Mukhopadhyay, Avmeet Kohli, and Rajendra Prasad. Drug susceptibilities of yeast cells are affected by membrane lipid composition. Antimicrobial Agents & Chemotherapy (46(12), 3695-3705, (2002). 

Sudhakar Jha, Neerja Karnani, Suman K. Dhar, Kasturi Mukhopadhayay, Suneet Shukla, Preeti Saini, Gauranga Mukhopadhyay and Rajendra Prasad. Purification and characterization of N-terminal nucleotide binding domain of an ABC drug transporter of Candida albicans: Uncommon cysteine 193 of Walker A is critical for ATP hydrolysis. Biochemistry, 46(36) 10822-32. (2003). 

Sudhakar Jha, Neerja Karnani, Andrew M. Lynn and Rajendra Prasad. Covalent Modification of Cystein 193 impairs ATPase function of Nucleotide-binding domain of a Candida Drug Efflux pump. Biochem. & Biophy. Res. Comm., 310, 869-875 (2003). 

Suneet Shukla, Preeti Saini, Smriti, Sudhakar Jha, Suresh V. Ambudkar, Rajendra Prasad.  Functional Characterization of Candida albicans ABC Transporter Cdr1p. Eukaryotic Cell, 2(6), 1361-1375 (2003).

Naseem Akhtar Gaur, Neeti Puri, Neerja Karnani, Gauranga Mukhopadhyay, Shyamal K. Goswami and Rajendra Prasad. Identification of a negative regulatory element which regulates basal transcription of a multidrug resistance gene CDR1 of Candida albicans. FEMS Yeast Research, Vol. 4(4-5), 389-399. (2004). 

Neerja Karnani, Neeti Puri, Sudhakar Jha, Naseem Akhtar Gaur, Shyamal K. Goswami, Gauranga Mukhopadhyay, Rajendra Prasad. SRE1 and SRE2 are two specific steroid responsive modules of Candida drug resistance gene 1 (CDR1) promoter. Yeast , 21(3): 219-39 (2004). 

Ali Abdul Lattif Ali, Uma Banerjee, Rajendra Prasad, Ashutosh Biswas, Naveet Wig, Neeraj Sharma, Absarul Haque, Nivedita Gupta, Najma Z. Baquer and Gauranga Mukhopadhyay. Species-Specific Candida in oropharyngeal lesions of Indian HIV positive patients: Its Susceptibility pattern and molecular type. Journal of Clinical Microbiology  42 : 1260-62 (2004). 

Kasturi Mukhopadhyay, Tulika Prasad, Preeti Saini, Thomas J. Pucadyil, Amitabha Chattopadhyay, Rajendra Prasad. Membrane Sphingolipid-Ergosterol Interactions are important determinants of Multidrug Resistance in Candida albicans. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.48(5):1778-87 48 (2004). 

Dibyendu Banerjee, Beena Pillai, Neerja Karnani, Gauranga Mukhopadhyay and Rajendra Prasad. Genome wide expression profile of steroid response in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Biochem. & Biophy. Res. Comm., 317, 406-413 (2004).

Suneet Shukla, Suresh V. Ambudkar, Rajendra Prasad. Substitution of 1351 threonine of a multidrug transporter Cdr1p of Candida albicans results in hypersusceptibility to drugs & is essential for calcicurin inhibitor Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 54(1): 38-45 (2004).  

Armel Plaine, S. Krishnamurthy, Juliane Alberts, Tulika Prasad, Rajendra Prasad and Joachim F. Ernst. Dosage-dependent function of fatty acid desaturase Ole1p in growth and morphogenesis of Candida albicans. Microbiology 150:1991-2003 (2004). 

Rajendra Prasad, Nivedita Gupta, Manisha Gaur. Molecular basis of antifungal resistance. Invited chapter in Pathogenic Fungi: Cellular and Molecular Biology Eds Giocoda San-Blas and Richard Calderone, Horizon Scientific Press, USA Chapter 10, pp.357-414 (2004).

Sudhakar Jha, Neelam Dabas, Neerja Karnani, Preeti Saini and Rajendra Prasad. ABC multidrug transporter Cdr1p of Candida albicans has divergent nucleotide binding domains which display functional asymmetry, FEMS-YEAST, 5, 63-72 (2004).  

Suneet Shukla, Zuben E. Sauna, Rajendra Prasad and Suresh Ambudkar. Disulfiram is a potent modulator of multidrug transporter Cdr1p of Candida albicans. Biochem. & Biophy. Res. Comm., 322, 520-525 (2004). 

Khyati Kapoor, Rajendra Prasad. Multidrug resistance in yeast Candida. Int Rev Cytol.242:215-48  (2005).

Nivedita Gupta, Absarul haque, Gauranga Mukhopadhyay, R.P. Narayan, and Rajendra Prasad. Interaction between bacteria and Candida in the burn wound. Burns.31: 375-78. ( 2005).

Versha Rai, Sudhanshu Shukla, Sudhakar Jha, Sheha Sudha Komath, Rajendra Prasad. Functional characterization of N-terminal nucleotide binding domain (NBD1) of a major ABC drug transporter Cdr1p of Candida albicans: uncommon but conserved Trp 326 of walker B is important for ATP binding. Biochemistry.3;44(17):6650-61 (2005). 

Ritu Pasrija, Shankarling Krishnamurthy, Tulika Prasad, Joachim F. Ernst, Rajendra Prasad. Squaline epoxidase encoded by ERG1 affects morphogenesis and drug susceptibilities of Candida albicans. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 55(6):905-13 (2005). 

Ritu Pasrija,Tulika Prasad, Rajendra Prasad. Membrane raft lipid constituents affect drug susceptibilities of Candida albicans. Biochem Soc Trans.33(Pt 5):1219-23 (2005).

Preeti Saini, Tulika Prasad, Naseem Akhtar Gaur, Suneet Shukla, Sudhakar Jha, Sneha Sudha Komath, Qazi Mohd Rizwanul Haq, Luqman Ahmad Khan and Rajendra Prasad. Alanine scanning of transmembrane helix 11 of Cdr1p ABC antifungal efflux pump of Candida albicans: identification of amino acid residues critical for drug efflux. J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 56(1):77-86 (2005).

Tulika Prasad, Preeti Saini, Naseem Akhtar Gaur, Ram A. Vishwakarma, Luqman Ahmad Khan, Qazi Mohd Rizwanul Haq Luqman Khanand Rajendra Prasad. Functional analysis of CaIPT1, a spingolipid biosynthetic gene involved in multidrug resistance and morphogenesis in Candida albicans. Antimicrobial agents and Chemotherapy, 49(8):3442-52 (2005).  

Manisha Gaur, Devapriya Choudhary and Rajendra Prasad. The complete inventory of ABC proteins in human pathogenic yeast, Candida albicans. J Mol Microbiol Biotechnol. 9(1):3-15 (2005).

Naseem Akhtar Gaur, Raman Manoharlal, Preeti Saini, Tulika Prasad, Gauranga Mukhopadhyay, Milan Hoefer, Joachim Morschhauser and Rajendra Prasad. Biochem Biophy Res Commu. 332: 206-214 (2005).

Rajendra Prasad, Naseem Akhtar Gaur, Manisha Gaur , Sneha Sudha Komath.Efflux pumps in drug resistance of Candida. Infect Disord Drug Targets. 6(2):69-83. (2006).

Preeti Saini, Naseem Akhtar Gaur, Rajendra Prasad. Chimeras of the ABC drug transporter Cdr1p reveal functional indispensability of transmembrane domains and nucleotide-binding domains, but transmembrane segment 12 is replaceable with the corresponding homologous region of the non-drug transporter Cdr3p. Microbiology. 152(Pt 5): 1559-73 (2006).

Lattif AA, Prasad R, Banerjee U, Gupta N, Mohammad S, Baquer NZ. The glyoxylate cycle enzyme activities in the pathogenic isolates of Candida albicans obtained from HIV/AIDS, diabetic and burn patients.
Mycoses. 49(2):85-90 (2006).

Sudhanshu Shukla, Versha Rai, Dibyendu Banerjee, Rajendra Prasad. Characterization of Cdr1p, a major multidrug efflux protein of Candida albicans: purified protein is amenable to intrinsic fluorescence analysis. Biochemistry. 21; 45(7):2425-35 (2006).

Prasad T, Chandra A, Mukhopadhyay CK, Prasad R. Unexpected link between iron and drug resistance of Candida: iron depletion enhances membrane fluidity and drug diffusion leading to drug susceptible cells.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother.(2006).

Versha Rai, Manisha Gaur, Sudhanshu Shukla, Suneet Shukla, Suresh V. Ambudkar, Sneha Sudha Komath and Rajendra Prasad.Conserved Asp 327 of Walker B motif in the N-terminal Nucleotide Binding Domain (NBD1) of Cdr1p of Candida albicans has acquired a new role in ATP hydrolysis.Biochemistry. 2006).

Kumariah Manoharan, Sipra Guha Mukherjee and Rajendra Prasad.PEG-induced fusion of phosphatidylcholine-liposomes with protoplasts and post-fusion evaluation of plating efficiency and enrichment in plasma membrane phosphatidylcholine of protoplasts in Datura innoxia Mill.Indian Journal of Experimental Biology, 44, 953-963 (2006).

Roland Wakiec, Rajendra Prasad, Joachim Morschhauser, Francesco Barchiesi, Edward Borowski & Slawomir Milewski. Voriconazole and multidrug resistance in Candida albicans.The Authors Journal Compilation, 1-7 (2006).

Absarul Haque, Versha Rai, Birendra Singh Bahal, Shipra Shukla, Gauranga Mukhopadhyay & Rajendra Prasad. Allelic variants of ABC drug transporter Cdr1p in clinical isolates of Candida albicans.Biochem Biophy Res Comm. 352(2), 491-7 (2007).

Dibyendu Banerjee, Nuria Martin, Soumyadeep Nandi, Sudhanshu Shukla, Angel Dominguez, Gauranga Mukhopadhyay & Rajendra Prasad. A genome-wide steroid response study of the major major human fungal pathogen Candida albicansp.Mycopathologia 164: 1-17 (2007).

Sudhanshu Shukla, Versha Rai, Preeti Saini, Dibyendu Banerjee, Anant K. Menon and Rajendra Prasad.Candida drug resistance Protein 1, a major multidrug ATP binding cassette transporter of Candida albicans, Translocates Fluorescent Phospholipids in a Reconstituted System.Biochemistry, 46: 12081-12090 (2007).

Ritu Pasrija, Dibyendu Banerjee & Rajendra Prasad. Structure and function analysis of CaMDR1, a MFS antifungal efflux transport protein of Candida albicans: Identification of amino acid residues critical for drug/ H+ transport.Eukaryotic Cell, 6 (3): 443-453 (2007).

Magdalena Slisz, Barbara Cybulska, Jolanta Grzybowska, Jacek Czub, Rajendra Prasad and Edward Borowski. The Mechanism of Overcoming Multidrug Resistance (MDR) of Fungi by Amphotericin B and its Derivates.The Journal of Antibiotics, 60(7): 436-446, (2007).

Mishra N. N., Prasad T., Sharma N., Prasad R., Gupta D. K. Membrane fluidity and lipid composition in clinical isolates of Candida albicans isolated from AIDS/HIV patients.Acta Microbiol Immunol Hung. Dec; 54(4): 367-77, (2007).

Mishra N. N., Prasad T., Sharma N., Payasi A., Prasad R., Gupta D. K., Singh R. Pathogenicity and drug resistance in Candida albicans and other yeast species:A Review.Acta Microbiol Immunol Hung. Sep; 54(3): 201-35, (2007).

Dibyendu Banerjee, Gaelle Lelandais, Sudhanshu Shukla, Gauranga Mukhopadhyay, Claude Jacq, Frederic Devaux and Rajendra Prasad. Responses of pathogenic and non-pathogenic yeast species to steroid reveal the functioning and evolution of multidrug resistance transcriptional networks.Eukaryotic Cell, 7, (1): 67-68 (2008).

Ritu Pasrija, Sneh Lata Panwar and Rajendra Prasad. Multidrug Transporters CaCdr1p and CaMdr1p of Candida albicans Display Different Lipid Specificities: both Ergosterol and Sphingolipids are essential for Targeting of CaCdr1p to Membrane Rafts.Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 52(2): 694-704 (2008).

Raman Manoharlal, Naseem Akhtar Gaur, Sneh Lata Panwar, Joachim Morschhauser and Rajendra Prasad. Transcriptional activation and increased mRNA stability contribute to overexpression of CDR1 in azole resistant Candida albicans.Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 52(4): 1481-92 (2008).

#Saif Hameed, #Tulika Prasad, Dibyendu Banerjee, Aparna Chandra, Chinmay K. Mukhopadhyay, Shyamal K. Goswami, Ali Abdullattif, Jyotsna Chandra, Pranab Mukherjee, Mahmoud Ghannoum and Rajendra Prasad. (#equal first authors). Iron deprivation induces EFG1 mediated hyphal development in Candida albicans without affecting biofilm formation.FEMS YEAST RESEARCH (2008).

Sudhanshu Shukla, Tulika Prasad and Rajendra Prasad. Molecular mechanism of antifungal drug resistance.In Proceedings for Microbial Resistance IXth Tata Memorial Symposium, Bangalore, 11th March 2008 on ?Fungal infection in India: Molecular mechanism of emerging antifungal resistance.

Versha Rai, Manisha Gaur, Antresh Kumar, Sudhanshu Shukla, Sneha Sudha Komath and Rajendra Prasad. A novel catalytic mechanism for ATP hydrolysis employed by the N-terminal nucleotide binding domain of Cdr1p, a multidrug ABC transporter of Candida albicans.BBA (2008).

Gaur M, Puri N, Manoharlal R, Rai V, Mukhopadhayay G, Choudhury D, Prasad R. MFS transportome of the human pathogenic yeast Candida albicans. BMC Genomics. 2008 Dec 3;9:579.

Wakiec R, Gabriel I, Prasad R, Becker JM, Payne JW, Milewski S. Enhanced susceptibility to antifungal oligopeptides in yeast strains overexpressing ABC multidrug efflux pumps Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2008 Nov;52(11):4057-63.

Panwar SL, Pasrija R, Prasad R. Membrane homoeostasis and multidrug resistance in yeast. Biosci Rep. 2008 Aug;28(4):217-28. Review.