Kushwaha N., Verma S.K.†, Kumar S., Gupta A., and Tiwari S. (2026) Extracellular adenosine mediated activation of the A2B adenosine receptor increases human syncytiotrophoblast formation. Biochem Biophy Res Commun., Jan 18:796:153142 doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2025.153142 (†Corresponding author)
Kushwaha N., Dwivedi A., Tiwari S., Mishra P., and Verma S.K.† (2024) Comprehensive analytics for virus-cell and cell-cell multinucleation system. Biochem Biophy Res Commun., Sep 24:726:150281 doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2024.150281 (†Corresponding author)
Patel G.K., Verma S.K., Misra S., Chand G., and Rao RN (2023) Editorial: Molecular drivers of prostate cancer pathogenesis and therapy resistance. Cell Dev. Biol., Jun 23;11: 1239478 doi: 10.3389/fcell.2023.1239478.
Kumar V., Mishra S., Sharma R., Agarwal J., Ghoshal U., Khanna T., Sharma L.K., Verma S.K., Mishra P., and Tiwari S. (2022) Development of RNA-based assay for rapid detection of SARS-CoV-2 in clinical samples. Intervirology, Feb 22. doi: 10.1159/000522337. Epub ahead of print
Tiwari S., Kumar V., Randhawa S., and Verma S.K. (2021) Preparation and characterization of Extracellular Vesicles. Am J Reprod Immunol., 85(2):e13367
Awasthi M. *, Gulati S. *, Sarkar D.P., Tiwari S., Kateriya S., Ranjan P.†, and Verma S.K. †(2020) The Sialoside-Binding Pocket of SARS-CoV-2 Spike Glycoprotein Structurally Resembles MERS-CoV. Viruses, 12(9):E909 (* Equal co-first author) (†Corresponding author)
Uygur B., Leikina E., Melikov K., Villasmi R., Verma S.K., Vary C.P.H., Chernomordik L.V. (2019) Interactions with muscle cells boost fusion, stemness and drug resistance of prostate cancer cells Cancer Res., 17(3): 806-820
Verma S.K., Leikina E., Melikov K., Gebert C., Kram V., Young M.F., Uygur B., and Chernomordik L. V. (2018) Cell-surface phosphatidylserine regulates osteoclast precursor fusion Biol. Chem., 293 (1): 254-270
Verma S.K. Chernomordik L. V. and Melikov K. (2018) An improved metrics for osteoclast multinucleation. Rep., 8(1): 1768
Verma S.K., Leikina E., Melikov K. and Chernomordik L. V. (2014) Late stages of synchronized macrophage fusion in osteoclast formation depends on dynamin. J., 464: 293-300
Leikina E., Melikov K., Sanyal S., Verma, S. K., Eun B., Gebert C., Pfeifer K., Lizunov V.A., Kozolov M.M., And Chernomordik L. V. (2013) Extracellular annexins and dynamin are important for sequential steps in myoblast fusion Cell Biol., 200: 109-123
Journal highlighted this study as “In Focus” article entitled as ‘The Two stages of cell fusion’ Cell Biol., (2013) 200: 3
“Primary myoblast fuse to form multinucleated myotubes” presented as Cover Page Illustration Cell Biol., (2013) 200 (1)
Krishnan, A.*, Verma, S. K.*, Mani P., Gupta, R., Kundu, S. and Sarkar, D. P. (2009) A histidine switch in hemagglutinin-neuraminidase triggers Paramyxovirus-cell membrane fusion Virol., 83:1727-1741 (* Equal co-first author)
Verma, S. K.*, Mani, P.*, Sharma, N. R.*, Krishnan, A., Kumar, V.V., Reddy, B. S., Chaudhuri, A., Roy, R.P. and Sarkar, D.P. (2005) Histidylated lipid-modified Sendai viral envelopes mediate enhanced membrane fusion and potentiate targeted gene delivery Biol. Chem., 280: 35399– 35409 (* co-first author)
Preprint publications
Awasthi M. *, Gulati S. *, Sarkar D.P., Tiwari S., Kateriya S., Ranjan P.†, and Verma S.K. †(2020) N-terminal domain (NTD) of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein structurally resembles MERS-CoV NTD sialoside-binding pocket. Research Square(* Equal co-first author) (†corresponding author)
Kumar V., Mishra S., Sharma R., Agarwal J., Ghoshal U., Khanna T., Sharma L.K., Verma S.K., and Tiwari S. (2020) Development of RNA-based assay for rapid detection of SARS-CoV-2 in clinical samples. bioRxiv
Blog Article:
Scientific Blog article (Scientific Outreach programme): Blog article entitled as, “Sugars as an alternate receptors for SARS-CoV-2” related to our COVID-19 research contribution published in journal “viruses” published online on SCI-SOUP (8th Dec. 2020) https://scisoup.org/article/2020/sugars-as-an-alternate-receptors-for-SARS.html