Atif Towheed, PhD
Contact
- Post Doctoral Fellow
- Address:
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Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute
Colket Translational Research Building
3501 Civic Center Boulevard, Room 6100
Philadelphia,
PA
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19104
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- Phone: 267-425-3063
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Selected Publications
- Tarlow ED, Towheed A, Monyak RE, Toth MS, Wallace DC, Jongens TA. Loss of Drosophila FMRP Leads to Alterations in Energy Metabolism and Mitochondrial Function Hum Mol Genet.2017 Nov 2
- Kaynar AM, Bakalov V, Laverde SM, Cambriel AI, Lee BH, Towheed A, Gregory AD, Webb SA, Palladino MJ, Bozza FA, Shapiro SD, Angus DC. Cost of surviving sepsis: a novel model of recovery from sepsis in Drosophila melanogaster. Intensive Care Med Exp. Dec 2016
- Towheed A, Markantone DM, Crain AT, Celotto AM, Palladino MJ. Small mitochondrial-targeted RNAs modulate endogenous mitochondrial protein expression in vivo. Neurobiology of Disease. (69): 15-22, September 2014
- Chiu WK, Towheed A, Palladino MJ. Genetically Encoded Redox Sensors in Biomedical Science. Methods In Enzymology. (542): 263–287, 2014
- McKibbin PL, Fleming AM, Towheed MA, Van Houten B, Burrows CJ, David SS. Repair of hydantoin lesions and their amine adducts in DNA by base and nucleotide excision repair. J Am Chem Soc. 135 (37):13851–13861, Aug 9, 2013
- Hughes CD, Wang H, Ghodke H, Simons M, Towheed A, Peng Y, Van Houten B, Kad NM. Real-time single-molecule imaging reveals a direct interaction between UvrC and UvrB on DNA tightropes. Nucleic Acids Res. 41(9):4901-12 Mar 19, 2013
- N, Stegman MA, Croteau DL, Van Houten B, Kwon NS, Ling Y, Dickinson C, Venugopal A, Towheed MA, Nathan C. Identification of a Chemical That Inhibits the Mycobacterial UvrABC Complex in Nucleotide Excision Repair. Biochemistry. 50(8):1329-35, Mar 1, 2011
- Padhan K, Minakshi R, Towheed MA, Jameel SJ. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 3a protein activates the mitochondrial death pathway through p38 MAP kinase activation. Gen Virol. 89(8):1960-9, Aug, 2008
Funding/Fellowships
Dr. Towheed was awarded Postdoctoral Fellowship Research Grant Award by United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation to develop gene therapy for mitochondrial diseases