Publications Research Group Pernas

Cellular metabolism in the defense against microbes

  • Pernas, L.
(2021) Journal of Cell Science, 134, 5, jcs252023

A Toxoplasma gondii locus required for the direct manipulation of host mitochondria has maintained multiple ancestral functions

  • Blank, M. L.
  • Parker, M. L.
  • Ramaswamy, R.
  • Powell, C. J.
  • English, E. D.
  • Adomako-Ankomah, Y.
  • Pernas, L. F.
  • Workman, S. D.
  • Boothroyd, J. C.
  • Boulanger, M. J.
  • Boyle, J. P.
(2018) Mol Microbiol, 108, 5, 519-535

Mitochondria Restrict Growth of the Intracellular Parasite Toxoplasma gondii by Limiting Its Uptake of Fatty Acids

  • Pernas, L.
  • Bean, C.
  • Boothroyd, J. C.
  • Scorrano, L.
(2018) Cell Metab, 27, 4, 886-897 e4

RevAMPing Mitochondrial Shape to Live Longer

  • Pernas, L.
  • Scorrano, L.
(2017) Cell Metab, 26, 6, 805-806

Host Mitochondrial Association Evolved in the Human Parasite Toxoplasma gondii via Neofunctionalization of a Gene Duplicate

  • Adomako-Ankomah, Y.
  • English, E. D.
  • Danielson, J. J.
  • Pernas, L. F.
  • Parker, M. L.
  • Boulanger, M. J.
  • Dubey, J. P.
  • Boyle, J. P.
(2016) Genetics, 203, 1, 283-98

Mito-Morphosis: Mitochondrial Fusion, Fission, and Cristae Remodeling as Key Mediators of Cellular Function

  • Pernas, L.
  • Scorrano, L.
(2016) Annu Rev Physiol, 78, 505-31

Immune profiling of pregnant Toxoplasma-infected US and Colombia patients reveals surprising impacts of infection on peripheral blood cytokines

  • Pernas, L.
  • Ramirez, R.
  • Holmes, T. H.
  • Montoya, J. G.
  • Boothroyd, J. C.
(2014) J Infect Dis, 210, 6, 923-31

Toxoplasma effector MAF1 mediates recruitment of host mitochondria and impacts the host response

  • Pernas, L.
  • Adomako-Ankomah, Y.
  • Shastri, A. J.
  • Ewald, S. E.
  • Treeck, M.
  • Boyle, J. P.
  • Boothroyd, J. C.
(2014) PLoS Biol, 12, 4, e1001845

Association of host mitochondria with the parasitophorous vacuole during Toxoplasma infection is not dependent on rhoptry proteins ROP2/8

  • Pernas, L.
  • Boothroyd, J. C.
(2010) Int J Parasitol, 40, 12, 1367-71