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Rama Yakubu, MD, PhD

Title(s)Assistant Professor, Laboratory Medicine
SchoolSchool of Medicine
Address513 Parnassus Avenue, HSW, #2004
San Francisco CA 94143
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    1. Nocardiosis in Immunocompromised Hosts: A Retrospective, Single-Center Analysis of Clinical and Microbiological Determinants of Central Nervous System Involvement. Transpl Infect Dis. 2026 Feb 10; e70183. Machiavello Roman FJ, Grubman A, Yakubu R, Peaper D, Azar MM, Farhadian SF. PMID: 41665054.
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    2. Evaluation of the Hologic Panther Fusion investigational use only assays for gastrointestinal bacterial pathogens. J Clin Microbiol. 2025 Dec 17; 63(12):e0073025. Yakubu RR, Merwede J, Viglione B, Patel V, Peaper DR. PMID: 41235929; PMCID: PMC12710347.
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    3. Reduction of resources with mRNA host-response whole blood testing on patients presenting to the emergency department with suspected infections: a retrospective analysis of 30 cases. J Med Microbiol. 2025 Oct; 74(10). Wu AHB, Falcinelli S, Yakubu R. PMID: 41105454; PMCID: PMC12582874.
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    4. Probable reactivation from latency of multidrug-resistant cytomegalovirus in a lung transplant recipient: A case report. Am J Transplant. 2026 Jan; 26(1):186-189. Wagner JA, Yakubu R, Whelan AM, Hays SR, Karita HCS, Schwartz BS, Limaye AP. PMID: 40850594.
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    5. Toxoplasma gondii Matrix Antigen 1 Is a Secreted Immunomodulatory Effector. mBio. 2021 05 18; 12(3). Tomita T, Mukhopadhyay D, Han B, Yakubu R, Tu V, Mayoral J, Sugi T, Ma Y, Saeij JPJ, Weiss LM. PMID: 34006649; PMCID: PMC8262993.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 21     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
    6. MAG2, a Toxoplasma gondii Bradyzoite Stage-Specific Cyst Matrix Protein. mSphere. 2020 02 19; 5(1). Tu V, Mayoral J, Yakubu RR, Tomita T, Sugi T, Han B, Williams T, Ma Y, Weiss LM. PMID: 32075884; PMCID: PMC7031614.
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    7. The Toxoplasma gondii Cyst Wall Interactome. mBio. 2020 02 04; 11(1). Tu V, Tomita T, Sugi T, Mayoral J, Han B, Yakubu RR, Williams T, Horta A, Ma Y, Weiss LM. PMID: 32019789; PMCID: PMC7002340.
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    8. The Methods Employed in Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Posttranslational Modifications (PTMs) and Protein-Protein Interactions (PPIs). Adv Exp Med Biol. 2019; 1140:169-198. Yakubu RR, Nieves E, Weiss LM. PMID: 31347048; PMCID: PMC7059822.
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    9. Observations on bradyzoite biology. Microbes Infect. 2018 Oct - Nov; 20(9-10):466-476. Tu V, Yakubu R, Weiss LM. PMID: 29287987; PMCID: PMC6019562.
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    10. Post-translational modifications as key regulators of apicomplexan biology: insights from proteome-wide studies. Mol Microbiol. 2018 Jan; 107(1):1-23. Yakubu RR, Weiss LM, Silmon de Monerri NC. PMID: 29052917; PMCID: PMC5746028.
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    11. The role of microsporidian polar tube protein 4 (PTP4) in host cell infection. PLoS Pathog. 2017 Apr; 13(4):e1006341. 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. PMID: 28426751; PMCID: PMC5413088.
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    12. Comparative Monomethylarginine Proteomics Suggests that Protein Arginine Methyltransferase 1 (PRMT1) is a Significant Contributor to Arginine Monomethylation in Toxoplasma gondii. Mol Cell Proteomics. 2017 04; 16(4):567-580. Yakubu RR, Silmon de Monerri NC, Nieves E, Kim K, Weiss LM. PMID: 28143887; PMCID: PMC5383779.
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    13. Making Home Sweet and Sturdy: Toxoplasma gondii ppGalNAc-Ts Glycosylate in Hierarchical Order and Confer Cyst Wall Rigidity. mBio. 2017 01 10; 8(1). Tomita T, Sugi T, Yakubu R, Tu V, Ma Y, Weiss LM. PMID: 28074022; PMCID: PMC5225312.
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    14. Toxoplasma gondii Cyclic AMP-Dependent Protein Kinase Subunit 3 Is Involved in the Switch from Tachyzoite to Bradyzoite Development. mBio. 2016 05 31; 7(3). 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. PMID: 27247232; PMCID: PMC4895117.
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    15. The Ubiquitin Proteome of Toxoplasma gondii Reveals Roles for Protein Ubiquitination in Cell-Cycle Transitions. Cell Host Microbe. 2015 Nov 11; 18(5):621-33. Silmon de Monerri NC, Yakubu RR, Chen AL, Bradley PJ, Nieves E, Weiss LM, Kim K. PMID: 26567513; PMCID: PMC4968887.
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