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Research Publications

  1. Niaz, H., Skurnik, M. & Adnan, F. (March 2025) Genomic and proteomic characterization of four novel Schitoviridaefamily phages targeting uropathogenic Escherichia coli Virol J 22, 83 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12985-025-02691-0 (IF 4.0)
  2. Hafeez S, Rasool Z, Hafeez S, Paracha RZ, Adnan F. (Oct. 2024) Imidazolium, pyridinium and pyrazinium based ionic liquids with octyl side chains as potential antibacterial agents against multidrug resistant uropathogenic  coli. Heliyon. 24;10(22):e39829. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon. 2024.e39829. (IF 4.5)
  3. Jalil A, Masood S, Ain Q, Andleeb S, Dudley EG, Adnan F. (Jun. 2023) High resistance of fluoroquinolone and macrolide reported in the Avian Pathogenic E. coli (APEC) isolates from the humid subtropical regions of Pakistan. J Glob Antimicrob Resist. 8:S2213-7165(23)00012-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jgar.2023.01.009 . (IF 4.03)
  4. Hafeez S, Zafar Paracha R, Adnan F. (Jan 2024) Designing fragment-based inhibitors with improved activity against  coliAmpC β-lactamase compared to the conventional antibiotics. Saudi J Biol Sci. 2024 Jan;31(1):103884. doi: 10.1016/j.sjbs.2023.103884. Epub 2023 Nov 25. PMID: 38125736; PMCID: PMC10730856. (IF 7.14)
  5. Jalil, A.; Gul, S.; Bhatti, Adnan, Fazal. (Dec. 2022) High Occurrence of Multidrug-Resistant  coliStrains in Bovine Fecal Samples from Healthy Cows Serves as Rich Reservoir for AMR Transmission. Antibiotics 2023, 12, 37. doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics12010037 (IF 5.2)
  6. Fatma Abdelrahman, Maheswaran Easwaran, Stephanie Lynch, Fazal Adnan & Ayman El-Shibiny (Jan. 2021), Phage-encoded endolysins. Journal Antibiotics, doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics10020124 (IF 5,65)
  7. Aamen Nasir, Imran H. Sajid, Arooma Syed, Fazal Adnan, Syed Rizwan, (Dec. 2024) Promising antibacterial performance of Ag-nanoparticles intercalated Nb2CTx MXene towards E. coli and S. aureus, Nano-Structures & Nano-Objects, Volume 40, 2024, 101415, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoso.2024.101415.
  8. Syeda Hadeesa Kazmi, Sidrah Hafeez, Fazal Adnan, Mudassir Iqbal, (May 2024) Synthesis, evaluation, and in silico studies of imidazolium and pyridinium-based ionic liquids with Dioctyl succinamic acid anion for enhanced antibacterial applications, J. of Molecular Liquids, Volume 401, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molliq.2024.124714
  9. Elias Eger, Michael Schwabe, Lukas Schulig, Fazal Adnan, Katharina Schaufler (July 2022) Extensively drug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniaecounteracts fitness and virulence costs that accompanied ceftazidime-avibactam resistance acquisition, Microbiol Spectr. 2022 Jun 29;10(3):e0014822. doi: 10.1128/spectrum.00148-22. Epub 2022 Apr 18. PMID: 35435751; PMCID: PMC9241641. (IF 9.05)
  10. Javariya Shirazi, Quratul Ain, Sher Jamal Khan, Amna Jalil, Fazal Adnan (Mar. 2022) Targeting Acyl Homoserine Lactones (AHLs) by the Quorum Quenching Bacterial Strains to Control Biofilm Formation in Pseudomonas Aeruginosa. Saudi J. Biol sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sjbs.2021.10.064 (IF 4.05)
  11. Abdullah S, Ain Q, Jalil A, Khan D, Khan A, Qasim M, Badshah M, Adnan F. (May. 2022) Silencing of Curlin Protein via M13 Phagemid-mediated Synthetic sRNA Expression Reduces Virulence in the Avian Pathogenic coli (APEC). Curr Microbiol. 14;79(4):105. doi: 10.1007/s00284-022-02791-y. PMID: 35157141 (IF 2.3)
  12. Ahmad, S.S.; Siddiqui, M.F.; Adnan, F.; Rahman, Z. (Jan. 2024) Combating Cariogenic Streptococcus mutansBiofilm Formation and Disruption with Coumaric Acid on Dentin Surface. Molecules2024, 29, 397. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules29020397 IF 4
  13. Iqbal Nisa, Muhammad Qasim, Arnold Driessen, Fazal Adnan, Hazir Rahman (May 2021). Virulence profiling of Shigella flexneri and emergence of serotype 2b as a highly virulent shigellosis causing strain in Pakistan, Infection, Genetics and Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.meegid.2021.104922 (IF 4.40)
  14. Adnan, Amna Jalil, Tahir Ahmed, Afra Rahman, Nawal Dawood, Muhmmad Faisal, Sebastian Guenther. (Aug. 2021) TRAP-T transporter TakP; a key player in resistance against selenite-induced oxidative stress in Rhodobacter sphaeroides. J. Microbiological Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micres.2021.126828 (IF 5.45)
  15. Fazal Adnan, Weber and G. Klug, (2015) The sRNA SorY confers resistance during photooxidative stress by affecting a metabolite transporter in Rhodobacter sphaeroides. RNA biology 12:5, 569-577. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15476286.2015.1031948 (IF 5.65)
  16. Nuss, A.M., Adnan, L. Weber, B.A. Berghoff, J. Glaeser & G. Klug, (2013) DegS and RseP homologous proteases are involved in singlet oxygen dependent activation of RpoE in Rhodobacter sphaeroides. PloS One 8: e79520. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0079520(IF 3.75)
  17. Aqel Albutti, Muhammad Faisal Siddiqui, Fazal Adnan, Ihsan Ullah, (Dec. 2021), Combating biofilm by targeting its formation and dispersal using gallic acid against single and multispecies bacteria causing dental plaque, J Pathogens, DOI: 10.3390/pathogens10111486 (IF 4.50)
  18. Nadeem, B.B., Bibi, A. Khan, Adnan, D, Khan, (Sep. 2024)Effects of imidazole derivatives on cellular proliferation and apoptosis in myeloid leukemia. BMC Cancer24, 1200 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-024-12958-4
  19. Maria Kanwal, Fazal Adnan, Rao Khushnood, Amna Jalil, (April 2024), Biomineralization and corrosion inhibition of steel in simulated bio-inspired self-healing concrete, Journal of Building Engineering, 108224, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2023.108224 (IF 6.4)
  20. Maria Kanwal, Rao Arsalan Khushnood, Amna Jalil, Fazal Adnan, (March. 2023) Assessment of the MICP potential and corrosion inhibition of steel bars by biofilm forming bacteria in corrosive environment, Cement and Concrete Composites, Volume 137, ISSN 0958-9465, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cemconcomp.2023.104937. (IF 9.70)
  21. Nafeesa Shaheen, Rao Arsalan Khushnood, Fazal Adnan, ( 2023) Feasibility assessment of newly isolated calcifying bacterial strains in self-healing concrete, Construction and Building Materials, Volume 362, 2023, 129662, ISSN 0950-0618, doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2022.129662. (IF 7.6)
  22. Abubakar Siddique, Sara Azim, Amjad Ali, Fazal Adnan, Abdur Rahman (Nov. 2021) Lactobacillus reuteri and Enterococcus faecium from poultry gut reduce mucin adhesion and biofilm formation of cephalosporin and fluoroquinolone-resistant Salmonella enterica (Accepted in Animals) (IF 3.35)
  23. Nafeesa Shaheen, Amna Jalil, Fazal Adnan and Rao Arslan Khushnood, (Feb. 2021). Isolation of alkaliphilic calcifying bacteria and their feasibility for enhanced CaCO3precipitation in bio‐based cementitious composites, J. Microbial Biotechnology, org/10.1111/1751-7915.13752 (IF  6.57)
  24. Syed Ali Rizwan, Hasnain Khan, Thomas A Bier, Adnan (2017), Use of Effective Micro-organisms (EM) Technology and Self-Compacting Concrete (SCC) Technology Improved the Response of Cementitious Systems. J. Const. & Build. Mat. Vol. 152, 642-650. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2017.05.102 (IF 7.70)
  25. Alam Khan, Valentine Okonkwo, Aamer Ali Shah, Fazal Adnan, Malik Badshah (Feb. 2022) Enrichment of the hydrogenotrophic methanogens for, in-situ biogas up-gradation by recirculation of gases and supply of hydrogen in methanogenic reactor. Volume 345, 126219, ISSN 0960-8524, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2021.126219. (IF 11.90)

Papers under review

  1. Hira Niaz, Anza Abbas, Aqsa Ayub, Abdur Rahman and Fazal Adnan, Characterization and Genome Analysis of Jumbo Escherichia Phage UE-S1 and the Antibacterial Potential of its Lysozyme Against Uropathogenic E. coli, under review in BMC Microbiology.
  2. Amna Jalil, Lara Urban, Edward Dudley, Fazal Adnan, Zoonotic potential and virulence profiling of the E. coli isolates from bovine fecal material and its comparison with the human UTI causing UPEC. under review in Microbiological Research.

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