| Mito-morphosis: mitochondrial fusion, fission, and cristae remodeling as key mediators of cellular function L Pernas, L Scorrano Annual review of physiology 78, 505-531, 2016 | 693 | 2016 |
| Toxoplasma Effector MAF1 Mediates Recruitment of Host Mitochondria and Impacts the Host Response L Pernas, Y Adomako-Ankomah, AJ Shastri, SE Ewald, M Treeck, ... PLoS biology 12 (4), e1001845, 2014 | 194 | 2014 |
| Mitochondria restrict growth of the intracellular parasite Toxoplasma gondii by limiting its uptake of fatty acids L Pernas, C Bean, JC Boothroyd, L Scorrano Cell metabolism 27 (4), 886-897. e4, 2018 | 109 | 2018 |
| Association of host mitochondria with the parasitophorous vacuole during Toxoplasma infection is not dependent on rhoptry proteins ROP2/8 L Pernas, JC Boothroyd International journal for parasitology 40 (12), 1367-1371, 2010 | 58 | 2010 |
| Mitochondria shed their outer membrane in response to infection-induced stress X Li, J Straub, TC Medeiros, C Mehra, F den Brave, E Peker, I Atanassov, ... Science 375 (6577), eabi4343, 2022 | 49 | 2022 |
| The mitochondrial protein Opa1 promotes adipocyte browning that is dependent on urea cycle metabolites C Bean, M Audano, T Varanita, F Favaretto, M Medaglia, M Gerdol, ... Nature metabolism 3 (12), 1633-1647, 2021 | 45 | 2021 |
| Immune profiling of pregnant Toxoplasma-infected US and Colombia patients reveals surprising impacts of infection on peripheral blood cytokines L Pernas, R Ramirez, TH Holmes, JG Montoya, JC Boothroyd The Journal of infectious diseases 210 (6), 923-931, 2014 | 42 | 2014 |
| Host Mitochondrial Association Evolved in the Human Parasite Toxoplasma gondii via Neofunctionalization of a Gene Duplicate Y Adomako-Ankomah, ED English, JJ Danielson, LF Pernas, ML Parker, ... Genetics 203 (1), 283-298, 2016 | 39 | 2016 |
| Mitofusin 1 is required for oocyte growth and communication with follicular somatic cells KF Carvalho, TS Machado, BM Garcia, AF Zangirolamo, CH Macabelli, ... The FASEB Journal 34 (6), 7644-7660, 2020 | 32 | 2020 |
| A Toxoplasma gondii locus required for the direct manipulation of host mitochondria has maintained multiple ancestral functions ML Blank, ML Parker, R Ramaswamy, CJ Powell, ED English, ... Molecular microbiology 108 (5), 519-535, 2018 | 24 | 2018 |
| Cellular metabolism in the defense against microbes L Pernas Journal of Cell Science 134 (5), jcs252023, 2021 | 18 | 2021 |
| Contact and competition between mitochondria and microbes TC Medeiros, C Mehra, L Pernas Current Opinion in Microbiology 63, 189-194, 2021 | 10 | 2021 |
| Move it to lose it: Mitocytosis expels damaged mitochondria C Mehra, L Pernas Developmental Cell 56 (14), 2014-2015, 2021 | 10 | 2021 |
| Mitofusin 1 is required for the oocyte-granulosa cell communication that regulates oogenesis TS Machado, KF Carvalho, BM Garcia, AF Zangirolamo, CH Macabelli, ... bioRxiv, 498642, 2018 | 5 | 2018 |
| Author Correction: The mitochondrial protein Opa1 promotes adipocyte browning that is dependent on urea cycle metabolites C Bean, M Audano, T Varanita, F Favaretto, M Medaglia, M Gerdol, ... Nature metabolism 4 (2), 300, 2022 | 1 | 2022 |
| Abstract 2286 Evolution of the outer mitochondrial membrane L Pernas, X Li, T Bartsch Journal of Biological Chemistry 300 (3), 2024 | | 2024 |
| Contact sites between host organelles and pathogens: boon or bane? C Mehra, L Pernas Msphere 8 (6), e00448-23, 2023 | | 2023 |
| Metabolic immunity against microbes S Kreimendahl, L Pernas Trends in Cell Biology, 2023 | | 2023 |
| Sleeping monsters: chronic infections in COVID-19 pathogenesis S Beros, L Pernas Trends in Microbiology, 2023 | | 2023 |
| Cell scientist to watch–Lena Pernas L Pernas | | 2022 |
