Dr Mohammed Tasab

Laboratory Manager

School of Health, Sport and Bioscience

UH 2.43D, Stratford Campus
School of Health Sport and Bioscience
University of East London
Water Lane
London
E15 4LZ
M.Tasab@uel.ac.uk +442082234094

Summary

I hold the position of Laboratory Manager at UEL, following on from my previous post as Senior Scientific Officer. I have wide ranging experience from a variety of previous roles in academia and industry. This experience includes working in the pharmaceutical industry as a medical communications specialist, as the national engagement manager for UK PubMed Central [now European PubMed], Several posts as Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, Research Assistant and Research Technician also at the University of Manchester and Research Technician at the University of Exeter.

My research interests include the assembly of structural proteins [esp. procollagen] within mammalian cells and the role of associated chaperone proteins. I have also carried out research into angiopoietins role in cell signalling and the mechanisms underlying bacterial persistence.

I have also contributed to the development of two commercial patents held by the University of Manchester including one for the design of novel collagens and another for regulation of persistence in E.coli

Overview

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Research

Procollagen Biosynthesis in mammalian cells

Tasab, M. and Bulleid, NJ. 2005. Protein Folding Handbook. 649-676.

Expression of rat neuronal nitric oxide synthase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Jones S, Tasab M, Ogden JE, Ballance DJ. 1996. J Biotechnol. 48: 37–41.

Identification of the molecular recognition sequence which determines the type-specific assembly of procollagen

Lees JF, Tasab M, Bulleid NJ. 1997. EMBO J. 16:908–16.

Hsp47: a molecular chaperone that interacts with and stabilizes correctly-folded procollagen

Tasab M, Batten MR and Bulleid NJ. 2000. EMBO J. 19:2204–11.

Sequence-specific recognition of collagen triple helices by the collagen-specific molecular chaperone HSP47

Tasab M, Jenkinson L, Bulleid NJ. 2002. J Biol Chem. 277:35007–12.

Molecular signals that determine type-specific assembly of procollagen chains

Lees JF, Tasab M, Bulleid NJ. 1996. Matrix Biol. 15:153–153.

Angiopoietin-1 variant reduces LPS-induced microvascular dysfunction in a murine model of sepsis

Alfieri A, Watson JJ, Kammerer RA, Tasab M, Progias P, Reeves K, Brown NJ, Brookes ZL. 2012. Crit Care. 16(5):r182.

Protein disulphide isomerase family members show distinct substrate specificity

Jessop CE, Watkins RH, Simmons JJ, Tasab M and Bulleid NJ. 2009. J Cell Sci. 122:4287-95.

Angiopoietin-1 regulates microvascular reactivity and protects the microcirculation during acute endothelial dysfunction: Role of eNOS and VE-cadherin

Alfieri A, Ong AC, Kammerer RA, Solanky T, Bate S, Tasab M, Brown NJ, Brookes ZL. 2014. Pharmacol Res. 80:43-51.