A.  Khan, Akhtar, S., Ahmad, J. N., and Sarkar, D., ?Presence of a functional nitrate assimilation pathway in mycobacterium smegmatis?, Microbial Pathogenesis, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 71-77, 2008.

S.  Akhtar, Sarkar, S., Mishra, A., and Sarkar, D., ?Method to extract intact and pure RNA from mycobacteria?, Analytical Biochemistry, vol. 417, no. 2, pp. 286-288, 2011.

U.  Singh, Akhtar, S., Mishra, A., and Sarkar, D., ?Novel screening method based on menadione mediated rapid reduction of tetrazolium salt for testing of anti-mycobacterial agents?, Journal of Microbiological Methods, vol. 84, no. 2, pp. 202-207, 2011.

S.  Akhtar, Khan, A., Sohaskey, C. D., Jagannath, C., and Sarkar, D., ?Nitrite reductase NirBD is induced and plays an important role during in vitro dormancy of mycobacterium tuberculosis?, Journal of Bacteriology, vol. 195, no. 20, pp. 4592-4599, 2013.

V. Kumar Rana, Akhtar, S., Chatterjee, S., Mishra, S., Singh, R. Pal, and Ha, C. - S., ?Chitosan and chitosan-co-poly(epsilon-caprolactone) grafted multiwalled carbon nanotube transducers for vapor sensing?, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 2425-2435, 2014.

S.  Akhtar, Singh, S., Kumar, S., and Sarkar, D., ?Analyzing different acetyl co-a metabolizing enzymes as potential drug targets against mycobacterium tuberculosis?, British Microbiology Research Journal, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 1-15, 2015.

A.  Yeware, Akhtar, S., and Sarkar, D., ?Probes and techniques used in active and the hypoxia-based dormant state of an antitubercular drug screening assay?, Medicine in Drug Discovery, vol. 13, p. 100115, 2022.