1. James M. Considine, Dharma Pally, Sarah’O Brien, Jessica Potts, Di Feng, Jeanine Pignatelli, Nikita Sharma, Abhishek Kashyap, Alexandra Naba. “In-depth proteomic profiling of the extracellular matrix of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas identifies signatures correlating with lymphocyte infiltration and patient outcome”. In preparation.
2. James M. Considine, Clarissa Gomex, Dharma Pally, Ning Yang, Isra N. Taha, Jenna Sorenson, Erin G. Brooks, Pamela K. Kreeger, Alexandra Naba. “Comparative proteomic analysis of ECM composition of the human omentum and mesentery”. bioRxiv 2025.07.28.667199.
3. Armin Gandhi, Divya Beri, Dharma Pally, Sathish Manjunath, Sharadhi Humcha, AnnapoorniRangarajan, Ramray Bhat, Utpal Tatu, Rekha V Kumar, Paturu Kondaiah. “Stromal LOX-FAK--catenin pathway locks mammary fibroblasts into a tumor-promoting myCAF state”. bioRxiv 2025.07.11.664481.
4. Dharma Pally, Nandini Kapoor, and Alexandra Naba. “The Novel ECM Protein SNED1 Mediates Cell Adhesion via the RGD-Binding Integrins 5β1 and vβ3”. Journal of Cell Science 138, no. 2 (2025): JCS263479. [Full text]. Featured in first person interview [link] and selected for cover image
5. Dharma Pally, Mallar Banerjee, Shahid Hussain, Rekha V. Kumar, Alexandra Petersson, Ebba Rosendal, Ludvig Gunnarsson, Kristoffer Peterson, Hakon Leffler, and Ulf J. Nilsson. “Galectin-9 Signaling Drives Breast Cancer Invasion through Extracellular Matrix”. ACS Chemical Biology 17, no. 6 (2022): 1376–86.
6. Dharma Pally, Durjay Pramanik, Shahid Hussain, Shreya Verma, Anagha Srinivas, Rekha V. Kumar, Arun Everest-Dass, and Ramray Bhat. “Heterogeneity in 2, 6-Linked Sialic Acids Potentiates Invasion of Breast Cancer Epithelia”. ACS Central Science 7, no. 1 (2021): 110–25. [Full text]. Highlighted as a notable breakthrough in glycobiology
7. Debayan Dasgupta*, Dharma Pally*, Deepak K. Saini, Ramray Bhat, and Ambarish Ghosh. “Nanomotors Sense Local Physicochemical Heterogeneities in Tumor Microenvironments”. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 59, no. 52 (2020): 23690–96. (Selected as a very important paper by the Journal)
8. Shyamili Goutham, Indu Kumari, Dharma Pally, Alvina Singh, Sujasha Ghosh, Yusuf Akhter, and Ramray Bhat. “Mutually Exclusive Locales for N-Linked Glycans and Disorder in Human Glycoproteins”. Scientific Reports 10, no. 1 (2020): 1–12.
9. Malay Pal, Debayan Dasgupta, Neha Somalwar, V. R. Reshma, Mayank Tiwari, Dharma Teja, Suma M. Narayana, Aradhana Katke, R. S. Jayshree, and Ramray Bhat. “Helical Nanobots as Mechanical Probes of Intra-and Extracellular Environments”. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 32, no. 22 (2020): 224001.
10. Dharma Pally*, Durjay Pramanik*, and Ramray Bhat. “An Interplay between Reaction-Diffusion and Cell-Matrix Adhesion Regulates Multiscale Invasion in Early Breast Carcinomatosis”. Frontiers in Physiology 10 (2019): 790.

Review articles
1. Dharma Pally, and Alexandra Naba. “Understanding and targeting the tumour matrisome”. Invited review at Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology. In preparation
2. Dharma Pally, and Alexandra Naba. “Extracellular Matrix Dynamics: A Key Regulator of Cell Migration across Length-Scales and Systems”. Current Opinion in Cell Biology 86 (2024): 102309.
3. Dharma Pally, Shyamili Goutham, and Ramray Bhat. “Extracellular Matrix as a Driver for Intratumoral Heterogeneity”. Physical Biology 19, no. 4 (2022): 043001.
4. Ramray Bhat, and Dharma Pally. “Complexity: The Organizing Principle at the Interface of Biological (Dis) Order”. Journal of Genetics 96, no. 3 (2017): 431–44.

Book chapter
1. Ramray Bhat, Dharma Pally. “Ontogeny, Oncogeny and Phylogeny: Deep Associations.” In Evolutionary Biology, 289–307. Springer, 2016.