Khan was known for his contributions in the disciplines of glycobiology and nanobiotechnology with special focus on the biology of lectins.[3] His work was known to have assisted in widening our understanding of cell adhesion. He demonstrated the role of yeast cell surface lectins in the adhesion of yeast cells which is also known as flocculation. He isolated Fusarium sporotrichioides from rose plant which has since been deposited by him at the National Collection of Industrial Microorganisms (NCIM), a government-funded microbial culture repository based at NCL.[5] The research team under his leadership was successful in isolating a peptide from Streptomyces that showed potency as an inhibitor of Cysteine proteases and the finding is reported to have use in the prophylaxis of cancer by preventing the migration of cancer cells.[4][6] Towards the latter part of his career, he worked on the synthesis of metal‑metal sulphides/metal oxide nanoparticles using fungi and it was reported that the team synthesized the nano-particles outside a cell for the first time.[3] His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles[note 1] and PubMed, an online article repository of scientific articles has listed several of them.[7]
↑"strain no. LR11". National Collection of Industrial Microorganisms (NCIM). 6 December 2017. Retrieved 6 December 2017.
↑Jay Prakash Singh, Sudarsan Tamang, P. R. Rajamohanan, N. C. Jima, Goutam Chakraborty, Gopal C. Kundu, Sushma M. Gaikwad, Mohamad I. Khan (2010). "Isolation, Structure, and Functional Elucidation of a Modified Pentapeptide, Cysteine Protease Inhibitor (CPI-2081) from Streptomyces Species 2081 that Exhibit Inhibitory Effect on Cancer Cell Migration". J. Med. Chem. 53 (14): 5121–5128. doi:10.1021/jm9014179. PMID20552970.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
↑Barthel, W.; Markwardt, F. (21 November 2017). "Khan MI [Author]". Biochemical Pharmacology. 24 (20): 1903–4. doi:10.1016/0006-2952(75)90415-3. PMID20.
