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Selected Publications

Sutiwisesak R, Hicks ND, Boyce S, Murphy KC, Papavinasasundaram K, Carpenter SM, Boucau J, Joshi N, Le Gall S, Fortune SM, Sassetti CM, Behar SM. A natural polymorphism of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the esxH gene disrupts immunodomination by the TB10.4-specific CD8 T cell response. PLoS Pathog. 2020 Oct;16(10):e1009000. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1009000. eCollection 2020 Oct. PubMed PMID: 33075106; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7597557.

Poweleit N, Czudnochowski N, Nakagawa R, Trinidad DD, Murphy KC, Sassetti CM, Rosenberg OS. The structure of the endogenous ESX-3 secretion system. Elife. 2019 Dec 30;8. doi: 10.7554/eLife.52983. PubMed PMID: 31886769; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6986878.

Johnson EO, LaVerriere E, Office E, Stanley M, Meyer E, Kawate T, Gomez JE, Audette RE, Bandyopadhyay N, Betancourt N, Delano K, Da Silva I, Davis J, Gallo C, Gardner M, Golas AJ, Guinn KM, Kennedy S, Korn R, McConnell JA, Moss CE, Murphy KC, Nietupski RM, Papavinasasundaram KG, Pinkham JT, Pino PA, Proulx MK, Ruecker N, Song N, Thompson M, Trujillo C, Wakabayashi S, Wallach JB, Watson C, Ioerger TR, Lander ES, Hubbard BK, Serrano-Wu MH, Ehrt S, Fitzgerald M, Rubin EJ, Sassetti CM, Schnappinger D, Hung DT. Large-scale chemical-genetics yields new M. tuberculosis inhibitor classes. Nature. 2019 Jul;571(7763):72-78. doi: 10.1038/s41586-019-1315-z. Epub 2019 Jun 19. PubMed PMID: 31217586.

Murphy KC, Nelson SJ, Nambi S, Papavinasasundaram K, Baer CE, Sassetti CM. ORBIT: a New Paradigm for Genetic Engineering of Mycobacterial Chromosomes. mBio. 2018 Dec 11;9(6). doi: 10.1128/mBio.01467-18. PubMed PMID: 30538179; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6299477.

Prigozhin DM, Papavinasasundaram KG, Baer CE, Murphy KC, Moskaleva A, Chen TY, Alber T, Sassetti CM. Structural and Genetic Analyses of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Protein Kinase B Sensor Domain Identify a Potential Ligand-binding Site. J Biol Chem. 2016 Oct 28;291(44):22961-22969. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M116.731760. Epub 2016 Sep 6. PubMed PMID: 27601474; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5087717.

Warrier T, Kapilashrami K, Argyrou A, Ioerger TR, Little D, Murphy KC, Nandakumar M, Park S, Gold B, Mi J, Zhang T, Meiler E, Rees M, Somersan-Karakaya S, Porras-De Francisco E, Martinez-Hoyos M, Burns-Huang K, Roberts J, Ling Y, Rhee KY, Mendoza-Losana A, Luo M, Nathan CF. N-methylation of a bactericidal compound as a resistance mechanism in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 Aug 2;113(31):E4523-30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1606590113. Epub 2016 Jul 18. PubMed PMID: 27432954; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4978242.

Murphy KC. λ Recombination and Recombineering. EcoSal Plus. 2016 May;7(1). doi: 10.1128/ecosalplus.ESP-0011-2015. Review. PubMed PMID: 27223821. Nambi S, Long JE, Mishra BB, Baker R, Murphy KC, Olive AJ, Nguyen HP, Shaffer SA, Sassetti CM. The Oxidative Stress Network of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Reveals Coordination between Radical Detoxification Systems. Cell Host Microbe. 2015 Jun 10;17(6):829-37. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2015.05.008. PubMed PMID: 26067605; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4465913.

Murphy KC, Papavinasasundaram K, Sassetti CM. Mycobacterial recombineering. Methods Mol Biol. 2015;1285:177-99. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2450-9_10. PubMed PMID: 25779316. Meniche X, Otten R, Siegrist MS, Baer CE, Murphy KC, Bertozzi CR, Sassetti CM. Subpolar addition of new cell wall is directed by DivIVA in mycobacteria. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014 Aug 5;111(31):E3243-51. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1402158111. Epub 2014 Jul 21. PubMed PMID: 25049412; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4128124.

Carone BR, Xu T, Murphy KC, Marinus MG. High incidence of multiple antibiotic resistant cells in cultures of in enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7. Mutat Res. 2014 Jan;759:1-8. doi: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2013.11.008. Epub 2013 Dec 18. PubMed PMID: 24361397; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3913999.

Ioerger TR, O'Malley T, Liao R, Guinn KM, Hickey MJ, Mohaideen N, Murphy KC, Boshoff HI, Mizrahi V, Rubin EJ, Sassetti CM, Barry CE 3rd, Sherman DR, Parish T, Sacchettini JC. Identification of new drug targets and resistance mechanisms in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. PLoS One. 2013;8(9):e75245. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0075245. eCollection 2013. PubMed PMID: 24086479; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3781026.

Murphy KC, Volkert MR. Structural/functional analysis of the human OXR1 protein: identification of exon 8 as the anti-oxidant encoding function. BMC Mol Biol. 2012 Aug 8;13:26.

Murphy KC. Phage recombinases and their applications. Adv Virus Res. 2012;83:367-414. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-394438-2.00008-6. Review. PubMed PMID: 22748814.

Wei JR, Krishnamoorthy V, Murphy K, Kim JH, Schnappinger D, Alber T, Sassetti CM, Rhee KY, Rubin EJ. Depletion of antibiotic targets has widely varying effects on growth. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Mar 8;108(10):4176-81. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1018301108. Epub 2011 Feb 22. PubMed PMID: 21368134; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3053961.

For a complete list of publications, click on the link below for my biobliography at NCBI