Selected publications

1. Davies KA, Tanzer MC, Griffin MDW, Mok YF, Young SN, Qin R, Petrie EJ, Czabotar PE, Silke J, Murphy JM. The brace helices of MLKL mediate interdomain communication and oligomerisation to regulate cell death by necroptosis. Cell Death Differ. 2018 Feb 14. doi: 10.1038/s41418-018-0061-3 PMID: 29445128
2. Petrie EJ, Sandow JJ, Jacobsen AV, Smith BJ, Griffin MDW, Lucet IS, Dai W, Young SN, Tanzer MC, Wardak A, Liang LY, Cowan AD, Hildebrand JM, Kersten WJA, Lessene G, Silke J, Czabotar PE, Webb AI, Murphy JM. Conformational switching of the pseudokinase domain promotes human MLKL tetramerization and cell death by necroptosis. Nat Commun. 2018 Jun 21;9(1):2422. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-04714-7. PMID: 29930286
3. Murphy JM*, Czabotar PE*, Hildebrand JM*, Lucet IS, Zhang JG, Alvarez-Diaz S, Lewis R, Lalaoui N, Metcalf D, Webb AI, Young SN, Varghese LN, Tannahill GM, Hatchell EC, Majewski IJ, Okamoto T, Dobson RCJ, Hilton DJ, Babon JJ, Nicola NA, Strasser A, Silke J, Alexander WS. The pseudokinase MLKL mediates necroptosis via a molecular switch mechanism. Immunity. 2013 19 September 2013;39(3):443-53. PMID: 24012422
4. Hildebrand JM, Tanzer MC, Lucet IS, Young SN, Spall SK, Sharma P, Pierotti C, Garnier JM, Dobson RC, Webb AI, Tripaydonis A, Babon JJ, Mulcair MD, Scanlon MJ, Alexander WS, Wilks AF, Czabotar PE, Lessene G, Murphy JM*, Silke J*. Activation of the pseudokinase MLKL unleashes the four-helix bundle domain to induce membrane localization and necroptotic cell death. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014 Oct 21;111(42):15072-7. PMID: 25288762
5. Tanzer MC, Matti I, Hildebrand JM, Young SN, Wardak A, Tripaydonis A, Petrie EJ, Mildenhall AL, Vaux DL, Vince JE, Czabotar PE, Silke J*, Murphy JM* (2016) Evolutionary divergence of the necroptosis effector MLKL Cell Death Differ 2016 Jul;23(7):1185-97. PMID: 26868910
6. Murphy JM, Lucet IS, Hildebrand JM, Tanzer MC, Young SN, Sharma P, Lessene G, Alexander WS, Babon JJ, Silke J, Czabotar PE. Insights into the evolution of divergent nucleotide-binding mechanisms among pseudokinases revealed by crystal structures of human and mouse MLKL. Biochem J. 2014 Feb 1;457(3):369-77. PMID: 24219132
7. Jacobsen AV, Lowes KN, Tanzer MC, Lucet IS, Hildebrand JM, Petrie EJ, van Delft MF, Liu Z, Conos SA, Zhang JG, Huang DCS, Silke J, Lessene G*, Murphy JM* (2016) HSP90 activity is required for MLKL oligomerisation and membrane translocation and the induction of necroptotic cell death Cell Death Dis 7:e2051  PMID: 26775703
8. Babon JJ*, Kershaw NJ*, Murphy JM*, Varghese LN, Laktyushin A, Young SN, Lucet IS, Norton RS, Nicola NA. Suppression of cytokine signaling by SOCS3: characterization of the mode of inhibition and the basis of its specificity. Immunity. 2012 Feb 24;36(2):239-50. PMID: 22342841
9. Murphy JM, Korzhnev DM, Ceccarelli DF, Briant DJ, Zarrine-Afsar A, Sicheri F, Kay LE, Pawson T. Conformational instability of the MARK3 UBA domain compromises ubiquitin recognition and promotes interaction with the adjacent kinase domain. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Sep 4;104(36):14336-41. PMID: 17726107
10. Murphy JM*, Zhang Q, Young SN, Reese ML, Bailey FP, Eyers PA, Ungureanu D, Hammaren H, Silvennoinen O, Varghese LN, Chen K, Tripaydonis A, Jura N, Fukuda K, Qin J, Nimchuk Z, Mudgett MB, Elowe S, Gee CL, Liu L, Daly RJ, Manning G, Babon JJ, Lucet IS*. A robust methodology to subclassify pseudokinases based on their nucleotide-binding properties. Biochem J. 2014 Jan 15;457(2):323-34. PMID: 24107129.

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