Selected publications

1. Meng Y, Davies KA, Fitzgibbon C, Young SN, Garnish SE, Horne CR, Luo C, Garnier JM, Liang LY, Cowan AD, Samson AL, Lessene G, Sandow JJ, Czabotar PE, Murphy JM. Human RIPK3 maintains MLKL in an inactive conformation prior to cell death by necroptosis. Nat Commun. 2021 Nov 22;12(1):6783. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-27032-x. PMID: 34811356
2. Garnish SE, Meng Y, Koide A, Sandow JJ, Denbaum E, Jacobsen AV, Yeung W, Samson AL, Horne CR, Fitzgibbon C, Young SN, Smith PPC, Webb AI, Petrie EJ, Hildebrand JM, Kannan N, Czabotar PE, Koide S, Murphy JM. Conformational interconversion of MLKL and disengagement from RIPK3 precede cell death by necroptosis. Nat Commun. 2021 Apr 13;12(1):2211. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-22400-z. PMID: 33850121 
3. Samson AL, Zhang Y, Geoghegan ND, Gavin XJ, Davies KA, Mlodzianoski MJ, Whitehead LW, Frank D, Garnish SE, Fitzgibbon C, Hempel A, Young SN, Jacobsen AV, Cawthorne W, Petrie EJ, Faux MC, Shield-Artin K, Lalaoui N, Hildebrand JM, Silke J, Rogers KL, Lessene G, Hawkins ED, Murphy JM. MLKL trafficking and accumulation at the plasma membrane control the kinetics and threshold for necroptosis. Nat Commun. 2020 Jun 19;11(1):3151. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-16887-1. PMID: 32561730
4. Samson AL, Fitzgibbon C, Patel KM, Hildebrand JM, Whitehead LW, Rimes JS, Jacobsen AV, Horne CR, Gavin XJ, Young SN, Rogers KL, Hawkins ED, Murphy JM. A toolbox for imaging RIPK1, RIPK3, and MLKL in mouse and human cells. Cell Death Differ. 2021 Jul;28(7):2126-2144. doi: 10.1038/s41418-021-00742-x. Epub 2021 Feb 15. PMID: 33589776 
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
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.

* denotes equal contributions

More information

• PubMed
• Google Scholar