Katsuhiko Murakami - Penn State Cancer Institute
Researcher Profile
Katsuhiko Murakami
Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Scientific Program:Mechanisms of Carcinogenesis
Recent Publications
2026
Cascino, JA, Dierksheide, KJ, Vishwakarma, RK, Yuzenkova, Y, Babitzke, P, Murakami, KS & Li, GW 2026, 'Canonical transcription termination mechanisms explain a minority of operons in cyanobacteria', mSystems, vol. 11, no. 6. https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.01581-25
2025
Kanevskaya, A, Narwal, M, Lisitskaya, L, Moiseenko, AV, Sokolova, OS, Sluchanko, NN, Murakami, KS & Kulbachinskiy, A 2025, 'Argonaute-HNH filaments triggered by invader DNA confer bacterial immunity', Nature communications, vol. 16, no. 1, 11389. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-66189-7
Shin, Y, Hedglin, M & Murakami, KS 2025, 'Cryo-EM structure of apo-form human DNA polymerase δ elucidates its minimal DNA synthesis activity without PCNA', Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 301, no. 4, 108342. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbc.2025.108342
Fordjour, GNR, Ghosh, A, Ferry, JG, Armache, JP, Bevilacqua, PC & Murakami, KS 2025, 'Cryo-EM study and in vivo chemical mapping of the Methanosarcina acetivorans ribosome and its dimerization via a repurposed enzyme and translation factor', Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 301, no. 11, 110686. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbc.2025.110686
2024
Zuhaib Qayyum, M, Imashimizu, M, Leanca, M, Vishwakarma, RK, Riaz-Bradley, A, Yuzenkova, Y & Murakami, KS 2024, 'Structure and function of the Si3 insertion integrated into the trigger loop/helix of cyanobacterial RNA polymerase', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 121, no. 8, e2311480121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2311480121
2023
Vishwakarma, RK, Qayyum, MZ, Babitzke, P & Murakami, KS 2023, 'Allosteric mechanism of transcription inhibition by NusG-dependent pausing of RNA polymerase', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 120, no. 7, e2218516120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2218516120
Narwal, M, Armache, JP, Edwards, TJ & Murakami, KS 2023, 'SARS-CoV-2 polyprotein substrate regulates the stepwise Mpro cleavage reaction', Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 299, no. 5, 104697. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbc.2023.104697
Colman, DR, Veach, A, Stefánsson, A, Wurch, L, Belisle, BS, Podar, PT, Yang, Z, Klingeman, D, Senba, K, Murakami, KS, Kristjánsson, JK, Björnsdóttir, SH, Boyd, ES & Podar, M 2023, 'Tectonic and geological setting influence hot spring microbiology', Environmental microbiology, vol. 25, no. 11, pp. 2481-2497. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16472
2022
Lisitskaya, L, Shin, Y, Agapov, A, Olina, A, Kropocheva, E, Ryazansky, S, Aravin, AA, Esyunina, D, Murakami, KS & Kulbachinskiy, A 2022, 'Author Correction: Programmable RNA targeting by bacterial Argonaute nucleases with unconventional guide binding and cleavage specificity (Nature Communications, (2022), 13, 1, (4624), 10.1038/s41467-022-32079-5)', Nature communications, vol. 13, no. 1, 4839. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32616-2
Mandell, ZF, Vishwakarma, RK, Yakhnin, H, Murakami, KS, Kashlev, M & Babitzke, P 2022, 'Comprehensive transcription terminator atlas for Bacillus subtilis', Nature Microbiology, vol. 7, no. 11, pp. 1918-1931. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-022-01240-7
Narayanan, A, Narwal, M, Majowicz, SA, Varricchio, C, Toner, SA, Ballatore, C, Brancale, A, Murakami, KS & Jose, J 2022, 'Identification of SARS-CoV-2 inhibitors targeting Mpro and PLpro using in-cell-protease assay', Communications Biology, vol. 5, no. 1, 169. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03090-9
Portman, JR, Zuhaib Qayyum, M, Murakami, KS & Strick, TR 2022, 'On the stability of stalled RNA polymerase and its removal by RapA', Nucleic acids research, vol. 50, no. 13, pp. 7396-7405. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkac558
Rajeswaran, W, Ashkar, SR, Lee, PH, Yeomans, L, Shin, Y, Franzblau, SG, Murakami, KS, Showalter, HD & Garcia, GA 2022, 'Optimization of Benzoxazinorifamycins to Improve Mycobacterium tuberculosis RNA Polymerase Inhibition and Treatment of Tuberculosis', ACS Infectious Diseases, vol. 8, no. 8, pp. 1422-1438. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsinfecdis.1c00636
Ashkar, SR, Rajeswaran, W, Lee, PH, Yeomans, L, Thrasher, CM, Franzblau, SG, Murakami, KS, Showalter, HD & Garcia, GA 2022, 'Optimization of Benzoxazinorifamycins to Minimize hPXR Activation for the Treatment of Tuberculosis and HIV Coinfection', ACS Infectious Diseases, vol. 8, no. 8, pp. 1408-1421. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsinfecdis.1c00635
Lisitskaya, L, Shin, Y, Agapov, A, Olina, A, Kropocheva, E, Ryazansky, S, Aravin, AA, Esyunina, D, Murakami, KS & Kulbachinskiy, A 2022, 'Programmable RNA targeting by bacterial Argonaute nucleases with unconventional guide binding and cleavage specificity', Nature communications, vol. 13, no. 1, 4624. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32079-5
Marshall, CJ, Qayyum, MZ, Walker, JE, Murakami, KS & Santangelo, TJ 2022, 'The structure and activities of the archaeal transcription termination factor Eta detail vulnerabilities of the transcription elongation complex', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 119, no. 32, e2207581119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2207581119