Katsuhiko Murakami

Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Katsuhiko Murakami

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Structural and Mechanistic Enzymology of Prokaryotic RNA Polymerases

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Dna Directed Rna Polymerases Dna Bacterial Rna Holoenzymes Transcription Rna Escherichia Coli Deoxyribonucleic Acid X Rays Bacteria Proteins Sugars Nucleic Acids Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Rifampin Mutation Polytetrafluoroethylene Communication Joining Archaeal Rna Archaea Ribosomal Rna Substrates Growth Poles

Most Recent Papers

The mechanism of the nucleo-sugar selection by multi-subunit RNA polymerases

Janne J. Mäkinen, Yeonoh Shin, Eeva Vieras, Pasi Virta, Mikko Metsä-Ketelä, Katsuhiko S. Murakami, Georgiy A. Belogurov, 2021, Nature Communications

Structural basis of ribosomal RNA transcription regulation

Yeonoh Shin, M. Zuhaib Qayyum, Danil Pupov, Daria Esyunina, Andrey Kulbachinskiy, Katsuhiko S. Murakami, 2021, Nature Communications

Direct binding of TFEα opens DNA binding cleft of RNA polymerase

Sung Hoon Jun, Jaekyung Hyun, Jeong Seok Cha, Hoyoung Kim, Michael S. Bartlett, Hyun Soo Cho, Katsuhiko S. Murakami, 2020, Nature Communications

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Samuel J. Black, Ahmet Y. Ozdemir, Ekaterina Kashkina, Tatiana Kent, Timur Rusanov, Dejan Ristic, Yeonoh Shin, Antonio Suma, Trung Hoang, Gurushankar Chandramouly, Labiba A. Siddique, Nikita Borisonnik, Katherine Sullivan-Reed, Joseph S. Mallon, Tomasz Skorski, Vincenzo Carnevale, Katsuhiko S. Murakami, Claire Wyman, Richard T. Pomerantz, 2020, Nature Communications

Mycobacterial HelD is a nucleic acids-clearing factor for RNA polymerase

Tomáš Kouba, Tomáš Koval’, Petra Sudzinová, Jiří Pospíšil, Barbora Brezovská, Jarmila Hnilicová, Hana Šanderová, Martina Janoušková, Michaela Šiková, Petr Halada, Michal Sýkora, Ivan Barvík, Jiří Nováček, Mária Trundová, Jarmila Dušková, Tereza Skálová, URee R. Chon, Katsuhiko S. Murakami, Jan Dohnálek, Libor Krásný, 2020, Nature Communications

Evaluation of Bacterial RNA Polymerase Inhibitors in a Staphylococcus aureus-Based Wound Infection Model in SKH1 Mice

Jörg Haupenthal, Yannik Kautz, Walid A.M. Elgaher, Linda Pätzold, Teresa Röhrig, Matthias W. Laschke, Thomas Tschernig, Anna K.H. Hirsch, Vadim Molodtsov, Katsuhiko S. Murakami, Rolf W. Hartmann, Markus Bischoff, 2020, ACS Infectious Diseases on p. 2573-2581

Structural basis of reiterative transcription from the pyrG and pyrBI promoters by bacterial RNA polymerase

Yeonoh Shin, Mark Hedglin, Katsuhiko S. Murakami, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research on p. 2144-2155

Structure and function of an unusual flavodoxin from the domain Archaea

Divya Prakash, Prashanti R. Iyer, Suharti Suharti, Karim A. Walters, Michel Geovanni Santiago-Martinez, John H. Golbeck, Katsuhiko S. Murakami, James G. Ferry, 2019, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 25917-25922

Molecular basis of microhomology-mediated end-joining by purified full-length Polθ

Samuel J. Black, Ahmet Y. Ozdemir, Ekaterina Kashkina, Tatiana Kent, Timur Rusanov, Dejan Ristic, Yeonoh Shin, Antonio Suma, Trung Hoang, Gurushankar Chandramouly, Labiba A. Siddique, Nikita Borisonnik, Katherine Sullivan-Reed, Joseph S. Mallon, Tomasz Skorski, Vincenzo Carnevale, Katsuhiko S. Murakami, Claire Wyman, Richard T. Pomerantz, 2019, Nature Communications on p. 4423

Mode of Action of Kanglemycin A, an Ansamycin Natural Product that Is Active against Rifampicin-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Hamed Mosaei, Vadim Molodtsov, Bernhard Kepplinger, John Harbottle, Christopher William Moon, Rose Elizabeth Jeeves, Lucia Ceccaroni, Yeonoh Shin, Stephanie Morton-Laing, Emma Claire Louise Marrs, Corinne Wills, William Clegg, Yulia Yuzenkova, John David Perry, Joanna Bacon, Jeff Errington, Nicholas Edward Ellis Allenby, Michael John Hall, Katsuhiko Murakami, Nikolay Zenkin, 2018, Molecular Cell on p. 263-274.e5

Most-Cited Papers

Recent functional insights into the role of (p)ppGpp in bacterial physiology

Vasili Hauryliuk, Gemma C. Atkinson, Katsuhiko S. Murakami, Tanel Tenson, Kenn Gerdes, 2015, Nature Reviews Microbiology on p. 298-309

X-ray crystal structure of escherichia coli RNA polymerase σ<sup>70</sup> holoenzyme

Katsuhiko S. Murakami, 2013, Journal of Biological Chemistry on p. 9126-9134

Differential regulation by ppGpp versus pppGpp in Escherichia coli

Undine Mechold, Katarzyna Potrykus, Helen Murphy, Katsuhiko Murakami, Michael Cashel, 2013, Nucleic Acids Research on p. 6175-6189

Structural basis of transcription initiation by bacterial RNA polymerase holoenzyme

Ritwika S. Basu, Brittany A. Warner, Vadim Molodtsov, Danil Pupov, Daria Esyunina, Carlos Fernández-Tornero, Andrey Kulbachinskiy, Katsuhiko S. Murakami, 2014, Journal of Biological Chemistry on p. 24549-24559

Structural biology of bacterial RNA polymerase

Katsuhiko S. Murakami, 2015, Biomolecules on p. 848-864

Fitness costs of rifampicin resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis are amplified under conditions of nutrient starvation and compensated by mutation in the β′ subunit of RNA polymerase

Taeksun Song, Yumi Park, Isdore Chola Shamputa, Sunghwa Seo, Sun Young Lee, Han Seung Jeon, Hongjo Choi, Myungsun Lee, Richard J. Glynne, S. Whitney Barnes, John R. Walker, Serge Batalov, Karina Yusim, Shihai Feng, Chang Shung Tung, James Theiler, Laura E. Via, Helena I.M. Boshoff, Katsuhiko Murakami, Bette Korber, Clifton E. Barry, Sang Nae Cho, 2014, Molecular Microbiology on p. 1106-1119

Structures of the RNA polymerase-σ<sup>54</sup> reveal new and conserved regulatory strategies

Yun Yang, Vidya C. Darbari, Nan Zhang, Duo Lu, Robert Glyde, Yi Ping Wang, Jared T. Winkelman, Richard L. Gourse, Katsuhiko S. Murakami, Martin Buck, Xiaodong Zhang, 2015, Science on p. 882-885

Allosteric Effector ppGpp Potentiates the Inhibition of Transcript Initiation by DksA

Vadim Molodtsov, Elena V. Sineva, Lu Zhang, Xuhui Huang, Michael Cashel, Sarah Ellen Ades, Katsuhiko Murakami, 2018, Molecular Cell on p. 828-839.e5

Structural basis for rifamycin resistance of bacterial RNA polymerase by the three most clinically important RpoB mutations found in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Vadim Molodtsov, Nathan T. Scharf, Maxwell A. Stefan, George A. Garcia, Katsuhiko S. Murakami, 2017, Molecular Microbiology on p. 1034-1045

Archaeal RNA polymerase and transcription regulation

Sung Hoon Jun, Matthew J. Reichlen, Momoko Tajiri, Katsuhiko Murakami, 2011, Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology on p. 27-40