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Dr. Mukherjee's Publications

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Juranek J, Mukherjee K, Kordas B, Załęcki M, Korytko A, Zglejc-Waszak K, Szuszkiewicz J, Banach M. Role of RAGE in the Pathogenesis of Neurological Disorders. Neurosci Bull. 2022 Jun 21. doi: 10.1007/s12264-022-00878-x. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35729453.

Mukherjee K, LaConte LEW, Srivastava S. The Non-Linear Path from Gene Dysfunction to Genetic Disease: Lessons from the MICPCH Mouse Model. Cells. 2022 Mar 28;11(7):1131. doi: 10.3390/cells11071131. PMID: 35406695; PMCID: PMC8997851.

Patel PA, Hegert JV, Cristian I, Kerr A, LaConte LEW, Fox MA, Srivastava S, Mukherjee K. Complete loss of the X-linked gene CASK causes severe cerebellar degeneration. J Med Genet. 2022 Feb 11:jmedgenet-2021-108115. doi: 10.1136/jmedgenet-2021-108115. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35149592.

Rajan D, Patel P, Mukherjee K, and Srivastava S. Survival of a male patient harboring CASK Arg27Ter mutation to adolescence. Mol Genet Genomic Med. 2020 Oct;8(10):e1426. doi: 10.1002/mgg3.1426.

Patel P, Liang C, Arora A; Vijayan S, Ahuja S, Wagley P, Settlage, Laconte L, Goodkin H, Lazar I, Srivastava S and Mukherjee K. Haploinsufficiency of X-Linked intellectual disability gene CASK induces post-transcriptional changes in synaptic and cellular metabolic pathways. Exp Neurol. 2020 Jul;329:113319. doi: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2020.113319.

Studtmann C, LaConte L and Mukherjee K. Comments on: A de novo in-frame deletion of CASK gene causes early onset infantile spasms and supratentorial cerebral malformation in a female patient. Am J Med Genet A. 019 Dec;179(12):2514-2516. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.a.61358.

Kerr A, Patel P, LaConte L, Liang C, Chen C-K, Shah V, Fox M, Mukherjee K. Non-cell autonomous role of CASK in optic nerve hypoplasia. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2019 Aug 1;60(10):3584-3594. doi: 10.1167/iovs.19-27197

McMillan RP, Stewart S, Budnick JA, Caswell CC, Hulver MW, Mukherjee K, Srivastava S. Quantitative Variation in m.3243A > G Mutation Produce Discrete Changes in Energy Metabolism. Sci Rep. 2019 Apr 8;9(1):5752.

LaConte LEW, Chavan V, DeLuca S, Rubin K, Malc J, Berry S, Gail Summers C, Mukherjee K. An N-terminal heterozygous missense CASK mutation is associated with microcephaly and bilateral retinal dystrophy plus optic nerve atrophy. Am J Med Genet A. 2019 Jan;179(1):94-103.

LaConte LEW, Chavan V1, Elias AF, Hudson C, Schwanke C, Styren K, Shoof J, Kok F, Srivastava S, Mukherjee K. Two microcephaly-associated novel missense mutations in CASK specifically disrupt the CASK-neurexin interaction. Hum Genet. 2018 Mar;137(3):231-246. doi: 10.1007/s00439-018-1874-3. Epub 2018 Feb 9.

DeLuca S, Wallace D, Trucks M and Mukherjee K. A clinical series using intensive neurorehabilitation to promote functional motor and cognitive skills in three girls with CASK mutation. BMC Res Notes. 2017 Dec 19;10(1):743.

Liang C, Kerr A, Cristofoli F, Van Esch H, Fox MA, Mukherjee K. Optic nerve hypoplasia is a pervasive pathology of subcortical visual system in neonates. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2017 Oct 1;58(12):5485-5496

LaConte L, Srivastava S, and Mukherjee K. Probing Protein Kinase-ATP Interactions Using a Fluorescent ATP Analog. Methods. Mol. Biol. 2017;1647:171-183

Liang C, Chavan V and Mukherjee K. Internalization of scavenger receptor ligands by cortical neurons. Matters 2017 May 22.

Mukherjee K, Clark H, Chavan V, Benson E, Kidd G and Srivastava S. Analysis of brain mitochondria using serial block-face scanning electron microscopy. J. Vis. Exp. (113), e54214, doi:10.3791/54214 (2016).

Srivastava S, McMillan R, Willis J, Clark H, Chavan V, Liang C, Zhang H, Hulver M, Mukherjee K. X-linked intellectual disability gene CASK regulates postnatal brain growth in a non-cell autonomous manner. Acta Neuropathol Commun. 2016 Mar 31;4(1):30.

LaConte LE, Chavan V, Liang C, Willis J, Schönhense EM, Schoch S, Mukherjee K. (2016). CASK stabilizes neurexin and links it to liprin-a in a neuronal activity-dependent manner. Cell Mol Life Sci: [Epub ahead print] doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0088276.

Chavan V, Willis J, Walker SK, Clark HR, Lui X, Fox MA, Srivastava S, Mukherjee K. (2015). Central presynaptic terminals are enriched in ATP but the majority lack mitochondria. PLoS ONE 10(4).

Mukherjee K, Slawson JB, Christmann BL, Griffith LC. (2014). Neuron-specific protein interactions of Drosophila CASK-β are revealed by mass spectrometry. Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience 7(58).

LaConte LEW, Chavan V, Mukherjee K. (2014). Identification and glycerol-induced correction of misfolding mutations in the X-linked mental retardation gene CASK. PLOS ONE.

LaConte L, Mukherjee K. (2013). Structural constraints and functional divergences in CASK evolution. Biochem Soc Trans 41(4): 1017-22.

Pertsinidis A, Mukherjee K, Sharma M, Pang ZP, Park SR, Zhang Y, Brunger AT, Südhof TC, Chu S. (2013). Ultrahigh-resolution imaging reveals formation of neuronal SNARE/Munc18 complexes in situ. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 110(30): E2812-20.

Juranek JK, Mukherjee K, Siddiqui T, Kapland B, Li JY, Ahnert-Hilgerf G, Jahn R, Calka J. (2013). Active zone protein expression changes at the key stages of cerebellar cortex neurogenesis in the rat. Acta Histo 115(6): 616-25.

Mukherjee K. (2012). CASK: A specialized neuronal kinase. In: Neuromethods. (pp. 73-85):

Slawson JB, Kuklin EA, Ejima A, Mukherjee K, Ostrovsky L, Griffith LC. (2011). Central regulation of locomotor behavior of Drosophila melanogaster depends on a CASK isoform containing CaMK-like and L27 domains. Genetics 187(1): 171-8.

Mukherjee K*, Sharma M, Jahn R, Wahl MC and Sudhof TC. * Corresponding author. (2010). Evolution of CASK into a Mg2+-Sensitive Kinase. Science Signaling 3(119): ra33.

Mukherjee K ,Yang X, Gerber SH , Kwon HB , Ho A , Castillo P , Liu X , Südhof TC. (2010). Piccolo and Bassoon maintain synaptic vesicle clustering without directly participating in vesicle exocytosis. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 107(14): 6504-09.

Mukherjee K*, Sharma M, Urlaub H , Bourenkov GP, Jahn R , Sudhof TC and Wahl MC. (2008). CASK functions as a Mg2+-independent neurexin kinase. Cell 133(2): 328-39.

Mukherjee K, Parashuraman S, Raje M, Mukhopadhyay A. (2001). SopE acts as an Rab5-specific nucleotide exchange factor and recruits non-prenylated Rab5 on Salmonella-containing phagosomes to promote fusion with early endosomes. J Biol Chem 276(26): 23607-15.

Mukherjee K, Siddiqi SA., Hashim S, Raje M, Basu SK, and Mukhopadhyay A. (2000). Live Salmonella recruits N-Ethylmaleimide-sensitive Fusion Protein on phagosomal membrane and promotes fusion with early endosome. J Cell Biol 148(4): 41-53.