Publications

• Parveen N, Steblina S, Behera A, B, Benckendorff CM, Miller GJ, Davis KE, Mukherjee P. (2025) Aspergillus fumigatus PolX1 is an early ancestor of vertebrate terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferases. Nucleic Acids Research (https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaf1497)

• Shankar S, Pan J, Yang P, Bian Y, Oroszlán G, Yu Z, Mukherjee P, Filman DJ,  Hogle JM, Shekhar M, Coen DM, Abraham J. (2024) Viral DNA polymerase structures reveal mechanisms of antiviral drug resistance. Cell (10.1016/j.cell.2024.07.048)

• Mukherjee P, Lyden P, Fernández JA, Davis TP, Pryor KE, Zlokovic BV, Griffin JH. (2020) 3K3A-activated protein C variant does not interfere with the plasma clot lysis activity of tenecteplase. Stroke 51(7):2236–2239

• Chen PB, Black AS, Sobel AL, Zhao Y, Mukherjee P, Molparia B, Moore N,  Muench GA, Wu J, Chen W, Pinto AFM, Maryanoff BE, Saghatelian A, Soroosh P, Torkamani A, Leman LJ, Ghadiri MR. (2020) Directed remodeling of the gut microbiome inhibits the development of atherosclerosis. Nat. Biotechnology 38,1288–1297.

• Mukherjee P, Leman LJ, Griffin JH and Ghadiri MR. (2018) Design of a DNA-programmed plasminogen activator.  JACS 140 (45), 15516-15524.

• Lawler JL, Mukherjee P, Coen DM. (2018) HSV-1 DNA polymerase RNase H activity acts in a 3’-5’ direction and is dependent on the 3’-5’ exonuclease active site. J Virol. 92(5) e01813-17.

• Mukherjee P*, Wilson RC*, Lahiri I and Pata JD. (2014) Three residues of the interdomain linker determine the conformation and single-base deletion fidelity of Y-family translesion polymerases. J Biol Chem. 289(10):6323-31. 

• Lahiri I*, Mukherjee P*, Pata JD. (2013) Kinetic Characterization of Exonuclease-Deficient Staphylococcus aureus PolC, a C-family Replicative DNA Polymerase. PLoS ONE 8(5): e63489. 

• Mukherjee P*, Lahiri I*, Pata JD. (2013) Human polymerase kappa uses a template- slippage deletion mechanism, but can realign the slipped strands to favour base substitution mutations over deletions. Nucleic Acids Res. 41(9):5024-35. 

* Equal contribution.