At UChicago

Chen G, Fanouraki G, Anandhi Rangarajan A, Winkelman BT, Winkelman JT, Waters CM, Mukherjee S. 2024. Combinatorial control of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm development by quorum-sensing and nutrient-sensing regulators. mSystems. Accepted.

Moreau A, Mukherjee S*, Yan J*. 2023. Mechanical Characterization and Single-Cell Imaging of Bacterial Biofilms. Isr. J. Chem. e202200075. *co-corresponding author

Jiang Z, Nero T, Mukherjee S, Olson R, Yan J. 2021. Searching for the Secret of Stickiness: How Biofilms Adhere to Surfaces. Front Microbiol. 12:686793.

van Kessel JC, Mukherjee S. 2021. Another battle won in the phage-host arms race: Pseudomonas phage blocks quorum sensing regulator LasR. Mol. Cell 81(3):420-422.

Pre UChicago

Mukherjee S, Jemielita M, Stergioula V, Tikhonov M, Bassler BL. 2019. Photo sensing and quorum sensing are integrated to control Pseudomonas aeruginosa collective behaviors. PLoS Biol. 17(12): e3000579.

Mukherjee S, Bassler BL. 2019. Bacterial quorum sensing in complex and dynamically changing environments. Nat. Rev. Microbiol. 17: 371–382.

Yan J, Moreau A, Khodaparast S, Perazzo A, Feng J, Fei C, Mao S, Mukherjee S, Košmrlj A, Wingreen NS, Bassler BL, Stone HA. 2018. Bacterial Biofilm Material Properties Enable Removal and Transfer by Capillary Peeling. Adv Mater. 30: 1804153.

Mukherjee S, Moustafa D, Stergioula V, Smith CD, Goldberg JB, Bassler BL. 2018. PqsE and RhlR are an autoinducer synthase-receptor pair that control virulence and biofilm development in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 115(40): E9411-E9418.

Altegoer F, Mukherjee S, Steinchen W, Bedrunka P, Linne U, Kearns DB, Bange G. 2018. FliS/flagellin/FliW heterotrimer couples type III secretion and flagellin homeostasis. Sci. Reports. 8(1):11552.

Mukherjee S, Moustafa D, Smith CD, Goldberg JB, Bassler BL. 2017. The RhlR quorum-sensing receptor controls Pseudomonas aeruginosa pathogenesis and biofilm development independently of its canonical homoserine lactone autoinducer. PLoS Pathog. 13(7): e1006504

Paczkowski JE, Mukherjee S, McCready AR, Cong JP, Aquino CJ, Kim H, Henke BR, Smith CD, Bassler BL. 2017. Flavonoids suppress Pseudomonas aeruginosa virulence through allosteric Inhibition of Quorum-sensing Receptors. J. Biol. Chem. 292(10):4064-4076

Høyland-Kroghsbo NM, Paczkowski J, Mukherjee S, Broniewski J, Westra E, Bondy-Denomy J, Bassler BL. 2017. Quorum sensing controls the Pseudomonas aeruginosa CRISPR-Cas adaptive immune system. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 114(1):131-135

Mukherjee S, Oshiro RT, Yakhnin H, Babitzke P, Kearns DB. 2016. FliW antagonizes CsrA RNA-binding by a noncompetitive allosteric mechanism. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 113(35):9870-5

Mukherjee S, Bree AC, Liu J, Patrick JE, Chien P, Kearns DB. 2015. Adaptor-dependent Lon proteolysis restricts Bacillus subtilis hyperflagellation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 112(1):250-5

Abbott ZD, Flynn KJ, Bryne BG, Mukherjee S, Kearns DB, Swanson MS. 2015. csrT represents a new class of csrA-like regulatory genes associated with Integrative Conjugative Elements of Legionella pneumophila. J. Bacteriol. pii: JB.00732-15

Mukherjee S, Kearns DB. 2014. The structure and function of flagella in Bacillus subtilis. Annu. Rev. Genet. 48:319-40

Snyder AJ*, Mukherjee S*, Glass JK, Kearns DB, Mukhopadhyay S. 2014. The canonical twin-arginine translocase components are not required for secretion of folded green fluorescent protein from the ancestral strain of B. subtilis. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 80(10):3219-32
*co-first author

Gao X, Mukherjee S, Matthews PM, Hammad LA, Kearns DB, Dann, III CE. 2013. Functional characterization of core components of the Bacillus subtilis cyclic-di-GMP signaling pathway. J. Bacteriol. 195(21): 4782-92

Mukherjee S, Babitzke P, Kearns DB. 2013. FliW and FliS function independently to control cytoplasmic flagellin levels in Bacillus subtilis. J. Bacteriol. 195(2):297-306

Mukherjee S, Yakhnin H, Kysela D, Sokoloski J, Babitzke P, Kearns DB. 2011. CsrA-FliW interaction governs flagellin homeostasis and a checkpoint on flagellar morphogenesis in Bacillus subtilis. Mol. Microbiol. 82(2):447-61