Kristen E Murfin
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Recent Articles
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Cao Y, Rosen C, Arora G, Gupta A, Booth C, Murfin K, et al.
Infect Immun
. 2020 Sep;
88(12).
PMID: 32928964
causes Lyme disease, the most common tick-transmitted illness in North America. When feed on an infected vertebrate host, spirochetes enter the tick gut along with the bloodmeal and colonize the...
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Murfin K, Kleinbard R, Aydin M, Salazar S, Fikrig E
Ticks Tick Borne Dis
. 2019 Jun;
10(5):1124-1134.
PMID: 31204044
Lyme disease is a common tick-borne infection caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto (s.s.). B. burgdorferi s.s. may utilize chemotaxis, the directional migration towards or away from a...
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Murfin K, Ginete D, Bashey F, Goodrich-Blair H
Environ Microbiol
. 2018 May;
PMID: 29799156
Bacterial symbionts can affect several biotic interactions of their hosts, including their competition with other species. Nematodes in the genus Steinernema utilize Xenorhabdus bacterial symbionts for insect host killing and...
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Murfin K, Fikrig E
Front Cell Infect Microbiol
. 2017 Jun;
7:222.
PMID: 28634573
No abstract available.
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Wang G, Sun B, Xiong T, Wang Y, Murfin K, Xiao J, et al.
Front Microbiol
. 2016 Dec;
7:1867.
PMID: 27965627
Phage-mediated horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is common in free-living bacteria, and many transferred genes can play a significant role in their new bacterial hosts. However, there are few reports concerning...
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Chen J, Dong H, Murfin K, Feng C, Wu S, Zheng B
Biochem Biophys Res Commun
. 2016 Sep;
478(4):1653-9.
PMID: 27591898
Sortase mediated transpeptidation reactions play a significant role in covalent attachment of surface proteins to the cell wall of Gram-positive bacteria. Earlier studies have shown that sortase A (StrA) is...
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Comparison of Xenorhabdus bovienii bacterial strain genomes reveals diversity in symbiotic functions
Murfin K, Whooley A, Klassen J, Goodrich-Blair H
BMC Genomics
. 2015 Nov;
16:889.
PMID: 26525894
Background: Xenorhabdus bacteria engage in a beneficial symbiosis with Steinernema nematodes, in part by providing activities that help kill and degrade insect hosts for nutrition. Xenorhabdus strains (members of a...
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Murfin K, Lee M, Klassen J, McDonald B, Larget B, Forst S, et al.
mBio
. 2015 Jun;
6(3):e00076.
PMID: 26045536
Unlabelled: Microbial symbionts provide benefits that contribute to the ecology and fitness of host plants and animals. Therefore, the evolutionary success of plants and animals fundamentally depends on long-term maintenance...
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Veesenmeyer J, Andersen A, Lu X, Hussa E, Murfin K, Chaston J, et al.
Mol Microbiol
. 2014 Jul;
93(5):1026-42.
PMID: 25041533
The bacterium Xenorhabdus nematophila is a mutualist of entomopathogenic Steinernema carpocapsae nematodes and facilitates infection of insect hosts. X. nematophila colonizes the intestine of S. carpocapsae which carries it between...
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Chaston J, Murfin K, Heath-Heckman E, Goodrich-Blair H
Cell Microbiol
. 2013 Mar;
15(9):1545-59.
PMID: 23480552
The specificity of a horizontally transmitted microbial symbiosis is often defined by molecular communication between host and microbe during initial engagement, which can occur in discrete stages. In the symbiosis...