Publications

Chaturvedi, V. and Murray, M. J. (2021) Netrins: evolutionarily conserved regulators of epithelial fusion and closure in development and wound-healing. Cell Tissues Organs. 1–19. http://doi.org/10.1159/000513880

Golenkina, S., Manhire-Heath, R., & Murray, M. J. (2021). Exploiting Drosophila melanogaster Wing Imaginal Disc Eversion to Screen for New EMT Effectors. Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, NJ), 2179, 115–134.

Jefferies, G., Somers, J., Lohrey, I., Chaturvedi, V., Calabria, J., Marshall, O. J., et al. (2020). Maintenance of Cell Fate by the Polycomb Group Gene Sex Combs Extra Enables a Partial Epithelial Mesenchymal Transition in Drosophila. G3 • Genes|Genomes|Genetics, 10(12), 4459–4471. http://doi.org/10.1534/g3.120.401785

Chaturvedi V, Fournier-Level A, Cooper HM & Murray MJ. (2019) Loss of Neogenin1 in human colorectal carcinoma cells causes a partial EMT and wound-healing response. Scientific Reports.  1–15.

Golenkina S, Chaturvedi V, Saint R, Murray MJ. (2018) Frazzled can act through distinct molecular pathways in epithelial cells to regulate motility, apical constriction, and localisation of E-Cadherin. PLoS One. 13(3):e0194003.

Murray MJ The Role of Netrins and Their Receptors in Epithelial Mesenchymal Plasticity during Development. (2017)  Cells Tissues Organs. 203(2):71-81.

Pert MC, Gan M, Saint R and Murray MJ.  (2015)  Netrins and Frazzled/DCC promote the migration and mesenchymal to epithelial transition of Drosophila midgut cells. Biology Open. 4(2):1-10.

Murray MJ. (2015) Drosophila models of metastasis. AIMS Genetics 2(1): 25-53. Special Issue: Drosophila models of tumourigenesis.

Doggett K, Turkel N, Willoughby LF, Ellul J, Murray MJ, Richardson HE, Brumby AM. (2015) BTB-Zinc Finger Oncogenes Are Required for Ras and Notch-Driven Tumorigenesis in Drosophila. PLoS One. Jul 24;10(7):e0132987. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0132987. eCollection 2015.

Simpson DA, Thompson AJ, Kowarsky M, Zeeshan NF, Barson MS, Hall LT, Yan Y, Kaufmann S, Johnson BC, Ohshima T, Caruso F, Scholten RE, Saint RB, Murray MJ, Hollenberg LC., (2014) In vivo imaging and tracking of individual nanodiamonds in drosophila melanogaster embryos, Biomed. Opt. Express 5, 1250-1261

Manhire-Heath R, Golenkina S, Saint R, Murray MJ, (2013) Netrin-dependent downregulation of the DCC orthologue, Frazzled, is required for the dissociation of the peripodial epithelium in Drosophila. Nature Communications, 4:2790 pp. 1-10,  DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3790

Murray MJ, Ng MM, Fraval H, Tan J, Liu W, Smallhorn M, Brill JA, Field SJ, Saint R. (2012a). Regulation of Drosophila mesoderm migration by phosphoinositides and the PH domain of the Rho GTP exchange factor Pebble. Developmental Biology 372, 17-27.

Murray MJ, Southall TD, Liu W, Fraval H, Lorensuhewa N, Brand AH, Saint R. (2012b). Snail-dependent repression of the RhoGEF pebble is required for gastrulation consistency in Drosophila melanogaster. Development Genes & Evolution, 1-8. DOI 10.1007/s00427-012-0414-8

Murray MJ and Saint R, Imaging Pluripotent Cell Migration in Drosophila, in Stem Cell Migration, Methods in Molecular Biology, M.-D. Filippi and H. Geiger, Editors. 2011, Humana Press.

Ebrahimi S, Fraval H, Murray MJ, Saint R, Gregory S. Polo Kinase Interacts with RacGAP50C and Is Required to Localize the Cytokinesis Initiation Complex. Journal of Biological Chemistry (2010) vol. 285 (37) pp. 28667-28673.

Murray MJ and Saint R. Photoactivatable GFP resolves Drosophila mesoderm migration behaviour. Development. 2007. 134: 3975-3983.

Gregory SL, Shandala T, O’Keefe L, Jones L, Murray MJ, Saint R. A Drosophila overexpression screen for modifiers of Rho signalling in cytokinesis. Fly. 2007. Jan; 1(1):e1-e10.

Murray MJ, Davidson CM, Hayward NM, Brand AH. The Fes/Fer non-receptor tyrosine kinase cooperates with Src42A to regulate dorsal closure in Drosophila. Development. 2006. May; (133): 3063-3073.

Smallhorn M, Murray MJ, Saint R. The epithelial-mesenchymal transition of the Drosophila mesoderm requires the Rho GTP exchange factor Pebble. Development. 2004 Jun;131(11):2641-51.

Murray MJ, Whitington PM. Effects of roundabout on growth cone dynamics, filopodial length, and growth cone morphology at the midline and throughout the neuropile. Journal of Neuroscience 1999 Sep 15;19(18):7901-12.

Murray MJ, Merritt DJ, Brand AH, Whitington PM. In vivo dynamics of axon pathfinding in the Drosophilia CNS: a time-lapse study of an identified motorneuron. Journal of Neurobiology 1998 Dec;37(4):607-21.