Book Chapter
Saez, Natalie J., Cristofori-Armstrong, Ben, Anangi, Raveendra and King, Glenn F. (2017). A Strategy for production of correctly folded disulfide-rich peptides in the periplasm of E. coli. In Heterologous Gene Expression in E. coli Methods and Protocols (pp. 155-180) New York, NY United States: Humana Press. doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-6887-9_10
Journal Articles
Cristofori-Armstrong, Ben, Budusan, Elena, Smith, Jennifer J., Reynaud, Steve, Voll, Kerstin, Chassagnon, Irène R., Durek, Thomas and Rash, Lachlan D. (2024). Revealing molecular determinants governing mambalgin-3 pharmacology at acid-sensing ion channel 1 variants. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 81 (1) 266, 266. doi: 10.1007/s00018-024-05276-2
Budusan, Elena, Payne, Colton D., Gonzalez, Tye I., Obergrussberger, Alison, Becker, Nadine, Clark, Richard J., Rosengren, K. Johan, Rash, Lachlan D. and Cristofori-Armstrong, Ben (2024). The funnel-web spider venom derived single knot peptide Hc3a modulates acid-sensing ion channel 1a desensitisation. Biochemical Pharmacology, 228 116175, 1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.bcp.2024.116175
Ramanujam, Venkatraman, Crawford, Theo, Cristofori-Armstrong, Ben, Deuis, Jennifer, Jia, Xinying, Maxwell, Michael, Jami, Sina, Ma, Linlin, Vetter, Irina and Mobli, Mehdi (2024). Structural basis of the bivalency of the TRPV1 agonist DkTx. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 63 (3) e202314621, 1-8. doi: 10.1002/anie.202314621
Ramanujam, Venkatraman, Crawford, Theo, Cristofori‐Armstrong, Ben, Deuis, Jennifer R., Jia, Xinying, Maxwell, Michael J., Jami, Sina, Ma, Linlin, Vetter, Irina and Mobli, Mehdi (2024). Structural basis of the bivalency of the TRPV1 agonist DkTx. Angewandte Chemie, 136 (3), 1-8. doi: 10.1002/ange.202314621
Jami, Sina, Deuis, Jennifer R., Klasfauseweh, Tabea, Cheng, Xiaoyang, Kurdyukov, Sergey, Chung, Felicity, Okorokov, Andrei L., Li, Shengnan, Zhang, Jiangtao, Cristofori-Armstrong, Ben, Israel, Mathilde R., Ju, Robert J., Robinson, Samuel D., Zhao, Peng, Ragnarsson, Lotten, Andersson, Åsa, Tran, Poanna, Schendel, Vanessa, McMahon, Kirsten L., Tran, Hue N. T., Chin, Yanni K.-Y., Zhu, Yifei, Liu, Junyu, Crawford, Theo, Purushothamvasan, Saipriyaa, Habib, Abdella M., Andersson, David A., Rash, Lachlan D., Wood, John N. ... Vetter, Irina (2023). Pain-causing stinging nettle toxins target TMEM233 to modulate NaV1.7 function. Nature Communications, 14 (1) 2442. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-37963-2
Miller, Alexandria N., Houlihan, Patrick R., Matamala, Ella, Cabezas-Bratesco, Deny, Lee, Gi Young, Cristofori-Armstrong, Ben, Dilan, Tanya L., Sanchez-Martinez, Silvia, Matthies, Doreen, Yan, Rui, Yu, Zhiheng, Ren, Dejian, Brauchi, Sebastian E. and Clapham, David E. (2023). The SARS-CoV-2 accessory protein Orf3a is not an ion channel, but does interact with trafficking proteins. eLife, 12 e84477, 1-35. doi: 10.7554/elife.84477
Bulumulla, Chandima, Krasley, Andrew T., Cristofori-Armstrong, Ben, Valinsky, William C., Walpita, Deepika, Ackerman, David, Clapham, David E. and Beyene, Abraham G. (2022). Visualizing synaptic dopamine efflux with a 2D composite nanofilm. eLife, 11 e78773. doi: 10.7554/elife.78773
Finol-Urdaneta, Rocio K., Ziegman, Rebekah, Dekan, Zoltan, McArthur, Jeffrey R., Heitmann, Stewart, Luna-Ramirez, Karen, Tae, Han-Shen, Mueller, Alexander, Starobova, Hana, Chin, Yanni K.-Y., Wingerd, Joshua S., Undheim, Eivind A. B., Cristofori-Armstrong, Ben, Hill, Adam P., Herzig, Volker, King, Glenn F., Vetter, Irina, Rash, Lachlan D., Adams, David J. and Alewood, Paul F. (2022). Multitarget nociceptor sensitization by a promiscuous peptide from the venom of the King Baboon spider. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119 (5) e2110932119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2110932119
Smallwood, Taylor B., Navarro, Severine, Cristofori-Armstrong, Ben, Watkins, Thomas S., Tungatt, Katie, Ryan, Rachael Y.M., Haigh, Oscar L., Lutzky, Viviana P., Mulvenna, Jason P., Rosengren, K. Johan, Loukas, Alex, Miles, John J. and Clark, Richard J. (2021). Synthetic hookworm-derived peptides are potent modulators of primary human immune cell function that protect against experimental colitis in vivo. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 297 (1) 100834, 1-14. doi: 10.1016/j.jbc.2021.100834
Cristofori-Armstrong, Ben, Budusan, Elena and Rash, Lachlan D. (2021). Mambalgin-3 potentiates human acid-sensing ion channel 1b under mild to moderate acidosis: implications as an analgesic lead. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118 (8) e2021581118, 1-3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2021581118
Herzig, Volker, Cristofori-Armstrong, Ben, Israel, Mathilde R., Nixon, Samantha A., Vetter, Irina and King, Glenn F. (2020). Animal toxins — Nature's evolutionary-refined toolkit for basic research and drug discovery. Biochemical Pharmacology, 181 114096, 114096. doi: 10.1016/j.bcp.2020.114096
Cristofori-Armstrong, Ben, Saez, Natalie J., Chassagnon, Irène R., King, Glenn F. and Rash, Lachlan D. (2019). The modulation of acid-sensing ion channel 1 by PcTx1 is pH-, subtype- and species-dependent: importance of interactions at the channel subunit interface and potential for engineering selective analogues. Biochemical Pharmacology, 163, 381-390. doi: 10.1016/j.bcp.2019.03.004
Jin, Ai-hua, Cristofori-Armstrong, Ben, Rash, Lachlan D., Román González, Sergio Agustín, Espinosa, Roberto Arreguín, Lewis, Richard J., Alewood, Paul F. and Vetter, Irina (2019). Novel conorfamides from Conus austini venom modulate both nicotinic acetylcholine receptors and acid-sensing ion channels. Biochemical Pharmacology, 164, 342-348. doi: 10.1016/j.bcp.2019.04.025
Silva, Anjana, Cristofori-Armstrong, Ben, Rash, Lachlan D., Hodgson, Wayne C. and Isbister, Geoffrey K. (2018). Defining the role of post-synaptic α-neurotoxins in paralysis due to snake envenoming in humans. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 75 (23), 4465-4478. doi: 10.1007/s00018-018-2893-x
Madio, Bruno, Peigneur, Steve, Chin, Yanni K. Y., Hamilton, Brett R., Henriques, Sónia Troeira, Smith, Jennifer J., Cristofori-Armstrong, Ben, Dekan, Zoltan, Boughton, Berin A., Alewood, Paul F., Tytgat, Jan, King, Glenn F. and Undheim, Eivind A. B. (2018). PHAB toxins: a unique family of predatory sea anemone toxins evolving via intra-gene concerted evolution defines a new peptide fold. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 75 (24), 4511-4524. doi: 10.1007/s00018-018-2897-6
Shen, Huaizong, Li, Zhangqiang, Jiang, Yan, Pan, Xiaojing, Wu, Jianping, Cristofori-Armstrong, Ben, Smith, Jennifer J., Chin, Yanni K. Y., Lei, Jianlin, Zhou, Qiang, King, Glenn F. and Yan, Nieng (2018). Structural basis for the modulation of voltage-gated sodium channels by animal toxins. Science, 362 (6412) eaau2596, eaau2596-+. doi: 10.1126/science.aau2596
Lee, Jia Yu Peppermint, Saez, Natalie J., Cristofori-Armstrong, Ben, Anangi, Raveendra, King, Glenn F., Smith, Maree T. and Rash, Lachlan D. (2018). Inhibition of acid-sensing ion channels by diminazene and APETx2 evoke partial and highly variable antihyperalgesia in a rat model of inflammatory pain. British Journal of Pharmacology, 175 (12), 2204-2218. doi: 10.1111/bph.14089
Pineda, Sandy S., Chaumeil, Pierre-Alain, Kunert, Anne, Kaas, Quentin, Thang, Mike W. C., Le, Lien, Nuhn, Michael, Herzig, Volker, Saez, Natalie J., Cristofori-Armstrong, Ben, Anangi, Raveendra, Senff, Sebastian, Gorse, Dominique and King, Glenn F. (2017). ArachnoServer 3.0: an online resource for automated discovery, analysis and annotation of spider toxins. Bioinformatics, 34 (6), 1074-1076. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btx661
Cristofori-Armstrong, Ben and Rash, Lachlan D. (2017). Acid-sensing ion channel (ASIC) structure and function: insights from spider, snake and sea anemone venoms. Neuropharmacology, 127, 173-184. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2017.04.042
Wingerd, Joshua S., Mozar, Christine A., Ussing, Christine A., Murali, Swetha S., Chin, Yanni K. -Y., Cristofori-Armstrong, Ben, Durek, Thomas, Gilchrist, John, Vaughan, Christopher W., Bosmans, Frank, Adams, David J., Lewis, Richard J., Alewood, Paul F., Mobli, Mehdi, Christie, Macdonald J. and Rash, Lachlan D. (2017). The tarantula toxin β/δ-TRTX-Pre1a highlights the importance of the S1-S2 voltage-sensor region for sodium channel subtype selectivity.. Scientific Reports, 7 (1) 974, 974. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-01129-0
Er, Sing Yan, Cristofori-Armstrong, Ben, Escoubas, Pierre and Rash, Lachlan D. (2017). Discovery and molecular interaction studies of a highly stable, tarantula peptide modulator of acid-sensing ion channel 1. Neuropharmacology, 127, 185-195. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2017.03.020
Cristofori-Armstrong, Ben, Soh, Ming S., Talwar, Sahil, Brown, Darren L., Griffin, John D. O., Dekan, Zoltan, Stow, Jennifer L., King, Glenn F., Lynch, Joseph W. and Rash, Lachlan D. (2015). Xenopus borealis as an alternative source of oocytes for biophysical and pharmacological studies of neuronal ion channels. Scientific Reports, 5 (1) 14763, 14763.1-14763.12. doi: 10.1038/srep14763
Saez, Natalie J., Deplazes, Evelyne, Cristofori-Armstrong, Ben, Chassagnon, Irene R., Lin, Xiaozhen, Mobli, Mehdi, Mark, Alan E., Rash, Lachlan D. and King, Glenn F. (2015). Molecular dynamics and functional studies define a hot spot of crystal contacts essential for PcTx1 inhibition of acid-sensing ion channel 1a. British Journal of Pharmacology, 172 (20), 4985-4995. doi: 10.1111/bph.13267
Chow, Chun Yuen, Cristofori-Armstrong, Ben, Undheim, Eivind A. B., King, Glenn F. and Rash, Lachlan D. (2015). Three peptide modulators of the human voltage-gated sodium channel 1.7, an important analgesic target, from venom of an Australian tarantula. Toxins, 7 (7), 2494-2513. doi: 10.3390/toxins7072494
Simons, Cas, Rash, Lachlan D., Crawford, Joanna, Ma, Linlin, Cristofori-Armstrong, Ben, Miller, David, Ru, Kelin, Baillie, Gregory J., Alanay, Yasemin, Jacquinet, Adeline, Debray, Franois-Guillaume, Verloes, Alain, Shen, Joseph, Yesil, Goezde, Guler, Serhat, Yuksel, Adnan, Cleary, John G., Grimmond, Sean M., McGaughran, Julie, King, Glenn F., Gabbett, Michael T. and Taft, Ryan J. (2015). Mutations in the voltage-gated potassium channel gene KCNH1 cause Temple-Baraitser syndrome and epilepsy (vol 47, pg 73, 2015). Nature Genetics, 47 (3), 304-304. doi: 10.1038/ng0315-304b
Simons Cas, Rash, Lachlan D., Crawford, Joanna, Ma, Linlin, Cristofori-Armstrong, Ben, Miller, David, Ru, Kelin, Baillie, Gregory J., Alanay, Yasemin, Jacquinet, Adeline, Debray, François-Guillaume, Verloes, Alain, Shen, Joseph, Yesil, Gözde, Guler, Serhat, Yuksel, Adnan, Cleary, John G., Grimmond, Sean M., McGaughran, Julie, King, Glenn F., Gabbett, Michael T. and Taft, Ryan J. (2015). Mutations in the voltage-gated potassium channel gene KCNH1 cause Temple-Baraitser syndrome and epilepsy. Nature Genetics, 47 (1), 73-77. doi: 10.1038/ng.3153
Jensen, Jonas E., Cristofori-Armstrong, Ben, Anangi, Raveendra, Rosengren, K. Johan, Lau, Carus H. Y., Mobli, Mehdi, Brust, Andreas, Alewood, Paul F., King, Glenn F. and Rash, Lachlan D. (2014). Understanding the Molecular Basis of Toxin Promiscuity: The Analgesic Sea Anemone Peptide APETx2 Interacts with Acid-Sensing Ion Channel 3 and hERG Channels via Overlapping Pharmacophores. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 57 (21), 9195-9203. doi: 10.1021/jm501400p
Conference Paper
Tucker, Isaac, King, Glenn, Saez, Natalie, Deplazes, Evelyne, Rash, Lachlan, Cristofori-Armstrong, Ben and Budusan, Elena (2024). In-silico application of structure prediction to peptide mechanism of action. 37th European Peptide Symposium 14th International Peptide Symposium, Florence, Italy, 25-29 August 2024. Oxford, United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons.
Thesis
Cristofori-Armstrong, Ben (2019). Discovery and modulation of acid-sensing ion channel modulating venom peptides. PhD Thesis, School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2019.316