Journal Articles
Hart, Christopher J. S., Riches, Andrew G., Tiash, Snigdha, Clapper, Erin, Ramu, Soumya, Zuegg, Johannes, Ryan, John H. and Skinner-Adams, Tina S. (2022). A subset screen of the Compounds Australia Scaffold Library identifies 7-acylaminodibenzoxazepinones as potent and selective hits for anti-Giardia drug discovery. Biomedicines, 10 (12) 3182, 1-14. doi: 10.3390/biomedicines10123182
Blaskovich, Mark A.T., Hansford, Karl A., Butler, Mark S., Ramu, Soumya, Kavanagh, Angela M., Jarrad, Angie M., Prasetyoputri, Anggia, Pitt, Miranda E., Huang, Johnny X., Lindahl, Fredrik, Ziora, Zyta M., Bradford, Tanya, Muldoon, Craig, Rajaratnam, Premraj, Pelingon, Ruby, Edwards, David J., Zhang, Bing, Amado, Maite, Elliott, Alysha G., Zuegg, Johannes, Coin, Lachlan, Woischnig, Anne-Kathrin, Khanna, Nina, Breidenstein, Elena, Stincone, Anna, Mason, Clive, Khan, Nawaz, Cho, Hye-Kyung, Karau, Melissa J. ... Cooper, Matthew A. (2022). A lipoglycopeptide antibiotic for Gram-positive biofilm-related infections. Science Translational Medicine, 14 (662) abj2381, 1-16. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abj2381
Blaskovich, Mark A.T., Hansford, Karl A., Butler, Mark S., Ramu, Soumya, Kavanagh, Angela M., Jarrad, Angie M., Prasetyoputri, Anggia, Pitt, Miranda E., Huang, Johnny X., Lindahl, Fredrik, Ziora, Zyta M., Bradford, Tanya, Muldoon, Craig, Rajaratnam, Premraj, Pelingon, Ruby, Edwards, David J., Zhang, Bing, Amado, Maite, Elliott, Alysha G., Zuegg, Johannes, Coin, Lachlan, Woischnig, Anne-Kathrin, Khanna, Nina, Breidenstein, Elena, Stincone, Anna, Mason, Clive, Khan, Nawaz, Cho, Hye-Kyung, Karau, Melissa J. ... Cooper, Matthew A. (2022). A lipoglycopeptide antibiotic for Gram-positive biofilm-related infections. Science Translational Medicine, 14 (662) abj2381. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abj238
Blaskovich, Mark A. T., Kavanagh, Angela M., Elliott, Alysha G., Zhang, Bing, Ramu, Soumya, Amado, Maite, Lowe, Gabrielle J., Hinton, Alexandra O., Pham, Do Minh Thu, Zuegg, Johannes, Beare, Neil, Quach, Diana, Sharp, Marc D., Pogliano, Joe, Rogers, Ashleigh P., Lyras, Dena, Tan, Lendl, West, Nicholas P., Crawford, David W., Peterson, Marnie L., Callahan, Matthew and Thurn, Michael (2021). The antimicrobial potential of cannabidiol. Communications Biology, 4 (1) 7, 1-18. doi: 10.1038/s42003-020-01530-y
Frei, Angelo, Ramu, Soumya, Lowe, Gabrielle J., Dinh, Hue, Semenec, Lucie, Elliott, Alysha G., Zuegg, Johannes, Deckers, Anke, Jung, Nicole, Bräse, Stefan, Cain, Amy K. and Blaskovich, Mark A. T. (2021). Platinum cyclooctadiene complexes with activity against gram-positive bacteria. ChemMedChem, 16 (20) cmdc.202100157, 1-8. doi: 10.1002/cmdc.202100157
Blaskovich, Mark A. T., Elliott, Alysha G., Kavanagh, Angela M., Ramu, Soumya and Cooper, Matthew A. (2019). In vitro antimicrobial activity of acne drugs against skin-associated bacteria. Scientific Reports, 9 (1) 14658, 14658. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-50746-4
Kavanagh, Angela, Ramu, Soumya, Gong, Yujing, Cooper, Matthew A. and Blaskovich, Mark A. T. (2019). Effects of microplate type and broth additives on microdilution MIC susceptibility assays. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 63 (1) e01760-18. doi: 10.1128/aac.01760-18
Pitt, Miranda E., Cao, Minh Duc, Butler, Mark S., Ramu, Soumya, Ganesamoorthy, Devika, Blaskovich, Mark A. T., Coin, Lachlan J. M. and Cooper, Matthew A. (2018). Octapeptin C4 and polymyxin resistance occur via distinct pathways in an epidemic XDR Klebsiella pneumoniae ST258 isolate. The Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 74 (3), 582-593. doi: 10.1093/jac/dky458
Blaskovich, Mark A T, Hansford, Karl A., Gong, Yujing, Butler, Mark S., Muldoon, Craig, Huang, Johnny X., Ramu, Soumya, Silva, Alberto B., Cheng, Mu, Kavanagh, Angela M., Ziora, Zyta, Premraj, Rajaratnam, Lindahl, Fredrik, Bradford, Tanya A., Lee, June C., Karoli, Tomislav, Pelingon, Ruby, Edwards, David J., Amado, Maite, Elliott, Alysha G, Phetsang, Wanida, Daud, Noor Huda, Deecke, Johan E, Sidjabat, Hanna E, Ramaologa, Sefetogi, Zuegg, Johannes, Betley, Jason R, Beevers, Andrew P G, Smith, Richard A G ... Cooper, Matthew A. (2018). Protein-inspired antibiotics active against vancomycin- and daptomycin-resistant bacteria. Nature Communications, 9 (1) 02123, 22. doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-02123-w
Scott, Fraser J., Nichol, Ryan J. O., Khalaf, Abedawn I., Giordani, Federica, Gillingwater, Kirsten, Ramu, Soumya, Elliott, Alysha, Zuegg, Johannes, Duffy, Paula, Rosslee, Michael-Jon, Hlaka, Lerato, Kumar, Santosh, Ozturk, Mumin, Brombacher, Frank, Barrett, Michael, Guler, Reto and Suckling, Colin J. (2017). An evaluation of Minor Groove Binders as anti-fungal and anti-mycobacterial therapeutics. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 136, 561-572. doi: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2017.05.039
Möhler, Jasper S., Kolmar, Theresa, Synnatschke, Kevin, Hergert, Marcel, Wilson, Liam A., Ramu, Soumya, Elliott, Alysha G., Blaskovich, Mark A.T., Sidjabat, Hanna E., Paterson, David L., Schenk, Gerhard, Cooper, Matthew A. and Ziora, Zyta M. (2017). Enhancement of antibiotic-activity through complexation with metal ions - Combined ITC, NMR, enzymatic and biological studies. Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, 167, 134-141. doi: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2016.11.028
Azmi, Fazren, Elliott, Alysha G., Marasini, Nirmal, Ramu, Soumya, Ziora, Zyta, Kavanagh, Angela M., Blaskovich, Mark A. T., Cooper, Matthew A., Skwarczynski, Mariusz and Toth, Istvan (2016). Short cationic lipopeptides as effective antibacterial agents: design, physicochemical properties and biological evaluation. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 24 (10), 2235-2241. doi: 10.1016/j.bmc.2016.03.053
Gallardo-Godoy, Alejandra, Muldoon, Craig, Becker, Bernd, Elliott, Alysha G., Lash, Lawrence H, Huang, Johnny X., Butler, Mark S., Pelingon, Ruby, Kavanagh, Angela M., Ramu, Soumya, Phetsang, Wanida, Blaskovich, Mark A. T. and Cooper, Matthew A (2016). Activity and predicted nephrotoxicity of synthetic antibiotics based on polymyxin B. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 59 (3), 1068-1077. doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.5b01593
Huang, Johnny X., Blaskovich, Mark A.T., Pelingon, Ruby, Ramu, Soumya, Kavanagh, Angela, Elliott, Alysha G., Butler, Mark S., Montgomery, A. Bruce and Cooper, Matthew A. (2015). Mucin binding reduces colistin antimicrobial activity. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 59 (10), 5925-5931. doi: 10.1128/AAC.00808-15
Jarrad, Angie M., Karoli, Tomislav, Anjan, Debnath, Tay, Chin Yen, Huang, Johnny X., Kaeslin, Geraldine, Elliott, Alysha G., Miyamoto, Yukiko, Ramu, Soumya, Kavanagh, Angela M., Zuegg, Johannes, Eckmann, Lars, Blaskovich, Mark A. and Cooper, Matthew A. (2015). Metronidazole-triazole conjugates: activity against Clostridium difficile and parasites. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 101 7946, 96-102. doi: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2015.06.019
Iscla, Irene, Wray, Robin, Blount, Paul, Larkins-Ford, Johah, Conery, Annie L., Ausubel, Frederick M., Ramu, Soumya, Kavanagh, Angela, Huang, Johnny X., Blaskovich, Mark A., Cooper, Matthew A., Obregon-Henao, Andres, Orme, Ian, Tjandra, Edwin S., Stroeher, Uwe H., Brown, Melissa H., Macardle, Cindy, van Holst, Nick, Tong, Chee Ling, Slattery, Ashley D., Gibson, Christopher T., Raston, Colin L. and Boulos, Ramiz A. (2015). A new antibiotic with potent activity targets MscL. The Journal of Antibiotics, 68 (7), 453-462. doi: 10.1038/ja.2015.4
Cheng, Mu, Huang, Johnny Xiao, Ramu, Soumya, Butler, Mark S. and Cooper, Matthew A. (2014). Ramoplanin at bactericidal concentrations induces bacterial membrane depolarization in Staphylococcus aureus. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 58 (11), 6819-6827. doi: 10.1128/AAC.00061-14
Phetsang, Wanida, Blaskovich, Mark A. T., Butler, Mark S., Huang, Johnny Xiao, Zuegg, Johannes, Mamidyala, Sreeman K., Ramu, Soumya, Kavanagh, Angela M. and Cooper, Matthew A. (2014). An azido-oxazolidinone antibiotic for live bacterial cell imaging and generation of antibiotic variants. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 22 (16), 4490-4498. doi: 10.1016/j.bmc.2014.05.054
Barnes, Emma C., Kavanagh, Angela M., Ramu, Soumya, Blaskovich, Mark A., Cooper, Matthew A. and Davis, Rohan A. (2013). Antibacterial serrulatane diterpenes from the Australian native plant Eremophila microtheca. Phytochemistry, 93, 162-169. doi: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2013.02.021
Mamidyala, Sreeman K., Ramu, Soumya, Huang, Johnny X., Robertson, Avril A. B. and Cooper, Matthew A. (2013). Efficient synthesis of anacardic acid analogues and their antibacterial activities. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 23 (6), 1667-1670. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2013.01.074
Wang, Ching-I A., Shaikh, Nausad H., Ramu, Soumya and Lewis, Richard J. (2012). A second extracellular site is required for norepinephrine transport by the human norepinephrine transporter. Molecular Pharmacology, 82 (5), 898-909. doi: 10.1124/mol.112.080630
Karoli, Tomislav, Becker, Bernd, Zuegg, Johannes, Moellmann, Ute, Ramu, Soumya, Huang, Johnny X. and Cooper, Matthew A. (2012). Identification of antitubercular benzothiazinone compounds by ligand-based design. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 55 (17), 7940-7944. doi: 10.1021/jm3008882
Karoli, Tomislav, Mamidyala, Sreeman K., Zuegg, Johannes, Fry, Scott R., Tee, Ernest H. L., Bradford, Tanya A., Madala, Praveen K., Huang, Johnny X., Ramu, Soumya, Butler, Mark S. and Cooper, Matthew A. (2012). Structure aided design of chimeric antibiotics. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 22 (7), 2428-2433. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2012.02.019
Tee, Ernest H. L., Tomislav Karoli,, Ramu, Soumya, Huang, Johnny X., Butler, Mark S. and Cooper, Matthew A. (2010). Synthesis of Essramycin and Comparison of Its Antibacterial Activity. Journal of Natural Products, 73 (11), 1940-1942. doi: 10.1021/np100648q
Conference Paper
Gong, Y., Muldoon, C. A., Premraj, R., Ziora, Z. M., Bradford, T. A., Cheng, M., Ramu, S., Huang, J. X., Kavanagh, A., Pelingon, R., Lee, J. C., Wong, K., Butler, M. S., Blaskovich, M. A. and Cooper, M. A. (2012). New glycopeptidic antibiotics to combat multidrug resistant pathogens. 32nd European Peptide Symposium, Athens, Greece, 2-7 September 2012. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/psc.2449