Dr Natalie Saez
Research Fellow
Institute for Molecular Bioscience
+61 7 334 62011
Book Chapters
Duhoo, Yoan, Sequeira, Ana Filipa, Saez, Natalie J, Turchetto, Jeremy, Ramond, Laurie, Peysson, Fanny, Brás, Joana L A, Gilles, Nicolas, Darbon, Hervé, Fontes, Carlos M G A and Vincentelli, Renaud (2019). High-throughput production of oxidized animal toxins in Escherichia coli. High-Throughput Protein Production and Purification. (pp. 165-190) edited by Renaud Vincentelli. New York, NY, United States: Humana. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-9624-7_7
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
Saez, Natalie J. and Vincentelli, Renaud (2014). High-throughput expression screening and purification of recombinant proteins in E-coli. Structural genomics: General applications. (pp. 33-53) edited by Yu Wai Chen. New York United States: Humana Press. doi: 10.1007/978-1-62703-691-7_3
Journal Articles
Tran, Hue N. T., Budusan, Elena, Saez, Natalie J., Norman, Alexander, Tucker, Isaac J., King, Glenn F., Payne, Richard J., Rash, Lachlan D., Vetter, Irina and Schroeder, Christina I. (2023). Evaluation of Peptide Ligation Strategies for the Synthesis of the Bivalent Acid-Sensing Ion Channel Inhibitor Hi1a. Organic Letters, 25 (24), 4439-4444. doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.3c01346
Foster, Victoria, Saez, Natalie, Gillespie, Ellen, Jogia, Trisha, Reid, Chantelle, Maljevic, Snezana, Jung, Woncheol, Lao, Hong W., Ruitenberg, Marc Jan and King, Glen (2023). Genetic or pharmacological ablation of acid-sensing ion channel 1a (ASIC1a) is not neuroprotective in a mouse model of spinal cord injury. Journal of Neurotrauma. doi: 10.1089/neu.2022.0295
Eagles, David A., Saez, Natalie J., Krishnarjuna, Bankala, Bradford, Julia J., Chin, Yanni K.-Y., Starobova, Hana, Mueller, Alexander, Reichelt, Melissa E., Undheim, Eivind A. B., Norton, Raymond S., Thomas, Walter G., Vetter, Irina, King, Glenn F. and Robinson, Samuel D. (2022). A peptide toxin in ant venom mimics vertebrate EGF-like hormones to cause long-lasting hypersensitivity in mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119 (7) e2112630119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2112630119
Rivera-de-Torre, Esperanza, Rimbault, Charlotte, Jenkins, Timothy P., Sørensen, Christoffer V., Damsbo, Anna, Saez, Natalie J., Duhoo, Yoan, Hackney, Celeste Menuet, Ellgaard, Lars and Laustsen, Andreas H. (2022). Strategies for heterologous expression, synthesis, and purification of animal venom toxins. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 9 811905, 811905. doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2021.811905
Duggan, Nisharnthi M., Saez, Natalie J., Clayton, Daniel, Budusan, Elena, Watson, Emma E., Tucker, Isaac J., Rash, Lachlan D., King, Glenn F. and Payne, Richard J. (2021). Total synthesis of the spider-venom peptide Hi1a. Organic Letters, 23 (21) acs.orglett.1c03112, 8375-8379. doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.1c03112
Redd, Meredith A., Scheuer, Sarah E., Saez, Natalie J., Yoshikawa, Yusuke, Chiu, Han Sheng, Gao, Ling, Hicks, Mark, Villanueva, Jeanette E., Joshi, Yashutosh, Chow, Chun Yuen, Cuellar-Partida, Gabriel, Peart, Jason N., See Hoe, Louise E., Chen, Xiaoli, Sun, Yuliangzi, Suen, Jacky Y., Hatch, Robert J., Rollo, Ben, Xiao, Di, Alzubaidi, Mubarak A.H., Maljevic, Snezana, Quaife-Ryan, Gregory A., Hudson, James E., Porrello, Enzo R., White, Melanie Y., Cordwell, Stuart J., Fraser, John F., Petrou, Steven, Reichelt, Melissa E. ... Palpant, Nathan J. (2021). Therapeutic inhibition of acid sensing ion channel 1a recovers heart function after ischemia-reperfusion injury. Circulation, 144 (12), 947-960. doi: 10.1161/circulationaha.121.054360
Reynaud, Steve, Ciolek, Justyna, Degueldre, Michel, Saez, Natalie J., Sequeira, Ana Filipa, Duhoo, Yoan, Brás, Joana L A, Meudal, Hervé, Cabo Díez, Miguel, Fernández Pedrosa, Victoria, Verdenaud, Marion, Boeri, Julia, Pereira Ramos, Oscar, Ducancel, Frédéric, Vanden Driessche, Margot, Fourmy, Rudy, Violette, Aude, Upert, Grégory, Mourier, Gilles, Beck-Sickinger, Annette G., Mörl, Karin, Landon, Céline, Fontes, Carlos M. G. A., Miñambres Herráiz, Rebeca, Rodríguez de la Vega, Ricardo C., Peigneur, Steve, Tytgat, Jan, Quinton, Loïc, De Pauw, Edwin ... Gilles, Nicolas (2020). A venomics approach coupled to high-throughput toxin production strategies identifies the first venom-derived melanocortin receptor agonists. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 63 (15), 8250-8264. doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.0c00485
Nixon, Samantha A., Saez, Natalie J., Herzig, Volker, King, Glenn F. and Kotze, Andrew C. (2019). The antitrypanosomal diarylamidines, diminazene and pentamidine, show anthelmintic activity against Haemonchus contortus in vitro. Veterinary Parasitology, 270, 40-46. doi: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2019.05.008
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
Saez, Natalie J. and Herzig, Volker (2019). Versatile spider venom peptides and their medical and agricultural applications. Toxicon, 158, 109-126. doi: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2018.11.298
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
Sequeira, Ana Filipa, Turchetto, Jeremy, Saez, Natalie J., Peysson, Fanny, Ramond, Laurie, Duhoo, Yoan, Blemont, Marilyne, Fernandes, Vânia O., Gama, Luís T., Ferreira, Luís M. A., Guerreiro, Catarina I. P. I., Gilles, Nicolas, Darbon, Hervé, Fontes, Carlos M. G. A. and Vincentelli, Renaud (2017). Gene design, fusion technology and TEV cleavage conditions influence the purification of oxidized disulphide-rich venom peptides in Escherichia coli. Microbial Cell Factories, 16 (1) 4, 4. doi: 10.1186/s12934-016-0618-0
Turchetto, Jeremy, Sequeira, Ana Filipa, Ramond, Laurie, Peysson, Fanny, Bras, Joana L. A., Saez, Natalie J., Duhoo, Yoan, Blemont, Marilyne, Guerreiro, Catarina I. P. D., Quinton, Loic, Pauw, Edwin de, Gilles, Nicolas, Darbon, Hervé, Fontes, Carlos M. G. A. and Vincentelli, Renaud (2017). High-throughput expression of animal venom toxins in Escherichia coli to generate a large library of oxidized disulphide-reticulated peptides for drug discovery. Microbial Cell Factories, 16 (1) 6, 6. doi: 10.1186/s12934-016-0617-1
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
Saez, Natalie J., Nozach, Herve, Blemont, Marilyne and Vincentelli, Renaud (2014). High throughput quantitative expression screening and purification applied to recombinant disulfide-rich venom proteins produced in E. coli. Journal of Visualized Experiments, 1091 (89) e51464, 33-53. doi: 10.3791/51464
Klint, Julie K., Senff, Sebastian, Saez, Natalie J., Seshadri, Radha, Lau, Ho Yee, Bende, Nira J., Undheim, Eivind A. B., Rash, Lachlan D., Mobli, Mehdi and King, Glenn F. (2013). Production of recombinant disulfide-rich venom peptides for structural and functional analysis via expression in the periplasm of E. coli. PLoS One, 8 (5) e63865, e63865.1-e63865.12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063865
Nozach, Hervé, Fruchart-Gaillard, Carole, Fenaille, François, Beau, Fabrice, Ramos, Oscar Henrique Pereira, Douzi, Badreddine, Saez, Natalie J., Moutiez, Mireille, Servent, Denis, Gondry, Muriel, Thaï, Robert, Cuniasse, Philippe, Vincentelli, Renaud and Dive, Vincent (2013). High throughput screening identifies disulfide isomerase DsbC as a very efficient partner for recombinant expression of small disulfide-rich proteins in E. coli. Microbial Cell Factories, 12 (37) 37, 1-16. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-12-37
Saez, Natalie J., Mobli, Mehdi, Bieri, Michael, Chassagnon, Irene R., Malde, Alpeshkumar K., Gamsjaeger, Roland, Mark, Alan E., Gooley, Paul R., Rash. Lachlan D. and King, Glenn F. (2011). A dynamic pharmacophore drives the interaction between psalmotoxin-1 and the putative drug target acid-sensing ion channel 1a. Molecular Pharmacology, 80 (5), 796-808. doi: 10.1124/mol.111.072207
Hu, Shu-Hong, Christie, Michelle P., Saez, Natalie J., Latham, Catherine F., Jarrott, Russell, Lua, Linda H. L., Collins, Brett M. and Martin, Jennifer L. (2011). Possible roles for Munc18-1 domain 3a and Syntaxin1 N-peptide and C-terminal anchor in SNARE complex formation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108 (3), 1040-1045. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0914906108
Seaz, Natalie J., Senff, Sebastian, Jensen, Jonas E., Er, Sing Yan, Herzig, Volker, Rash, Lachlan D. and King, Glenn F. (2010). Spider-venom peptides as therapeutics. Toxins, 2 (12), 2851-2871. doi: 10.3390/toxins2122851
Conference Paper
Redd, M. A., Scheuer, S. E., Saez, N. J., Macdonald, P. S., Palpant, N. J. and King, G. F. (2020). A spider-venom peptide for preventing ischemic injuries of the heart: application to heart transplant and myocardial infarction. Venom Week, Gainesville, FL, United States, 4-7 March, 2020. Oxford, United Kingdom : Elsevier.
Thesis
Saez, Natalie Jose (2013). Characterising the molecular basis of the interaction between the putative drug target ASIC1a and π-TRTX-Pc1a. PhD Thesis, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland.