Ms Shun Wun
Senior Research Assistant and Laboratory Coordinator - Tuberculosis
School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences
Journal Articles
Keough, Dianne T., Wun, Shun Jie, Baszczyňski, Ondřej, Eng, Wai Soon, Špaček, Petr, Panjikar, Santosh, Naesens, Lieve, Pohl, Radek, Rejman, Dominik, Hocková, Dana, Ferrero, Richard L. and Guddat, Luke W. (2021). Helicobacter pylori xanthine-guanine-hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase - a putative target for drug discovery against gastrointestinal tract infections. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 64 (9), 5710-5729. doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.0c02184
Lin, Xin, Kurz, Julia, Patel, Khushboo, Wun, Shun Jie, Hussein, Waleed, Lonhienne, Thierry, West, Nicholas P., McGeary, Ross P., Schenk, Gerhard and Guddat, Luke William (2021). Discovery of a pyrimidine-dione derivative with potent inhibitory activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis ketol-acid reductoisomerase. Chemistry: A European Journal, 27 (9) chem.202004665, 3130-3141. doi: 10.1002/chem.202004665
Kandale, Ajit, Patel, Khushboo, Hussein, Waleed M., Wun, Shun Jie, Zheng, Shan, Tan, Lendl, West, Nicholas P., Schenk, Gerhard, Guddat, Luke W. and McGeary, Ross P. (2021). Analogues of the herbicide, N-hydroxy-N-isopropyloxamate, inhibit Mycobacterium tuberculosis ketol-acid reductoisomerase and their prodrugs are promising anti-TB drug leads. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 64 (3) acs.jmedchem.0c01919, 1670-1684. doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.0c01919
Wun, Shun Jie, Johnson, Lambro A., You, Lv, McGeary, Ross P., Brueck, Thomas, Schenk, Gerhard and Guddat, Luke W. (2020). Inhibition studies of ketol-acid reductoisomerases from pathogenic microorganisms. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 692 108516, 108516. doi: 10.1016/j.abb.2020.108516
Agnew-Francis, Kylie A., Tang, Yu Cheng, Lin, Xin, Low, Yu Shang, Wun, Shun Jie, Kuo, Andy, Elias, S. M. A. Sayeed Ibn, Lonhienne, Thierry G., Condon, Nicholas, Pimentel, Bruna Natalia Alves da Silva, Vergani, Carlos, Smith, Maree T., Fraser, James A., Williams, Craig M. and Guddat, Luke W (2020). Herbicides that target acetohydroxyacid synthase are potent inhibitors of the growth of drug resistant Candida auris. ACS infectious diseases, 6 (11) acsinfecdis.0c00229, 2901-2912. doi: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.0c00229
Gumulya, Yosephin, Baek, Jong-Min, Wun, Shun-Jie, Thomson, Raine E. S., Harris, Kurt L., Hunter, Dominic J. B., Behrendorff, James B. Y. H., Kulig, Justyna, Zheng, Shan, Wu, Xueming, Wu, Bin, Stok, Jeanette E., De Voss, James J., Schenk, Gerhard, Jurva, Ulrik, Andersson, Shalini, Isin, Emre M., Bodén, Mikael, Guddat, Luke and Gillam, Elizabeth M. J. (2018). Engineering highly functional thermostable proteins using ancestral sequence reconstruction. Nature Catalysis, 1 (11), 878-888. doi: 10.1038/s41929-018-0159-5
You, Lv, Kandale, Ajit, Wun, Shun Jie, McGeary, Ross P., Williams, Simon J., Kobe, Bostjan, Sieber, Volker, Schembri, Mark A., Schenk, Gerhard and Guddat, Luke W. (2016). Crystal structure of Mycobacterium tuberculosis ketol-acid reductoisomerase at 1.0 Å resolution: A potential target for anti-tuberculosis drug discovery. Febs Journal, 283 (7), 1184-1196. doi: 10.1111/febs.13672
Thesis
Wun, Shun Jie (2023). New antimicrobial drug targets. PhD Thesis, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/860a68f