Ms Kat Matthews

STAFF PROFILE

Position

Associate Research Fellow

Faculty

Faculty of Health

Department

School of Medicine

Campus

Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus

Contact

kat.matthews@deakin.edu.au
+61 3 522 73254

Publications

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2022

A revised mechanism for how Plasmodium falciparum recruits and exports proteins into its erythrocytic host cell

M Gabriela, K Matthews, C Boshoven, B Kouskousis, T Jonsdottir, H Bullen, J Modak, D Steer, B Sleebs, B Crabb, T de Koning-Ward, P Gilson

(2022), Vol. 18, pp. 1-32, PLoS Pathogens, San Francisco, Calif., C1

journal article
2020

Host Porphobilinogen Deaminase Deficiency Confers Malaria Resistance in Plasmodium chabaudi but Not in Plasmodium berghei or Plasmodium falciparum During Intraerythrocytic Growth

C Schnider, H Yang, L Starrs, A Ehmann, F Rahimi, E Di Pierro, G Graziadei, K Matthews, T De Koning-Ward, D Bauer, S Foote, G Burgio, B McMorran

(2020), Vol. 10, Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, Switzerland, C1

journal article
2019

Illuminating how malaria parasites export proteins into host erythrocytes

K Matthews, E Pitman, T de Koning-Ward

(2019), Vol. 21, Cellular Microbiology, India, C1

journal article

Uncoupling the threading and unfoldase actions of plasmodium HSP101 reveals differences in export between soluble and insoluble proteins

K Matthews, M Kalanon, T de Koning-Ward

(2019), Vol. 10, mBio, United States, C1

journal article
2018

The malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum Sortilin is essential for merozoite formation and apical complex biogenesis

S Hallée, N Counihan, K Matthews, T de Koning-Ward, D Richard

(2018), Vol. 20, Cellular Microbiology, India, C1

journal article

The malaria PTEX component PTEX88 interacts most closely with HSP101 at the host-parasite interface

Scott Chisholm, Ming Kalanon, Thomas Nebl, Paul Sanders, Kathryn Matthews, Benjamin Dickerman, Paul Gilson, Tania de Koning-Ward

(2018), Vol. 285, pp. 2037-2055, FEBS journal, Chichester, Eng., C1

journal article
2017

The Plasmodium rhoptry associated protein complex is important for parasitophorous vacuole membrane structure and intraerythrocytic parasite growth

S Ghosh, K Kennedy, P Sanders, K Matthews, S Ralph, N Counihan, T de Koning-Ward

(2017), Vol. 19, Cellular Microbiology, India, C1

journal article

An exported protein-interacting complex involved in the trafficking of virulence determinants in Plasmodium-infected erythrocytes

S Batinovic, E McHugh, S Chisholm, K Matthews, B Liu, L Dumont, S Charnaud, M Schneider, P Gilson, T De Koning-Ward, M Dixon, L Tilley

(2017), Vol. 8, Nature Communications, England, C1

journal article
2016

The Plasmodium translocon of exported proteins component EXP2 is critical for establishing a patent malaria infection in mice

M Kalanon, D Bargieri, A Sturm, K Matthews, S Ghosh, C Goodman, S Thiberge, V Mollard, G Mcfadden, R Ménard, T de Koning-Ward

(2016), Vol. 18, pp. 399-412, Cellular Microbiology, India, C1

journal article
2014

PTEX is an essential nexus for protein export in malaria parasites

B Elsworth, K Matthews, C Nie, M Kalanon, S Charnaud, P Sanders, S Chisholm, N Counihan, P Shaw, P Pino, J Chan, M Azevedo, S Rogerson, J Beeson, B Crabb, P Gilson, T de Koning-Ward

(2014), Vol. 511, pp. 587-591, Nature, London, United Kingdom, C1

journal article
2013

The exported protein PbCP1 localises to cleft-like structures in the rodent malaria parasite Plasmodium berghei

S Haase, E Hanssen, K Matthews, M Kalanon, T de Koning-Ward

(2013), Vol. 8, pp. 1-11, PLoS one, San Francisco, Calif., C1

journal article

The Plasmodium translocon of exported proteins (PTEX) component thioredoxin-2 is important for maintaining normal blood-stage growth

K Matthews, M Kalanon, S Chisholm, A Sturm, C Goodman, M Dixon, P Sanders, T Nebl, F Fraser, S Haase, G McFadden, P Gilson, B Crabb, T de Koning-Ward

(2013), pp. 1-20, Molecular microbiology, Chichester, England, C1

journal article

Funded Projects at Deakin

Industry and Other Funding

Novel approach to isolating antigen targets and developing an mRNA vaccine against Salmonella enterica.

Ms Kat Matthews, A/Prof Tamsyn Crowley

The University of New England trading as Poultry Hub Australia

  • 2023: $26,820

Other Funding Sources

Establishing a Confocal and Super-Resolution Microscopy Suite for the Regional Research Community

Ms Kat Matthews

Ian Potter Foundation Medical Research Program

  • 2023: $140,000

Supervisions

Associate Supervisor
2022

Ethan Pitman

Thesis entitled: Dissection of the assembly and operation of the Plasmodium export machinery

Doctor of Philosophy (Medicine), School of Medicine