Associate Professor Ross Bathgate
Leader, Neuropeptides Division, Senior Research Fellow
Associate Professor Ross Bathgate is a NHMRC Senior Research Fellow and an Honorary Principle Research Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at The University of Melbourne. His work focuses on the relaxin family of peptides and their G-protein coupled receptors. He has published over 165 papers including numerous invited reviews on relaxin peptides and their receptors, with a total of over 2500 career citations. His work has attracted substantial funding from the NHMRC and other Australian funding bodies as well as pharmaceutical companies.
Publications
Listed below are Associate Professor Ross Bathgate’s most recent publications.
- Callander GE, Thomas WG, Bathgate RA.
Prolonged RXFP1 and RXFP2 signaling can be explained by poor internalization and a lack of β-arrestin recruitment Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2009 May;296(5):C1058-66. PMID: 19279230
- Shabanpoor F, Bathgate R, Belgi A, Chan LJ, Nair V, Wade J, Hossain M.
Site-specific conjugation of a lanthanide chelator and its effects on the chemical synthesis and receptor binding affinity of human relaxin-2 hormone. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1970-01-01;420(2):253-6. PMID: 22425984
- Samuel C, Cendrawan S, Gao X, Ming Z, Zhao C, Kiriazis H, Xu Q, Tregear G, Bathgate R, Du X.
Relaxin remodels fibrotic healing following myocardial infarction. Lab Invest 1970-01-01;91(5):675-90. PMID: 21221074
- Shabanpoor F, Zhang S, Hughes R, Hossain M, Layfield S, Ferraro T, Bathgate R, Separovic F, Wade J.
Design and development of analogues of dimers of insulin-like peptide 3 B-chain as high-affinity antagonists of the RXFP2 receptor. Biopolymers 1970-01-01;96(1):81-7. PMID: 20560146
- Hossain M, Wade J, Bathgate R.
Chimeric relaxin peptides highlight the role of the A-chain in the function of H2 relaxin. Peptides 1970-01-01;35(1):102-6. PMID: 22414484
