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Katherine J. Franz

Katherine J. Franz

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Chemistry

D-Index
43
Citations
8935
World Ranking
17086
National Ranking
4205

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - ACS Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences, American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • 2008 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Katherine J. Franz is affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with significant work in the subfields of nutrition and dietetics, molecular biology, oncology, epidemiology, and infectious diseases.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Trace Elements in Health
  • Drug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities
  • Protein Hydrolysis and Bioactive Peptides
  • Fungal Infections and Studies
  • Antifungal Resistance and Susceptibility

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Katherine J. Franz include:

  • Connecting copper and cancer: from transition metal signalling to metalloplasia (2021), published in Nature Reviews Cancer
  • A lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase-like protein functions in fungal copper import and meningitis (2020), published in Nature Chemical Biology
  • Intestinal mucin is a chaperone of multivalent copper (2022), published in Cell
  • Protein Folding Stability Changes Across the Proteome Reveal Targets of Cu Toxicity in E. coli (2020), published in ACS Chemical Biology
  • A Cephalosporin Prochelator Inhibits New Delhi Metallo-β-lactamase 1 without Removing Zinc (2020), published in ACS Infectious Diseases

Katherine J. Franz has frequently published in venues such as:

  • ACS Infectious Diseases
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • ACS Chemical Biology
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Metallomics

Collaborations have involved frequent co-authors including Jacqueline M. Zaengle-Barone, Michael C. Fitzgerald, Abigail C. Jackson, Amy T. R. Robison, and Nava Reznik.

The scientist has been recognized with awards such as the ACS Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences by the American Chemical Society in 2020 and was named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Connecting copper and cancer: from transition metal signalling to metalloplasia.

    Eva J Ge;Ashley I Bush;Angela Casini;Paul A Cobine

  • Application of metal coordination chemistry to explore and manipulate cell biology.

    Kathryn L. Haas;Katherine J. Franz

  • Probing oxidative stress: Small molecule fluorescent sensors of metal ions, reactive oxygen species, and thiols

    Lynne M. Hyman;Katherine J. Franz

  • Coordination chemistry of copper proteins: how nature handles a toxic cargo for essential function

    Jeffrey T. Rubino;Katherine J. Franz

  • Lanthanide-binding tags as versatile protein coexpression probes.

    Katherine J. Franz;Mark Nitz;Barbara Imperiali

  • Structural Origin of the High Affinity of a Chemically Evolved Lanthanide-Binding Peptide†

    Mark Nitz;Manashi Sherawat;Katherine J. Franz;Ezra Peisach

  • Protein alignment by a coexpressed lanthanide-binding tag for the measurement of residual dipolar couplings.

    Jens Wöhnert;Katherine J. Franz;Mark Nitz;Barbara Imperiali

  • A powerful combinatorial screen to identify high-affinity terbium(III)-binding peptides.

    Mark Nitz;Katherine J. Franz;Rebecca L. Maglathlin;Barbara Imperiali

  • Minding metals: Tailoring multifunctional chelating agents for neurodegenerative disease

    Lissette R. Perez;Katherine J. Franz

  • A Pro-Chelator Triggered by Hydrogen Peroxide Inhibits Iron-Promoted Hydroxyl Radical Formation

    Louise K. Charkoudian;David M. Pham;Katherine J. Franz

  • Introduction: Metals in Medicine

    Katherine J. Franz;Nils Metzler-Nolte

  • A Mets Motif Peptide Found in Copper Transport Proteins Selectively Binds Cu(I) with Methionine-Only Coordination

    Jianfeng Jiang;Istvan A. Nadas;and M. Alison Kim;Katherine J. Franz

  • Fe(III)-coordination properties of neuromelanin components: 5,6-dihydroxyindole and 5,6-dihydroxyindole-2-carboxylic acid.

    Louise K. Charkoudian;Katherine J. Franz

  • Model peptides provide new insights into the role of histidine residues as potential ligands in human cellular copper acquisition via Ctr1.

    Kathryn L. Haas;Allison B. Putterman;Daniel R. White;Dennis J. Thiele

  • Metal-Based NO Sensing by Selective Ligand Dissociation

    Katherine J. Franz;Nisha Singh;Stephen J. Lippard

  • NO Disproportionation Reactivity of Fe Tropocoronand Complexes

    Katherine J. Franz;Stephen J. Lippard

  • Disproportionation of Nitric Oxide Promoted by a Mn Tropocoronand

    Katherine J. Franz;Stephen J. Lippard

  • A Prochelator Activated by Hydrogen Peroxide Prevents Metal‐Induced Amyloid β Aggregation

    Marina G. Dickens;Katherine J. Franz

  • Pharmacological activity of metal binding agents that alter copper bioavailability

    Marian E. Helsel;Katherine J. Franz

  • A comparison of methionine, histidine and cysteine in copper(I)-binding peptides reveals differences relevant to copper uptake by organisms in diverse environments.

    Jeffrey T. Rubino;Michael P. Chenkin;Matthew Keller;Pamela Riggs-Gelasco

  • A prochelator activated by beta-secretase inhibits Abeta aggregation and suppresses copper-induced reactive oxygen species formation.

    Drew S. Folk;Katherine J. Franz

  • Aminotroponiminates as ligands for potential metal-based nitric oxide sensors.

    Katherine J. Franz;Nisha Singh;Bernhard Spingler;Stephen J. Lippard

Frequent Co-Authors

Dennis J. Thiele
Dennis J. Thiele Sisu Pharma
Daniel J. George
Daniel J. George Duke University
Karen N. Allen
Karen N. Allen Boston University
Jeanet Conradie
Jeanet Conradie University of the Free State
Joshua Telser
Joshua Telser Roosevelt University
Abhik Ghosh
Abhik Ghosh University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Douglas B. Kell
Douglas B. Kell University of Liverpool
Joshua L. Dunaief
Joshua L. Dunaief University of Pennsylvania

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