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Overview

Satish K. Nair is a researcher affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their academic contributions are primarily situated within the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

Their body of work spans multiple subfields including molecular biology, pharmacology, oncology, epidemiology, and genetics. The main topics addressed in their research encompass:

  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Microbial natural products and biosynthesis
  • Chemical synthesis and analysis
  • Biochemical and structural characterization
  • Peptidase inhibition and analysis
  • Influenza virus research studies
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions

Satish K. Nair has published extensively in a number of scientific journals, with frequent appearances in:

  • Nature Communications
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Nature Chemical Biology
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Their recent notable papers include:

  • New developments in RiPP discovery, enzymology and engineering (2020), published in Natural Product Reports
  • Mechanism of Action of Ribosomally Synthesized and Post-Translationally Modified Peptides (2022), published in Chemical Reviews
  • LanCLs add glutathione to dehydroamino acids generated at phosphorylated sites in the proteome (2021), published in Cell
  • Functional interactions between posttranslationally modified amino acids of methyl-coenzyme M reductase in Methanosarcina acetivorans (2020), published in PLoS Biology
  • Catalysts for the Enzymatic Lipidation of Peptides (2022), published in Accounts of Chemical Research

The researcher collaborates frequently with others in their field, including Andrea Hernandez Garcia, Wilfred A. van der Donk, Konstantin Severinov, Douglas A. Mitchell, and Ruipeng Lei. These collaborations highlight a network of active engagement within the biochemistry and molecular biology research communities.

Best Publications

  • Ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptide natural products: Overview and recommendations for a universal nomenclature

    Paul G. Arnison;Mervyn J. Bibb;Gabriele Bierbaum;Albert Alexander Bowers

  • Structural Mechanism for Rifampicin Inhibition of Bacterial RNA Polymerase

    Elizabeth A. Campbell;Nataliya Korzheva;Arkady Mustaev;Katsuhiko Murakami

  • New developments in RiPP discovery, enzymology and engineering

    Manuel Montalbán-López;Thomas A Scott;Sangeetha Ramesh;Imran R Rahman

  • X-ray structures of Myc-Max and Mad-Max recognizing DNA: Molecular bases of regulation by proto-oncogenic transcription factors

    Satish K. Nair;Stephen K. Burley

  • Mechanistic Understanding of Lanthipeptide Biosynthetic Enzymes

    Lindsay M. Repka;Jonathan R. Chekan;Satish K. Nair;Wilfred A. van der Donk

  • Role of Proteolytic Enzyme in the Prevention of Postoperative Intraperitoneal Adhesions

    Satish K. Nair;Inder K. Bhat;Amrit L. Aurora

  • Structure and mechanism of the lantibiotic cyclase involved in nisin biosynthesis.

    Bo Li;John Paul J. Yu;Joseph S. Brunzelle;Gert N. Moll

  • Structure and mechanism of the tRNA-dependent lantibiotic dehydratase NisB

    Manuel A. Ortega;Yue Hao;Qi Zhang;Mark C. Walker

  • Brd4 maintains constitutively active NF-κB in cancer cells by binding to acetylated RelA

    Zhenhua Zou;Bo Huang;Xuewei Wu;Houjin Zhang

  • Unexpected Ph-Dependent Conformation of His-64, the Proton Shuttle of Carbonic Anhydrase II.

    Satish K. Nair;David W. Christianson

  • Quorum sensing: How bacteria can coordinate activity and synchronize their response to external signals?

    Zhi Li;Satish K. Nair

  • Roles of small laccases from Streptomyces in lignin degradation.

    Sudipta Majumdar;Tiit Lukk;Jose O. Solbiati;Stefan Bauer

  • Two-Site Binding of Phenol in the Active Site of Human Carbonic Anhydrase II: Structural Implications for Substrate Association

    Satish K. Nair;Peter A. Ludwig;David W. Christianson

  • Altering the mouth of a hydrophobic pocket. Structure and kinetics of human carbonic anhydrase II mutants at residue Val-121.

    S K Nair;T L Calderone;D W Christianson;C A Fierke

  • In vitro reconstitution and crystal structure of p-aminobenzoate N-oxygenase (AurF) involved in aureothin biosynthesis.

    Yoo Seong Choi;Houjin Zhang;Joseph S. Brunzelle;Satish K. Nair

  • Mechanism of Action of Ribosomally Synthesized and Post-Translationally Modified Peptides.

    Unknown

  • Xylan utilization in human gut commensal bacteria is orchestrated by unique modular organization of polysaccharide-degrading enzymes

    Meiling Zhang;Jonathan R. Chekan;Dylan Dodd;Pei-Ying Hong

  • Crystal structure of the secretory form of membrane-associated human carbonic anhydrase IV at 2.8-A resolution.

    Travis Stams;Satish K. Nair;Satish K. Nair;Torayuki Okuyama;Abdul Waheed

  • Molecular Basis for the Recognition of Structurally Distinct Autoinducer Mimics by the Pseudomonas aeruginosa LasR Quorum-Sensing Signaling Receptor

    Yaozhong Zou;Satish K. Nair

  • Lantibiotics from Geobacillus thermodenitrificans

    Neha Garg;Weixin Tang;Yuki Goto;Satish K. Nair

  • An unusual carbon–carbon bond cleavage reaction during phosphinothricin biosynthesis

    Robert M. Cicchillo;Houjin Zhang;Joshua A. V. Blodgett;John T. Whitteck

Frequent Co-Authors

Wilfred A. van der Donk
Wilfred A. van der Donk University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Konstantin Severinov
Konstantin Severinov Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
David W. Christianson
David W. Christianson University of Pennsylvania
Huimin Zhao
Huimin Zhao University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Douglas A. Mitchell
Douglas A. Mitchell University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Eric W. Schmidt
Eric W. Schmidt University of Utah
Roderick I. Mackie
Roderick I. Mackie University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
William W. Metcalf
William W. Metcalf University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Carol A. Fierke
Carol A. Fierke Texas A&M University
Stephen K. Burley
Stephen K. Burley Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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