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Timothy Palzkill is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine.

Their work covers multiple subfields including molecular medicine, molecular biology, infectious diseases, pharmacology, and genetics. The primary focus of their research is on antibiotic resistance in bacteria, antibiotics pharmacokinetics and efficacy, viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, bacterial genetics and biotechnology, antimicrobial resistance in Staphylococcus, viral infections and immunology research, and the pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts.

Palzkill has published papers in several venues, with a frequent presence in:

  • Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • ACS Infectious Diseases
  • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
  • Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Some of the recent papers include:

  • "Transmissible SARS-CoV-2 variants with resistance to clinical protease inhibitors," 2023, Science Advances
  • "Reduced In Vitro Susceptibility of Streptococcus pyogenes to β-Lactam Antibiotics Associated with Mutations in the pbp2x Gene Is Geographically Widespread," 2020, Journal of Clinical Microbiology
  • "DNA-encoded chemistry technology yields expedient access to SARS-CoV-2 M pro inhibitors," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Identifying Oxacillinase-48 Carbapenemase Inhibitors Using DNA-Encoded Chemical Libraries," 2020, ACS Infectious Diseases
  • "Transmissible SARS-CoV-2 variants with resistance to clinical protease inhibitors," 2022, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent collaborators of Palzkill include Banumathi Sankaran, B. V. Venkataram Prasad, Liya Hu, Shuo Lu, and Christina Nnabuife.

Best Publications

  • Metallo-β-lactamase structure and function

    Timothy Palzkill

  • Molecular analysis of beta-lactamase structure and function.

    Fahd K. Majiduddin;Isabel C. Materon;Timothy G. Palzkill

  • A natural polymorphism in β-lactamase is a global suppressor

    Wanzhi Huang;Timothy Palzkill

  • Bufalin is a potent small molecule inhibitor of the steroid receptor coactivators SRC-3 and SRC-1

    Ying Wang;David Michael Lonard;Yang Yu;Dar-Chone Chow

  • Structural and Mechanistic Basis for Extended-Spectrum Drug-Resistance Mutations in Altering the Specificity of TEM, CTX-M, and KPC β-lactamases.

    Timothy Palzkill

  • A secondary drug resistance mutation of TEM-1 β-lactamase that suppresses misfolding and aggregation

    Vera Sideraki;Wanzhi Huang;Timothy Palzkill;Hiram F. Gilbert

  • A Novel Treponema pallidum Antigen, TP0136, Is an Outer Membrane Protein That Binds Human Fibronectin

    Mary Beth Brinkman;Melanie A. McGill;Jonas Pettersson;Arthur Rogers

  • PBP2a Mutations Causing High-Level Ceftaroline Resistance in Clinical Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Isolates

    S. Wesley Long;Randall J. Olsen;Shrenik C. Mehta;Timothy G. Palzkill

  • Small Molecule Inhibition of the Steroid Receptor Coactivators, SRC-3 and SRC-1

    Ying Wang;David M. Lonard;Yang Yu;Dar-Chone Chow

  • Using peptide arrays to define nuclear carrier binding sites on nucleoporins.

    Ian Cushman;Timothy Palzkill;Mary Shannon Moore

  • The protein network of bacterial motility

    Seesandra V Rajagopala;Björn Titz;Johannes Goll;Jodi R Parrish

  • Evolution of antibiotic resistance: several different amino acid substitutions in an active site loop alter the substrate profile of beta-lactamase.

    Timothy Palzkill;Quyen-Quyen Le;K. V. Venkatachalam;Mark LaRocco

  • Systematic mutagenesis of the active site omega loop of TEM-1 beta-lactamase.

    J F Petrosino;T Palzkill

  • β-Lactamases: protein evolution in real time

    Joseph Petrosino;Carlos Cantu;Timothy Palzkill

  • GATA2 facilitates steroid receptor coactivator recruitment to the androgen receptor complex

    Bin He;Rainer B. Lanz;Warren C Fiskus;Chuandong Geng

  • The Binary Protein Interactome of Treponema pallidum - The Syphilis Spirochete

    Björn Titz;Seesandra V. Rajagopala;Johannes Goll;Roman Häuser

  • Structure of the catalytic domain of the colistin resistance enzyme MCR-1

    Vlatko Stojanoski;Banumathi Sankaran;B. V. Venkataram Prasad;Laurent Poirel

  • Deep sequencing of systematic combinatorial libraries reveals β-lactamase sequence constraints at high resolution.

    Zhifeng Deng;Wanzhi Huang;Erol Bakkalbasi;Nicholas G. Brown

  • Penicillin-derived inhibitors that simultaneously target both metallo- and serine-β-lactamases

    John D. Buynak;Hansong Chen;Lakshminaryana Vogeti;Venkat Rao Gadhachanda

  • Reversible Reaction-Based Fluorescent Probe for Real-Time Imaging of Glutathione Dynamics in Mitochondria

    Jianwei Chen;Xiqian Jiang;Chengwei Zhang;Kevin R. MacKenzie

Frequent Co-Authors

B. V. Venkataram Prasad
B. V. Venkataram Prasad Baylor College of Medicine
Mary K. Estes
Mary K. Estes Baylor College of Medicine
Robert L. Atmar
Robert L. Atmar Baylor College of Medicine
James M. Musser
James M. Musser Houston Methodist
George M. Weinstock
George M. Weinstock The Jackson Laboratory
Joseph F. Petrosino
Joseph F. Petrosino Baylor College of Medicine
Randall J. Olsen
Randall J. Olsen Houston Methodist
Bert W. O'Malley
Bert W. O'Malley Baylor College of Medicine
Steven J. Norris
Steven J. Norris The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Jianming Xu
Jianming Xu Zhejiang University

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