Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2000
B.A., Wellesley College 1995
Hunsaker, Elizabeth W., and Katherine J. Franz. “Copper potentiates azole antifungal activity in a way that does not involve complex formation..” Dalton Transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003), Mar. 2019. Epmc, doi:10.1039/c9dt00642g. Full Text
Franz, Katherine J. “Metallomics: Emerging Investigators 2019..” Metallomics : Integrated Biometal Science, vol. 11, no. 1, Jan. 2019, pp. 9–14. Epmc, doi:10.1039/c8mt90047g. Full Text
Franz, Katherine J., and Nils Metzler-Nolte. “Introduction: Metals in Medicine..” Chemical Reviews, vol. 119, no. 2, Jan. 2019, pp. 727–29. Epmc, doi:10.1021/acs.chemrev.8b00685. Full Text
Wang, Qin, and Katherine J. Franz. “Modifying aroylhydrazone prochelators for hydrolytic stability and improved cytoprotection against oxidative stress..” Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, vol. 26, no. 22, Dec. 2018, pp. 5962–72. Epmc, doi:10.1016/j.bmc.2018.11.004. Full Text
Bakthavatsalam, Subha, et al. “Leveraging γ-Glutamyl Transferase To Direct Cytotoxicity of Copper Dithiocarbamates against Prostate Cancer Cells..” Angew Chem Int Ed Engl, vol. 57, no. 39, Sept. 2018, pp. 12780–84. Pubmed, doi:10.1002/anie.201807582. Full Text
Zaengle-Barone, Jacqueline M., et al. “Copper Influences the Antibacterial Outcomes of a β-Lactamase-Activated Prochelator against Drug-Resistant Bacteria..” Acs Infect Dis, vol. 4, no. 6, June 2018, pp. 1019–29. Pubmed, doi:10.1021/acsinfecdis.8b00037. Full Text
Hall, Kacey C., et al. “Metal-binding hydrazone photoswitches for visible light reactivity and variable relaxation kinetics..” Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences : Official Journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology, vol. 16, no. 11, Nov. 2017, pp. 1604–12. Epmc, doi:10.1039/c7pp00173h. Full Text
Wang, Qin, and Katherine J. Franz. “The hydrolytic susceptibility of prochelator BSIH in aqueous solutions..” Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, vol. 27, no. 17, Sept. 2017, pp. 4165–70. Epmc, doi:10.1016/j.bmcl.2017.07.019. Full Text
Conklin, Steven E., et al. “Specific Histidine Residues Confer Histatin Peptides with Copper-Dependent Activity against Candida albicans..” Biochemistry, vol. 56, no. 32, Aug. 2017, pp. 4244–55. Epmc, doi:10.1021/acs.biochem.7b00348. Full Text Open Access Copy
Helsel, Marian E., et al. “Chemical and functional properties of metal chelators that mobilize copper to elicit fungal killing of Cryptococcus neoformans..” Metallomics : Integrated Biometal Science, vol. 9, no. 1, Jan. 2017, pp. 69–81. Epmc, doi:10.1039/c6mt00172f. Full Text
Wang, Q., and K. J. Franz. “Detection of Metal Ions, Anions and Small Molecules Using Metal Complexes.” Inorganic Chemical Biology: Principles, Techniques and Applications, vol. 9781118510025, 2014, pp. 233–74. Scopus, doi:10.1002/9781118682975.ch8. Full Text
Franz, Katherine J. “Chemical Approaches for Manipulating Microbial Metals.” Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 22, SPRINGER, 2017, pp. S215–S215.
Franz, Katherine J. “Manipulating metals at the host-pathogen interface.” Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society, vol. 247, AMER CHEMICAL SOC, 2014.
Franks, Andrew, et al. “Development of stimulus-responsive metal chelation with novel fluorescence reporting.” Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society, vol. 245, AMER CHEMICAL SOC, 2013.
Franz, Katherine J. “Optimizing prochelators to bind metal ions in response to disease-associated stimuli[p].” Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society, vol. 243, AMER CHEMICAL SOC, 2012.
Folk, Drew S., et al. “BACE activated prochelator mediates A beta-Cu toxicity in an Alzheimer's disease cell model.” Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society, vol. 243, AMER CHEMICAL SOC, 2012.
Zielonka, Jacek, et al. “Dual Antioxidant Activity of Boronate-Based Prochelators: Scavenging Peroxynitrite and Metal Ion Chelation.” Free Radical Biology and Medicine, vol. 51, Elsevier BV, 2011, pp. S100–01. Crossref, doi:10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2011.10.480. Full Text
Franz, Katherine J. “Design of prochelators that bind cellular metal ions in response to diverse stimuli.” Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society, vol. 242, AMER CHEMICAL SOC, 2011.
Franz, Katherine J., and Kathryn L. Haas. “Insights into the role of histidine in Ctr1-dependent copper uptake.” Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society, vol. 240, AMER CHEMICAL SOC, 2010.
Hyman, Lynne M., and Katherine J. Franz. “Development of triggereable chelating agents as probes for metal-induced oxidative stress.” Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society, vol. 240, AMER CHEMICAL SOC, 2010.
Franz, Katherine J. “Recent developments in the design of triggerable chelating agents for altering metal coordination in biological settings.” Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society, vol. 239, AMER CHEMICAL SOC, 2010.
