Satish K. Nair

This study identifies a new phosphonate antibiotic, flavophos, produced by Burkholderia, which inhibits lumazine synthase and confers resistance when expressed in E. coli.

The paper designs a modified tyrosinase enzyme with a substrate recruitment domain to selectively modify tyrosine residues in peptides, enabling efficient bioconjugation of cytotoxic molecules to antibodies.

The paper identifies and characterizes two RNA polymerases in a thermophilic virus, showing their structural and functional differences and evolutionary origin.