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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2003 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation

Overview

Amy C. Rosenzweig is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a specialization in Geophysics. They also have significant contributions in Molecular Biology, Environmental Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and Oncology as subfields of study.

The main topics addressed in their work include seismic waves and analysis, methane hydrates and related phenomena, metal-catalyzed oxygenation mechanisms, earthquake detection and analysis, microbial metabolism and enzyme function, porphyrin metabolism and disorders, and trace elements in health.

The scientist has published extensively with frequent appearance in the OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information), which hosts 53 of their publications. Other notable venues where their work appears include the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Biochemistry, Chemical Society Reviews, and Science.

Frequent collaborators include Irina Novikova, Christopher Koo, Christopher W. Koo, Richard J. Jodts, and Brian M. Hoffman. These co-authors have worked extensively with Amy C. Rosenzweig on various projects.

Selected recent papers by Amy C. Rosenzweig include:

  • Biochemistry of aerobic biological methane oxidation, 2021, Chemical Society Reviews
  • Recovery of particulate methane monooxygenase structure and activity in a lipid bilayer, 2022, Science
  • Direct Methane Oxidation by Copper- and Iron-Dependent Methane Monooxygenases, 2024, Chemical Reviews
  • Coordination of the Copper Centers in Particulate Methane Monooxygenase: Comparison between Methanotrophs and Characterization of the CuC Site by EPR and ENDOR Spectroscopies, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Structure and activity of particulate methane monooxygenase arrays in methanotrophs, 2022, Nature Communications

Amy C. Rosenzweig has been recognized by multiple scientific bodies, receiving several fellowships and memberships. They were named a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation in 2003, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2007, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014, and were elected Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Crystal structure of a bacterial non-haem iron hydroxylase that catalyses the biological oxidation of methane

    Amy C. Rosenzweig;Christin A. Frederick;Stephen J. Lippard;Pär Nordlund

  • Crystal structure of double-stranded DNA containing the major adduct of the anticancer drug cisplatin

    Patricia M. Takahara;Amy C. Rosenzweig;Christin A. Frederick;Stephen J. Lippard

  • Crystal structure of a membrane-bound metalloenzyme that catalyses the biological oxidation of methane.

    Raquel L. Lieberman;Amy C. Rosenzweig

  • Oxidation of methane by a biological dicopper centre

    Ramakrishnan Balasubramanian;Stephen M. Smith;Swati Rawat;Liliya A. Yatsunyk

  • Structural biology of copper trafficking.

    Amie K. Boal;Amy C. Rosenzweig

  • The biochemistry of methane oxidation.

    Amanda S Hakemian;Amy C Rosenzweig

  • Geometry of the soluble methane monooxygenase catalytic diiron center in two oxidation states

    Amy C. Rosenzweig;Pär Nordlund;Patricia M. Takahara;Christin A. Frederick

  • Structural basis for copper transfer by the metallochaperone for the Menkes/Wilson disease proteins.

    Amy K. Wernimont;David L. Huffman;Audrey L. Lamb;Thomas V. O'Halloran

  • Enzymatic oxidation of methane.

    Sarah Sirajuddin;Amy C. Rosenzweig

  • Copper Delivery by Metallochaperone Proteins

    Amy C. Rosenzweig

  • Heterodimeric structure of superoxide dismutase in complex with its metallochaperone

    Audrey L. Lamb;Andrew S. Torres;Thomas V. O'Halloran;Amy C. Rosenzweig

  • Crystal structure of the Atx1 metallochaperone protein at 1.02 A resolution.

    Amy C Rosenzweig;David L Huffman;Melody Y Hou;Amy K Wernimont

  • Metallochaperones: Bind and Deliver

    Amy C Rosenzweig

  • X-ray absorption, Moessbauer, and EPR studies of the dinuclear iron center in the hydroxylase component of methane monooxygenase

    Jane G. DeWitt;James G. Bentsen;Amy C. Rosenzweig;Britt Hedman

  • Particulate methane monooxygenase contains only mononuclear copper centers

    Matthew O. Ross;Fraser MacMillan;Jingzhou Wang;Alex Nisthal

  • Biological Methane Oxidation: Regulation, Biochemistry, and Active Site Structure of Particulate Methane Monooxygenase

    Raquel L. Lieberman;Amy C. Rosenzweig

  • A tale of two methane monooxygenases.

    Matthew O. Ross;Amy C. Rosenzweig

  • Structure and chemistry of the copper chaperone proteins.

    Amy C Rosenzweig;Thomas V O’Halloran

  • Structural and mechanistic insights into methane oxidation by particulate methane monooxygenase.

    Ramakrishnan Balasubramanian;Amy C Rosenzweig

  • Crystal structure of the copper chaperone for superoxide dismutase.

    Audrey L. Lamb;Amy K. Wernimont;Robert A. Pufahl;Valeria C. Culotta

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian M. Hoffman
Brian M. Hoffman Northwestern University
Thomas V. O'Halloran
Thomas V. O'Halloran Northwestern University
J. Martin Bollinger
J. Martin Bollinger Pennsylvania State University
Pär Nordlund
Pär Nordlund Karolinska Institute
Carsten Krebs
Carsten Krebs Pennsylvania State University
Joshua Telser
Joshua Telser Roosevelt University
Neil L. Kelleher
Neil L. Kelleher Northwestern University
Paul M. Thomas
Paul M. Thomas Northwestern University

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