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Dennis R. Dean

Dennis R. Dean

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Chemistry

D-Index
96
Citations
27409
World Ranking
1584
National Ranking
606

Overview

Dennis R. Dean is affiliated with Virginia Tech in the United States and has contributed significantly to research in energy and chemical engineering. Their work focuses extensively on renewable energy, sustainability, and catalysis, with notable interests in molecular biology and materials chemistry as well.

Dean's research addresses several main topics, including:

  • Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins
  • Ammonia synthesis and nitrogen reduction
  • Electrocatalysts for energy conversion
  • Microbial fuel cells and bioremediation
  • Hydrogen storage and materials
  • Metal-catalyzed oxygenation mechanisms
  • RNA modifications and cancer

The scientist has published in various renowned venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Chemical Science
  • mBio
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Chemical Reviews

Dennis R. Dean has coauthored many papers with several researchers, including:

  • Lance C. Seefeldt
  • Brian M. Hoffman
  • Zhi-Yong Yang
  • Ana Pérez-González
  • Dmitriy Lukoyanov

Some recent papers authored by or involving Dean include:

  • Reduction of Substrates by Nitrogenases, 2020, Chemical Reviews
  • Overview of physiological, biochemical, and regulatory aspects of nitrogen fixation in Azotobacter vinelandii, 2022, Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  • Electron Redistribution within the Nitrogenase Active Site FeMo-Cofactor During Reductive Elimination of H2 to Achieve N≡N Triple-Bond Activation, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Comment on "Structural evidence for a dynamic metallocofactor during N 2 reduction by Mo-nitrogenase", 2021, Science
  • The electronic structure of FeV-cofactor in vanadium-dependent nitrogenase, 2021, Chemical Science

Best Publications

  • Mechanism of Nitrogen Fixation by Nitrogenase: The Next Stage

    Brian M. Hoffman;Dmitriy Lukoyanov;Zhi Yong Yang;Dennis R. Dean

  • STRUCTURE, FUNCTION, AND FORMATION OF BIOLOGICAL IRON-SULFUR CLUSTERS

    Deborah C. Johnson;Dennis R. Dean;Archer D. Smith;Michael K. Johnson

  • Assembly of Iron-Sulfur Clusters: IDENTIFICATION OF AN iscSUA-hscBA-fdx GENE CLUSTER FROM AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII

    Limin Zheng;Valerie L. Cash;Dennis H. Flint;Dennis R. Dean

  • Mechanism of Mo-Dependent Nitrogenase

    Lance C. Seefeldt;Brian M. Hoffman;Dennis R. Dean

  • Cysteine desulfurase activity indicates a role for NIFS in metallocluster biosynthesis.

    Limin Zheng;Robert H. White;Valerie L. Cash;Richard F. Jack

  • IscU as a scaffold for iron-sulfur cluster biosynthesis: sequential assembly of [2Fe-2S] and [4Fe-4S] clusters in IscU.

    Jeffrey N. Agar;Carsten Krebs;Jeverson Frazzon;Boi Hanh Huynh

  • Mechanism for the desulfurization of L-cysteine catalyzed by the nifS gene product.

    Limin Zheng;Robert H. White;Valerie L. Cash;Dennis R. Dean

  • Climbing nitrogenase: Toward a mechanism of enzymatic nitrogen fixation

    Brian M. Hoffman;Dennis R. Dean;Lance C. Seefeldt

  • Nitrogenase: a draft mechanism.

    Brian M. Hoffman;Dmitriy Lukoyanov;Dennis R. Dean;Lance C. Seefeldt

  • Physical and genetic map of the major nif gene cluster from Azotobacter vinelandii.

    M R Jacobson;K E Brigle;L T Bennett;R A Setterquist

  • NifS-directed assembly of a transient [2Fe-2S] cluster within the NifU protein.

    Pramvadee Yuvaniyama;Jeffrey N. Agar;Valerie L. Cash;Michael K. Johnson

  • Biochemical and genetic analysis of the nifUSVWZM cluster from Azotobacter vinelandii.

    Marty R. Jacobson;Valerie L. Cash;Mary C. Weiss;Nancy F. Laird

  • Reduction of Substrates by Nitrogenases

    Lance C. Seefeldt;Zhi Yong Yang;Dmitriy A. Lukoyanov;Derek F. Harris

  • Genome Sequence of Azotobacter vinelandii, an Obligate Aerobe Specialized To Support Diverse Anaerobic Metabolic Processes

    João C. Setubal;Patricia dos Santos;Barry S. Goldman;Helga Ertesvåg

  • Feedback regulation of ribosomal protein gene expression in Escherichia coli: structural homology of ribosomal RNA and ribosomal protein MRNA

    Masayasu Nomura;John L. Yates;Dennis Dean;Leonard E. Post

  • IscA, an Alternate Scaffold for Fe−S Cluster Biosynthesis†

    Carsten Krebs;Jeffrey N. Agar;Archer D. Smith;Jeverson Frazzon

  • Nitrogenase metalloclusters: structures, organization, and synthesis.

    D. R. Dean;J. T. Bolin;Limin Zheng

  • The spc rtbosomal protein operon of Eschenchia coli: sequence and cotranscriptlon of the rlbosomal protein genes and a protein export gene

    Douglas Pat Cerretti;Dennis Dean;Geneva R. Davis;David M. Bedwell

  • Formation of iron–sulfur clusters in bacteria: an emerging field in bioinorganic chemistry

    Jeverson Frazzon;Dennis R Dean

  • Catalytic formation of a nitrogenase iron-sulfur cluster.

    Limin Zheng;D. R. Dean

Frequent Co-Authors

Lance C. Seefeldt
Lance C. Seefeldt Utah State University
Brian M. Hoffman
Brian M. Hoffman Northwestern University
Michael K. Johnson
Michael K. Johnson University of Georgia
John W. Peters
John W. Peters Washington State University
Masayasu Nomura
Masayasu Nomura University of Wisconsin–Madison
Simone Raugei
Simone Raugei Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
James B. Howard
James B. Howard University of Minnesota
Gary P. Roberts
Gary P. Roberts University of Wisconsin–Madison
Donald A. Bryant
Donald A. Bryant Pennsylvania State University
Paul W. Ludden
Paul W. Ludden Southern Methodist University

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