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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

F. Robert Tabita was affiliated with The Ohio State University in the United States. Their research primarily focused on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with particular attention to molecular biology, biochemistry, and rheumatology as subfields. Environmental chemistry and ecology also formed part of their broader research interests.

The scientist's scholarly output included works centered on several topics such as folate and B vitamins research, amino acid enzymes and metabolism, methane hydrates and related phenomena, microbial community ecology and physiology, microbial metabolism and enzyme function, biochemical and molecular research, and carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis.

Frequent co-authors in their research included:

  • Justin A. North
  • John A. Wildenthal
  • Katherine A. Huening
  • Kathryn M. Byerly
  • Joshua T. Groves

Their publications appeared in a variety of venues, including:

  • Science
  • Molecular Microbiology
  • ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
  • Microbiology Spectrum
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Among the notable papers authored were:

  • A nitrogenase-like enzyme system catalyzes methionine, ethylene, and methane biogenesis, 2020, Science
  • A bifunctional salvage pathway for two distinct S-adenosylmethionine by-products that is widespread in bacteria, including pathogenic Escherichia coli, 2020, Molecular Microbiology
  • Carbon Footprint of Biomimetic Carbon Fixation by Immobilizing Nature's CO2-sequestering Enzyme and Regenerating Its Energy Carrier, 2020, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
  • Escherichia coli possessing the dihydroxyacetone phosphate shunt utilize 5'-deoxynucleosides for growth, 2024, Microbiology Spectrum
  • Utilization of 5'-deoxy-nucleosides as Growth Substrates by Extraintestinal Pathogenic E. coli via the Dihydroxyacetone Phosphate Shunt, 2023, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The scientist was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Complete genome sequence of the metabolically versatile photosynthetic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris

    Frank W Larimer;Patrick S. G. Chain;Patrick S. G. Chain;Loren John Hauser;Loren John Hauser;Jane Lamerdin

  • Microbial ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase: A different perspective

    F. Robert Tabita

  • Distinct form I, II, III, and IV Rubisco proteins from the three kingdoms of life provide clues about Rubisco evolution and structure/function relationships

    F. Robert Tabita;Sriram Satagopan;Thomas E. Hanson;Nathan E. Kreel

  • Function, Structure, and Evolution of the RubisCO-Like Proteins and Their RubisCO Homologs

    F. Robert Tabita;Thomas E. Hanson;Huiying Li;Sriram Satagopan

  • Alkalilimnicola ehrlichii sp. nov., a novel, arsenite-oxidizing haloalkaliphilic gammaproteobacterium capable of chemoautotrophic or heterotrophic growth with nitrate or oxygen as the electron acceptor.

    Shelley E. Hoeft;Jodi Switzer Blum;John F. Stolz;F. Robert Tabita

  • Microbial ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase: a molecule for phylogenetic and enzymological investigation

    Gregory M.F Watson;F.Robert Tabita

  • A ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RubisCO)-like protein from Chlorobium tepidum that is involved with sulfur metabolism and the response to oxidative stress

    Thomas E. Hanson;F. Robert Tabita

  • The Biochemistry and Metabolic Regulation of Carbon Metabolism and CO2 Fixation in Purple Bacteria

    F. Robert Tabita

  • Phylogenetic and evolutionary relationships of RubisCO and the RubisCO-like proteins and the functional lessons provided by diverse molecular forms.

    F. Robert Tabita;Thomas E Hanson;Sriram Satagopan;Brian H Witte

  • RubisCO of a nucleoside pathway known from Archaea is found in diverse uncultivated phyla in bacteria

    Kelly C Wrighton;Cindy J Castelle;Vanessa A Varaljay;Sriram Satagopan

  • Real-Time PCR Quantification of rbcL (Ribulose-1,5-Bisphosphate Carboxylase/Oxygenase) mRNA in Diatoms and Pelagophytes

    B. Wawrik;J. H. Paul;F. R. Tabita

  • Regulators of nonsulfur purple phototrophic bacteria and the interactive control of CO2 assimilation, nitrogen fixation, hydrogen metabolism and energy generation

    James M. Dubbs;F. Robert Tabita

  • Determination and comparison of the baseline proteomes of the versatile microbe Rhodopseudomonas palustris under its major metabolic states.

    Nathan C Verberkmoes;Manesh B Shah;Patricia K Lankford;Dale A Pelletier

  • Synthesis of Catalytically Active Form III Ribulose 1,5-Bisphosphate Carboxylase/Oxygenase in Archaea

    Michael W. Finn;F. Robert Tabita

  • Positive and negative selection of mutant forms of prokaryotic (cyanobacterial) ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase.

    Stephanie A Smith;F.Robert Tabita

  • Kinetic isotope effect and characterization of form II RubisCO from the chemoautotrophic endosymbionts of the hydrothermal vent tubeworm Riftia pachyptila

    Jonathan J. Robinson;Kathleen M. Scott;S. Todd Swanson;Marion H. O'Leary

  • Interaction of CbbR and RegA* Transcription Regulators with the Rhodobacter sphaeroides cbbI Promoter-Operator Region

    James M. Dubbs;Terry H. Bird;Carl E. Bauer;F.Robert Tabita

  • Facile assay of enzymes unique to the Calvin cycle in intact cells, with special reference to ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase☆

    F.Robert Tabita;Pia Caruso;William Whitman

  • Inhibition of D-ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase by pyridoxal 5'-phosphate.

    William Whitman;F.Robert Tabita

  • Maintenance and control of redox poise in Rhodobacter capsulatus strains deficient in the Calvin-Benson-Bassham pathway.

    Mary A. Tichi;F. Robert Tabita

Frequent Co-Authors

John H. Paul
John H. Paul University of South Florida St. Petersburg
John A. Gerlt
John A. Gerlt University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ronald S. Oremland
Ronald S. Oremland United States Geological Survey
Robert L. Hettich
Robert L. Hettich Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Jillian F. Banfield
Jillian F. Banfield University of California, Berkeley
Dale A. Pelletier
Dale A. Pelletier Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Lisa Campbell
Lisa Campbell Texas A&M University
Loren Hauser
Loren Hauser Digital Infuzion (United States)
Miriam Land
Miriam Land Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Patrick S. G. Chain
Patrick S. G. Chain Los Alamos National Laboratory

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