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Overview

Julea N. Butt is affiliated with the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily centers on environmental science with a focus on environmental engineering, renewable energy, sustainability, electrical and electronic engineering, electrochemistry, and materials chemistry.

Their recent publications illustrate contributions across multiple facets of bioelectrochemistry and molecular electronics. Selected papers include:

  • The Crystal Structure of a Biological Insulated Transmembrane Molecular Wire (2020) in Cell
  • Which Multi-Heme Protein Complex Transfers Electrons More Efficiently? Comparing MtrCAB from Shewanella with OmcS from Geobacter (2020) in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • Coherent Electron Transport across a 3 nm Bioelectronic Junction Made of Multi-Heme Proteins (2020) in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • Nanosecond heme-to-heme electron transfer rates in a multiheme cytochrome nanowire reported by a spectrally unique His/Met-ligated heme (2021) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Protein film electrochemistry (2023) in Nature Reviews Methods Primers

Their work spans a variety of main topics, including:

  • Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation
  • Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
  • Electrochemical sensors and biosensors
  • CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures
  • Advanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis

Frequent co-authors have formed part of their collaborative network, such as Thomas A. Clarke, Marcus J. Edwards, Jessica H. van Wonderen, Lars J. C. Jeuken, and Erwin Reisner, emphasizing the interdisciplinary nature of the research.

Key publication venues reflecting the dissemination of their work include:

  • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • Chemical Science
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Current Opinion in Electrochemistry

Best Publications

  • Characterization of an electron conduit between bacteria and the extracellular environment

    Robert S. Hartshorne;Catherine L. Reardon;Daniel Ross;Jochen Nuester

  • Structure of a bacterial cell surface decaheme electron conduit

    Thomas A. Clarke;Marcus J. Edwards;Andrew J. Gates;Andrea Hall

  • Multi-haem cytochromes in Shewanella oneidensis MR-1: structures, functions and opportunities

    Marian Breuer;Kevin M. Rosso;Jochen Blumberger;Julea N. Butt

  • Characterization of Shewanella oneidensis MtrC: a cell-surface decaheme cytochrome involved in respiratory electron transport to extracellular electron acceptors

    Robert S. Hartshorne;Brian N. Jepson;Thomas A. Clarke;Sarah J. Field

  • The 'porin-cytochrome' model for microbe-to-mineral electron transfer.

    David J. Richardson;Julea N. Butt;Jim K. Fredrickson;John M. Zachara

  • Carbon Dots as Versatile Photosensitizers for Solar-Driven Catalysis with Redox Enzymes

    Georgina A. M. Hutton;Bertrand Reuillard;Benjamin C. M. Martindale;Christine A. Caputo

  • Rapid electron exchange between surface-exposed bacterial cytochromes and Fe(III) minerals

    Gaye F. White;Zhi Shi;Liang Shi;Zheming Wang

  • Identification and Characterization of MtoA: A Decaheme c-Type Cytochrome of the Neutrophilic Fe(II)-Oxidizing Bacterium Sideroxydans lithotrophicus ES-1

    Juan Liu;Zheming Wang;Sara M. Belchik;Marcus J. Edwards

  • A trans-outer membrane porin-cytochrome protein complex for extracellular electron transfer by Geobacter sulfurreducens PCA

    Yimo Liu;Zheming Wang;Juan Liu;Caleb Levar

  • Structure and Spectroscopy of the Periplasmic Cytochrome c Nitrite Reductase from Escherichia coli

    Vicki A. Bamford;Hayley C. Angove;Harriet E. Seward;Andrew J. Thomson

  • The Crystal Structure of a Biological Insulated Transmembrane Molecular Wire.

    Marcus J. Edwards;Gaye F. White;Julea N. Butt;David J. Richardson

  • Mechanisms of Bacterial Extracellular Electron Exchange

    Gaye F. White;Marcus J. Edwards;Laura Gomez-Perez;David J. Richardson

  • Redox Linked Flavin Sites in Extracellular Decaheme Proteins Involved in Microbe-Mineral Electron Transfer.

    Marcus J. Edwards;Gaye F. White;Michael Norman;Alice Tome-Fernandez

  • Differences in the RNA binding sites of iron regulatory proteins and potential target diversity

    Julea Butt;Hae Yeong Kim;James P. Basilion;Seth Cohen

  • Look on the positive side! The orientation, identification and bioenergetics of 'Archaeal' membrane-bound nitrate reductases

    Rosa María Martinez-Espinosa;Elizabeth J. Dridge;Mari­a J. Bonete;Julea N. Butt

  • The nitric oxide reductase activity of cytochrome c nitrite reductase from Escherichia coli

    Jessica H. van Wonderen;Bénédicte Burlat;David J. Richardson;Myles R. Cheesman

  • A functional description of CymA, an electron-transfer hub supporting anaerobic respiratory flexibility in Shewanella

    Sophie J. Marritt;Thomas G. Lowe;Jordan Bye;Duncan G. G. Mcmillan

  • Methylene blue as an electrochemical discriminator of single- and double-stranded oligonucleotides immobilised on gold substrates

    Akiko Tani;Andrew J. Thomson;Julea N. Butt

  • Spectropotentiometric and structural analysis of the periplasmic nitrate reductase from Escherichia coli.

    Brian J.N. Jepson;Sudesh Mohan;Thomas A. Clarke;Andrew J. Gates

  • Catalytic Protein Film Voltammetry from a Respiratory Nitrate Reductase Provides Evidence for Complex Electrochemical Modulation of Enzyme Activity

    Lee J. Anderson;David J. Richardson;Julea N. Butt

Frequent Co-Authors

David J. Richardson
David J. Richardson Microsoft (United States)
Liang Shi
Liang Shi Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Myles R. Cheesman
Myles R. Cheesman University of East Anglia
Andrew J. Thomson
Andrew J. Thomson University of East Anglia
Jacques Breton
Jacques Breton CEA Saclay
Erwin Reisner
Erwin Reisner University of Cambridge
Fraser A. Armstrong
Fraser A. Armstrong University of Oxford
James K. Fredrickson
James K. Fredrickson Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
John M. Zachara
John M. Zachara Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Jochen Blumberger
Jochen Blumberger University College London

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