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  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Markus W. Ribbe is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on energy-related topics, with significant work in renewable energy, sustainability, and environmental sciences. The scientist's expertise also covers catalysis, materials chemistry, inorganic chemistry, and molecular biology.

The main areas of research undertaken by Markus W. Ribbe include metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins, ammonia synthesis and nitrogen reduction, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, metal-catalyzed oxygenation mechanisms, hydrogen storage and materials, amino acid enzymes and metabolism, and inorganic chemistry and materials.

Markus W. Ribbe has contributed to numerous academic publications. Frequent co-authors in their work include Yilin Hu, Chi Chung Lee, Andrew J. Jasniewski, Joseph B. Solomon, and Kazuki Tanifuji. Common venues for these publications are ChemBioChem, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Angewandte Chemie, Chemical Reviews, and ChemSystemsChem.

Selected recent papers authored by Markus W. Ribbe include:

  • Reactivity, Mechanism, and Assembly of the Alternative Nitrogenases, 2020, Chemical Reviews
  • Second and Outer Coordination Sphere Effects in Nitrogenase, Hydrogenase, Formate Dehydrogenase, and CO Dehydrogenase, 2022, Chemical Reviews
  • Structural evidence for a dynamic metallocofactor during N 2 reduction by Mo-nitrogenase, 2020, Science
  • Evidence of substrate binding and product release via belt-sulfur mobilization of the nitrogenase cofactor, 2022, Nature Catalysis
  • X-Ray Crystallographic Analysis of NifB with a Full Complement of Clusters: Structural Insights into the Radical SAM-Dependent Carbide Insertion During Nitrogenase Cofactor Assembly, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition

In recognition of their scientific contributions, Markus W. Ribbe was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2012.

Best Publications

  • X-ray Emission Spectroscopy Evidences a Central Carbon in the Nitrogenase Iron-Molybdenum Cofactor

    Kyle M. Lancaster;Michael Roemelt;Patrick Ettenhuber;Yilin Hu

  • Molybdenum cofactors, enzymes and pathways

    Günter Schwarz;Ralf R. Mendel;Markus W. Ribbe

  • Vanadium Nitrogenase Reduces CO

    Chi Chung Lee;Yilin Hu;Markus W. Ribbe

  • Radical SAM-dependent Carbon Insertion Into the Nitrogenase M-cluster

    Jared A. Wiig;Yilin Hu;Chi Chung Lee;Markus W. Ribbe

  • Extending the Carbon Chain: Hydrocarbon Formation Catalyzed by Vanadium/Molybdenum Nitrogenases

    Yilin Hu;Chi Chung Lee;Markus W. Ribbe

  • N2 Fixation by Streptomyces thermoautotrophicus Involves a Molybdenum-Dinitrogenase and a Manganese-Superoxide Oxidoreductase That Couple N2Reduction to the Oxidation of Superoxide Produced from O2by a Molybdenum-CO Dehydrogenase

    Markus Ribbe;Dilip Gadkari;Ortwin Meyer

  • Formation and Insertion of the Nitrogenase Iron−Molybdenum Cofactor

    Patricia C. Dos Santos;Dennis R. Dean;Yilin Hu;Markus W. Ribbe

  • Structure of a Cofactor-Deficient Nitrogenase MoFe Protein

    Benedikt Schmid;Markus W. Ribbe;Oliver Einsle;Mika Yoshida

  • Reactivity, Mechanism, and Assembly of the Alternative Nitrogenases.

    Andrew J. Jasniewski;Chi Chung Lee;Markus Walter Ribbe;Yilin Hu

  • Structure of precursor-bound NifEN: a nitrogenase FeMo cofactor maturase/insertase.

    Jens T. Kaiser;Yilin Hu;Jared A. Wiig;Douglas C. Rees

  • Biosynthesis of nitrogenase metalloclusters.

    Markus W. Ribbe;Yilin Hu;Keith O. Hodgson;Britt Hedman

  • Structural evidence for a dynamic metallocofactor during N 2 reduction by Mo-nitrogenase

    Wonchull Kang;Chi Chung Lee;Andrew J. Jasniewski;Markus W. Ribbe

  • Identification of a nitrogenase FeMo cofactor precursor on NifEN complex.

    Yilin Hu;Aaron W. Fay;Markus W. Ribbe

  • Nitrogenase and Homologs

    Yilin Hu;Markus W. Ribbe

  • Vanadium Nitrogenase: A Two-Hit Wonder?

    Yilin Hu;Chi Chung Lee;Markus W. Ribbe

  • Unique features of the nitrogenase VFe protein from Azotobacter vinelandii

    Chi Chung Lee;Yilin Hu;Markus W. Ribbe

  • Assembly of nitrogenase MoFe protein.

    Yilin Hu;Aaron W. Fay;Chi Chung Lee;Janice Yoshizawa

  • Biosynthesis of the Metalloclusters of Nitrogenases.

    Yilin Hu;Markus W. Ribbe

  • Structural insights into a protein-bound iron-molybdenum cofactor precursor.

    Mary C. Corbett;Yilin Hu;Aaron W. Fay;Markus W. Ribbe

  • FeMo cofactor maturation on NifEN

    Yilin Hu;Mary C. Corbett;Aaron W. Fay;Jerome A. Webber

Frequent Co-Authors

Yilin Hu
Yilin Hu University of California, Irvine
Keith O. Hodgson
Keith O. Hodgson Stanford University
Britt Hedman
Britt Hedman SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Serena DeBeer
Serena DeBeer Max Planck Society
Oliver Einsle
Oliver Einsle University of Freiburg
Douglas C. Rees
Douglas C. Rees California Institute of Technology
Dennis R. Dean
Dennis R. Dean Virginia Tech
R. David Britt
R. David Britt University of California, Davis
Uwe Bergmann
Uwe Bergmann SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Dieter Jahn
Dieter Jahn Technische Universität Braunschweig

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