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Ray Dixon is affiliated with the John Innes Centre in the United Kingdom, contributing to research primarily in Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans various specialized topics, with notable focus areas including wastewater treatment and nitrogen removal, ammonia synthesis and nitrogen reduction, and legume nitrogen-fixing symbiosis.

The scientist's research extensively explores metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins, plant nutrient uptake and metabolism, microbial fuel cells and bioremediation, and microbial community ecology and physiology. These fields align closely with their contributions to plant science, pollution, molecular biology, catalysis, and sustainability.

Ray Dixon has published in several scientific venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • PLoS Genetics
  • Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  • Genes

Several recent papers authored or coauthored by Ray Dixon include:

  • "Using synthetic biology to overcome barriers to stable expression of nitrogenase in eukaryotic organelles" (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "Overview of physiological, biochemical, and regulatory aspects of nitrogen fixation in Azotobacter vinelandii" (2022, Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
  • "Alanine synthesized by alanine dehydrogenase enables ammonium-tolerant nitrogen fixation in Paenibacillus sabinae T27" (2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "Comparative Genomics Provides Insights into the Taxonomy of Azoarcus and Reveals Separate Origins of Nif Genes in the Proposed Azoarcus and Aromatoleum Genera" (2021, Genes)
  • "Disrupting hierarchical control of nitrogen fixation enables carbon-dependent regulation of ammonia excretion in soil diazotrophs" (2021, PLoS Genetics)

Frequent collaborators include Marcelo Bueno Batista (12 publications), John W. Peters (5 publications), Yiping Wang (5 publications), Florence Mus (3 publications), and Jianguo Yang (3 publications).

Best Publications

  • Genetic regulation of biological nitrogen fixation

    Ray Dixon;Daniel Kahn

  • PAS domain S-boxes in archaea, bacteria and sensors for oxygen and redox

    Igor B. Zhulin;Barry L. Taylor;Ray Dixon

  • Distribution of nitrogen fixation and nitrogenase-like sequences amongst microbial genomes

    Patricia C Dos Santos;Zhong Fang;Steven W Mason;João C Setubal;João C Setubal

  • Domain architectures of σ54-dependent transcriptional activators

    David J. Studholme;Ray Dixon

  • Upstream activator sequences are present in the promoters of nitrogen fixation genes

    Martin Buck;Stephen Miller;Martin Drummond;Ray Dixon

  • 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

  • The Role of Bacterial Enhancer Binding Proteins as Specialized Activators of σ54-Dependent Transcription

    Matthew Bush;Ray Dixon

  • A non-haem iron centre in the transcription factor NorR senses nitric oxide

    Benoît D'Autréaux;Nicholas P Tucker;Ray Dixon;Stephen Spiro

  • Biotechnological solutions to the nitrogen problem

    Giles E D Oldroyd;Ray Dixon

  • Genetic Transfer of Nitrogen Fixation from Klebsiella pneumoniae to Escherichia coli

    R A Dixon;J R Postgate

  • The PAS fold. A redefinition of the PAS domain based upon structural prediction.

    Marco H. Hefti;Kees-Jan Françoijs;Sacco C. de Vries;Ray Dixon

  • The Emergence of 2-Oxoglutarate as a Master Regulator Metabolite

    Luciano F. Huergo;Ray Dixon

  • Analysis of regulation of Klebsiella pneumoniae nitrogen fixation (nif) gene cluster with gene fusions

    Ray Dixon;Robert R. Eady;Guadalupe Espin;Susan Hill

  • Azotobacter vinelandii NIFL is a flavoprotein that modulates transcriptional activation of nitrogen-fixation genes via a redox-sensitive switch.

    Susan Hill;Sara Austin;Trevor Eydmann;Tamera Jones

  • The prokaryotic enhancer binding protein NTRC has an ATPase activity which is phosphorylation and DNA dependent.

    S. Austin;R. Dixon

  • The genetic complexity of nitrogen fixation. The ninth Fleming lecture.

    Ray A. Dixon

  • The NifL-NifA System: a multidomain transcriptional regulatory complex that integrates environmental signals.

    Isabel Martinez-Argudo;Richard Little;Neil Shearer;Philip Johnson

  • Functional organization of the simian virus 40 origin of DNA replication.

    J. J. Li;K. W. C. Peden;R. A. F. Dixon;T. Kelly

  • Positive control and autogenous regulation of the nifLA promoter in Klebsiella pneumoniae.

    Martin Drummond;John Clements;Mike Merrick;Ray Dixon

  • Complementation analysis of Klebsiella pneumoniae mutants defective in nitrogen fixation.

    Ray Dixon;Christina Kennedy;Adám Kondorosi;Viji Krishnapillai

Frequent Co-Authors

Mike Merrick
Mike Merrick John Innes Centre
Emanuel M. Souza
Emanuel M. Souza Federal University of Paraná
Fábio O. Pedrosa
Fábio O. Pedrosa Federal University of Paraná
Stephen Spiro
Stephen Spiro The University of Texas at Dallas
Martin Buck
Martin Buck Imperial College London
Robert R. Eady
Robert R. Eady University of Liverpool
João C. Setubal
João C. Setubal Universidade de São Paulo
David J. Studholme
David J. Studholme University of Exeter
Daniel Kahn
Daniel Kahn Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Adam Kondorosi
Adam Kondorosi Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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