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Stephen P. Cramer is affiliated with the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the United States. Their research centers on the study of metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins, with significant contributions to the fields of energy, physics and astronomy, and materials science.

Their work spans various subfields, including renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, inorganic chemistry, materials chemistry, radiation, and electrical and electronic engineering. The principal research topics covered include:

  • Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins
  • Electrocatalysts for energy conversion
  • Metal-catalyzed oxygenation mechanisms
  • Ammonia synthesis and nitrogen reduction
  • Crystallography and radiation phenomena
  • Advanced X-ray imaging techniques
  • X-ray spectroscopy and fluorescence analysis

The scientist has published extensively in several frequent venues, notably:

  • Chemical Science
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Biophysical Journal
  • Crystals

Among recent papers authored or coauthored, there are the following notable works:

  • "Caught in the Hinact: Crystal Structure and Spectroscopy Reveal a Sulfur Bound to the Active Site of an O2-stable State of [FeFe] Hydrogenase" (2020), published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Hydroxy-bridged resting states of a [NiFe]-hydrogenase unraveled by cryogenic vibrational spectroscopy and DFT computations" (2020), published in Chemical Science
  • "The large subunit of the regulatory [NiFe]-hydrogenase from Ralstonia eutropha- a minimal hydrogenase?" (2020), published in Chemical Science
  • "Exploring Structure and Function of Redox Intermediates in [NiFe]-Hydrogenases by an Advanced Experimental Approach for Solvated, Lyophilized and Crystallized Metalloenzymes" (2021), published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Vibrational characterization of a diiron bridging hydride complex - a model for hydrogen catalysis" (2020), published in Chemical Science

Stephen P. Cramer has also contributed to book publications, including the title X-Ray Spectroscopy with Synchrotron Radiation (2020), published by Biological and medical physics, biomedical engineering.

The scientist frequently collaborates with coauthors such as:

  • Yoshitaka Yoda
  • Hongxin Wang
  • Vladimir Pelmenschikov
  • Kenji Tamasaku
  • Christian Lorent

Best Publications

  • Absence of Mn-Centered Oxidation in the S2 → S3 Transition: Implications for the Mechanism of Photosynthetic Water Oxidation

    Johannes Messinger;John H. Robblee;Uwe Bergmann;Carmen Fernandez

  • A 13-element Ge detector for fluorescence EXAFS

    S.P. Cramer;O. Tench;M. Yocum;G.N. George

  • The molybdenum site of nitrogenase. Preliminary structural evidence from x-ray absorption spectroscopy

    Stephen P. Cramer;Keith O. Hodgson;William O. Gillum;Leonard E. Mortenson

  • Ligand Field Strengths and Oxidation States from Manganese L-Edge Spectroscopy

    S. P. Cramer;Y. Ma;C. T. Chen;F. Sette

  • X‐Ray Absorption Spectroscopy: A New Structural Method and Its Applications to Bioinorganic Chemistry

    Stephen P. Cramer;Keith O. Hodgson

  • Determination of the Nitrogen Chemical Structures in Petroleum Asphaltenes Using XANES Spectroscopy

    Sudipa Mitra-Kirtley;Oliver C. Mullins;Jan Van Elp;Simon J. George

  • The manganese site of the photosynthetic water-splitting enzyme

    Graham N. George;Roger C. Prince;Stephen P. Cramer

  • Molybdenum sites of sulfite oxidase and xanthine dehydrogenase. A comparison by EXAFS

    S. P. Cramer;R. Wahl;K. V. Rajagopalan

  • The molybdenum site of nitrogenase. 2. A comparative study of molybdenum-iron proteins and the iron-molybdenum cofactor by x-ray absorption spectroscopy

    Stephen P. Cramer;William O. Gillum;Keith O. Hodgson;Leonard E. Mortenson

  • Identification and characterization of zinc binding sites in protein kinase C.

    Stevan R. Hubbard;W. Robert Bishop;Paul Kirschmeier;Simon J. George

  • Chemical dependence of interatomic X-ray transition energies and intensities – a study of Mn Kβ″ and Kβ2, 5 spectra

    U. Bergmann;C.R. Horne;T.J. Collins;J.M. Workman

  • The Electronic Structure of Mn in Oxides, Coordination Complexes, and the Oxygen-Evolving Complex of Photosystem II Studied by Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering

    Pieter Glatzel;Uwe Bergmann;Junko Yano;Hendrik Visser

  • High-Yield Expression of Heterologous [FeFe] Hydrogenases in Escherichia coli

    Jon M. Kuchenreuther;Celestine S. Grady-Smith;Celestine S. Grady-Smith;Alyssa S. Bingham;Simon J. George;Simon J. George

  • A systematic x-ray absorption study of molybdenum complexes. The accuracy of structural information from extended x-ray absorption fine structure

    Stephen P. Cramer;Keith O. Hodgson;Edward I. Stiefel;William E. Newton

  • Copper L-edge spectral studies. A direct experimental probe of the ground-state covalency in the blue copper site in plastocyanin

    Simon J. George;Michael D. Lowery;Edward I. Solomon;Stephen P. Cramer

  • Bulk-sensitive XAS characterization of light elements: from X-ray Raman scattering to X-ray Raman spectroscopy

    Uwe Bergmann;Uwe Bergmann;Pieter Glatzel;Stephen P. Cramer;Stephen P. Cramer

  • X-ray magnetic circular dichroism—a high energy probe of magnetic properties

    Tobias Funk;Aniruddha Deb;Simon J. George;Hongxin Wang

  • [FeFe]-hydrogenase maturation: HydG-catalyzed synthesis of carbon monoxide.

    Eric M. Shepard;Benjamin R. Duffus;Simon J. George;Shawn E. McGlynn

  • Direct Observation of an Iron-Bound Terminal Hydride in [FeFe]-Hydrogenase by Nuclear Resonance Vibrational Spectroscopy

    Edward J. Reijerse;Cindy C. Pham;Vladimir Pelmenschikov;Ryan Gilbert-Wilson

  • Structure of the active site of sulfite oxidase. X-ray absorption spectroscopy of the Mo(IV), Mo(V), and Mo(VI) oxidation states.

    Graham N. George;Cary A. Kipke;Roger C. Prince;Roger A. Sunde

  • Studies of the ferric forms of cytochrome P-450 and chloroperoxidase by extended x-ray absotption fine structure. Characterization of the iron-nitrogen and iron-sulfur distances

    Stephen P. Cramer;John H. Dawson;Keith O. Hodgson;Lowell P. Hager

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon J. George
Simon J. George University of California, Davis
Uwe Bergmann
Uwe Bergmann SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Graham N. George
Graham N. George University of Saskatchewan
Pieter Glatzel
Pieter Glatzel European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Michael W. W. Adams
Michael W. W. Adams University of Georgia
Elton J. Cairns
Elton J. Cairns University of California, Berkeley
Keith O. Hodgson
Keith O. Hodgson Stanford University
Thomas B. Rauchfuss
Thomas B. Rauchfuss University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Robert A. Scott
Robert A. Scott University of Cambridge
Oliver C. Mullins
Oliver C. Mullins Schlumberger (United States)

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