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77
Citations
18570
World Ranking
4100
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33

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2004 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences
  • 1992 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1987 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For applying the resonance methods of physics to a wide variety of biological and chemical problems
  • 1968 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1965 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Sunney I. Chan is affiliated with National Taiwan University in Taiwan and has contributed extensively to research in biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and chemistry. Their work spans several subfields, including molecular biology, inorganic chemistry, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, materials chemistry, and structural biology.

The research topics covered by Sunney I. Chan focus on metal-catalyzed oxygenation mechanisms, microbial metabolism and enzyme function, CO2 reduction techniques and catalysts, heme oxygenase-1 and carbon monoxide, advanced electron microscopy techniques and applications, lanthanide and transition metal complexes, and intracranial aneurysms treatment and complications.

Some of their notable recent publications include:

  • Copper Centers in the Cryo-EM Structure of Particulate Methane Monooxygenase Reveal the Catalytic Machinery of Methane Oxidation, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Turnover of a Methane Oxidation Tricopper Cluster Catalyst: Implications for the Mechanism of the Particulate Methane Monooxygenase (pMMO), 2020, ChemCatChem
  • Mechanism of Pyrroloquinoline Quinone-Dependent Hydride Transfer Chemistry from Spectroscopic and High-Resolution X-ray Structural Studies of the Methanol Dehydrogenase from Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath), 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Catalytic machinery of methane oxidation in particulate methane monooxygenase (pMMO), 2021, Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry
  • Voltage-Gated Electrocatalysis of Efficient and Selective Methane Oxidation by Tricopper Clusters under Ambient Conditions, 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society

The scientist frequently collaborates with colleagues including Steve S.-F. Yu, Wei-Hau Chang, Shih-Hsin Huang, Ping-Yu Chen, and I-Kuen Tsai.

Sunney I. Chan's publications are mainly featured in the following venues:

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • ChemCatChem
  • Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry
  • Journal of the Chinese Chemical Society
  • Fuel

Their body of work relates strongly to the study of catalytic mechanisms involving metals, particularly copper clusters, as well as enzymatic processes in microbial systems. The application of advanced electron microscopy and spectroscopic techniques is a part of their methodology to elucidate structural and functional details of enzymes involved in methane oxidation and related biochemical processes.

Awards received by Sunney I. Chan include fellowships from multiple scientific societies: Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2010), Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (2004), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1992), Fellow of the American Physical Society (1987) with citation for applying resonance methods of physics to biological and chemical problems, Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1968), and Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1965).

Best Publications

  • Effect of sonication on the structure of lecithin bilayers

    Michael P. Sheetz;Sunney I. Chan

  • Alkane Oxidation: Methane Monooxygenases, Related Enzymes, and Their Biomimetics

    Vincent C.-C. Wang;Suman Maji;Peter P.-Y. Chen;Hung Kay Lee

  • Structures and proton-pumping strategies of mitochondrial respiratory enzymes.

    Brian E. Schultz;Sunney I. Chan

  • Reactions of nitric oxide with cytochrome c oxidase.

    Gary W. Brudvig;Tom H. Stevens;Sunney I. Chan

  • More on the motional state of lipid bilayer membranes: interpretation of order parameters obtained from nuclear magnetic resonance experiments.

    Nils O. Petersen;Sunney I. Chan

  • The particulate methane monooxygenase from methylococcus capsulatus (Bath) is a novel copper-containing three-subunit enzyme. Isolation and characterization.

    Hiep-Hoa T. Nguyen;Sean J. Elliott;John Hon-Kay Yip;Sunney I. Chan

  • The nature of the copper ions in the membranes containing the particulate methane monooxygenase from Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath).

    H.H. Nguyen;A.K. Shiemke;S.J. Jacobs;B.J. Hales

  • Controlled oxidation of hydrocarbons by the membrane-bound methane monooxygenase: the case for a tricopper cluster.

    Sunney I. Chan;Steve S.-F. Yu

  • Cytochrome c oxidase: understanding nature's design of a proton pump.

    Sunney I. Chan;Peter Mark Li

  • Interaction and Association of Bases and Nucleosides in Aqueous Solutions. II. Association of 6-Methylpurine and 5-Bromouridine and Treatment of Multiple Equilibria2

    Paul O. P. Ts'o;Sunney I. Chan

  • The formation and annealing of structural defects in lipid bilayer vesicles.

    Rüdiger Lawaczeck;Masatsune Kainosho;Sunney I. Chan

  • Physicochemical characterization of 1,2-diphytanoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine in model membrane systems.

    H. Lindsey;N.O. Petersen;Sunney I. Chan

  • Proton magnetic resonance studies of ribose dinucleoside monophoshates in aqueous solution. I. The nature of the base-stacking interaction in adenylyl 3'--5')adenosine.

    Sunney I. Chan;James Henry Nelson

  • Approximate Hartree–Fock Wavefunctions, One‐Electron Properties, and Electronic Structure of the Water Molecule

    Soe Aung;Russell M. Pitzer;Sunney I. Chan

  • Toward delineating the structure and function of the particulate methane monooxygenase from methanotrophic bacteria.

    Sunney I. Chan;Kelvin H.-C. Chen;Steve S.-F. Yu;Chang-Li Chen

  • Interaction and association of bases and nucleosides in aqueous solutions. IV. Proton magnetic resonance studies of the association of pyrimidine nucleosides and their interactions with purine.

    M. P. Schweizer;Sunney I. Chan;P. O. P. Ts'o

  • Efficient Oxidation of Methane to Methanol by Dioxygen Mediated by Tricopper Clusters

    Sunney I. Chan;Yu-Jhang Lu;Penumaka Nagababu;Suman Maji

  • Nuclear magnetic resonance study of the solution structures of some crown ethers and their cation complexes

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  • An Experimental Assignment of the Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectrum of Purine

    M. P. Schweizer;Sunney I. Chan;G. K. Helmkamp;P. O. P. Ts'o

  • Conformations of oxidized cytochrome c oxidase.

    Gary W. Brudvig;Tom H. Stevens;Randall H. Morse;Sunney I. Chan

  • Redox Potentiometry Studies of Particulate Methane Monooxygenase: Support for a Trinuclear Copper Cluster Active Site

    Sunney I. Chan;Vincent C.-C. Wang;Vincent C.-C. Wang;Jeff C.-H. Lai;Steve S.-F. Yu

  • On the Interactions of Lipids and Proteins in the Red Blood Cell Membrane

    Michael Glaser;Henry Simpkins;S. J. Singer;Michael Sheetz

  • Regio- and Stereoselectivity of Particulate Methane Monooxygenase from Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath)

    Sean J. Elliott;Mei Zhu;Luke Tso;H.-Hoa T. Nguyen

  • Spectroelectrochemical study of cytochrome c oxidase: pH and temperature dependences of the cytochrome potentials. Characterization of site-site interactions.

    D F Blair;W R Ellis;H Wang;H B Gray

  • Trimethylene Oxide. III. Far-Infrared Spectrum and Double-Minimum Vibration

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Frequent Co-Authors

Gary W. Brudvig
Gary W. Brudvig Yale University
David Blair
David Blair James Cook University
Harry B. Gray
Harry B. Gray California Institute of Technology
Jeff Gelles
Jeff Gelles Brandeis University
Chung-Yuan Mou
Chung-Yuan Mou National Taiwan University
Utpal Banerjee
Utpal Banerjee University of California, Los Angeles
Mary E. Lidstrom
Mary E. Lidstrom University of Washington
Bo G. Malmström
Bo G. Malmström University of Gothenburg
Yu-Ju Chen
Yu-Ju Chen Academia Sinica
Michael W. W. Adams
Michael W. W. Adams University of Georgia

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