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  • 2003 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Thomas C. Brunold is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Chemistry, with significant contributions in subfields such as Molecular Biology, Inorganic Chemistry, Rheumatology, Cell Biology, and Plant Science.

The main topics explored in their work include:

  • Heme Oxygenase-1 and Carbon Monoxide
  • Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms
  • Porphyrin Metabolism and Disorders
  • Folate and B Vitamins Research
  • Microbial Metabolism and Enzyme Function
  • Aldose Reductase and Taurine
  • Cassava Research and Cyanide

Among the recent scientific publications authored or co-authored by Thomas C. Brunold are:

  • "The Crystal Structure of Cysteamine Dioxygenase Reveals the Origin of the Large Substrate Scope of This Vital Mammalian Enzyme," 2021, Biochemistry
  • "Spectroscopic Investigation of Cysteamine Dioxygenase," 2020, Biochemistry
  • "Differences in the Second Coordination Sphere Tailor the Substrate Specificity and Reactivity of Thiol Dioxygenases," 2022, Accounts of Chemical Research
  • "A Spectroscopically Validated Computational Investigation of Viable Reaction Intermediates in the Catalytic Cycle of the Reductive Dehalogenase PceA," 2021, Biochemistry
  • "Spectroscopic investigation of iron(III) cysteamine dioxygenase in the presence of substrate (analogs): implications for the nature of substrate-bound reaction intermediates," 2021, JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Thomas C. Brunold include:

  • Brian G. Fox
  • Elizabeth D. Greenhalgh
  • Rebeca L. Fernandez
  • Laura D. Elmendorf
  • Nicholas D. Juntunen

Some of the main venues for publication in their career are:

  • Biochemistry
  • Methods in Enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in Enzymology
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry
  • Accounts of Chemical Research

Thomas C. Brunold was awarded the Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2003.

Best Publications

  • Geometric and Electronic Structure/Function Correlations in Non-Heme Iron Enzymes

    Edward I. Solomon;Thomas C. Brunold;Mindy I. Davis;Jyllian N. Kemsley

  • Facial tris cyclometalated rhodium(3+) and iridium(3+) complexes: their synthesis, structure, and optical spectroscopic properties

    Mirco G. Colombo;Thomas C. Brunold;Toni Riedener;Hans U. Guedel

  • Mechanistic Study of Copper-Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidative Coupling of Arylboronic Esters and Methanol: Insights into an Organometallic Oxidase Reaction

    Amanda E. King;Thomas C. Brunold;Shannon S. Stahl

  • Mechanism of Alcohol Oxidation Mediated by Copper(II) and Nitroxyl Radicals

    Bradford L. Ryland;Scott D. McCann;Thomas C. Brunold;Shannon S. Stahl

  • Spectroscopic and computational studies of Co3+-corrinoids: spectral and electronic properties of the B12 cofactors and biologically relevant precursors.

    Troy A. Stich;Amanda J. Brooks;Nicole R. Buan;Thomas C. Brunold

  • Hydrogen Sulfide Oxidation by Myoglobin

    Trever Bostelaar;Victor Vitvitsky;Jacques Kumutima;Brianne E. Lewis

  • Kinetic and Spectroscopic Studies of Aerobic Copper(II)-Catalyzed Methoxylation of Arylboronic Esters and Insights into Aryl Transmetalation to Copper(II).

    Amanda E. King;Bradford L. Ryland;Thomas C. Brunold;Shannon S. Stahl

  • Characterization of the nitrosyl adduct of substrate-bound mouse cysteine dioxygenase by electron paramagnetic resonance: electronic structure of the active site and mechanistic implications.

    Brad S. Pierce;Jessica D. Gardner;Lucas J. Bailey;Thomas C. Brunold

  • Spectroscopic and computational studies of Co2+corrinoids: spectral and electronic properties of the biologically relevant base-on and base-off forms of Co2+cobalamin.

    Troy A. Stich;Nicole R. Buan;Thomas C. Brunold

  • Identification of an End-on Nickel-Superoxo Adduct, [Ni(tmc)(O2)]+

    Matthew T. Kieber-Emmons;Jamespandi Annaraj;Mi Sook Seo;Katherine M. Van Heuvelen

  • Spectroscopic and Computational Studies of Ni Superoxide Dismutase: Electronic Structure Contributions to Enzymatic Function

    Adam T. Fiedler;Peter A. Bryngelson;Michael J. Maroney;Thomas C. Brunold

  • Combined spectroscopic/computational studies on Fe- and Mn-dependent superoxide dismutases: insights into second-sphere tuning of active site properties.

    Timothy A. Jackson;Thomas C. Brunold

  • Definitive spectroscopic determination of zero-field splitting in high-spin cobalt(II).

    J. Krzystek;S. A. Zvyagin;Andrew Ozarowski;Adam T. Fiedler

  • Spectroscopic Study of [Fe2(O2)(OBz)2{HB(pz‘)3}2]: Nature of the μ-1,2 Peroxide−Fe(III) Bond and Its Possible Relevance to O2 Activation by Non-Heme Iron Enzymes

    Thomas C. Brunold;Nobuchika Tamura;Nobumasa Kitajima;Yoshihiko Moro-oka

  • Nature of the Peroxo Intermediate of the W48F/D84E Ribonucleotide Reductase Variant: Implications for O2 Activation by Binuclear Non-Heme Iron Enzymes

    Andrew J. Skulan;Thomas C. Brunold;Jeffrey Baldwin;Lana Saleh

  • Spectroscopic and computational studies of Co1+cobalamin: spectral and electronic properties of the "superreduced" B12 cofactor.

    Mathew D. Liptak;Thomas C. Brunold

  • Characterization of the [2Fe-2S] cluster of Escherichia coli transcription factor IscR.

    Angela S. Fleischhacker;Audria Stubna;Kuang Lung Hsueh;Yisong Guo

  • A monomeric nickel-dioxygen adduct derived from a nickel(I) complex and O2.

    Koyu Fujita;Ralph Schenker;Weiwei Gu;Thomas C Brunold

  • Computational studies of the H-cluster of Fe-only hydrogenases: geometric, electronic, and magnetic properties and their dependence on the [Fe4S4] cubane.

    Adam T. Fiedler;Thomas C. Brunold

  • Dioxygen Activation by a Nickel Thioether Complex: Characterization of a NiIII2(μ-O)2 Core

    Beaven S. Mandimutsira;Jennifer L. Yamarik;Thomas C. Brunold;Weiwei Gu

  • Spectroscopic Evidence for the Formation of a Four-Coordinate Co2+Cobalamin Species upon Binding to the Human ATP:Cobalamin Adenosyltransferase

    Troy A. Stich;Mamoru Yamanishi;Ruma Banerjee;Thomas C. Brunold

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans U. Güdel
Hans U. Güdel University of Bern
Jorge C. Escalante-Semerena
Jorge C. Escalante-Semerena University of Georgia
Brian G. Fox
Brian G. Fox University of Wisconsin–Madison
Anne-Frances Miller
Anne-Frances Miller University of Kentucky
Edward I. Solomon
Edward I. Solomon Stanford University
Ruma Banerjee
Ruma Banerjee University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Stephen W. Ragsdale
Stephen W. Ragsdale University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Michael J. Maroney
Michael J. Maroney University of Massachusetts Amherst
Joshua Telser
Joshua Telser Roosevelt University
Rowena G. Matthews
Rowena G. Matthews University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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