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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1991 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1988 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Thomas G. Spiro is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research spans several interdisciplinary fields including molecular biology, electrical and electronic engineering, inorganic chemistry, cell biology, and electrochemistry.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Electrochemical sensors and biosensors
  • Hemoglobin structure and function
  • Heme Oxygenase-1 and Carbon Monoxide
  • Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
  • Radioactive element chemistry and processing
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation

Thomas G. Spiro has contributed to multiple publications with a number of frequent co-authors. These include Alexandra Soldatova, Bradley M. Tebo, Irina Novikova, Harry Scott, and Marzia Miletto.

Common venues for their publications include:

  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • International Journal of Mass Spectrometry

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Thomas G. Spiro are:

  • Cryo-EM Structure of the Mnx Protein Complex Reveals a Tunnel Framework for the Mechanism of Manganese Biomineralization, 2024, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Metallo-inhibition of Mnx, a bacterial manganese multicopper oxidase complex, 2021, Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry
  • Alternative modes of O2 activation in P450 and NOS enzymes are clarified by DFT modeling and resonance Raman spectroscopy, 2020, Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry
  • Data for EMSL Project 51307 from March 2021, 2021, OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Data for EMSL Project 51307 from April 2022, 2022, OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)

Thomas G. Spiro has been recognized with several awards, including:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1991
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1988

Best Publications

  • Biological applications of Raman spectroscopy

    Thomas G. Spiro

  • Resonance Raman spectra of heme proteins. Effects of oxidation and spin state.

    Thomas G. Spiro;Thomas C. Strekas

  • Assignment of Protoheme Resonance Raman Spectrum by Heme Labeling in Myoglobin

    Songzhou Hu;Kevin M. Smith;Thomas G. Spiro

  • Complete assignment of cytochrome c resonance Raman spectra via enzymic reconstitution with isotopically labeled hemes

    Songzhou Hu;Ian K. Morris;Jai P. Singh;Kevin M. Smith

  • Resonance Raman Spectra of Hemoglobin and Cytochrome c: Inverse Polarization and Vibronic Scattering

    Thomas G. Spiro;Thomas C. Strekas

  • How far can proteins bend the FeCO unit? Distal polar and steric effects in heme proteins and models

    Gigi B. Ray;Xiao Yuan Li;James A. Ibers;Jonathan L. Sessler

  • Structural correlations and vinyl influences in resonance Raman spectra of protoheme complexes and proteins

    S. Choi;T. G. Spiro;K. C. Langry;K. M. Smith

  • Consistent porphyrin force field. 1. Normal-mode analysis for nickel porphine and nickel tetraphenylporphine from resonance Raman and infrared spectra and isotope shifts

    Xiao Yuan. Li;Roman S. Czernuszewicz;James R. Kincaid;Y. Oliver. Su

  • Consistent porphyrin force field. 2. Nickel octaethylporphyrin skeletal and substituent mode assignments from nitrogen-15, meso-d4, and methylene-d16 Raman and infrared isotope shifts

    Xiaoyuan Li;Roman S. Czernuszewicz;James Robert Kincaid;Paul B. Stein

  • The Hydrolytic Polymerization of Iron(III)

    Thomas G. Spiro;Samuel E. Allerton;John Renner;Aristides Terzis

  • Ultraviolet resonance Raman spectroscopy of the nucleotides with 266-, 240-, 218-, and 200-nm pulsed laser excitation

    Stephen P. A. Fodor;Richard P. Rava;Thomas R. Hays;Thomas G. Spiro

  • Porphyrin core expansion and doming in heme proteins. New evidence from resonance Raman spectra of six-coordinate high-spin iron(III) hemes

    Thomas G. Spiro;John D. Stong;Paul Stein

  • Chemistry of the Environment

    Thomas G. Spiro;William M. Stigliani

  • Resonance Raman scattering from iron(3)- and copper(II)-transferrin and an iron(3) model compound. A spectroscopic interpretation of the transferrin binding site.

    Bruce P. Gaber;Vincent Miskowski;Thomas G. Spiro

  • Is bound carbonyl linear or bent in heme proteins? Evidence from resonance Raman and infrared spectroscopic data.

    Xiao Yuan. Li;Thomas G. Spiro

  • Bacteriogenic manganese oxides.

    Thomas G. Spiro;John R. Bargar;Garrison Sposito;Bradley M. Tebo

  • Resonance Effects in Vibrational Scattering From Complex Molecules

    T. G. Spiro;P. Stein

  • Photoelectrochemistry of tris(bipyridyl)ruthenium(II) covalently attached to n-type tin(IV) oxide

    Pushpito Ghosh;Thomas G. Spiro

  • Effects of Reducing Lead in Gasoline: An Analysis of the International Experience

    Valerie M. Thomas;Robert H. Socolow;James J. Fanelli;Thomas G. Spiro

  • Theoretical investigation of iron isotope fractionation between Fe(H2O)63+ and Fe(H2O)62+: Implications for iron stable isotope geochemistry

    Ariel Anbar;A. A. Jarzecki;T. G. Spiro

  • Resonance enhancement in the ultraviolet Raman spectra of aromatic amino acids

    Richard P. Rava;Thomas G. Spiro

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiaoyuan Li
Xiaoyuan Li Yale University
Giulietta Smulevich
Giulietta Smulevich University of Florence
James R. Kincaid
James R. Kincaid Marquette University
Pawel M. Kozlowski
Pawel M. Kozlowski University of Louisville
Bradley M. Tebo
Bradley M. Tebo Oregon Health & Science University
Robert A. Copeland
Robert A. Copeland Accent Therapeutics (United States)
John T. Groves
John T. Groves Princeton University
R. David Britt
R. David Britt University of California, Davis
Ariel D. Anbar
Ariel D. Anbar Arizona State University
Ruma Banerjee
Ruma Banerjee University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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