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Yilin Hu is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Energy, with significant work in related subfields such as Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry, Catalysis, Molecular Biology, and Inorganic Chemistry.

The scientist's main topics of study cover several specialized areas including Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins, Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction, Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion, Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms, Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications, Hydrogen Storage and Materials, and Amino Acid Enzymes and Metabolism.

Yilin Hu has published frequently in prestigious scientific journals. The venues with the highest number of their publications are:

  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • ChemBioChem
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Chemical Reviews
  • Microchemical Journal

The scientist has collaborated extensively with several researchers, with the most frequent coauthors being:

  • Markus W. Ribbe
  • Chi Chung Lee
  • Andrew J. Jasniewski
  • Joseph B. Solomon
  • Kazuki Tanifuji

Among the notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Yilin Hu are:

  • "Reactivity, Mechanism, and Assembly of the Alternative Nitrogenases," 2020, Chemical Reviews
  • "Second and Outer Coordination Sphere Effects in Nitrogenase, Hydrogenase, Formate Dehydrogenase, and CO Dehydrogenase," 2022, Chemical Reviews
  • "Structural evidence for a dynamic metallocofactor during N 2 reduction by Mo-nitrogenase," 2020, Science
  • "Hyaluronic acid as a material for the synthesis of fluorescent carbon dots and its application for selective detection of Fe3+ ion and folic acid," 2020, Microchemical Journal
  • "Evidence of substrate binding and product release via belt-sulfur mobilization of the nitrogenase cofactor," 2022, Nature Catalysis

Best Publications

  • X-ray Emission Spectroscopy Evidences a Central Carbon in the Nitrogenase Iron-Molybdenum Cofactor

    Kyle M. Lancaster;Michael Roemelt;Patrick Ettenhuber;Yilin Hu

  • Vanadium Nitrogenase Reduces CO

    Chi Chung Lee;Yilin Hu;Markus W. Ribbe

  • Radical SAM-dependent Carbon Insertion Into the Nitrogenase M-cluster

    Jared A. Wiig;Yilin Hu;Chi Chung Lee;Markus W. Ribbe

  • Extending the Carbon Chain: Hydrocarbon Formation Catalyzed by Vanadium/Molybdenum Nitrogenases

    Yilin Hu;Chi Chung Lee;Markus W. Ribbe

  • Formation and Insertion of the Nitrogenase Iron−Molybdenum Cofactor

    Patricia C. Dos Santos;Dennis R. Dean;Yilin Hu;Markus W. Ribbe

  • Reactivity, Mechanism, and Assembly of the Alternative Nitrogenases.

    Andrew J. Jasniewski;Chi Chung Lee;Markus Walter Ribbe;Yilin Hu

  • Structure of precursor-bound NifEN: a nitrogenase FeMo cofactor maturase/insertase.

    Jens T. Kaiser;Yilin Hu;Jared A. Wiig;Douglas C. Rees

  • Biosynthesis of nitrogenase metalloclusters.

    Markus W. Ribbe;Yilin Hu;Keith O. Hodgson;Britt Hedman

  • Structural evidence for a dynamic metallocofactor during N 2 reduction by Mo-nitrogenase

    Wonchull Kang;Chi Chung Lee;Andrew J. Jasniewski;Markus W. Ribbe

  • Identification of a nitrogenase FeMo cofactor precursor on NifEN complex.

    Yilin Hu;Aaron W. Fay;Markus W. Ribbe

  • Nitrogenase and Homologs

    Yilin Hu;Markus W. Ribbe

  • Vanadium Nitrogenase: A Two-Hit Wonder?

    Yilin Hu;Chi Chung Lee;Markus W. Ribbe

  • Unique features of the nitrogenase VFe protein from Azotobacter vinelandii

    Chi Chung Lee;Yilin Hu;Markus W. Ribbe

  • Assembly of nitrogenase MoFe protein.

    Yilin Hu;Aaron W. Fay;Chi Chung Lee;Janice Yoshizawa

  • Biosynthesis of the Metalloclusters of Nitrogenases.

    Yilin Hu;Markus W. Ribbe

  • Structural insights into a protein-bound iron-molybdenum cofactor precursor.

    Mary C. Corbett;Yilin Hu;Aaron W. Fay;Markus W. Ribbe

  • Characterization of isolated nitrogenase FeVco.

    Aaron W. Fay;Michael A. Blank;Chi Chung Lee;Yilin Hu

  • X-ray Spectroscopic Observation of an Interstitial Carbide in NifEN-Bound FeMoco Precursor

    Kyle M. Lancaster;Yilin Hu;Uwe Bergmann;Markus W. Ribbe

  • Nitrogenase Fe Protein: a Molybdate/Homocitrate Insertase

    Yilin Hu;Mary C. Corbett;Aaron W. Fay;Jerome A. Webber

  • Biosynthesis of the Iron-Molybdenum Cofactor of Nitrogenase *

    Yilin Hu;Markus W. Ribbe

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus W. Ribbe
Markus W. Ribbe University of California, Irvine
Keith O. Hodgson
Keith O. Hodgson Stanford University
Britt Hedman
Britt Hedman SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
R. David Britt
R. David Britt University of California, Davis
Serena DeBeer
Serena DeBeer Max Planck Society
Oliver Einsle
Oliver Einsle University of Freiburg
Frank Neese
Frank Neese Max Planck Society
Uwe Bergmann
Uwe Bergmann SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Dennis R. Dean
Dennis R. Dean Virginia Tech
Frances H. Arnold
Frances H. Arnold California Institute of Technology

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