Stephen W. Ragsdale
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · University of Michigan
Publications
256
Citations
17,682
Est. group size
~4
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
44
Publishing since 1983
Typically publishes in teams of ~5 · 45% small-team papers (≤3 authors) · across 15 venues
- Use of Substrate Analogues and X-ray spectroscopy Reveals an all Ferrous C-Cluster in CO Dehydrogenase
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2026
- Structural and Mechanistic Advances in the Chemistry of Methyl-Coenzyme M Reductase (MCR)
Accounts of Chemical Research · 2025
- Structure of active methyl-CoM reductase, Earth’s main methane producer
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025
- Development of Anaerobic Tools to Determine the Structure of the Active Ni(I) State of Methyl-Coenzyme M Reductase: Nature’s Catalyst for Methane Synthesis, Activation, and Oxidation
Structural Dynamics · 2025
- Expression, purification, and activation of one key enzyme in anaerobic CO2 fixation: Carbon monoxide dehydrogenase II from Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans
Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology · 2024
- Abstract 2522: How anaerobic microbes make and break methane: mechanism of Methyl-Coenzyme M Reductase
Journal of Biological Chemistry · 2023
- Combined X-ray studies on metalloenzymes at room temperature
Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances · 2023
- XFEL serial crystallography reveals the room temperature structure of methyl-coenzyme M reductase
Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry · 2022
- Efficient, Light-Driven Reduction of CO<sub>2</sub> to CO by a Carbon Monoxide Dehydrogenase–CdSe/CdS Nanorod Photosystem
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters · 2022
- Nickel–Sulfonate Mode of Substrate Binding for Forward and Reverse Reactions of Methyl-SCoM Reductase Suggest a Radical Mechanism Involving Long-Range Electron Transfer
Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2021
- Biological Carbon Fixation by an Organometallic Pathway: Evidence Supporting the Paramagnetic Mechanism of the Nickel-Iron-Sulfur Acetyl-CoA Synthase
Elsevier eBooks · 2021
- Not a “they” but a “we”: The microbiome helps promote our well-being
Journal of Biological Chemistry · 2021
- Nickel-Sulfonate Mode of Substrate Binding for Forward and Reverse Reactions of Methyl-SCoM Reductase Suggest a Radical Mechanism Involving Long Range Electron Transfer
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2021
- Elusive microbe that consumes ethane found under the sea
Nature · 2019
- Stealth reactions driving carbon fixation
Science · 2018
- Journal of Biological Chemistry×9
- bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)×8
- Journal of the American Chemical Society×4
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences×4
- Biochemistry×3
- E. Neil G. Marsh
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · University of Michigan
- Amardeep Kumar
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Indiana University
- Markus Ruetz
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · University of Michigan
- Samuel Silver
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · University of Michigan
- Lindsay B. Michocki
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · University of Michigan
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