Publications

  1. 1. Wang Y., Schaefer J.K., Mishra B., Yee N. (2016) Intracellular Hg(0) oxidation in Desulfovibrio desulfuricans ND132, Environmental Science & Technology, DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b03299
  2. 2. Harel A., Haggblom M.H., Falkowski P.G., Yee N. (2016) Evolution of prokaryotic respiratory molybdoenzymes with high frequency of genomic co-occurrence, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiw187
  3. 3. Choi J.K., Shah M., Yee N. (2016) Anaerosporomusa subterraneum gen. nov., sp. nov., a spore-forming obligate anaerobe isolated from saprolite, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.001275
  4. 4. Louie T.S., Giovannelli D., Yee N., Narasingarao P., Starovoytov V., Bini E., Haggblom M.M. (2016) High-quality draft genome sequence of Sedimenticola selenatireducens strain AK4OH1T, a gammaproteobacterium isolated from estuarine sediment, Standards in Genomic Sciences, DOI: 10.1186/s40793-016-0191-5
  5. 5. Walzack A.B., Kafantaris F.C., Druschel G. K., Yee N., Young L.Y. (2016) Transformation of galena to pyromorphite produces bioavailable sulfur for neutrophilic chemoautotrophy, Geobiology, DOI:10.1111/gbi.12199
  6. 6. Colombo M.J., Ha J., Reinfelder J.R., Barkay T., Yee N., (2014) Oxidation of Hg(0) to Hg(II) by Diverse Anaerobic Bacteria, Chemical Geology, 363, 334-340
  7. 7. Theisen J. and Yee N. (2014) The Molecular Basis for Selenate Reduction in Citrobacter freundii, Geomicrobiology Journal, 31, 875-884
  8. 8. Cheng S., Karkar S., Bapteste D, Yee N., Falkowski P, Bhattacharya D. (2014) Sequence similarity network reveals the imprints of major diversification events in the evolution of microbial life, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 2, 72, doi: 10.3389/fevo.2014.00074
  9. 9. Yee N., Choi J., Porter A.W., Carey S., Rauschenbach I., Harel A. (2014) Selenate reductase activity in Escherichia coli requires Isc iron-sulfur cluster biosynthesis genes. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 361, 138-143
  10. 10. Shah M., Lin C.C., Kukkadapu R., Engelhard M.H., Zhao X., Wang Y., Barkay T., Yee N. (2014) Syntrophic Effects in a Subsurface Clostridia Consortium on Fe(III)-(Oxyhydr)oxide Reduction and Secondary Mineralization, Geomicrobiology Journal, 31, 101-115
  11. 11. Mumford A.C., Yee N., Young L.Y. (2013) Precipitation of Alacranite (As8S9) by a Novel As(V)-Respiring Anaerobe Strain MPA-C3, Environmental Microbiology, 15, 2748-2760
  12. 12. Kim J. D., Yee N., Nanda V., Falkowski P.G. (2013) Anoxic Photochemical Oxidation of Siderite Generates Molecular Hydrogen and Iron Oxides, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110, 10073-10077
  13. 13. Colombo M.J., Ha J., Reinfelder J.R., Barkay T., Yee N., (2013) Anaerobic Oxidation of Hg(0) and Methylmercury Formation by Desulfovibrio desulfuricans ND132, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta , 112, 166-177
  14. 14. Theisen J., Zyltra G., Yee N. (2013) Genetic Evidence for a Molybdopterin-Containing Tellurate Reductase, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 79, 3171-3175
  15. 15. Wang Y., Wiatrowski H.A., Ria J., Lin C.C., Young L.Y., Kerkhof L.J., Yee N., Barkay T. (2012) Impact of mercury on denitrification and denitrifying microbial communities in nitrate contaminated subsurface sediments, Biodegradation, 24, 33-46
  16. 16. Rauschenbach I., Bini E., Haggblom M.M., Yee N. (2012) Physiological response of Desulfurispirillum indicum S5 to arsenate and nitrate as terminal electron acceptors, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 81, 156-162
  17. 17. Cuebas M., Villafane A., McBride M., Yee N., Bini E. (2011) Arsenate reduction and expression of multiple chromosomal ars operons in Geobacillus kaustophilus, Microbiology, 157, 2004-2011
  18. 18. Rauschenbach I., Yee N., Haggblom M.M., Bini E. (2011) Energy Metabolism and Multiple Respiratory Pathways Revealed by Genome Sequencing of Desulfurispirillum indicum strain S5, Environmental Microbiology, 13, 1611-1621
  19. 19. Lin C.C., Yee N., Barkay T. "Microbial transformations in the mercury cycle", In Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology of Mercury. Ed. G. Liu, Y. Cai, and N. O'Driscoll, Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2011
  20. 20. Slater L.,Day-Lewis F., Ntarlagiannis D., O'Brien M., Yee N. (2009) Geoelectrical measurement and modeling of biogeochemical breakthrough behavior during microbial activity, Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L14402, doi:10.1029/2009GL038695
  21. 21. Wiatrowski H.A., Das S., Kukkadapu K., Ilton E., Barkay T., Yee N. (2009) Reduction of Hg(II) to Hg(0) by magnetite, Environmental Science & Technology, 43, 5307-5313
  22. 22. Ma J., Kobayashi D.Y. Yee N. (2009) Role of menaquinone biosynthesis genes in selenate reduction by Enterobacter cloacae SLD1a-1 and Escherichia coli K12, Environmental Microbiology, 11, 149-158
  23. 23. Boonfueng T. Axe L., Yee N., Hahn D. Ndiba P.K. (2009) Zn sorption mechanisms onto sheathed Leptothrix discophora and the impact of nanoparticulate biogenic Mn oxide coating, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 333, 439-447
  24. 24. Yee N. and Kobayashi D.Y. (2008) Molecular genetics of selenate reduction by Enterobacter cloacae SLD1a-1, Advances in Applied Microbiology, 64, 107-123
  25. 25. Zhu W., Young L.Y., Yee N., Serfes M., Rhine E.D., Reinfelder J.R. (2008) Sulfide driven arsenic mobilization from arsenopyrite and black shale pyrite, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 72, 5243-5250
  26. 26. Personna Y., Ntarlagiannis D., Slater L., Yee N., O'Brien M., Hubbard S. (2008) Spectral Induced Polarization and Electrodic Potential Monitoring of Microbially-Mediated Iron Sulfide Transformations, Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, G02020, doi:10.1029/2007JG000614
  27. 27. Slater L., Ntarlagiannis D., Yee N., O'Brien M., Zhang C., Williams K.H., (2008) Electrodic voltages in the presence of dissolved sulfide: Implications for monitoring natural microbial activity, Geophysics, 73, F65-F70
  28. 28. Ma J., Kobayashi D.Y. Yee N. (2007) Chemical kinetic and molecular genetic study of selenium oxyanion reduction by Enterobacter cloacae SLD1a-1, Environmental Science & Technology, 41, 7795-7801
  29. 29. Yee N., Ma J., Dalia A., Boonfueng T., Kobayashi D.Y. (2007) Se(VI) reduction and the precipitation of Se(0) precipitation by the facultative bacterium Enterobacter cloacae SLD1a-1 is regulated by FNR, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 73, 1914-1920
  30. 30. Kenward P.A., Fowle D.A., Yee N. (2006) Microbial selenate sorption and reduction in nutrient limited systems, Environmental Science & Technology, 40, 3782-3786
  31. 31. Xu Y., Axe L., Yee N., Dyer J.A. (2006) Bidentate Complexation Modeling of Heavy Metal Adsorption and Competition on Goethite, Environmental Science & Technology, 40, 2213-2218
  32. 32. Yee N., Shaw S., Benning L.G., and Nguyen T.H. (2006) The rate of ferrihydrite transformation to goethite via the Fe(II) pathway, American Mineralogist, 91, 92-96
  33. 33. Ntarlagiannis D. Slater L.D., Yee N. (2005) On the low-frequency electrical polarization of bacterial cells in sands, Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L24402, doi:10.1029/2005GL024751
  34. 34. Fein, J.B, Boily J.F, Yee N., Gorman-Lewis D., and Turner B.F. (2005) Modeling the speciation of bacterial surface ligands: Comparison of discrete and continuous pKa approaches Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 69, 1123-1132
  35. 35. Yee, N. and Fowle D.A. Ferris F.G. (2004) A Donnan Model for metal sorption onto Bacillus subtilis, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 68, 3657-3664
  36. 36. Yee, N., Benning L.G., Phoenix V.R., and Ferris F.G. (2004) Characterization of metal-cyanobacteria sorption reactions: A combined macroscopic and infrared spectroscopic investigation, Environmental Science & Technology, 38, 775-782
  37. 37. Benning L.G., Phoenix V.R. Yee N., and Konhauser K.O. (2004) Molecular characterization of cyanobacterial silicification using synchrotron infrared micro-spectroscopy, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 68, 729-741
  38. 38. Benning L.G., Phoenix V.R. Yee N., and Tobin, M. (2004) The dynamics of cyanobacterial silicification: an infrared micro-spectroscopic investigation, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 68, 743-757
  39. 39. Yee, N., Phoenix, V.R., Konhauser, K.O., Benning L.G. and F.G. Ferris (2003) The effect of bacteria on silica precipitation at neutral pH: Implications for bacterial silicification in geothermal hot springs, Chemical Geology, 199, 83-90
  40. 40. Yee, N. and Fein, J.B. (2003) Quantifying metal adsorption onto bacteria mixtures: A test and application of the surface complexation model, Geomicrobiology Journal, 20, 43-60
  41. 41. Kelly, S.D., Kemner, K.M., Fein, J.B., Fowle, D.A., Boyanov, M.I., Bunker, B.A., and Yee, N., (2002) X-ray absorption fine structure determination of pH-dependent U-bacterial cell wall interactions. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 66, 3855-3871
  42. 42. Yee, N. and Fein, J.B. (2002) Does metal adsorption onto bacteria inhibit or enhance metal transport?--Column and batch reactor experiments on Cd-Bacillus subtilis-quartz systems, Chemical Geology, 185, 303-319
  43. 43. Yee, N. and Fein, J.B. (2001) Cd adsorption onto bacterial surfaces: A universal adsorption edge?, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 65, 2037-2042
  44. 44. Kelly, S.D., Boyanov, M.I., Bunker, B.A., Fein, J.B., Fowle, D.A., Yee, N. Kemner, K.M., (2001) XAFS determination of the bacterial cell wall functional groups responsible for complexation of Cd and U as a function of pH U-bacterial cell wall interactions at low pH. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, 8, 946-948
  45. 45. Yee, N., Fein, J.B. and Daughney, C.J. (2000) Experimental study of the pH, ionic strength, and reversibility behavior of bacteria adsorption onto mineral surfaces, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 64, 609-617
  46. 46. Daughney, C.J., Fein, J.B. and Yee N. (1998) A comparison of the thermodynamics of metal adsorption onto two common bacteria, Chemical Geology, 144, 161-176
  47. 47. Fein, J.B., Daughney, C.J., Yee, N. and Davis, T.A. (1997) A chemical equilibrium model for metal adsorption onto bacterial surfaces, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 61, 3319-3328