Structure and mechanism of the alkane-oxidizing enzyme AlkB, Xue Guo, Jianxiu Zhang, Lei Han, Juliet Lee, Shoshana C. Williams, Allison Forsberg, Yan Xu, Rachel Narehood Austin*, Liang Feng*, Nature Communications, 14, 2180, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37869-z
Direct Evidence for sulfur-induced deep electron and hole traps in titania and implication for photochemistry, Amir Rahmani Shokanlu, Akbar Mahdavi-Shakib, Liping Yu, Thomas J. Schwartz, Rachel N. Austin, Brian G. Frederick, J. Phys. Chem. C. 2023, 127, 6754-6767.
Metallothionein-3 attenuates the effect of Cu2+ ions on actin filaments, Rabina Lakha, Carla Hachicho, Matthew R. Mehlenbacher, Dean E. Wilcox, Rachel N. Austin, Christina L. Vizcarra, Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry (JIB), 2023, 243, 112157.
Metal Binding and Interdomain Thermodynamics of Mammalian Metallothionein-3: Enthalpically Favoured Cu+ Supplants Entropically Favoured Zn2+ to form Cu+4 Clusters Under Physiological Conditions. Matthew R. Mehlenbacher, Rahma Elsiesy, Rabina Lakha, Rhiza Lyn E. Villones, Marina Orman, Christian L. Vizcarra, Gabriele Meloni, Dean E. Wilcox, Rachel N. Austin, Chemical Science, 2022, 13, 5289 – 5304 DOI: 10.1039/D2SC00676F
An overview of the electron-transfer proteins that activate alkane monooxygenase (AlkB) Shoshana Williams and Rachel Narehood Austin, Front. Microbiol. (Microbiological Chemistry), 2022, DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.8455510
An alkane monooxygenase (AlkB) family in which all electron transfer partners are covalently bound to the oxygen-activating hydroxylase Shoshana C. Williams, Dahlia Luongo, Marina Orman, Christina L. Vizcarra, Rachel N. Austin, Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, 2022 228, PMCID 34990970
Chemistry and Racism: A special topics course for students taking general chemistry at Barnard College in Fall 2020" Lauren Babb and Rachel Narehood Austin, J. Chem. Ed. 2021 DOI: 10.1012/acs/jchemed.1c00325.
Investigation of the Prevalence and Catalytic Activity of Fused-Rubredoxin Alkane Monooxygenases (AlkBs) Shoshana C. Williams, Allison P. Forsberg, Juliet Lee, Christina Vizcarra, Allison Lopatkin, Rachel N. Austin, Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, 2021, 219, 111409-111417. PMID 33752122.
Au/TiO2 Catalyzed Benzyl Alcohol Oxidation on Morphologically Precise Anatase Nanoparticles. Akbar Mahdavi-Shakib, Janine Sempel, Maya Hoffman, Aisha Oza, Ellie Bennett, Jonathan Owen, Amir Rahmani Chokanu, Brian G. Frederick, Rachel Narehood Austin, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 13, 11793-11804 2121
doi: 10.1021/acsami.0c204420.
Combining Benzyl Alcohol Oxidation Saturation Kinetics and Hammett Studies as Mechanistic Tools for Examining Supported Metal Catalysts, Akbar Mahdavi-Shakib, Janine Sempel, Lauren Babb, Maya Hoffman, Todd N. Whittaker, Bert D. Chandler, Rachel N. Austin, ACS Catalysis, 2020, 10, 10207-10215. DOI:10.1021/acscatal.0c02212
2020.
Teaching Chemistry in Context: Environmental Lead Exposure – quantification and interpretation
Rachel Narehood Austin, Ann McDermott, Katrina Korfmacher, Laura Arbelaez, Jamie Bousleiman, Arminda
Downey-Mavromatis, Rahma Elsiesy, Sohee Ki, Meena Rao, Shoshana Williams Chapter Transforming Education for Sustainability: Discourses on Justice, Inclusion, and Authenticity. Environmental Discourses in Science Education: Springer, Rivera Maulucci, M.S., Pfirman, D. & Callahan, H.C. Editors.
2020.
Elevated zinc transporter ZnT3 in the dentate gyrus of mast cell deficient mice. Amen Wiqas,
Joseph LeSauter, Alana Taub, Rachel Narehood Austin, Rae Silver, European Journal of Neuroscience,
2019, doe 10.1111/ejn.14575.
Quantitative structural characterization of catalytically active TiO2
nanoparticles Soham Banerjee, Amirali Zangiabadi, Akbar Mahdavi-Shakib, Samra Husremovic,
Brian G. Frederick, Katayun Barmak, Rachel Narehood Austin, Simon J. L. Billinge, ACS Applied Nano
2019. DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.9b01246.
Use of Surface Hydroxyl Frequencies to Identify the Exposed Facets of Pyrogenic TiO2
Nanoparticles Akbar Mahdavi-Shakib, Juan M. Arce-Ramos, Rachel N. Austin, Thomas J. Schwartz,
Lars C. Grabow, Brian G. Frederick Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2019, 123, 24533-24548.
Titania surface chemistry and its influence on supported metal catalysts Samra Husremovic,
Akbar Mahdavi-Shakib, Sohee Ki, Jessica Glynn, Lauren Babb, Janine Sempel, Ioannis Stavrinoudis,
Juan Manuel Arce Ramos, Lars C. Grabow, Thomas J. Schwartz, Ryan Nelson, Brian Frederick, Rachel
Narehood Austin Polyhedron 2019, DOI: 10.1016/j.poly.2019.05.012
Pb(II) binding to the brain specific mammalian metallothionein isoform MT3 and its isolated
αMT3 and βMT3 domains Catalina Pérez-Zúñiga, Àngels Leiva-Presa, Rachel N. Austin, Mercè Capdevila,
Òscar Palacios, Metallomics 2018 DOI: 10.1039/c8mt00294k
The Enigmatic P450 Decarboxylase OleT is Capable of, but Evolved to Frustrate, Oxygen Rebound
Chemistry Chun Hsieh, Xiongyi Huang, Jose Amaya, Cooper Rutland, Carson Keys John T. Groves,
Rachel N. Austin, Thomas Makris in Biochemistry, June 2017.
Function of Metallothionein-3 in Neuronal Cells: Do Metal Ions Alter Expression Levels of
MT3? Jamie Bousleiman, Alexa Pinsky, Sohee Ki, Angela Su, Irina Morozova, Sergey Kalachikov,
Amen Wiqas, Rae Silver, Mary Sever, Rachel Narehood Austin in International Journal of Molecular
Sciences 2017 18, 1133, doi: 10.3390/ijms18061133.
An advanced spectroscopy lab that integrates art, commerce, and science as stydebts determine the
electronic structure of the common pigment carminic acid" Authors: Sunqing Liu, Asami Odate,
Isabella Buscarino, Jacqueline Chou, Kathleen Frommer, Margauex Miller, Alison Scorese, Marisa C.
Buzzeo, Rachel Narehood Austin. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.6b00644
Editorial “Special issue: Neurochemistry of lead and manganese” Rachel Narehood Austin, Jennifer
Freeman, Tomas Guilarte Metallomics 2016, 2016, 8, 561-562 DOI: 10.1039/C6MT90017H
Lead neurotoxicity: Exploring the potential impact of lead substitution in zinc-finger proteins on
metal health Jacqueline M. Ordemann and Rachel N. Austin, Metallomics, 2016, 8, 579-588 DOI:
10.1039/C5MT00300H
Thermodynamics of Pb(II) and Zn(II) binding to MT-3, a neurologically important metallothionein
Molly Carpenter, Adnan Shami Shah, Sachith DeSilva, Astrid Gleaton, Angela Su, Ben Goundie, Molly
Croteau, Michael Stevenson, Dean E. Wilcox, Rachel N. Austin, Metallomics, 2016, 8, 605-617 DOI:
10.1039/c5mt00209e
Experimental and theoretical insights into the hydrogen-efficient direct hydrodeoxygenation
mechanism of phenol over Ru/TiO2 Ryan Nelson, Byeongjin Baek, Pamela Ruiz, Ben Goundie, Ashley
Brooks, M. Clayton Wheeler, Brian G. Frederick, Lars C. Grabow, Rachel Narehood Austin, ACS
Catalysis 2015, 11, 6509-652
Protocols for purifying and characterizing integral membrane AlkB enzymes Rachel Narehood Austin,
David Born, Thomas J. Lawton, and Grace E. Hamilton Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology Protocols,
2015.
Editorial “Metallomics: Metals in Marine Biochemistry” Rachel Narehood Austin and Mak Saito
Metallomics 2014, 6. 1121-1125 Guest Editor of special issue.
What is known, and not known, about alkane oxidation and metal uptake in Alkanotrophs in the marine
environment? Rachel Narehood Austin, Grace E. Kenney, Amy C. Rosenzweig, Metallomics 2014, 6,
1121-1125 DOI:10.1039/C4MT00041B pub med id 24710692
Effects of support identify and metal dispersion in supported ruthenium hydrodeoxygenation catalysts
Cody Newman, Xiaobo Zhou, Ben Goundie, I. Tyrone Ghampson, Rachel A Pollock, Zachery Ross, M.
Clayton Wheeler, Robert W. Meulenberg, Rachel N Austin, Brian G. Frederick, Applied Catalysis A
2014, 477, 64-74.
Microbial enzymes that oxidize hydrocarbons Rachel N. Austin and Amy V. Callaghan, Front. Microbiol.
(Microbiological Chemistry) 2013 (ebook as well) Guest Editor of Special Issue, which was a top 10
Frontiers ebook in 2014).
Identity and mechanisms of alkane-oxidizing metalloenzymes from deep-sea hydrothermal vents Rachel
Narehood Austin, Erin M. Bertrand, John T Groves, Costantino Vetriani, Ramaydalis Keddis, Front.
Microbiol. (Microbiological Chemistry) 2013, 4:109.
Substrate specificity and reaction mechanism of purified alkane hydroxylase (AlkB) from the
hydrocarbonoclastus bacterium Alcanivorax borkumensis Swe-Htet Naing, Saba Parvez, Marilla
Pender-Cudlip, John T. Groves, Rachel N. Austin, Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, 2013, 121,
46-52.
Parallel and Competitive Pathways for Substrate Desaturation, Hydroxylation, and Radical
Rearrangement by the Non-heme Diiron Hydroxylase AlkB Harriet L. R. Cooper, Girish Mishra, Xiongyi
Huang, Marilla Pender-Cudlip, Rachel N. Austin, John Shanklin and John T. Groves J. Am. Chem. Soc.
2012, 134, 20365–20375.
Editorial “Metallomics: emerging investigators” Rachel Narehood Austin Metallomics 2012, 4, 863-865.
Guest Editor of Special Issue.
Guaiacol hydrodeoxygenation on MoS2 catalysts: Influence of activated carbon support. P.
E. Ruiz, B. G. Frederick, W. J. DeSisto, R. N. Austin, L. R. Radovic, K. Leiva, R. Garcia, N.
Escalona, M. C. Wheeler, Catalyst Communications 2012, 27, 44-48.
A. V. Callaghan, B. E.
L. Morris, I. A. C. Pereira, M. J. McInerney, R. N. Austin, J. T. Groves, J. J. Kukor, J. M. Suflita, L.
Y. Young, G. Z. Zylstra, B. Wawrik Environmental Microbiology, 2012, 14, 1010-1013.
doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02516.x
Alkane-oxidizing metalloenzymes in the carbon cycle: A Critical Review Rachel Narehood Austin and
John T. Groves, Metallomics, 2011, 3(8) 775-787 DOI:10.1039/C1MT00048A.
Effects of pore diameter on particle size, phase, and turnover frequency in mesoporous silica
supported cobalt Fischer-Tropsch catalysts, I.T. Ghampson C. Newman, L. Kong E. Pier, K. D. Hurley,
R. A. Pollock, B. R. Walsh, B. Goundie J. Wright, M. C. Wheeler, R. Meulenberg, W.J. DeSisto, B. G.
Frederick, and R.N. Austin Applied Catalysis A 2010 388(1-2), 57-67.
doi:10.1016/j.apcata.2010.08.028
Cage escape competes with geminate recombination during alkane hydroxylation by the diiron oxygenase
AlkB, Rachel N. Austin, Kate Luddy, Karla Erickson, Marilla Pender-Cudlip, Erin Bertrand, Dayi Deng,
Ryan S. Buzdygon, Jan B. van Beilen, John T. Groves Angew. Chemie. Int. Ed., Engl. 2008 47(28)
5232-5234
Radical intermediates in monooxygenase reactions of rieske dioxygenases Sarmistha Chakrabarty,
Rachel N. Austin, Dayi Deng, John T. Groves, John D. Lipscomb, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129,
3514-3515.
Profiling mechanisms of alkane hydroxylase activity in vivo using the diagnostic substrate norcarane
Elena A. Rozhkova-Novosad, Jong-Chan Chae, Gerben J. Zylstra, Erin M. Bertrand, Marselle
Alexander-Ozinskas, Dayi Deng, Luke A. Moe, Jan B. van Beilen, Michael Danahy, John T. Groves,
Rachel N. Austin, Chemistry and Biology 2007 14, 165-172.
The diagnostic substrate bicyclohexane reveals a radical mechanism for bacterial Cytochrome P450 in
whole cells Rachel N, Austin, Dayi Deng, Yongying Jiang, Kate Luddy, Jan B. van Beilen, Paul R.
Ortiz de Montellano, John T. Groves, Angew. Chemie. Int. Ed., Engl. 2006, 45(48), 8192-8194.
Reaction mechanisms of non-heme diiron hydroxylases characterized in whole cells Erin M. Bertrand,
Ryo Sakai, Elena Rozhkova-Novosad, Luke Moe, Brian G. Fox, John T. Groves, Rachel N. Austin, Journal
of Inorganic Biochemistry, 2005, 99(10), 1998-2006.
Remarkable Aliphatic Hydroxylation by Diiron Enzyme Toluene 4-Monooxygenase in Reactions with
Radical/Cation Diagnostic Probes Norcarane, 1,1-Dimethylcyclopropane, and 1,1-Diethylcyclopropane
Luke A. Moe, Zhengbo Hu, Dayi Deng, Rachel N. Austin, John T. Groves, and Brian G. Fox,
Biochemistry, 2004, 43(50), 15688-15701.
Xylene Monooxygenase, a membrane-spanning non-heme diiron enzyme that hydroxylates hydrocarbons via
a substrate radical intermediate Rachel N. Austin, Kate Buzzi, Eungbin Kim, Gerben Zylstra, John T.
Groves, Journal of BioInorganic Chemistry, 2003, 8, 733-740
The photodecomposition of carbaryl in the presence of silver-doped Zeolite Y and Suwannee River
Natural Organic Matter Marsha Kanan, Sofian M. Kanan, Rachel Narehood Austin, Howard H. Patterson.
Environmental Science and Technology, 2003, 37, 2280-2285.
Intermediate Q from soluble Methane Monooxygenase (sMMO) hydroxylates the mechanistic substrate
probe norcarane: Evidence for a Stepwise Reaction Brian J. Brazeau, Rachel N. Austin, Carly Tarr,
John T. Groves, John D. Lipscomb, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2001, 123, 11831-11837.
Photoluminescence and Raman Spectroscopy as Probes to Investigate Silver and Gold Dicyanide Clusters
Doped in A-Zeolite and Understand the Mechanism of the Photoassisted Degradation of Carbaryl Sofian
M. Kanan, Carl P. Tripp, Rachel N. Austin, Howard H. Patterson, Journal of Physical Chemistry B,
2001, 105, 9441-9448.
Environmental Topics in the Undergraduate General and Analytical Chemistry Curriculum Thomas J.
Wenzel and Rachel N. Austin, Environmental Science and Technology, 2001, 35(15) 326A-331A.
The Non-Heme Diiron Alkane Monooxygenase of Pseudomonas oleovorans (AlkB) Hydroxylates via a
Substrate Radical Intermediate Rachel N. Austin, Hung-Kuang Chang, Gerben Zylstra, John T. Groves,
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2000, 122, 11747-8.
Characterization of iron(III)tetramesityl porphyrin and microperoxidase-8 in the molecular sieve
MCM-41 Volker Schünemann, Alfred X. Trautwein, Ivonne M. C. M. Rietjens, Marelle G. Boersma, Cees
Veeger, Dominique Mandon, Raymond Weiss, Kapil Bahl, Christopher Colapietro, Martin Piech, Rachel N.
Austin, Inorganic Chemistry. 1999, 38(21), 4901-4905.
Compound I and Compound II Analogues from a Porpholactone K. Jayaraj, A. Gold, R.N. Austin, L.M.
Ball, J. Terner, D. Mandon, R. Weiss, J. Fischer, A. DeCian, M. Müther, E. Bill, A.X. Trautwein.
Inorganic Chemistry. 1997, 36(20), 4555-4566.
Molecular Structure of the Chloroiron (III) Derivative of the Meso-Unsubstituted, Pyrrole
-substituted (2,7,12,17 Tetramethyl - 3,8,13,18 Tetramesityl) Porphyrin and the Weak Ferromagnetic
Exchange Interaction in the Corresponding A1u Oxoiron (IV) Porphyrin π-Cation Radical Complex K.
Ayougou, D. Mandon, J. Fischer, R. Weiss, M. Müther, E. Bill, V. Schünemann, A.X. Trautwein, J.
Terner, K. Jayaraj, R.N. Austin, A. Gold. Chem. Eur. J. 1996, 2(9), 1159-1163.
Role of O-acetyltransferase in activation of oxidised metabolites of the genotoxic environmental
pollutant 1-nitropyrene P.F. Roser, P. Ramachandran, R. Sangaiah, R.N. Austin, A. Gold, L.M. Ball.
Mutation Research, 1996, 369, 209-220.
Influence of meso Substituents on Electronic States of Oxoferryl Porphyrin π-Cation Radicals K.
Jayaraj, J. Terner, A. Gold, D.A. Roberts, R.N. Austin, D. Mandon, R. Weiss, E. Bill, A.X.
Trautwein, Inorganic Chemistry, 1996, 35, 1632-1640.
Compound I and II Analogues of a Chlorin K. Jayaraj, A. Gold, R.N. Austin, D. Mandon, R. Weiss, J.
Terner, E. Bill, M. Müther, A.X. Trautwein. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1995, 117, 9079-9080.
Synthesis and Properties of Novel Substituted 4,5,6,7-tetrahydroindenes and Selected Metal Complexes
Rachel N. Austin, T. Jeffrey Clark, Thomas E. Dickson, Christopher M. Kilian, Terence A. Nile,
Daniel J. Schabacker. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry. 1995, 491, 11.
Spin Coupling in Distorted High-Valent Fe(IV)-Porphyrin Radical Complexes M. Müther, E. Bill, A.X.
Trautwein, D. Mandon, R. Weiss, A. Gold, K. Jayaraj, R.N. Austin. Hyperfine Interactions, 1994, 91,
803-808.
Conformational Effects on the Redox Potentials of Tetraarylporphyrins Halogenated at the β-Pyrrole
Positions Philippe Ochsenbein, Khajida Ayougou, Dominique Mandon, Jean Fischer, Raymond Weiss,
Rachel N. Austin, Karupiah Jayaraj, Avram Gold. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 1994, 33,
348-350.
Oxoferryl π-Cation Radical of β-Pyrrole Octachlorinated meso-Tetramesitylporphyrin: Electronic and
Structural Properties Philippe Ochsenbein, Dominique Mandon, Jean Fischer, Raymond Weiss, Rachel
Austin, Karupiah Jayaraj, Avram Gold, Eckhard Bill, Alfred X. Trautwein, James Terner. Angew. Chem.
Int. Ed. Engl. 1993, 32, 1437 - 1439.
β-Halogenated Porphyrins. Molecular Structures of 2,3,7,8,12,13,17,18- Octabromo - 5,10,15,20 -
Tetramesityl porphyrin, Nickel(II) 2,3,7,8,12,13,17,18 - Octabromo - 5, 10, 15, 20 -
Tetramesitylporphyrin and Nickel(II) 2,3,7,8,12,13,17,18 - Octabromo - 5,10,15,20 - Tetra
(pentafluorophenyl) porphyrin D. Mandon, J. Fischer, R. Weiss, K. Jayaraj, R. N. Austin, A. Gold, P.
S. White, O. Brigand, P. Battioni, D. Mansuy. Inorganic Chemistry, 1992, 31, 2044-2049.