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Program Publications: University of California-Riverside: Synergistic Material-Microbe Interface towards Faster, Deeper, and Air-tolerant Reductive Dehalogenation

Superfund Research Program

Synergistic Material-Microbe Interface towards Faster, Deeper, and Air-tolerant Reductive Dehalogenation

Project Leaders: Yujie Men, Chong Liu (University of California-Los Angeles)
Grant Number: R01ES032668
Funding Period: 2021-2025
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Publications

2024

  • Che S, Guan X, Rodrigues R, Yu Y, Xie Y, Liu C, Men Y. 2024. Synergistic material-microbe interface toward deeper anaerobic defluorination. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 121(31):e2400525121. doi:10.1073/pnas.2400525121 PMID:39042683 PMCID:11295042
  • Guan X, Xie Y, Liu C. 2024. Performance evaluation and multidisciplinary analysis of catalytic fixation reactions by material-microbe hybrids. Nat Catal 7(5):doi:10.1038/s41929-024-01151-2
  • Yu Y, Xu F, Zhao W, Thoma C, Che S, Richman J, Jin B, Men Y, Zhu Y, Xing Y, Wackett L. 2024. Electron bifurcation and fluoride efflux systems implicated in defluorination of perfluorinated unsaturated carboxylic acids by Acetobacterium spp. Sci Adv 10(29):doi:10.1126/sciadv.ado2957 PMID:39018407

2023

  • Jin B, Liu H, Che S, Gao J, Yu Y, Liu J, Men Y. 2023. Substantial defluorination of polychlorofluorocarboxylic acids triggered by anaerobic microbial hydrolytic dechlorination. Nat Water 1:451-461. doi:10.1038/s44221-023-00077-6
  • Jin B, Zhu Y, Zhao W, Liu Z, Che S, Chen K, Lin Y, Liu J, Men Y. 2023. Aerobic biotransformation and defluorination of fluoroalkylether substances (either PFAS): Substrate specificity, pathways, and applications. Environ Sci Technol Lett doi:10.1021/acs.estlett.3c00411
  • Xie Y, Ersan S, Guan X, Wang J, Sha J, Xu S, Wohlschlegel J, Park J, Liu C. 2023. Unexpected metabolic rewiring of CO(2) fixation in H(2)-mediated materials-biology hybrids. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 120(42):doi:10.1073/pnas.2308373120 PMID:37816063 PMCID:10589654

2022

  • Yu Y, Che S, Ren C, Jin B, Tian Z, Liu J, Men Y. 2022. Microbial defluorination of unsaturated per- and polyfluorinated carboxylic acids under anaerobic and aerobic conditions: A structure specificity study. Environ Sci Technol 56(8):4894-4904. doi:10.1021/acs.est.1c05509 PMID:35373561
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