Prof. Dr. Eduardus Cornelis Duin

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsBiochemistry,Biophysical Chemistry,Metabolism, Biochemistry, and Genetics of Microorganisms
KeywordsMetalloenzymes, Electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy, Methanogenic archaea, Isoprene synthesis

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityAuburn
InstitutionAuburn University
InstituteChemistry and Biochemistry
Homepagehttp://www.auburn.edu/~duinedu

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Rudolf K. ThauerFachbereich Biologie, Max-Planck-Institut für terrestrische Mikrobiologie, Marburg
Start of initial sponsorship01/03/1999

Programme(s)

1998Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2002Eduardus Cornelis Duin, Shahla Madadi-Kahkesh, Reiner Hedderich, Michael D. Clay, Michael K. Johnson: Heterodisulfide reductase from Methanothermobacter marburgensis contains an active-site [4Fe-4S] cluster that is directly involved in mediating heterodisulfide reduction. In: FEBS Letters, 2002, 263-268
2002Eduardus Cornelis Duin, Felix Mahlert, Carsten Bauer, Bernhard Jaun, Rudolf K. Thauer: The nickel enzyme methyl-coenzyme M reductase from methanogenic archaea: In vitro induction of the nickel-base MCR-ox EPR signals from MCR-red2. In: J. biol. Inorg. Chem., 2002, 500-513
2002Eduardus Cornelis Duin, Felix Mahlert, Wolfgang Grabarse, Jörg Kahnt, Rudolf K. Thauer: The nickel enzyme methyl-coenzyme M reductase from methanogenic archaea: in vitro interconversions among the EPR detectable MCR-red1 and MCR-red2 states. In: J. Biol. Inorg. Chem., 2002, 101-112
2001Eduardus Cornelis Duin, Shahla Madadi-Kahkesh, Steffen Heim, Simon P. J. Albracht, Michael K. Johnson, Reiner Hedderich: A paramagnetic species with unique EPR characteristics in the active site of heterodisulfide reductase from methanogenic archaea. In: Eur. J. Biochem., 2001, 2566-2577
2001Eduardus Cornelis Duin, Wolfgang Grabarse, Seigo Shima, Felix Mahlert, Rudolf K. Thauer, Ulrich Ermler: Methyl-coenzyme M reductase. In: Albrecht Messerschmidt, Robert Huber, Thomas Poulos, Karl Wieghardt, Handbook of Metalloproteins. John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2001. 897-914
2001Eduardus Cornelis Duin, Wolfgang Grabarse, Felix Mahlert, Marcel Goubeaud, Seigo Shima, Rudolf K. Thauer, Viktor Lamzin, Ulrich Ermler: On the Mechanism of Biological Methane Formation: Structural Evidence for Conformational Changes in Methyl-coenzyme M Reductase upon Substrate Binding. In: J. Mol. Biol., 2001, 315-330