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2026

Alcohol dehydrogenase D from Pyrococcus furiosus is a thermostable rare earth element binding enzyme: Metal/cofactor interactions modulate the apparent reaction equilibrium constant

Ipek Simay Gokulu

Sameera Abeyrathna

Scott Banta

Alcohol dehydrogenase D from Pyrococcus furiosus is a thermostable rare earth element binding enzyme: Characterization of metal-binding and chromatographic separation of critical materials

Sameera Abeyrathna

Farid F. Khoury

Katarzyna H. Kucharzyk

Scott Banta

Identification and characterization of quorum-quenching enzyme AiiF from Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans and its application for biofilm disruption

Mallori A. Herishko

Hannah S. Zurier

Scott Banta

Overexpression of magA in Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans increases magnetosome production and pyrite bioleaching

Heejung Jung

Sameera Abeyrathna

Zihang Su

Scott Banta

Continuous evolution of calmodulin for high-purity separation of rare earth elements

Farid F. Khoury

Sameera Abeyrathna

Mallori A. Herishko

Xinyue Hu

Wei Wang

Piyush Kumar

Daniel A. Dailey

Bradley S. Heater

Katarzyna H. Kucharzyk

Scott Banta

Redox-mediated cerium(IV) leach process selectively extracts nickel from sulfidic ores

Tongwei Xu

Brian Donovan

Curtis Sirkoch

Yilin Yang

Zeyu Wang

Yu Chen

Charles Kim

Scott Banta

Jeff Fitts

Alan C. West

2025

Rare earth element-induced condensation of the Block V of the repeats-in-toxin domain from CycA from Bordetella pertussis for separations

Luis E. Ortuno Macias

Farid Khoury

Mrinal K. Bera

Wei Bu

Binhua Lin

Scott Banta

Raymond S. Tu

Extremophilic microbes tolerate high concentrations of rare earth elements (REEs)

Hannah Zurier

Chloe Hart

Stephanie Napieralski

William Henson

Scott Banta

Katarzyna Kucharzyk

Engineering noncanonical cofactors to expand cellular functions

Samuel Lim

Scott Banta

Journal inside cover showing RTX domain interacting with metal ions.

Reducing binding site heterogeneity via truncation of the RTX domain enhances selectivity for rare earth element separation

Farid Khoury

Sameera Abeyarthna

Bradley S. Heater

Katarzyna H. Kucharzyk

Scott Banta

Rare earth element mining with conveyer belt and highlighted ores, protein, and purified neodymium.

Mining peptides for mining solutions: Evaluation of calcium-binding peptides for rare earth element separations

Farid Khoury

Bradley Heater

Daniel Marzoff

Sameera Abeyrathna

Johnathan Picking

Piyush Kumar

Steven Higgins

Randy Jones

Alan Lewis

Katarzyna Kucharzyk

Scott Banta

Biotechnology solutions for critical mineral recovery from unconventional feedstocks

Hannah Zurier

Scott Banta

Dan Park

David Reed

Allison Werner

Vanadium(II) reductive upgrading of copper sulfide concentrates via iron leaching to facilitate stagewise oxidative copper leaching at room temperature

Charles Kim

Brian Donovan

Jeffrey P. Fitts

Ray Farinato

D.R. Nagaraj

Scott Banta

Alan C. West

The outer membrane in Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans enables high tolerance to rare earth elements

Hannah Zurier

Ray Farinato

Katarzyna Kucharzyk

Scott Banta

Overexpression of sulfide:quinone reductase (SQR) in Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans enhances sulfur, pyrite, and pyrrhotite oxidation

Heejung Jung

Yuta Inaba

Scott Banta

Mutagenesis of Cyc2 from Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans reveals a critical role for bound iron atoms in extracellular electron transfer

Zihang Su

Zhongmou Chao

Virginia Jiang

Susan Daniel

Scott Banta

2024

Leaching mechanism for chalcopyrite in electrochemically regenerated Vanadium (II)

Tongwei Xu

Brian Donovan

Charles Kim

Scott Banta

Jeffrey P. Fitts

Alan C. West

CRISPR/dCas12a knock-down of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans electron transport chain bc1 complexes enables enhanced metal sulfide bioleaching

Heejung Jung

Yuta Inaba

Scott Banta

Overexpression of a designed mutant oxyanion binding protein ModA/WtpA in Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans for the low pH recovery of molybdenum and rhenium

Heejung Jung

Virginia Jiang

Zihang Su

Yuta Inaba

Farid F. Khoury

Scott Banta

Enzyme engineering by force: DNA springs for the modulation of biocatalytic trajectories

Ipek Simay Gokulu

Scott Banta

Rare Earth Element Binding and Recovery by a Beta Roll-Forming RTX Domain

Farid Khoury

Zihang Su

Scott Banta

2023

Genetic modification of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans for rare earth element (REE) recovery under acidic conditions

Heejung Jung

Zihang Su

Yuta Inaba

Alan C. West

Scott Banta

A remote, hands-on, and low cost sourdough lab for first year chemical engineering students

Virginia Jiang

Matthew Lucia

Scott Banta

Christopher V.H.-H. Chen

Case-based learning in material and energy balances to help students practice the transferability of chemical engineering problem solving

Christopher V.H.-H. Chen

Scott Banta

Overexpression of AcoP in Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans for enhanced copper reclamation

Heejung Jung

Juyun Kim

Yuta Inaba

Tasnuva T. Moutushi

Marco J. Castaldi

Alan C. West

Scott Banta

Engineering Candida boidinii formate dehydrogenase for activity with the non-canonical cofactor 3’-NADP(H)

Salomon Vainstein

Scott Banta

Synthetic NAD(P)(H) cycle for ATP regeneration

Emma Willett

Scott Banta

Protein discerns between rare-earth elements

Scott Banta

Biotechnology applications of proteins functionalized with DNA oligonucleotides

Ipek Simay Gokulu

Scott Banta

Overexpression of the quorum sensing genes in Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans enhances cell attachment and covellite bioleaching

Heejung Jung

Yuta Inaba

Alan C. West

Scott Banta

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2026

Alcohol dehydrogenase D from Pyrococcus furiosus is a thermostable rare earth element binding enzyme: Metal/cofactor interactions modulate the apparent reaction equilibrium constant

Alcohol dehydrogenase D from Pyrococcus furiosus is a thermostable rare earth element binding enzyme: Characterization of metal-binding and chromatographic separation of critical materials

Identification and characterization of quorum-quenching enzyme AiiF from Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans and its application for biofilm disruption

Overexpression of magA in Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans increases magnetosome production and pyrite bioleaching

Continuous evolution of calmodulin for high-purity separation of rare earth elements

Redox-mediated cerium(IV) leach process selectively extracts nickel from sulfidic ores

2025

Rare earth element-induced condensation of the Block V of the repeats-in-toxin domain from CycA from Bordetella pertussis for separations

Extremophilic microbes tolerate high concentrations of rare earth elements (REEs)

Engineering noncanonical cofactors to expand cellular functions

Reducing binding site heterogeneity via truncation of the RTX domain enhances selectivity for rare earth element separation

Mining peptides for mining solutions: Evaluation of calcium-binding peptides for rare earth element separations

Biotechnology solutions for critical mineral recovery from unconventional feedstocks

Vanadium(II) reductive upgrading of copper sulfide concentrates via iron leaching to facilitate stagewise oxidative copper leaching at room temperature

The outer membrane in Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans enables high tolerance to rare earth elements

Overexpression of sulfide:quinone reductase (SQR) in Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans enhances sulfur, pyrite, and pyrrhotite oxidation

Mutagenesis of Cyc2 from Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans reveals a critical role for bound iron atoms in extracellular electron transfer

2024

Leaching mechanism for chalcopyrite in electrochemically regenerated Vanadium (II)

CRISPR/dCas12a knock-down of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans electron transport chain bc1 complexes enables enhanced metal sulfide bioleaching

Overexpression of a designed mutant oxyanion binding protein ModA/WtpA in Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans for the low pH recovery of molybdenum and rhenium

Enzyme engineering by force: DNA springs for the modulation of biocatalytic trajectories

Rare Earth Element Binding and Recovery by a Beta Roll-Forming RTX Domain

2023

Genetic modification of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans for rare earth element (REE) recovery under acidic conditions

A remote, hands-on, and low cost sourdough lab for first year chemical engineering students

Case-based learning in material and energy balances to help students practice the transferability of chemical engineering problem solving

Overexpression of AcoP in Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans for enhanced copper reclamation

Engineering Candida boidinii formate dehydrogenase for activity with the non-canonical cofactor 3’-NADP(H)

Synthetic NAD(P)(H) cycle for ATP regeneration

Protein discerns between rare-earth elements

Biotechnology applications of proteins functionalized with DNA oligonucleotides

Overexpression of the quorum sensing genes in Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans enhances cell attachment and covellite bioleaching

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