MSU 2010, Ross Provost’s Award for Excellence in Research and Teaching Wiley Award for Meritorious Research, 2006 Chair, 2006 Gordon Conference on Iron-Sulfur Enzymes Camille Dreyfus Teacher/Scholar Award, 2001 Atorvastatin Research Award, 2000 NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, 1995-1996

Enzyme Structure and Mechanism

Swanson KD, Ratzloff MW, Mulder DW, Artz JH, Ghose S, Hoffman A, White S, Zadvornyy OA, Broderick JB, Bothner B, King PW, Peters JW.[FeFe]-hydrogenase oxygen inactivation is initiated at the H cluster 2Fe subcluster.J Am Chem Soc. 2015 Jan 12. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 25579778

Byer AS, Shepard EM, Peters JW, Broderick JB.Radical S-Adenosyl-L-methionine Chemistry in the Synthesis of Hydrogenase and Nitrogenase Metal Cofactors. J Biol Chem. 2014 Dec 4 [Epub ahead of print]

Boyd ES, Hamilton TL, Swanson KD, Howells AE, Baxter BK, Meuser JE,Posewitz MC, Peters JW.[FeFe]-Hydrogenase Abundance and Diversity along a Vertical Redox Gradient in Great Salt Lake, USA. Int J Mol Sci. 2014; 15(12):21947-66

Peters JW, Schut GJ, Boyd ES, Mulder DW, Shepard EM, Broderick JB, King PW,Adams MW.[FeFe]- and [NiFe]-hydrogenase diversity, mechanism, and maturation.Biochim Biophys Acta. 2014; Nov 24. [Epub ahead of print]

Mulder DW, Ratzloff MW, Bruschi M, Greco C, Koonce E, Peters JW, King PW.Investigations on the role of proton-coupled electron transfer in hydrogen activation by [FeFe]-hydrogenase. J Am Chem Soc. 2014; 136(43):15394-402

Therien JB, Zadvornyy OA, Posewitz MC, Bryant DA, Peters JW.Growth of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii in acetate-free medium when co-cultured with alginate-encapsulated, acetate-producing strains of Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002. Biotechnol Biofuels. 2014; 7(1):154

Duffus BR, Ghose S, Peters JW, Broderick JB.Reversible H atom abstraction catalyzed by the radical S-adenosylmethionine enzyme HydG. J Am Chem Soc. 2014; 136(38):13086-9

Broderick JB, Byer AS, Duschene KS, Duffus BR, Betz JN, Shepard EM, Peters JW.H-Cluster assembly during maturation of the [FeFe]-hydrogenase. J Biol Inorg Chem.; 19(6):747-57

Shepard EM, Mus F, Betz JN, Byer AS, Duffus BR, Peters JW, Broderick JB.[FeFe]-hydrogenase maturation. Biochemistry. 2014; 53(25):4090-104

Hamilton TL, Koonce E, Howells A, Havig JR, Jewell T, de la Torre JR,Peters JW, Boyd ES.Competition for ammonia influences the structure of chemotrophic communities in geothermal springs. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2014; 80(2):653-61

Heinemann J, Hamerly T, Maaty WS, Movahed N, Steffens JD, Reeves BD, Hilmer JK, Therien J, Grieco PA, Peters JW, Bothner B. Expanding the paradigm of thiol redox in the thermophilic root of life. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2014; 1840(1):80-5

D'Adamo S, Jinkerson RE, Boyd ES, Brown SL, Baxter BK, Peters JW, Posewitz MC. Evolutionary and biotechnological implications of robust hydrogenase activity in halophilic strains of Tetraselmis. PLoS One. 2014; 9(1):e85812

Boyd ES, Peters JW. New insights into the evolutionary history of biological nitrogen fixation. Front Microbiol. 2013 Aug 5;4:201. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00201. [Epub ahead of print]

Hamilton TL, Peters JW, Skidmore ML, Boyd ES.”Molecular evidence for an active endogenous microbiome beneath glacial ice”. 2013, ISME J. 7(7):1402-12

Mulder DW, Ratzloff MW, Shepard EM, Byer AS, Noone SM, Peters JW, Broderick JB, King PW. “EPR and FTIR Analysis on the Mechanism of H2 Activation by [FeFe]-Hydrogenase HydA1 from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii”. 2013, JACS. 135(18):6921-9

Mitra D, George SJ, Guo Y, Kamali S, Keable S, Peters JW, Pelmenschikov V, Case DA, Cramer SP. "Characterization of [4Fe-4S] Cluster Vibrations and Structure in Nitrogenase Fe Protein at Three Oxidation Levels via Combined NRVS, EXAFS, and DFT Analyses". 2013, J Am Chem Soc. 135(7):2530-43

Meuser JE, Baxter BK, Spear JR, Peters JW, Posewitz MC, Boyd ES. "Contrasting Patterns of Community Assembly in the Stratified Water Column of Great Salt Lake, Utah". 2013, Microb Ecol. 66(2):268