Ray Dixon - Selected Publications#

Yang, J., Xie, X., Xiang, N., Tian, Z. X., Dixon, R* and Wang, Y. P. (2018) Polyprotein strategy for stoichiometric assembly of nitrogen fixation components for synthetic biology. Proc Nat Acad Sci USA: doi:10.1073/pnas.1804992115 (*corresponding author) (22 citations)

Yang, J., Xie, X., Yang, M., Dixon, R*. and Wang, Y. P., (2017) Modular electron-transport chains from eukaryotic organelles function to support nitrogenase activity. Proc Nat Acad Sci USA 114: E2460-E2465. *corresponding author). (31 citations)

Yang J, Xie X, Wang X, Dixon R* and Wang, YP (2014) Reconstruction and minimal gene requirements for the alternative iron-only nitrogenase in Escherichia coli. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 111:E3718-3725. (corresponding author) (41 citations)

D'Autreaux B, Tucker NP, Dixon R,* & Spiro S (2005) A non-haem iron centre in the transcription factor NorR senses nitric oxide. Nature 437:769-772 (*corresponding author) (257 citations)

Dixon R & Kahn D (2004) Genetic regulation of biological nitrogen fixation. Nature Rev. Microbiol. 2:621-631. (879 citations)

Hill S, Austin S, Eydmann T, Jones T, & Dixon R (1996) Azotobacter vinelandii NIFL is a flavoprotein that modulates transcriptional activation of nitrogen-fixation genes via a redox-sensitive switch. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 93:2143-2148. (196 citations)

Buck M, Miller S, Drummond M, & Dixon R (1986) Upstream activator sequences are present in the promoters of nitrogen fixation genes. Nature 320:374-378. (313 citations)

Drummond M, Clements J, Merrick M, & Dixon R (1983) Positive control and autogenous regulation of the nifLA promoter in Klebsiella pneumoniae. Nature 301:302-307. (172 citations)

Dixon R, Eady RR, Espin G, Hill S, Iaccarino M, Kahn D, & Merrick M (1980) Analysis of regulation of Klebsiella pneumoniae nitrogen fixation (nif) gene cluster with gene fusions. Nature 286:128-132. (189 citations)

Dixon R & Postgate JR (1972) Genetic transfer of nitrogen fixation from Klebsiella pneumoniae to Escherichia coli. Nature 237:102-103. (217 citations)