Publications

Erin M. Bertrand, Dawn M. Moran, Matthew R. McIlvin, Jeffrey M. Hoffman, Andrew E. Allen, and Mak A. Saito. Methionine synthase interreplacement in diatom cultures and communities. In Revision for Limnology and Oceanography.

J. Daphne Aguirre, Hillary M. Clark, Matthew McIlvin, Christine Vazquez, Shaina L. Palmere, Dennis Grab, J. Seshu, Mak Saito, and Valeria C. Culotta. A Manganese-Rich Environment Supports Superoxide Dismutase Activity in the Lyme Disease Pathogen, Borrelia burgdorferi. In Review.

Bertrand EM*, Allen AE, Dupont CL, Norden-Krichmar T, Bai J, Saito MA. 2012. Impact of Cobalamin Starvation on Diatom Molecular Physiology and the Identification of a Novel Cobalamin Acquisition Protein. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.

Noble, A.E., C.H. Lamborg, D. Ohnemus, P.J. Lam, K. T.J. Goepfert, C.I. Measures, C.H. Frame, K.L. Casciotti, G.R.DiTullio, J. Jennings, and M.A. Saito. 2012. Basin-scale plumes of cobalt, iron, and manganese emanating from the Benguela-Angola front in the South Atlantic Ocean. Limnology and Oceanography.

Moore, C.M., Mills, M.M., Arrigo, K.R., Berman-Frank, I., Bopp, L., Boyd,P.W., Galbraith, E.D., Geider, R.J., Guieu, C., Jaccard, S.L., Jickells, T.D., LaRoche, J., Lenton, T., Mahowald, N.M., Marañón, E., Marinov, I., Moore,J.K., Nakatsuka, T., Oschlies, A., Saito, M.A., Thingstad, T.F., Tsuda, A.,Ulloa, O. and Wallace, D.Oceanic nutrient limitation: processes, patterns and potential for change. In review at Nature Geosciences.

Katherine RM Mackey, Kathryn Roberts, Michael W Lomas, Mak A Saito, Anton F Post, Adina Paytan. 2012. Variable solubility and ecological impact of atmospheric phosphorus deposition. Environ. Sci. Technol.

Mak A. Saito. 2012. The Rise of Oxygen and Aerobic Biochemistry. Structure. 20:1. 1–2.

Gregory F. de Souza, Ben C. Reynolds, Jörg Rickli, Martin Frank, Mak Saito, Loes J. A. Gerringa and Bernard Bourdon. 2012. Southern Ocean control of silicon stable isotope distribution in the deep Atlantic Ocean. Global Biogeochemical Cycles.

Sonya T. Dyhrman, Bethany D. Jenkins, Tatiana A. Rynearson, Mak A. Saito, Melissa L. Mercier, Harriet Alexander, LeAnn P. Whitney, Andrea Drzewianowski, Vladimir V. Bulygin, Erin M. Bertrand, Zhijin Wu, Claudia Benitez-Nelson, Abigail Heithoff. 2012 Coordination in the transcriptome and proteome of the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana reveals a diverse phosphorus stress response. PLoS One.

Mak Saito, Vladimir Bulygin, Dawn Moran, Craig Taylor, and Christopher Scholin. 2011. Examination of Microbial Proteome Preservation Techniques Applicable to Autonomous Environmental Sample Collection. Frontiers in Aquatic Microbiology.

Saito, M.A., E.M. Bertrand, V. Bulygin, D. Moran, S. Dutkiewicz, F.M. Monteiro, M.J. Follows, F.W. Valois, J.B. Waterbury. 2011. Iron Conservation by Reduction of Metalloenzyme Inventories in the Marine Diazotroph Crocosphaera watsonii. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. doi:10.1073/pnas.1006943108. Supplemental Materials and Dataset.

Louie L. Wurch, Erin M. Bertrand, Mak A. Saito, Benjamin A.S. Van Mooy and Sonya T. Dyhrman. 2011. Proteome changes driven by phosphorus stress and recovery in the brown tide-forming alga, Aureococcus anophagefferens. PLoS One.

E. M. Bertrand*, M.A. Saito, P.A. Lee, R.B. Dunbar,G.R. DiTullio. 2011. Iron limitation of springtime bacterial and phytoplankton community in the Ross Sea: implications for vitamin B₁₂nutrition. Frontiers in Aquatic Microbiology.

Thompson, A.W. *, K. Huang, M.A. Saito, S.W. Chisholm. 2011. Transcriptome response of high and low-light adapted Prochlorococcus strains to changing iron availability. ISME Journal. 1-15.

Erin M. Bertrand, Mak A. Saito, Young Jae Jeon and Brett A. Neilan. 2011., Vitamin B₁₂ biosynthesis gene diversity in the Ross Sea: the identification of a new group of putative polar B₁₂ biosynthesizersemi, Environmental Microbiology, doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02428.x

Jill A. Sohm, Jason Hilton, Abigail Noble, Jonathan P. Zehr, Mak A. Saito, Eric A. Webb. 2011. Nitrogen fixation in the South Atlantic Gyre and the Benguela upwelling system. Geophysical Research Letters.

Saito, M.A., A.E. Noble, T. J. Goepfert, C.H. Lamborg, W.J. Jenkins. A Large Hydrothermal Iron Plume in the South Atlantic and Implications for Global Iron Cycling. In revision.

Jakuba, R., M.A. Saito, J.W. Moffett , Y. Xu. 2012. Dissolved zinc in the subarctic North Pacific and Bering Sea: Its distribution, speciation, and importance to primary producers. Global Biogeochemical Cycles.

Saito, M.A., T.J. Goepfert, A.E. Noble, P.N. Sedwick, G.R. DiTullio. 2010. A Seasonal Study of Dissolved Cobalt in the Ross Sea of Antarctica: Micronutrient Control, Absence of Observed Scavenging, and Relationships with Zn, Cd, and P. Biogeosciences.7. 4059-4082.

Gobler, C.J. et al (and 29 others). 2011. Niche of harmful alga, Aureococcus Anophagefferens, revealed through ecogenomics. In Press at Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 108.11: 4352-4357..

Higgins, M.B., F.L. Wolfe-Simon, R.S. Robinson, Y. Qin, M.A. Saito and A. Pearson. 2011. Paleoenvironmental implications of taxonomic variation among δ¹⁵N values of chloropigments. 75:22. 7351-7363. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

Sedwick, P. N., C. M. Marsay, A. M. Aguilar-Islas, M. C. Lohan, B. M. Sohst, M. C.Long, K. R. Arrigo, R. B. Dunbar, M. A. Saito, W. O. Smith and G. R. DiTullio. Early-season depletion of dissolved iron in the Ross Sea polynya: Implications for iron dynamics on the Antarctic continental shelf. In press at Journal of Geophysical Research

Wu, Z., B.D. Jenkins, T.A. Rynearson, S.T. Dyhrman, M.A. Saito, M. Mercier, L. Whitney. 2010. Empirical Bayes Analysis of Sequencing-based Transcriptional Profiling without Replicates. BMC Bioinformatics. 11:564. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-11-564.

Less Nickel for more Oxygen - Nature News and Views 2009
M.A. Saito, Nature, Vol. 458, 9 April 2009.
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Cobalt, manganese, and iron near the Hawaiian Islands: A potential concentrating mechanism for cobalt within a cyclonic eddy and implications for hybrid-type trace metals
A.E. Noble, M.A. Saito, K. Maiti, C. Benitez-Nelson, Deep Sea Research II, 2008.
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Zinc-cobalt colimitation in Phaeocystis antarctica
Saito, M.A. and T.J. Goepfert., Limnology and Oceanography, 53(1), 2008.
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Some thoughts on the concept of co-limitation: Three definitions and the importance of bioavailability
Saito, M.A., T.J. Goepfert, and J.T. Ritt, Limnology and Oceanography, 53(1), 2008, 276–290.
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Regional distributions of nitrogen-fixing bacteria in the Pacific Ocean
Church, Matthew J., Karin M. Björkman, David M. Karl, Mak A. Saito, and Jonathan P. Zehr, Limnology and Oceanography, 53(1), 2008, 63–77.
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Zinc isotope fractionation during high-affinity and low-affinity zinc transport by the marine diatom Thalassiosira oceanica
John, Seth G., Robert W. Geis, Mak A. Saito, and Edward A. Boyle, Limnology and Oceanography, 52(6), 2007, 2710–2714.
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Vitamin B₁₂ and iron co-limitation of phytoplankton growth in the Ross Sea
E.M. Bertrand*, M.A. Saito*, J.M. Rose, C.R. Riesselman, M.C. Lohan, A.E. Noble, P.A. Lee, G.R. DiTullio (* co-authors), Limnology and Oceanography, 52(3), 2007, 1079–1093.
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Survival and growth of two heterotrophic hydrothermal vent archaea, Pyrococcus strain GB-D and Thermococcus fumicolans, under low pH and high sulfide concentrations in combination with high temperature and pressure regimes
Edgcomb, V.P., Molyneaux, S.J., Böer, S., Wirsen, C.O., Saito, M., Atkins, M.S., Lloyd, K., Teske, A., Extremophiles, 2007, 11:329–342.
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Examination of precipitation chemistry and improvements in precision using the Mg(OH)₂ preconcentration ICP-MS method for high-throughput analysis of open-ocean Fe and Mn in seawater
Mak A. Saito and David L. Schneider, Analytica Chimica Acta, 565, 2006, 222–233.
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Iron Storage and DNA-Binding Dps Protein from Trichodesmium erythraeum
M. Castruita, M. Saito, P. C. Schottel, L. A. Elmegreen, S. Myneni, E. I. Stiefel and F. M. M. Morel, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, April 2006, p. 2918–2924.
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A Cadmium Enzyme from a Marine Diatom
Todd Lane*, Mak Saito*, Graham George, Ingrid Pickering, Roger Prince, Francois Morel* (co-first authors), Nature, May 5, 2005.
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Production of cobalt binding ligands in a Synechococcus feature at the Costa Rica upwelling dome
Mak A. Saito, Gabrielle Rocap, James W. Moffett, Limnology and Oceanography, 50(1), 2005, 279–290.
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Cobalt and nickel in the Peru upwelling region: A major flux of labile cobalt utilized as a micronutrient
Mak A. Saito, James W. Moffett, Giacomo R. DiTullio, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Vol. 18, 2004.
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Sulfide Ameliorates Metal Toxicity for Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Archaea
V.P. Edgcomb, S.J. Molyneaux, M.A. Saito, K. Lloyd, S. Böer, C.O. Wirsen, M.S. Atkins and A. Teske, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, April 2004, p. 2551–2555.
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Analysis of whole genome sequence of the centric diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana
E.V. Armbrust, J.A. Berges, C. Bowler, B.R. Green, D. Martinez, N.H. Putnam, S. Zhou, A.E. Allen, K.E. Apt, M. Bechner, M.A. Brzezinski, B.K. Chaal, A. Chiovitti, A.K. Davis, M.S. Demarest, J.C. Detter, T. Glavina, D. Goodstein, M.Z. Hadi, U. Hellsten, M. Hildebrand, B.D. Jenkins, J. Jurka, V.V. Kapitonov, N. Kröger, W.W.Y. Lau, T.W. Lane, F.W. Larimer, J.C. Lippmeier, S. Lucas, M. Medina, A. Montsant, M. Obornik, M.S. Parker, B. Palenik, G.J. Pazour, P. M. Richardson, T.A. Rynearson, M.A. Saito, D.C. Schwartz, K.Thamatrakoln, K. Valentin, A.Vardi, F.P. Wilkerson, D. S. Rokhsar, Science, Vol. 306, 1 October 2004.
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The bioinorganic chemistry of the ancient ocean: the co-evolution of cyanobacterial metal requirements and biogeochemical cycles at the Archean-Proterozoic boundary?
Mak A. Saito, Daniel, M. Sigman, Francois M.M. Morel, Inorganica Chimica Acta, 356, 2003, 308-318.
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Marine Bioinorganic Chemistry: The Role of Trace of Metals in the Oceanic Cycles of Major Nutrients
Morel, F.M.M., A.J. Milligan. M.A. Saito, Treatise on Geochemistry, 2003.
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Temporal and Spatial Variability of Cobalt in the Atlantic Ocean
Mak A. Saito and J.W. Moffett, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Vol. 66, No. 11, pp. 1943–1953, 2002.
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Cobalt uptake in Prochlorococcus
M.A. Saito, J.W. Moffett, S.W. Chisholm, J.B. Waterbury, Limnology and Oceanography, 47(6), 2002, 1629–1636.
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Tolerance of flagellated protozoa to extreme environmental conditions potentially encountered at deep-sea hydrothermal vents
Atkins, M.S.; M.A. Hanna, E.A. Kupetsky, M.A. Saito, C.D. Taylor, C.O., Marine Ecology Progress Series, Vol. 226: 63–75, 2002.
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Complexation of cobalt by natural organic ligands in the Sargasso Sea as determined by a new high-sensitivity electrochemical cobalt speciation method suitable for open ocean work
Mak A. Saito and J.W. Moffett, Marine Chemistry, 75, 2001, 49–68.
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The Biogeochemistry of Cobalt in the Sargasso Sea
Mak A. Saito, Ph.D. Thesis, 2001.
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Last updated: December 3, 2012