Primary publications
Ryan A. Melnyk#, Polina Beskrovnaya#, Zhexian Liu, Yi Song, and Cara H. Haney. Bacterially produced spermidine induces plant systemic susceptibility to pathogens. #Equal contributions. bioRxiv. 2019. doi:10.1101/517870
Ryan A. Melnyk, Sarzana S. Hossain, and Cara H. Haney. Convergent gain and loss of genomic islands drives lifestyle changes in plant-associated Pseudomonas. ISME Journal. 2019. doi:10.1038/s41396-019-0372-5
Ryan A. Melnyk and John D. Coates. The Perchlorate Reduction Genomic Island: Mechanisms and Pathways of Evolution by Horizontal Gene Transfer. BMC Genomics. 2016, 16(1), 862.
Ryan A. Melnyk, Matthew D. Youngblut, Iain C. Clark, Hans K. Carlson, Kelly M. Wetmore, Morgan N. Price, Anthony T. Iavarone, Adam M. Deutschbauer, Adam P. Arkin, and John D. Coates. Novel Mechanism for Scavenging of Hypochlorite Involving a Periplasmic Methionine-Rich Peptide and Methionine Sulfoxide Reductase. mBio. 2015, 6(3):e00233-15.
Ryan A. Melnyk, Iain C. Clark, Annette Liao, and John D. Coates. Transposon and deletion mutagenesis of genes involved in perchlorate reduction in Azospira suillum PS. mBio. 2013, 5(1):e00769-13
Ryan A. Melnyk, Anna Engelbrektson, Iain C. Clark, Hans K. Carlson, Kathy Byrne-Bailey and John D. Coates. Identification of a perchlorate reduction genomic island with novel regulatory and metabolic genes. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 2011, 77(20):7401
Reviews and comments
Ryan A. Melnyk and Cara H. Haney. Bacterial genomics of plant adaptation. Nature Genetics. 2018, 50(1):2-4
Ryan A. Melnyk and Cara H. Haney. Plant Pathology: Plasmid-powered evolutionary transitions. eLife. 2017, 6:e33383.
Ryan A. Melnyk and John D. Coates. Microbial fuel cells. McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science & Technology. 2011, pp. 199-202.
Kelly C. Wrighton, Anna E. Engelbrektson, Iain C. Clark, Ryan A. Melnyk, and John D. Coates. Accentuate the positive: dissimilatory iron reduction by Gram-positive bacteria. Microbial Metal and Metalloid Metabolism: Advances and Applications. 2011, pp. 173-189.
Co-author publications
Morgan N. Price, Kelly M. Wetmore, R. Jordan Waters, Mark Callaghan, Jayashree Ray, Hualan Liu, Jennifer V. Kuehl, Ryan A. Melnyk, Jacob S. Lamson, Yumi Suh, Hans K. Carlson, Zuelma Esquivel, Harini Sadeeshkumar, Romy Chakraborty, Grant M. Zane, Benjamin E. Rubin, Judy D. Wall, Axel Visel, James Bristow, Matthew J. Blow, Adam P. Arkin, and Adam M. Deutschbauer. Mutant phenotypes for thousands of bacterial genes of unknown function. Nature. 2018, 557:503-509.
Ouwei Wang, Ryan A. Melnyk, Misha G. Mehta-Kolte, Matthew D. Youngblut, Hans K. Carlson, and John D. Coates. Functional Redundancy in Perchlorate and Nitrate Electron Transport Chains and Rewiring Respiratory Pathways to Alter Terminal Electron Acceptor Preference. Front. Microbiol. 2018, 9:376.
Morgan N. Price, Grant M. Zane, Jennifer V. Kuehl, Ryan A. Melnyk, Judy D. Wall, Adam M. Deutschbauer, and Adam P. Arkin. Filling gaps in bacterial amino acid biosynthesis pathways with high-throughput genetics. PLoS Genetics. 2018, 14(1):e1007147
Cara H. Haney, Christina L. Wiesmann, Lori R. Shapiro, Lucy R. O’Sullivan, Sophie Khorasani, Ryan A. Melnyk, Li Xiao, Jiatong Han, Jenifer Bush, Juli Carrillo, Naomi E. Pierce, and Frederick M. Ausubel. Rhizosphere-associated Pseudomonas induce systemic resistance to herbivores at the cost of susceptibility to bacterial pathogens. Molecular Ecology. 2018, 27(8):1833-1847
David M. Hershey, Xuefeng Ren, Ryan A. Melnyk, Patrick J. Browne, Ertan Ozyamak, Stephanie R. Jones, Michelle C. Y. Chang, James H. Hurley, and Arash Komeili. MamO is a Repurposed Serine Protease that Promotes Magnetite Biomineralization through Direct Transition Metal Binding in Magnetotactic Bacteria. PLOS Biology. 2016, 14(3):e1002402.
Iain C. Clark, Ryan A. Melnyk, Matthew D. Youngblut, Hans K. Carlson, Anthony T. Iavarone, and John D. Coates. Synthetic and Evolutionary Construction of a Chlorate-Reducing Shewanella oneidensis MR-1. mBio. 2015, 6(3):e00282-15
Michael P. Thorgersen, W. Andrew Lancaster, Brian J. Vaccaro, Farris L. Poole, Andrea M. Rocha, Tonia Mehlhorn, Angelica Pettenato, Jayashree Ray, R. Jordan Waters, Ryan A. Melnyk, Romy Chakraborty, Terry C. Hazen, Adam M. Deutschbauer, Adam P. Arkin, and Michael W. W. Adams. Molybdenum Availability is Key to Nitrate Removal in Contaminated Groundwater Environments. Applied and Enivronmental Microbiology. 2015, 81(15), 4976-4983.
Iain C. Clark, Ryan A. Melnyk, Anthony T. Iavarone, Pavel S. Novichkov, and John D. Coates. Chlorate reduction in Shewanella algae ACDC is a recently acquired metabolism characterized by gene loss, suboptimal regulation and oxidative stress. Molecular Microbiology. 2014, 94(1):107-125
Iain C. Clark, Ryan A. Melnyk, Anna Engelbrektson, and John D. Coates. Structure and evolution of chlorate reduction composite transposons. mBio. 2013, 4(4):e00379-13
Charlotte I. Carlström, Ouwei Wang, Ryan A. Melnyk, Stefan Bauer, Joyce Lee, Anna Engelbrektson, and John D. Coates. Physiological and Genetic Description of Dissimilatory Perchlorate Reduction by the Novel Marine Bacterium Arcobacter sp. Strain CAB. mBio. 2013, 4(3):e00217-13
Hans K. Carlson, Iain C. Clark, Ryan A. Melnyk, and John D. Coates. Toward a Mechanistic Understanding of Anaerobic Nitrate-Dependent Iron Oxidation: Balancing Electron Uptake and Detoxification. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2012, 3(57):1
Hans K. Carlson, Anthony T. Iavarone, Amita Gorur, Boon Siang Yeo, Rosalie Tran, Ryan A. Melnyk, Richard A. Mathies, Manfred Auer, and John D. Coates. Surface multiheme c-type cytochromes from Thermincola potens and implications for respiratory metal reduction by Gram-positive bacteria. PNAS. 2012, 109(5):1702
K. C. Wrighton, J. C. Thrash, R. A. Melnyk, J. P. Bigi, K. G. Byrne-Bailey, J. P. Remis, D. Schichnes, M. Auer, C. J. Chang, and J. D. Coates. Evidence for direct electron transfer by a Gram-positive bacterium isolated from a microbial fuel cell. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 2011, 77(21):7633
Kathryne G. Byrne-Bailey, Kelly C. Wrighton, Ryan A. Melnyk, Peter Agbo, Terry C. Hazen, and John D. Coates. Complete genome sequence of the electricity-producing Thermincola potens strain JR. Journal of Bacteriology. 2010, 192(15):4078