Structure, function, and biosynthesis of nickel‐dependent enzymes

M Alfano, C Cavazza - Protein Science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Nickel enzymes, present in archaea, bacteria, plants, and primitive eukaryotes are divided
into redox and nonredox enzymes and play key functions in diverse metabolic processes …

Bioactive trace metals and their isotopes as paleoproductivity proxies: An assessment using GEOTRACES‐era data

TJ Horner, SH Little, TM Conway… - Global …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Phytoplankton productivity and export sequester climatically significant quantities of
atmospheric carbon dioxide as particulate organic carbon through a suite of processes …

The biogeochemical balance of oceanic nickel cycling

SG John, RL Kelly, X Bian, F Fu, MI Smith… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Nickel is a biologically essential element for marine life, with the potential to influence
diverse processes, including methanogenesis, nitrogen uptake and coral health, in both …

The great oxidation event preceded a paleoproterozoic “snowball Earth”

MR Warke, T Di Rocco, AL Zerkle… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The inability to resolve the exact temporal relationship between two pivotal events in Earth
history, the Paleoproterozoic Great Oxidation Event (GOE) and the first “snowball Earth” …

[HTML][HTML] Sedimentary cycling of zinc and nickel and their isotopes on an upwelling margin: Implications for oceanic budgets and paleoenvironment proxies

Z He, C Archer, S Yang, D Vance - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
Zinc and Ni are essential micronutrients whose stable isotope systematics in marine
sediments represent promising, but still developing, tracers of past ocean chemistry and …

Crustal thickening and endogenic oxidation of magmatic sulfur

M Tang, CTA Lee, WQ Ji, R Wang, G Costin - Science Advances, 2020 - science.org
Porphyry ore deposits, Earth's most important resources of copper, molybdenum, and
rhenium, are strongly associated with felsic magmas showing signs of high-pressure …

Dominance of felsic continental crust on Earth after 3 billion years ago is recorded by vanadium isotopes

S Tian, X Ding, Y Qi, F Wu, Y Cai… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The transition from mafic to felsic upper continental crust (UCC) is crucial to habitability of
Earth, and may be related to the onset of plate tectonics. Thus, defining when this crustal …

Cerium geochemical composition of the upper continental crust through time: Implications for tracing past surface redox conditions

W Li, R Nakada, Y Takahashi, RM Gaschnig… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
To investigate the use of cerium (Ce) in the upper continental crust (UCC) for tracing
oxidative weathering, we measured the Ce anomaly (Ce/Ce*), the Ce stable isotope …

Ni isotopes provide a glimpse of Earth's pre-late-veneer mantle

Y Xu, K Szilas, L Zhang, JM Zhu, G Wu, J Zhang… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Moderately siderophile (eg, Ni) and highly siderophile elements (HSEs) in the bulk silicate
Earth (BSE) are believed to be partly or near-completely delivered by late accretion after the …

Towards balancing the oceanic Ni budget

SH Little, C Archer, J McManus, J Najorka… - Earth and Planetary …, 2020 - Elsevier
Nickel isotopes are a novel and promising tracer of the chemistry of past ocean
environments, but realisation of this tracer's potential requires a comprehensive …