Publications

Leading author publications

A novel bacterial protein family that catalyses nitrous oxide reduction

Guang He, Weijiao Wang, Gao Chen, Yongchao Xie, Jerry M. Parks, Megan E. Davin, Robert L. Hettich, Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis, and Frank E. Löffler.
Nature, 2025. (📄 PDF)

The diversity of microbial enzymes that turn a pollutant into an inert gas

Guang He and Frank E. Löffler.
Nature, 2025. (📄 PDF) Research Briefing in press.

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi enhance nitrate ammonification in hyphosphere soil

Ruotong Zhao (equal contribution), Guang He (equal contribution), Dapu Zhou, Xia Li (corresponding author), Thomas Kuyper, Fu-suo Zhang, and Junling Zhang (corresponding author).
New Phytologists, 2025. (📄 PDF) Provisionally accepted.

Sustained bacterial N₂O reduction at acidic pH

Guang He, Gao Chen, Yongchao Xie, Cynthia M. Swift, Diana Ramirez, Gyuhyon Cha, Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis, Mark Radosevich, and Frank E. Löffler.
Nature Communications, 2024. (📄 PDF)

Nitrogen-hungry bacteria added to farm soil curb greenhouse-gas emissions

Guang He and Frank E. Löffler.
Nature, News & Views, 2024. (📄 PDF)

Contributing papers

Nitrous oxide sources, mechanisms and mitigation

Guibing Zhu, Hao Shi, Lei Zhong, Guang He, Baozhan Wang, Jun Shan, Ping Han, Tongxu Liu, Shanyun Wang, Chunlei Liu, Nan Zhang, Liping Jiang, Longbin Yu, Chunhui Zhan, Ziyang Tang, Teng Wen, Bin Ma, Xiaoxuan Su, Shujun Zhang, Jinbo Zhang, Hongjie Di, Lijun Hou, Alexander H. Krichels, Mark Trimmer, Mike S.M. Jetten, Yongzhen Peng, Frank E. Löffler, Hanqing Tian and Yongguan Zhu.
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2025. (PDF)

pH selects for distinct N₂O-reducing microbiomes in tropical soil microcosms

Yanchen Sun, Yongchao Yin, Guang He, Gyuhyon Cha, Héctor L Ayala-del-Río, Grizelle González, Konstantinos T Konstantinidis and Frank E Löffler.
ISME communications, 2024. (📄 PDF)

Natural attenuation potential of vinyl chloride and butyl acrylate released in the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment accident.

Gao Chen, Sam Rosolina, Elizabeth Padilla-Crespo, Guang He, Qiao Chen, Ana Arosemena, Bryan E. Rosado-Maldonado, Cynthia M. Swift, Paula Belmont Coelho, Andrew J. Whelton, Dora Taggart and Frank E. Löffler.
Environmental Science & Technology, 2024. (📄 PDF)

Genome-wide expression analysis unravels fluoroalkane metabolism in Pseudomonas sp. strain 273

Yongchao Xie, Diana Ramirez, Gao Chen, Guang He, Yanchen Sun, Fadime Kara Murdoch, and Frank E. Löffler.
Environmental Science & Technology, 2023. (📄 PDF)

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi reduce N₂O emissions from degraded residue patches

Xia Li, Guang He, Dandan Li, Shuikuan Bei, Dongdong Luan, Xinzhan Sun, Gaiqiang Yang, Lijuan Huo, Lina Zhen, and Ruotong Zhao.
Frontiers in Ecology & Evolution, 2023. (📄 PDF)