Kirsti M. Ritalahti, Ph.D. - Publications

Affiliations: 
2000 Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 
Area:
Microbiology Biology, Ecology Biology, Environmental Engineering

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Year Citation  Score
2018 Clark K, Taggart DM, Baldwin BR, Ritalahti KM, Murdoch RW, Hatt JK, Löffler FE. Normalized Quantitative PCR Measurements as Predictors for Ethene Formation at Sites Impacted with Chlorinated Ethenes. Environmental Science & Technology. PMID 30365883 DOI: 10.1021/Acs.Est.8B04373  0.414
2015 Yoon S, Cruz-García C, Sanford R, Ritalahti KM, Löffler FE. Denitrification versus respiratory ammonification: environmental controls of two competing dissimilatory NO3(-)/NO2(-) reduction pathways in Shewanella loihica strain PV-4. The Isme Journal. 9: 1093-104. PMID 25350157 DOI: 10.1038/Ismej.2014.201  0.416
2014 Miyazaki M, Sakai S, Ritalahti KM, Saito Y, Yamanaka Y, Saito Y, Tame A, Uematsu K, Löffler FE, Takai K, Imachi H. Sphaerochaeta multiformis sp. nov., an anaerobic, psychrophilic bacterium isolated from subseafloor sediment, and emended description of the genus Sphaerochaeta. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 64: 4147-54. PMID 25249566 DOI: 10.1099/Ijs.0.068148-0  0.371
2014 Orellana LH, Rodriguez-R LM, Higgins S, Chee-Sanford JC, Sanford RA, Ritalahti KM, Löffler FE, Konstantinidis KT. Detecting nitrous oxide reductase (NosZ) genes in soil metagenomes: method development and implications for the nitrogen cycle. Mbio. 5: e01193-14. PMID 24895307 DOI: 10.1128/Mbio.01193-14  0.311
2014 Padilla-Crespo E, Yan J, Swift C, Wagner DD, Chourey K, Hettich RL, Ritalahti KM, Löffler FE. Identification and environmental distribution of dcpA, which encodes the reductive dehalogenase catalyzing the dichloroelimination of 1,2-dichloropropane to propene in organohalide-respiring chloroflexi. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 80: 808-18. PMID 24242248 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.02927-13  0.45
2013 Hatt JK, Ritalahti KM, Ogles DM, Lebrón CA, Löffler FE. Design and application of an internal amplification control to improve Dehalococcoides mccartyi 16S rRNA gene enumeration by qPCR. Environmental Science & Technology. 47: 11131-8. PMID 24053159 DOI: 10.1021/Es4019817  0.43
2013 Löffler FE, Yan J, Ritalahti KM, Adrian L, Edwards EA, Konstantinidis KT, Müller JA, Fullerton H, Zinder SH, Spormann AM. Dehalococcoides mccartyi gen. nov., sp. nov., obligately organohalide-respiring anaerobic bacteria relevant to halogen cycling and bioremediation, belong to a novel bacterial class, Dehalococcoidia classis nov., order Dehalococcoidales ord. nov. and family Dehalococcoidaceae fam. nov., within the phylum Chloroflexi. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 63: 625-35. PMID 22544797 DOI: 10.1099/Ijs.0.034926-0  0.474
2012 Sanford RA, Wagner DD, Wu Q, Chee-Sanford JC, Thomas SH, Cruz-García C, Rodríguez G, Massol-Deyá A, Krishnani KK, Ritalahti KM, Nissen S, Konstantinidis KT, Löffler FE. Unexpected nondenitrifier nitrous oxide reductase gene diversity and abundance in soils. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 109: 19709-14. PMID 23150571 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1211238109  0.306
2012 Yan J, Ritalahti KM, Wagner DD, Löffler FE. Unexpected specificity of interspecies cobamide transfer from Geobacter spp. to organohalide-respiring Dehalococcoides mccartyi strains. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 78: 6630-6. PMID 22773645 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.01535-12  0.437
2012 Wagner DD, Hug LA, Hatt JK, Spitzmiller MR, Padilla-Crespo E, Ritalahti KM, Edwards EA, Konstantinidis KT, Löffler FE. Genomic determinants of organohalide-respiration in Geobacter lovleyi, an unusual member of the Geobacteraceae. Bmc Genomics. 13: 200. PMID 22616984 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-200  0.39
2012 Caro-Quintero A, Ritalahti KM, Cusick KD, Löffler FE, Konstantinidis KT. The chimeric genome of Sphaerochaeta: nonspiral spirochetes that break with the prevalent dogma in spirochete biology. Mbio. 3. PMID 22589287 DOI: 10.1128/Mbio.00025-12  0.378
2012 Justicia-Leon SD, Ritalahti KM, Mack EE, Löffler FE. Dichloromethane fermentation by a Dehalobacter sp. in an enrichment culture derived from pristine river sediment. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 78: 1288-91. PMID 22179245 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.07325-11  0.375
2012 Ritalahti KM, Justicia-Leon SD, Cusick KD, Ramos-Hernandez N, Rubin M, Dornbush J, Löffler FE. Sphaerochaeta globosa gen. nov., sp. nov. and Sphaerochaeta pleomorpha sp. nov., free-living, spherical spirochaetes. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 62: 210-6. PMID 21398503 DOI: 10.1099/Ijs.0.023986-0  0.395
2010 Ritalahti KM, Hatt JK, Lugmayr V, Henn K, Petrovskis EA, Ogles DM, Davis GA, Yeager CM, Lebrón CA, Löffler FE. Comparing on-site to off-site biomass collection for Dehalococcoides biomarker gene quantification to predict in situ chlorinated ethene detoxification potential. Environmental Science & Technology. 44: 5127-33. PMID 20545341 DOI: 10.1021/Es100408R  0.396
2009 McMurdie PJ, Behrens SF, Müller JA, Göke J, Ritalahti KM, Wagner R, Goltsman E, Lapidus A, Holmes S, Löffler FE, Spormann AM. Localized plasticity in the streamlined genomes of vinyl chloride respiring Dehalococcoides. Plos Genetics. 5: e1000714. PMID 19893622 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pgen.1000714  0.399
2008 Amos BK, Ritalahti KM, Cruz-Garcia C, Padilla-Crespo E, Löffler FE. Oxygen effect on Dehalococcoides viability and biomarker quantification. Environmental Science & Technology. 42: 5718-26. PMID 18754499 DOI: 10.1021/Es703227G  0.371
2008 Fletcher KE, Ritalahti KM, Pennell KD, Takamizawa K, Löffler FE. Resolution of culture Clostridium bifermentans DPH-1 into two populations, a Clostridium sp. and tetrachloroethene-dechlorinating Desulfitobacterium hafniense strain JH1. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 74: 6141-3. PMID 18708512 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.00994-08  0.405
2007 Bedard DL, Ritalahti KM, Löffler FE. The Dehalococcoides population in sediment-free mixed cultures metabolically dechlorinates the commercial polychlorinated biphenyl mixture aroclor 1260. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 73: 2513-21. PMID 17308182 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.02909-06  0.409
2007 Krajmalnik-Brown R, Sung Y, Ritalahti KM, Saunders FM, Löffler FE. Environmental distribution of the trichloroethene reductive dehalogenase gene (tceA) suggests lateral gene transfer among Dehalococcoides. Fems Microbiology Ecology. 59: 206-14. PMID 17233752 DOI: 10.1111/J.1574-6941.2006.00243.X  0.401
2006 Sung Y, Fletcher KE, Ritalahti KM, Apkarian RP, Ramos-Hernández N, Sanford RA, Mesbah NM, Löffler FE. Geobacter lovleyi sp. nov. strain SZ, a novel metal-reducing and tetrachloroethene-dechlorinating bacterium. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 72: 2775-82. PMID 16597982 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.72.4.2775-2782.2006  0.41
2006 Ritalahti KM, Amos BK, Sung Y, Wu Q, Koenigsberg SS, Löffler FE. Quantitative PCR targeting 16S rRNA and reductive dehalogenase genes simultaneously monitors multiple Dehalococcoides strains. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 72: 2765-74. PMID 16597981 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.72.4.2765-2774.2006  0.478
2006 Sung Y, Ritalahti KM, Apkarian RP, Löffler FE. Quantitative PCR confirms purity of strain GT, a novel trichloroethene-to-ethene-respiring Dehalococcoides isolate. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 72: 1980-7. PMID 16517646 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.72.3.1980-1987.2006  0.516
2005 Löffler FE, Sanford RA, Ritalahti KM. Enrichment, cultivation, and detection of reductively dechlorinating bacteria. Methods in Enzymology. 397: 77-111. PMID 16260286 DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(05)97005-5  0.385
2005 He J, Sung Y, Krajmalnik-Brown R, Ritalahti KM, Löffler FE. Isolation and characterization of Dehalococcoides sp. strain FL2, a trichloroethene (TCE)- and 1,2-dichloroethene-respiring anaerobe. Environmental Microbiology. 7: 1442-50. PMID 16104866 DOI: 10.1111/J.1462-2920.2005.00830.X  0.489
2004 Krajmalnik-Brown R, Hölscher T, Thomson IN, Saunders FM, Ritalahti KM, Löffler FE. Genetic identification of a putative vinyl chloride reductase in Dehalococcoides sp. strain BAV1. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 70: 6347-51. PMID 15466590 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.70.10.6347-6351.2004  0.506
2004 Hölscher T, Krajmalnik-Brown R, Ritalahti KM, Von Wintzingerode F, Görisch H, Löffler FE, Adrian L. Multiple nonidentical reductive-dehalogenase-homologous genes are common in Dehalococcoides. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 70: 5290-7. PMID 15345412 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.70.9.5290-5297.2004  0.454
2004 Ritalahti KM, Löffler FE. Populations implicated in anaerobic reductive dechlorination of 1,2-dichloropropane in highly enriched bacterial communities. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 70: 4088-95. PMID 15240287 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.70.7.4088-4095.2004  0.409
2003 He J, Ritalahti KM, Yang KL, Koenigsberg SS, Löffler FE. Detoxification of vinyl chloride to ethene coupled to growth of an anaerobic bacterium. Nature. 424: 62-5. PMID 12840758 DOI: 10.1038/Nature01717  0.322
2003 Sung Y, Ritalahti KM, Sanford RA, Urbance JW, Flynn SJ, Tiedje JM, Löffler FE. Characterization of two tetrachloroethene-reducing, acetate-oxidizing anaerobic bacteria and their description as Desulfuromonas michiganensis sp. nov. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 69: 2964-74. PMID 12732573 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.69.5.2964-2974.2003  0.438
2003 He J, Ritalahti KM, Aiello MR, Löffler FE. Complete detoxification of vinyl chloride by an anaerobic enrichment culture and identification of the reductively dechlorinating population as a Dehalococcoides species. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 69: 996-1003. PMID 12571022 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.69.2.996-1003.2003  0.418
2001 Klečka GM, Rick DL, Witt ME, Ritalahti K, Marsh TL. Natural Biological Attenuation of Phenoxy Herbicides in Groundwater: Dow AgroSciences Paritutu Site, New Zealand Bioremediation Journal. 5: 79-92. DOI: 10.1080/20018891079203  0.371
1997 Loffler FE, Ritalahti KM, Tiedje JM. Dechlorination of chloroethenes is inhibited by 2-bromoethanesulfonate in the absence of methanogens. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 63: 4982-5. PMID 16535759 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.63.12.4982-4985.1997  0.358
1997 Loffler FE, Champine JE, Ritalahti KM, Sprague SJ, Tiedje JM. Complete reductive dechlorination of 1,2-dichloropropane by anaerobic bacteria. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 63: 2870-2875. DOI: 10.1128/Aem.63.7.2870-2875.1997  0.341
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