Shawn E. McGlynn, Shane S. Ruebush, Anatoli Naumov, Lauren E. Nagy, Alexandra Dubini, Paul W. King, Joan B. Broderick, Matthew C. Posewitz, and John W. Peters. 2007. In vitro activation of [FeFe] hydrogenase: new insights into hydrogenase maturation, Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry. May;12 (4):443-7.

Shawn E. McGlynn, Eric M. Shepard, Mark A. Winslow, Anatoli V. Naumov, Kaitlin S. Duschene, Matthew C. Posewitz, William E. Broderick, Joan B. Broderick, and John W. Peters. 2008. HydF as a scaffold protein in [FeFe] hydrogenase maturation. FEBS Letters. Jun 25;582(15):2183-7

Shawn E. McGlynn, David W. Mulder, Eric M. Shepard, Joan B. Broderick, and John W. Peters. 2009. Hydrogenase cluster biosynthesis: organometallic chemistry nature’s way, Dalton Transactions. Jun 14;(22):4274-85.

Reed Taffs, John E. Aston, Kristen Brileya, Zackary Jay, Christian G Klatt, Shawn E. McGlynn, Natatsha Mallette, Scott Montross, Robin Gerlach, William P Inskeep, David M Ward, and Ross Carlson. 2009. In silico approaches to study mass and energy flows in microbial consortia: a syntrophic case study. BMC Systems Biology, 3: 114

Shawn E. McGlynn, Eric S. Boyd, Eric M. Shepard, Rachel Lange, Robin Gerlach, Joan B. Broderick, and John W. Peters. 2010. Identification and characterization of a novel member of the radical AdoMet enzyme superfamily and implications for the biosynthesis of the Hmd hydrogenase active site cofactor. The Journal of Bacteriology. January 192 (2) 595-598.

Rebecca C. Driesener, Martin R. Challand, Shawn E. McGlynn, Eric M. Shepard, Eric S. Boyd, Joan B. Broderick, John W. Peters and Peter L. Roach. 2010. [FeFe]-Hydrogenase Cyanide Ligands Derived From S-Adenosylmethionine Dependent Cleavage of Tyrosine. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. Feb 22. 49(9): 1687-1690

Nathan Haydon, Shawn E. McGlynn, and Olin Robus. 2010. Quantum mechanics and the Emergence of Life Giving Catalysts. Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, Feb. 41(1): 35-50.

Eric M. Shepard, Shawn E. McGlynn, Alexandra L. Bueling, Celestine S. Grady-Smith, Simon J. George, Mark A. Winslow, Stephen P. Cramer, John W. Peters, and Joan B. Broderick. 2010. Synthesis of the 2Fe-subcluster of the [FeFe]-hydrogenase H- cluster on the HydF scaffold. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, Jun 8;107(23):10448-53.

Eric M. Shepard, Benjamin R. Duffus, Simon J. George, Shawn E. McGlynn, Martin R. Challand, Kevin D Swanson, Peter L. Roach, Stephen P. Cramer, John W. Peters, and Joan B. Broderick. 2010 [FeFe]-Hydrogenase Maturation: HydG-Catalyzed Synthesis of Carbon Monoxide. Journal of the American Chemical Society, Jul 14;132(27):9247-9.

Shawn E. McGlynn, Trevor E. Beard, Joan B. Broderick, and John W. Peters. 2010. Life's Origins: Potential for Radical Mediated Cyanide Production on the Early Earth. Journal of Cosmology, Vol 10, 3315-3324.

Randall E. Mielke, Michael J. Russell, Philip R. Wilson, Shawn E. McGlynn, Max Coleman, Richard D. Kidd, and Isik Kanik. 2010. Design, Fabrication and Test of a Hydrothermal Reactor for Origin-Of-Life Experiments. Astrobiology, 10, 799-810.

Aaron D. Goldman and Shawn E. McGlynn. What is Life?
Jeff S. Bowman and Shawn E. McGlynn. How does life on earth obtain energy from the environment?
Jen B. Glass and Shawn E. McGlynn. How do life and global geochemical cycles mutually affect each other?
To appear in the upcoming Astrobiology Primer: An Outline of General Knowledge 2011.

Randall E. Mielke, Kirtland J. Robinson, Lauren M. White, Shawn E. McGlynn, Kavan McEachern, Rohit Bhartia, Isik Kanik and Michael J. Russell. Iron-sulfide-bearing chimneys as potential catalytic energy traps at life’s emergence. Astrobiology, 11; 10, 933-950.

Shawn E. McGlynn, Isik Kanik, and Michael J. Russell. Peptide and RNA contributions to FeS chemical gardens as life’s first inorganic compartments, catalysts, capacitors and condensers. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: A. 370; 1967, 3007-3022