Dr. Ng Kim Yong

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Research Interests

• Molecular and physiological studies on the iron-oxidizing bacteria (Acidithiobacillus sp.)

• Oxidative stress mechanism of the Antarctica microalgae, and microorganism systems.

• Understanding the molecular determinants of the structure and function of enzymes (pathways) as well as incorporating interdisciplinary studies in inorganic chemistry, biochemistry, bioinformatics, molecular biology and microbiology.

Selected publications

• Sei-Choong Yee, Choon-Ping Lim, and Kim-Yong Ng.
  Identification, some characterizations and bioleaching application of an iron-oxidizing bacterium Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans KLipis-3-1 isolated from Malaysia. Advanced Materials Research, 2007, Vols: 20-21: 453-456.



• Radu Silaghi-Dumitrescu, Kim Yong Ng, Rathinam Viswanathan, and Donald M. Kurtz. 2005.
  A flavo-diiron protein from Desulfovibrio vulgaris with oxidase and nitric oxide reductase activities. Evidence for an in vivo nitric oxide scavenging function. Biochemistry. 44. 3572-3579.



• Kim Yong, Ng, K. Kamimura, and T. Sugio, 2000.
  Production of hydrogen sulfide from tetrathionate by the iron-oxidizing bacterium Thiobacillus ferrooxidans NASF-1. Biosci. Bioeng. 90(2): 193-198. 



• Kim Yong, Ng, R. Sawada, S. Inoue, K. Kamimura, and T. Sugio, 2000. Purification and characterization of a sulfur reductase from the iron-oxidizing bacterium Thiobacillus ferrooxidans NASF-1. Biosci. Bioeng. 90(2): 199-203. 



• Ng Kim Yong, M. Oshima, R. C. Blake II, and T. Sugio. 1997.
  Isolation and some properties of an iron-oxidizing bacterium Thiobacillus ferrooxidans resistant to molybdenum ion. Biosci. Biotechnol.Biochem. 61(9):1523-26.



• Kim Yong, Ng, S. Inoue, A. Fujioka, K. Kamimura, and T. Sugio. 1999.
  Existence of two kinds of sulfur-reducing systems in iron-oxidizing bacterium Thiobacillus ferrooxidans. Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem. 63(5): 813-819.