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BSc Chem. Utrecht, PhD Biochem., Wageningen Univ., Postdoc NFL Brighton, Slater Inst. UVA, Philipps Univ. Marburg, Full Prof. of Biochemistry Kaiserslautern

Kaiserslautern, Germany
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RT @ICH2026: We are delighted to confirm the dates of the international conference on H2ases and other redox metalloenzymes, which will tak….
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Web page for the International Conference on Hydrogenase and Other Redox Metalloenzymes. The conference will be held in Leicester in Summer 2026.
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RT @HuRibbe: Great talk by Joe Rebelein yesterday evening at the MoTEC 2025 at long beach! Congratulations to the EMBO young investigator l….
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RT @RebeleinLab: Excited to be at the Molybdenum Tungsten Enzyme Conference MoTEC on the Queen Mary in Long Beach, CA. Entertaining present….
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RT @PABLOSANSEGUND3: I'm excited to share our new publication in @Nature! We showed that under Ni-limited conditions, similar to those in n….
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RT @sunnyjoy_dupuis: Our large-scale biology article is out in @ThePlantCell! Dig into these rich datasets to see how light-induced stress….
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Chlamydomonas populations acclimate to low and high diurnal light and maintain altered photosystem abundance, thylakoid architecture, and non-photochemical
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RT @bioRxiv_bioE: A genetically encoded bifunctional enzyme mitigates redox imbalance and lipotoxicity via engineered Gro3P-Glycerol shunt….
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Dihydroxyacetone phosphate (DHAP), glycerol-3-phosphate (Gro3P) and reduced/oxidized nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH/NAD+) are key metabolites of the Gro3P shuttle system that forms a redox...
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The Dept. of Chemistry at the RPTU is mourning. Due to a tragic accident we lost our dear former (PhD) student Sarah Reeb. She will remain in our memory as an extremely enthousiastic, positive person. We wish her family strength.
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Read Rosales-Hernandez et al. and Zerbes/Colina-Tenorio et al. to find out about delivery of the Rieske protein after Bcs1 transport to Mar26 and MICOS for bc1 complex assembly.
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imageimageBcs1 is an unusual, heptameric AAA-ATPase that translocates its cargo, Rip1, across the inner mitochondrial membrane in a fully folded state. Cryo-EM and functional data provide novel...
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RT @mpi_marburg: 📢We are thrilled that our Microbes for Climate (M4C) Cluster of Excellence has been selected for the 2025 Excellence Strat….
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RT @HuRibbe: Our second paper was published online within the same week 😊! Thanks everyone for their hard work!.@ScienceAdvances, @HuRibbe,….
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Heterologous synthesis of a nitrogenase analog (NifH/NifEN) in E. coli enables N2 reduction and incorporation of N into biomass.
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RT @fidelormz: I'm truly excited to announce our new publication in @Nature unraveling a central picture of the Methyl-coenzyme M reductase….
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RT @dirktischler: Spoiler, there will soon be a new book on the shelf with focus on #enzymology #enzyme #application #biocatalysis . stay….
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Enzymatic Birch reduction by class I benzoyl-CoA reductase via hydrogen atom transfer at [4Fe-4S]-OH2 and [8Fe-9S] clusters. Structure, spectroscopy and calculation. Collaborative efforts just published in
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Nature Communications - Class I and II benzoyl-coenzyme A reductases offer a mild biological alternative to the alkali metal- and ammonia-dependent Birch reduction, a classical synthetic method for...
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Anastasiya Buzuk and colleagues from the Perlstein lab (@Prof_Perlstein) provide insight into Nar1 trafficking, CIAO2A function and CIAO1 related disease by binding studies of the CIA targetting complex and its C-terminal tryptophan containing clients.
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The cytosolic iron-sulfur cluster assembly (CIA) targeting complex is responsible for maturation of cytosolic and nuclear iron-sulfur enzymes, numbering >30 proteins critical for fundamental proces...
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RT @VFCracan: Happy to share latest review which I wrote together with Andrey Parkhitko @Aparhit on how various enzymes from lower organis….
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RT @AdrianBunzel: 🚨 Don’t miss your chance to apply for the 3 open PhD positions in our group!.🌞 Project I : #computationaldesign of #photo….
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