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Overview

Bernd Reif is affiliated with the Technical University of Munich in Germany and has contributed significantly to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology with particular focus on molecular biology and spectroscopy. Their research encompasses advanced nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques and applications, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, as well as protein structure and dynamics.

Their recent notable publications include:

  • Solid-state NMR spectroscopy, 2021, Nature Reviews Methods Primers
  • Deuteration for High-Resolution Detection of Protons in Protein Magic Angle Spinning (MAS) Solid-State NMR, 2021, Chemical Reviews

Key co-authors frequently collaborating with Bernd Reif include Riddhiman Sarkar, Tejaswini Pradhan, Saba Suladze, Zdeněk Tošner, and Natalia P. Rodina.

Their work is regularly published in high-impact scientific venues such as the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Nature Communications, Chemical Communications, and Journal of Molecular Biology.

Main research topics within their portfolio comprise:

  • Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • NMR spectroscopy and applications
  • Solid-state spectroscopy and crystallography
  • Amyloidosis: Diagnosis, Treatment, Outcomes
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications

The specific subfields engaged by Bernd Reif include molecular biology, spectroscopy, physiology, materials chemistry, and nuclear and high energy physics.

Representative research venues demonstrating their publication record include:

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society (3 publications)
  • Journal of Biological Chemistry (2 publications)
  • Nature Communications (2 publications)
  • Chemical Communications (2 publications)
  • Journal of Molecular Biology (2 publications)

Best Publications

  • Small-molecule conversion of toxic oligomers to nontoxic β-sheet–rich amyloid fibrils

    Jan Bieschke;Martin Herbst;Martin Herbst;Thomas Wiglenda;Ralf P Friedrich

  • Solid-state NMR spectroscopy

    Bernd Reif;Sharon E Ashbrook;Lyndon Emsley;Mei Hong

  • Ultrahigh resolution in proton solid-state NMR spectroscopy at high levels of deuteration.

    Veniamin Chevelkov;Kristina Rehbein;Anne Diehl;Bernd Reif

  • Direct measurement of angles between bond vectors in high-resolution NMR.

    Bernd Reif;Mirko Hennig;Christian Griesinger

  • De novo determination of peptide structure with solid-state magic-angle spinning NMR spectroscopy.

    Chad M. Rienstra;Lisa Tucker-Kellogg;Christopher P. Jaroniec;Morten Hohwy

  • Short amino acid stretches can mediate amyloid formation in globular proteins: The Src homology 3 (SH3) case

    Salvador Ventura;Jesús Zurdo;Saravanakumar Narayanan;Matilde Parreño

  • Proton‐Detected Solid‐State NMR Spectroscopy of Fibrillar and Membrane Proteins

    Rasmus Linser;Muralidhar Dasari;Muralidhar Dasari;Matthias Hiller;Victoria Higman;Victoria Higman

  • Structure Calculation from Unambiguous Long-Range Amide and Methyl 1H−1H Distance Restraints for a Microcrystalline Protein with MAS Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy

    Rasmus Linser;Benjamin Bardiaux;Victoria Higman;Uwe Fink

  • Structural Properties of EGCG-Induced, Nontoxic Alzheimer's Disease Aβ Oligomers

    Juan Miguel Lopez del Amo;Uwe Fink;Muralidhar Dasari;Muralidhar Dasari;Gerlinde Grelle

  • ADEQUATE, a New Set of Experiments to Determine the Constitution of Small Molecules at Natural Abundance

    Bernd Reif;Matthias Köck;Rainer Kerssebaum;Heonjoong Kang

  • Solid-state NMR of proteins sedimented by ultracentrifugation

    Ivano Bertini;Claudio Luchinat;Giacomo Parigi;Enrico Ravera

  • Physical basis of amyloid fibril polymorphism.

    William Close;Matthias Neumann;Andreas Schmidt;Manuel Hora

  • Characterization of Chemical Exchange between Soluble and Aggregated States of β-Amyloid by Solution-State NMR upon Variation of Salt Conditions†

    Saravanakumar Narayanan;Bernd Reif

  • 1H-1H MAS correlation spectroscopy and distance measurements in a deuterated peptide.

    B. Reif;C. P. Jaroniec;Chad Rienstra;M. Hohwy

  • 1H detected 1H,15N correlation spectroscopy in rotating solids.

    B Reif;R.G Griffin

  • The chaperone αB-crystallin uses different interfaces to capture an amorphous and an amyloid client.

    Andi Mainz;Andi Mainz;Andi Mainz;Jirka Peschek;Jirka Peschek;Maria Stavropoulou;Katrin C Back

  • 1H detection in MAS solid-state NMR spectroscopy of biomacromolecules employing pulsed field gradients for residual solvent suppression.

    Veniamin Chevelkov;Barth J. Van Rossum;Federica Castellani;Kristina Rehbein

  • Characterization of Membrane Proteins in Isolated Native Cellular Membranes by Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy without Purification and Reconstitution

    Tomas Jacso;W. Trent Franks;Honor Rose;Uwe Fink

  • High Resolution 1H Detected 1H,13C Correlation Spectra in MAS Solid-State NMR using Deuterated Proteins with Selective 1H,2H Isotopic Labeling of Methyl Groups

    Vipin Agarwal;Anne Diehl;Nikolai Skrynnikov;Bernd Reif

  • Ultra-high resolution in MAS solid-state NMR of perdeuterated proteins: implications for structure and dynamics.

    Bernd Reif

  • Sensitivity enhancement using paramagnetic relaxation in MAS solid-state NMR of perdeuterated proteins.

    Rasmus Linser;Veniamin Chevelkov;Anne Diehl;Bernd Reif;Bernd Reif

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Griesinger
Christian Griesinger Max Planck Society
Johannes Buchner
Johannes Buchner Technical University of Munich
Hartmut Oschkinat
Hartmut Oschkinat Freie Universität Berlin
Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy
Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy Florida State University
Peter Schmieder
Peter Schmieder Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
Chad M. Rienstra
Chad M. Rienstra University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Christopher P. Jaroniec
Christopher P. Jaroniec The Ohio State University
Martin Zacharias
Martin Zacharias Technical University of Munich
Harald Schwalbe
Harald Schwalbe Goethe University Frankfurt

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