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Biology and Biochemistry
China
2023

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Microbiology

D-Index
91
Citations
28470
World Ranking
655
National Ranking
19

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in China Leader Award

Overview

Christopher Rensing is affiliated with Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University in China. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions to plant science, ecology, molecular biology, pollution, and environmental chemistry.

The scientist has published extensively on topics including microbial community ecology and physiology, microbial fuel cells and bioremediation, arsenic contamination and mitigation, heavy metals in the environment, plant stress responses and tolerance, plant-microbe interactions and immunity, and soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Frontiers in Microbiology

Among recent papers are:

  • "Co-selection of antibiotic resistance genes, and mobile genetic elements in the presence of heavy metals in poultry farm environments" (2020) published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Genome-Resolved Metagenomics Reveals Distinct Phosphorus Acquisition Strategies between Soil Microbiomes" (2022) published in mSystems
  • "Underlying mechanisms responsible for restriction of uptake and translocation of heavy metals (metalloids) by selenium via root application in plants" (2020) published in Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • "Recent advances in exploring the heavy metal(loid) resistant microbiome" (2020) published in Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal
  • "Metagenomic insights into nitrogen and phosphorus cycling at the soil aggregate scale driven by organic material amendments" (2021) published in The Science of The Total Environment

Their work features collaborations with several frequent coauthors, including:

  • Shungui Zhou
  • Renwei Feng
  • Hend A. Alwathnani
  • Yanshuang Yu
  • Yuanping Li

Christopher Rensing's research addresses critical issues related to the interactions of microbial communities with environmental pollutants, plant health under stress conditions, and nutrient cycling in soil systems. They investigate mechanisms by which plants and microbes respond and adapt to heavy metal contamination and contribute to bioremediation insights.

Best Publications

  • Metallic Copper as an Antimicrobial Surface

    Gregor Grass;Christopher Rensing;Marc Solioz

  • Escherichia coli mechanisms of copper homeostasis in a changing environment

    Christopher Rensing;Gregor Grass

  • BacMet: antibacterial biocide and metal resistance genes database

    Chandan Pal;Johan Bengtsson-Palme;Christopher Rensing;Erik Kristiansson

  • Metal homeostasis and resistance in bacteria

    Pete Chandrangsu;Christopher Rensing;John D. Helmann

  • Arsenic detoxification and evolution of trimethylarsine gas by a microbial arsenite S-adenosylmethionine methyltransferase.

    Jie Qin;Barry P. Rosen;Yang Zhang;Gejiao Wang

  • Molecular Analysis of the Copper-Transporting Efflux System CusCFBA of Escherichia coli

    Sylvia Franke;Gregor Grass;Gregor Grass;Christopher Rensing;Dietrich H. Nies

  • CopA: An Escherichia coli Cu(I)-translocating P-type ATPase

    Christopher Rensing;Bin Fan;Rakesh Sharma;Bharati Mitra

  • The zntA gene of Escherichia coli encodes a Zn(II)-translocating P-type ATPase

    Christopher Rensing;Bharati Mitra;Barry P. Rosen

  • The genome of Nectria haematococca: contribution of supernumerary chromosomes to gene expansion.

    Jeffrey J. Coleman;Jeffrey J. Coleman;Steve D. Rounsley;Marianela Rodriguez-Carres;Marianela Rodriguez-Carres;Alan Kuo

  • Hyperthermophilic Composting Accelerates the Removal of Antibiotic Resistance Genes and Mobile Genetic Elements in Sewage Sludge

    Hanpeng Liao;Xiaomei Lu;Christopher Rensing;Ville Petri Friman

  • Intracellular Copper Does Not Catalyze the Formation of Oxidative DNA Damage in Escherichia coli

    Lee Macomber;Christopher Rensing;James A. Imlay

  • Metal Resistance and Its Association With Antibiotic Resistance.

    Chandan Pal;Karishma R. Asiani;Sankalp Arya;Christopher Rensing;Christopher Rensing

  • New Approaches for Bioaugmentation as a Remediation Technology

    Terry J. Gentry;Christopher Rensing;I. A. N. L. Pepper

  • Crystal Structure and Electron Transfer Kinetics of CueO, a Multicopper Oxidase Required for Copper Homeostasis in Escherichia coli

    Sue A. Roberts;Andrzej Weichsel;Gregor Grass;Keshari Thakali

  • Copper toxicity and the origin of bacterial resistance—new insights and applications

    Christopher L. Dupont;Gregor Grass;Christopher Rensing

  • CueO is a multi-copper oxidase that confers copper tolerance in Escherichia coli.

    Gregor Grass;Christopher Rensing

  • Families of Soft-Metal-Ion-Transporting ATPases

    Christopher Rensing;Mallika Ghosh;Barry P. Rosen

  • Genes involved in arsenic transformation and resistance associated with different levels of arsenic-contaminated soils.

    Lin Cai;Guanghui Liu;Christopher Rensing;Gejiao Wang

  • Distribution of Arsenic Resistance Genes in Prokaryotes.

    Ibtissem Ben Fekih;Chengkang Zhang;Yuan Ping Li;Yi Zhao

  • Genes involved in copper homeostasis in Escherichia coli.

    Gregor Grass;Christopher Rensing

  • Antimonite is accumulated by the glycerol facilitator GlpF in Escherichia coli.

    Omar I. Sanders;Christopher Rensing;Masayuki Kuroda;Bharati Mitra

  • FieF (YiiP) from Escherichia coli mediates decreased cellular accumulation of iron and relieves iron stress

    Gregor Grass;Markus Otto;Beate Fricke;Christopher J. Haney

  • The ATP Hydrolytic Activity of Purified ZntA, a Pb(II)/Cd(II)/Zn(II)-translocating ATPase from Escherichia coli

    Rakesh Sharma;Christopher Rensing;Barry P. Rosen;Bharati Mitra

Frequent Co-Authors

Gregor Grass
Gregor Grass Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology
Yong-Guan Zhu
Yong-Guan Zhu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Barry P. Rosen
Barry P. Rosen Florida International University
Ian L. Pepper
Ian L. Pepper University of Arizona
Dietrich H. Nies
Dietrich H. Nies Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Timothy R. McDermott
Timothy R. McDermott Montana State University
Shungui Zhou
Shungui Zhou Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
Jian-Qiang Su
Jian-Qiang Su Chinese Academy of Sciences
William R. Montfort
William R. Montfort University of Arizona
Lena Q. Ma
Lena Q. Ma Zhejiang University

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