2026 Dennis J. Thiele: Molecular Biology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Molecular Biology	98	574	513	314	278	192	33651

Research.com Recognitions

2006 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Dennis J. Thiele is affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their research encompasses a range of topics primarily within the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. The scientist has contributed extensively to subfields such as Molecular Biology, Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, Cell Biology, and Plant Science.

The research topics covered by Dennis J. Thiele include:

Fungal Infections and Studies
Antifungal resistance and susceptibility
Heat shock proteins research
Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease
Trace Elements in Health
Cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research
Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments

Frequent publication venues for Dennis J. Thiele include:

UNC Libraries
Journal of Biological Chemistry
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Nature Chemical Biology
Science Translational Medicine

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Dennis J. Thiele are:

"A lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase-like protein functions in fungal copper import and meningitis," 2020, Nature Chemical Biology
"Targeting therapy-resistant prostate cancer via a direct inhibitor of the human heat shock transcription factor 1," 2020, Science Translational Medicine
"Biochemical evidence of both copper chelation and oxygenase activity at the histidine brace," 2020, Scientific Reports
"HSF1 is a driver of leukemia stem cell self-renewal in acute myeloid leukemia," 2022, Nature Communications
"Comparative interactomes of HSF1 in stress and disease reveal a role for CTCF in HSF1-mediated gene regulation," 2020, Journal of Biological Chemistry

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Dennis J. Thiele include:

Sarela García-Santamarina
Corinna Probst
David R. Loiselle
Timothy Haystead
Jacob T. Brooks

Dennis J. Thiele has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2006.

Best Publications

Mechanisms for copper acquisition, distribution and regulation

Byung-Eun Kim;Tracy Nevitt;Dennis J Thiele

1579
Citations
Uptake of the anticancer drug cisplatin mediated by the copper transporter Ctr1 in yeast and mammals

Seiko Ishida;Jaekwon Lee;Dennis J. Thiele;Ira Herskowitz

1190
Citations
A Delicate Balance: Homeostatic Control of Copper Uptake and Distribution

Maria M. O. Peña;Jaekwon Lee;Dennis J. Thiele

1027
Citations
Copper: an essential metal in biology

Richard A. Festa;Dennis J. Thiele

1007
Citations
Molecular mechanisms of copper uptake and distribution

Sergi Puig;Dennis J Thiele

951
Citations
Biochemical Characterization of the Human Copper Transporter Ctr1

Jaekwon Lee;Maria Marjorette O. Peña;Yasuhiro Nose;Dennis J. Thiele

809
Citations
A new pathway for vacuolar cadmium sequestration in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: YCF1-catalyzed transport of bis(glutathionato)cadmium

Ze-Sheng Li;Yu-Ping Lu;Rui-Guang Zhen;Mark Szczypka

734
Citations
Regulation of heat shock transcription factors and their roles in physiology and disease.

Rocio Gomez-Pastor;Eileen T. Burchfiel;Dennis J. Thiele

689
Citations
Redox regulation of mammalian heat shock factor 1 is essential for Hsp gene activation and protection from stress

Sang-Gun Ahn;Dennis J. Thiele

607
Citations
Essential role for mammalian copper transporter Ctr1 in copper homeostasis and embryonic development

Jaekwon Lee;Joseph R. Prohaska;Dennis J. Thiele

597
Citations
The Yeast Cadmium Factor Protein (YCF1) Is a Vacuolar Glutathione S-Conjugate Pump*

Ze-Sheng Li;Mark Szczypka;Yu-Ping Lu;Dennis J. Thiele

564
Citations
Coordinated Remodeling of Cellular Metabolism during Iron Deficiency through Targeted mRNA Degradation

Sergi Puig;Eric Askeland;Dennis J. Thiele

543
Citations
Biochemical and genetic analyses of yeast and human high affinity copper transporters suggest a conserved mechanism for copper uptake.

Sergi Puig;Jaekwon Lee;Miranda Lau;Dennis J. Thiele

541
Citations
Copper is required for oncogenic BRAF signalling and tumorigenesis

Donita C. Brady;Matthew S. Crowe;Michelle L. Turski;G. Aaron Hobbs

523
Citations
Genome-wide analysis of the biology of stress responses through heat shock transcription factor.

Ji Sook Hahn;Zhanzhi Hu;Dennis J. Thiele;Vishwanath R. Iyer

505
Citations
New Roles for Copper Metabolism in Cell Proliferation, Signaling, and Disease

Michelle L. Turski;Dennis J. Thiele

502
Citations
ACE1 regulates expression of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae metallothionein gene.

D J Thiele

433
Citations
A yeast metal resistance protein similar to human cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) and multidrug resistance-associated protein.

M.S. Szczypka;J.A. Wemmie;W.S. Moye-Rowley;D.J. Thiele

428
Citations
Metal-regulated transcription in eukaryotes.

Dennis J. Thiele

406
Citations
The Arabidopsis heavy metal P-type ATPase HMA5 interacts with metallochaperones and functions in copper detoxification of roots

Nuria Andrés-Colás;Vicente Sancenón;Susana Rodríguez-Navarro;Sonia Mayo

393
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Pengbo Zhou Cornell University

Christopher M. Counter Duke University

Katherine J. Franz Duke University

Joan Selverstone Valentine University of California, Los Angeles

Vincent Massey University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Joseph R. Prohaska University of Minnesota

Dean H. Hamer National Institutes of Health

Jeffrey N. Weiser New York University

James A. Imlay University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Joseph Heitman Duke University

External Links

Personal website of Dennis J. Thiele

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