Dieter Oesterhelt

Research.com Recognitions

• 2021 - Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, Lasker Foundation
• 2002 - Paul Karrer Gold Medal, University of Zurich
• 1989 - Member of Academia Europaea
• 1989 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Biochemistry and Biophysics
• 1983 - Liebig-Denkmünze (Liebig Medal), Society of German Chemists
• Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
• Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
• Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
• Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
• Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
• Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
• Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
• Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
• Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
• Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
• Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
• Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

Overview

Best Publications

• Rhodopsin-like Protein from the Purple Membrane of Halobacterium halobium

  Dieter Oesterhelt;Dieter Oesterhelt;Walther Stoeckenius

  2907
  Citations

• Isolation of the cell membrane of Halobacterium halobium and its fractionation into red and purple membrane

  Dieter Oesterhelt;Walther Stoeckenius

  2397
  Citations

• Functions of a New Photoreceptor Membrane

  Dieter Oesterhelt;Walther Stoeckenius

  1409
  Citations

• Unfolding pathways of individual bacteriorhodopsins.

  F. Oesterhelt;D. Oesterhelt;M. Pfeiffer;Andreas Engel

  861
  Citations

• Closing in on bacteriorhodopsin: progress in understanding the molecule.

  Ulrich Haupts;Jörg Tittor;Dieter Oesterhelt

  790
  Citations

• Structure of the Light-Driven Chloride Pump Halorhodopsin at 1.8 Å Resolution

  Michael Kolbe;Hüseyin Besir;Lars-Oliver Essen;Dieter Oesterhelt

  702
  Citations

• Lipid patches in membrane protein oligomers: Crystal structure of the bacteriorhodopsin-lipid complex

  L.-O. Essen;R. Siegert;W. D. Lehmann;D. Oesterhelt

  579
  Citations

• Electron diffraction analysis of structural changes in the photocycle of bacteriorhodopsin.

  Sriram Subramaniam;Mark Gerstein;Dieter Oesterhelt;Richard Henderson

  509
  Citations

• Bacteriorhodopsin: a biological material for information processing

  Dieter Oesterhelt;Christoph Bräuchle;Norbert Hampp

  494
  Citations

• Role of aspartate-96 in proton translocation by bacteriorhodopsin.

  Klaus Gerwert;Benno Hess;Jorg Soppa;Dieter Oesterhelt

  477
  Citations

• Reversible photolysis of the purple complex in the purple membrane of Halobacterium halobium.

  Dieter Oesterhelt;Benno Hess

  465
  Citations

• Proton migration along the membrane surface and retarded surface to bulk transfer

  Joachim Heberle;Jens Riesle;Gerd Thiedemann;Dieter Oesterhelt

  409
  Citations

• Methoden der enzymatischen Analyse. Herausgeg. vonH.U.Bergmeyer. Verlag Chemie GmbH, Weinheim/Bergstr. 1970. 2. Aufl., LXIX, 2220 S., zahlr. Abb., geb. DM 285.—

  Feodor Lynen;Dieter Oesterhelt

  408
  Citations

• Reversible dissociation of the purple complex in bacteriorhodopsin and identification of 13-cis and all-trans-retinal as its chromophores.

  Dieter Oesterhelt;Marion Meentzen;Liselotte Schuhmann

  396
  Citations

• The structure and mechanism of the family of retinal proteins from halophilic archaea.

  Dieter Oesterhelt

  377
  Citations

• The 'light' and 'medium' subunits of the photosynthetic reaction centre from Rhodopseudomonas viridis: isolation of the genes, nucleotide and amino acid sequence.

  Hartmut Michel;Karl Aloys Weyer;H. Gruenberg;I. Dunger

  374
  Citations

• Excited-state reaction dynamics of bacteriorhodopsin studied by femtosecond spectroscopy

  J. Dobler;Wolfgang Zinth;Wolfgang Kaiser;Dieter Oesterhelt

  362
  Citations

• Observation of a bacteriochlorophyll anion radical during the primary charge separation in a reaction center

  Wolfgang Holzapfel;Ulrich Finkele;Wolfgang Kaiser;Dieter Oesterhelt

  362
  Citations

• Aspartic acids 96 and 85 play a central role in the function of bacteriorhodopsin as a proton pump.

  Hans-Jürgen Butt;Klaus Fendler;Ernst Bamberg;Jörg Tittor

  359
  Citations

• Initial electron-transfer in the reaction center from Rhodobacter sphaeroides.

  Wolfgang Holzapfel;Ulrich Finkele;Wolfgang Kaiser;Dieter Oesterhelt

  345
  Citations

• Electron diffraction analysis ofstructural changesinthe photocycle ofbacteriorhodopsin

  Sriram Subramaniam;Dieter Oesterhelt

  0
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