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62
Citations
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World Ranking
10500
National Ranking
756

Overview

Dieter Willbold is affiliated with Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany and has an extensive publication record in the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research primarily focuses on molecular biology aspects, with significant contributions to physiology, neurology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and infectious diseases.

The scientist's main research topics encompass Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, prion diseases and protein misfolding, protein structure and dynamics, Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments, computational drug discovery methods, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, as well as cholinesterase and neurodegenerative diseases.

Recent notable publications include:

  • "Amyloid-type Protein Aggregation and Prion-like Properties of Amyloids," 2021, Chemical Reviews
  • "Cryo-EM structure of islet amyloid polypeptide fibrils reveals similarities with amyloid-β fibrils," 2020, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
  • "A comparative pharmaco-metabolomic study of glutaminase inhibitors in glioma stem-like cells confirms biological effectiveness but reveals differences in target-specificity," 2020, Cell Death Discovery
  • "Binding modes of thioflavin T and Congo red to the fibril structure of amyloid-β(1-42)," 2020, Chemical Communications
  • "Viral rhodopsins 1 are an unique family of light-gated cation channels," 2020, Nature Communications

The scientist frequently publishes alongside coauthors including Lothar Gremer, Janine Kutzsche, Antje Willuweit, Ian Gering, and Oliver Bannach, indicating ongoing collaborative research efforts in their field.

Willbold's works appear frequently in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Alzheimer's & Dementia, Nature Communications, Biomolecules, and the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, reflecting engagement with high-profile and specialized scientific platforms.

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Amal Kamal Abdel-Aziz;Sara Abdelfatah;Mahmoud Abdellatif

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Fabio C. Abdalla;Hagai Abeliovich;Robert T. Abraham

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Fibril structure of amyloid-β(1-42) by cryo-electron microscopy.

    Lothar Gremer;Lothar Gremer;Daniel Schölzel;Daniel Schölzel;Carla Schenk;Elke Reinartz

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Structure of amyloid A4-(1-40)-peptide of Alzheimer's disease.

    Heinrich Sticht;Peter Bayer;Dieter Willbold;Sonja Dames

  • Precise measurement of diffusion by multi-color dual-focus fluorescence correlation spectroscopy

    C. B. Müller;A. Loman;V. Pacheco;F. Koberling

  • Erratum to: Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) (Autophagy, 12, 1, 1-222, 10.1080/15548627.2015.1100356

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • BEST-TROSY experiments for time-efficient sequential resonance assignment of large disordered proteins

    Zsofia Solyom;Melanie Schwarten;Melanie Schwarten;Leonhard Geist;Robert Konrat

  • Nix directly binds to GABARAP: a possible crosstalk between apoptosis and autophagy.

    Melanie Schwarten;Jeannine Mohrlüder;Peixiang Ma;Matthias Stoldt

  • Pyroglutamate formation influences solubility and amyloidogenicity of amyloid peptides.

    Dagmar Schlenzig;Susanne Manhart;Yeliz Cinar;Martin Kleinschmidt

  • Structural insights into ion conduction by channelrhodopsin 2

    Oleksandr Volkov;Kirill Kovalev;Vitaly Polovinkin;Valentin Borshchevskiy

  • The N-terminus of Nef from HIV-1/SIV associates with a protein complex containing Lck and a serine kinase.

    Andreas S Baur;Gabriele Sass;Bernd Laffert;Dieter Willbold

  • Selection of D‐Amino‐Acid Peptides That Bind to Alzheimer's Disease Amyloid Peptide Aβ1–42 by Mirror Image Phage Display

    Katja Wiesehan;Katja Wiesehan;Katrin Buder;Reinhold P. Linke;Stephan Patt

  • Crystal structure of a light-driven sodium pump

    Ivan Yu. Gushchin;Vitaly Shevchenko;Vitaly Shevchenko;Vitaly Polovinkin;Kirill Kovalev

  • Therapeutic vaccination of HIV-1-infected patients on HAART with a recombinant HIV-1 nef-expressing MVA: safety, immunogenicity and influence on viral load during treatment interruption.

    Harrer E;Bäuerle M;Ferstl B;Chaplin P

  • Mechanism of transmembrane signaling by sensor histidine kinases

    Ivan Gushchin;Igor Melnikov;Vitaly Polovinkin;Vitaly Polovinkin;Andrii Ishchenko

  • Reduction of Alzheimer’s Disease Amyloid Plaque Load in Transgenic Mice by D3, a D-Enantiomeric Peptide Identified by Mirror Image Phage Display

    Thomas van Groen;Katja Wiesehan;Susanne A. Funke;Inga Kadish

  • Peptides for therapy and diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.

    Susanne Aileen Funke;Dieter Willbold

  • Integral membrane proteins in nanodiscs can be studied by solution NMR spectroscopy.

    Julian M Glück;Marc Wittlich;Sophie Feuerstein;Silke Hoffmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Heinrich Sticht
Heinrich Sticht University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Detlev Riesner
Detlev Riesner Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Birgit Strodel
Birgit Strodel Forschungszentrum Jülich
Karl-Erich Jaeger
Karl-Erich Jaeger Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Rainer Frank
Rainer Frank Heidelberg University
N. Jon Shah
N. Jon Shah Forschungszentrum Jülich
Thomas Schrader
Thomas Schrader University of Duisburg-Essen
Sergio Lavandero
Sergio Lavandero University of Chile
Paul Schanda
Paul Schanda Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Evelina Gatti
Evelina Gatti Aix-Marseille University

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