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Dietrich H. Nies is affiliated with Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions to the fields of nursing and engineering. They have covered subfields including health, toxicology and mutagenesis, nutrition and dietetics, biomedical engineering, environmental chemistry, and molecular biology.

Their work addresses a range of topics such as chromium effects and bioremediation, trace elements in health, metal extraction and bioleaching, arsenic contamination and mitigation, iron metabolism and disorders, bacterial genetics and biotechnology, and porphyrin metabolism and disorders.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Dietrich H. Nies include:

  • Martin Herzberg
  • Cornelia Große
  • Diana Galea
  • Vladislava Schulz
  • Grit Schleuder

Common publication venues for their research are:

  • Journal of Bacteriology
  • Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  • Metallomics
  • Microbiology Spectrum

Key recent papers authored by Nies include the following:

  • "Behind the Shield of Czc: ZntR Controls Expression of the Gene for the Zinc-Exporting P-Type ATPase ZntA in Cupriavidus metallidurans", 2021, Journal of Bacteriology
  • "Full Copper Resistance in Cupriavidus metallidurans Requires the Interplay of Many Resistance Systems", 2023, Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  • "Loss of Mobile Genomic Islands in Metal-Resistant, Hydrogen-Oxidizing Cupriavidus metallidurans", 2021, Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  • "Importance of RpoD- and Non-RpoD-Dependent Expression of Horizontally Acquired Genes in Cupriavidus metallidurans", 2022, Microbiology Spectrum
  • "A flow equilibrium of zinc in cells of Cupriavidus metallidurans", 2024, Journal of Bacteriology

Best Publications

  • Microbial heavy-metal resistance

    Dietrich H. Nies

  • Efflux‐mediated heavy metal resistance in prokaryotes

    Dietrich H. Nies

  • Alcaligenes eutrophus CH34 is a facultative chemolithotroph with plasmid-bound resistance to heavy metals.

    M Mergeay;D Nies;H G Schlegel;J Gerits

  • The RND permease superfamily: An ancient, ubiquitous and diverse family that includes human disease and development proteins

    Tsai Tien Tseng;Kevin S. Gratwick;Justin Kollman;Daniel Park

  • Ion efflux systems involved in bacterial metal resistances

    Dietrich H. Nies;Simon Silver

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

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

  • Resistance to cadmium, cobalt, zinc, and nickel in microbes.

    Dietrich H. Nies

  • Insights into Genome Plasticity and Pathogenicity of the Plant Pathogenic Bacterium Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria Revealed by the Complete Genome Sequence

    Frank Thieme;Ralf Koebnik;Thomas Bekel;Carolin Berger

  • The cobalt, zinc, and cadmium efflux system CzcABC from Alcaligenes eutrophus functions as a cation-proton antiporter in Escherichia coli.

    Dietrich H. Nies

  • Contribution of copper ion resistance to survival of Escherichia coli on metallic copper surfaces

    Christophe Espírito Santo;Nadine Taudte;Dietrich H. Nies;Gregor Grass

  • Mechanisms of gold biomineralization in the bacterium Cupriavidus metallidurans

    Frank Reith;Barbara E Etschmann;Cornelia Grosse;Hugo Moors

  • CzcD is a heavy metal ion transporter involved in regulation of heavy metal resistance in Ralstonia sp. strain CH34.

    Andreas Anton;Cornelia Große;Jana Reißmann;Thomas Pribyl

  • Glutathione and Transition-Metal Homeostasis in Escherichia coli

    Kerstin Helbig;Corinna Bleuel;Gerd J. Krauss;Dietrich H. Nies

  • 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 PRODUCT OF THE YBDE GENE OF THE ESCHERICHIA COLI CHROMOSOME IS INVOLVED IN DETOXIFICATION OF SILVER IONS

    Sylvia Franke;Gregor Grass;Dietrich H. Nies

  • CzcR and CzcD, gene products affecting regulation of resistance to cobalt, zinc, and cadmium (czc system) in Alcaligenes eutrophus

    D H Nies

  • Cloning of plasmid genes encoding resistance to cadmium, zinc, and cobalt in Alcaligenes eutrophus CH34.

    D Nies;M Mergeay;B Friedrich;H G Schlegel

  • The Metal Permease ZupT from Escherichia coli Is a Transporter with a Broad Substrate Spectrum

    Gregor Grass;Sylvia Franke;Nadine Taudte;Dietrich H. Nies

  • Energetics and topology of CzcA, a cation/proton antiporter of the resistance-nodulation-cell division protein family.

    Martina Goldberg;Thomas Pribyl;Susanne Juhnke;Dietrich H. Nies

  • Survival of bacteria on metallic copper surfaces in a hospital trial

    André Mikolay;Susanne Huggett;Ladji Tikana;Gregor Grass

  • Molecular microbiology of heavy metals

    Dietrich H. Nies;Simon Silver

Frequent Co-Authors

Gregor Grass
Gregor Grass Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology
Frank Reith
Frank Reith University of Adelaide
Christopher Rensing
Christopher Rensing Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
Milton H. Saier
Milton H. Saier University of California, San Diego
Joël Brugger
Joël Brugger Monash University
Max Mergeay
Max Mergeay Flemish Institute for Technological Research
Gerd Hause
Gerd Hause Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Gordon Southam
Gordon Southam University of Queensland
André Goffeau
André Goffeau Université Catholique de Louvain
Ronald A. Skurray
Ronald A. Skurray University of Sydney

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