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Gabriele Diekert is affiliated with Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science with particular emphasis on microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants, chemical reactions and isotopes, chemistry and chemical engineering, environmental remediation with nanomaterials, metal-catalyzed oxygenation mechanisms, bacterial genetics and biotechnology, and chemical analysis and environmental impact.

Diekert's recent publications include the following papers:

  • Interspecies metabolite transfer and aggregate formation in a co-culture of Dehalococcoides and Sulfurospirillum dehalogenating tetrachloroethene to ethene, 2021, The ISME Journal
  • A Spectroscopically Validated Computational Investigation of Viable Reaction Intermediates in the Catalytic Cycle of the Reductive Dehalogenase PceA, 2021, Biochemistry
  • Tetrachloroethene respiration in Sulfurospirillum species is regulated by a two-component system as unraveled by comparative genomics, transcriptomics, and regulator binding studies, 2020, MicrobiologyOpen
  • Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy-based evaluation of the membrane protein composition of the organohalide-respiring Sulfurospirillum multivorans, 2020, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy
  • DESeq2_SMUL_Py_PCE_vs_Py_Fum, 2020, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Frequent coauthors with whom Diekert has collaborated include:

  • Tobias Goris
  • Torsten Schubert
  • Jennifer Gadkari
  • Jens Esken
  • Thorsten Bischler

Diekert's work has appeared in a variety of publication venues, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to environmental and chemical research:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The ISME Journal
  • Biochemistry
  • MicrobiologyOpen
  • Journal of Raman Spectroscopy

Their research spans several subfields of environmental science, including pollution, biomedical engineering, pharmaceutical science, environmental chemistry, and inorganic chemistry. This range indicates a broad scientific expertise with particular attention to the interface between chemical and biological systems in environmental contexts.

Best Publications

  • Reductive dechlorination in the energy metabolism of anaerobic bacteria

    Christof Holliger;Gert Wohlfarth;Gabriele Diekert

  • Isolation and characterization of Dehalospirillum multivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a tetrachloroethene-utilizing, strictly anaerobic bacterium

    Heidrun Scholz-Muramatsu;Anke Neumann;Michael Memer;Edward Moore

  • Zur Kenntnis des Faktors F430 aus methanogenen Bakterien: Struktur des porphinoiden Ligandsystems

    Andreas Pfaltz;Bernhard Jaun;Alexander Fassler;Albert Eschenmoser

  • Metabolism of homoacetogens

    Gabriele Diekert;Gert Wohlfarth

  • Carbon Monoxide Oxidation by Clostridium thermoaceticum and Clostridium formicoaceticum

    Gabriele B. Diekert;Rudolf K. Thauer

  • Purification and Characterization of Tetrachloroethene Reductive Dehalogenase from Dehalospirillum multivorans

    Anke Neumann;Gert Wohlfarth;Gabriele Diekert

  • Tetrachloroethene metabolism of Dehalospirillum multivorans

    Anke Neumann;Heidrun Scholz-Muramatsu;Gabriele Diekert

  • Anaerobic transformation of 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT).

    Andrea Preuss;Jürgen Fimpel;Gabriele Diekert

  • Nickel requirement and factor F430 content of methanogenic bacteria.

    G Diekert;U Konheiser;K Piechulla;R K Thauer

  • Stable isotope fractionation of tetrachloroethene during reductive dechlorination by Sulfurospirillum multivorans and Desulfitobacterium sp. strain PCE-S and abiotic reactions with cyanocobalamin.

    Ivonne Nijenhuis;Janet Andert;Kirsten Beck;Matthias Kästner

  • Nickel, a component of factor F430 from Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum

    Gabriele Diekert;Birte Klee;Rudolf K. Thauer

  • Tetrachloroethene Dehalogenase from Dehalospirillum multivorans: Cloning, Sequencing of the Encoding Genes, and Expression of the pceA Gene in Escherichia coli

    Anke Neumann;Gert Wohlfarth;Gabriele Diekert

  • Comparative studies on tetrachloroethene reductive dechlorination mediated by Desulfitobacterium sp. strain PCE-S.

    Evelyn Miller;Gert Wohlfarth;G. Diekert

  • Isolation and characterization of a methyl chloride utilizing, strictly anaerobic bacterium

    Jürgen Traunecker;Andrea Preuß;Gabriele Diekert

  • Purification and characterization of the tetrachloroethene reductive dehalogenase of strain PCE-S

    Evelyn Miller;Gert Wohlfarth;G. Diekert

  • Nickel requirement for carbon monoxide dehydrogenase formation in Clostridium pasteurianum

    Gabriele B. Diekert;Ernst G. Graf;Rudolf K. Thauer

  • Biosynthetic evidence for a nickel tetrapyrrole structure of factor F430 from Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum

    Gabriele Diekert;Rolf Jaenchen;Rudolf K. Thauer

  • Properties of tetrachloroethene and trichloroethene dehalogenase of Dehalospirillum multivorans

    Anke Neumann;Gert Wohlfarth;Gabriele Diekert

  • Biological role of nickel

    Rudolf K. Thauer;Gabriele Diekert;Peter Schönheit

  • Tetrachloroethene reductive dehalogenase of Dehalospirillum multivorans : substrate specificity of the native enzyme and its corrinoid cofactor

    Anke Neumann;Anke Siebert;Tina Trescher;Simone Reinhardt

Frequent Co-Authors

Torsten Schubert
Torsten Schubert Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Rudolf K. Thauer
Rudolf K. Thauer Max Planck Society
Martin von Bergen
Martin von Bergen Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Nico Jehmlich
Nico Jehmlich Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Ivonne Nijenhuis
Ivonne Nijenhuis Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Willy Verstraete
Willy Verstraete Ghent University
Christof Holliger
Christof Holliger École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Birgitte Kiær Ahring
Birgitte Kiær Ahring Washington State University
Jana Seifert
Jana Seifert University of Hohenheim
Bernhard Kräutler
Bernhard Kräutler University of Innsbruck

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