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Leif Bülow

Leif Bülow

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
45
Citations
7809
World Ranking
19111
National Ranking
305

Overview

Leif Bülow is affiliated with Lund University in Sweden and has contributed extensively to the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on Molecular Biology and Cell Biology. Their research portfolio also intersects with Plant Science, Biomedical Engineering, and Genetics, reflecting a broad interdisciplinary engagement.

Their scientific contributions include numerous articles published in notable journals. Frequent publication venues include Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Antioxidants, Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, and Regenerative Medicine, Artificial Cells and Nanomedicine. These venues indicate a research focus that spans from molecular mechanisms to applied biomedical technologies.

Key topics explored by Bülow encompass the structure and function of hemoglobin, hemoglobinopathies and related disorders, and porphyrin metabolism. Research also covers transgenic plants and applications, microfluidic and capillary electrophoresis applications, neonatal health and biochemistry, and plant tissue culture and regeneration. This diverse thematic expertise illustrates a strong emphasis on both fundamental biochemical processes and their applications in health and plant sciences.

Bülow frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Karin Kettisen, Leonard Groth, Lei Ye, Magnus Carlsson, and Selvaraju Kanagarajan. These collaborations have resulted in multiple joint publications, highlighting an active participation in collaborative research networks.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Bülow include:

  • Plant based production of myoglobin - a novel source of the muscle heme-protein, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Biocontrol Effect of Clonostachys rosea on Fusarium graminearum Infection and Mycotoxin Detoxification in Oat (Avena sativa), 2023, Plants
  • Identification and Functional Characterisation of Two Oat UDP-Glucosyltransferases Involved in Deoxynivalenol Detoxification, 2022, Toxins
  • Rapid personalized AMR diagnostics using two-dimensional antibiotic resistance profiling strategy employing a thermometric NDM-1 biosensor, 2021, Biosensors and Bioelectronics
  • Encapsulation of sugar beet phytoglobin BvPgb 1.2 and myoglobin in a lipid sponge phase system, 2023, Frontiers in Soft Matter

In addition to journal articles, Bülow has contributed to book literature, with a publication titled Nanobiotherapeutic Based Blood Substitutes (2020) published by World Scientific. This work aligns with their research interests in biomedical engineering and hemoglobin-related studies.

Best Publications

  • Metal-binding proteins and peptides in bioremediation and phytoremediation of heavy metals

    Malin Mejáre;Leif Bülow

  • Improving stress tolerance in plants by gene transfer

    Niklas Holmberg;Leif Bülow

  • Ethanolic fermentation of xylose with Saccharomyces cerevisiae harboring the Thermus thermophilus xylA gene, which expresses an active xylose (glucose) isomerase

    Mats Walfridsson;Xiaoming Bao;Mikael Anderlund;Gösta Lilius

  • Chromatography of microbial cells using continuous supermacroporous affinity and ion-exchange columns

    Pär Arvidsson;Fatima M Plieva;Irina N Savina;Irina N Savina;Vladimir I Lozinsky

  • Enhanced NaCl Stress Tolerance in Transgenic Tobacco Expressing Bacterial Choline Dehydrogenase

    Gösta Lilius;Niklas Holmberg;Leif Bülow

  • Transgenic tobacco expressing Vitreoscilla hemoglobin exhibits enhanced growth and altered metabolite production

    Niklas Holmberg;Gösta Lilius;James E. Bailey;Leif Bülow

  • Formation of proinsulin by immobilized Bacillus subtilis

    Klaus Mosbach;Staffan Birnbaum;Kim Hardy;Julian Davies

  • Functional expression of five Arabidopsis fatty acyl-CoA reductase genes in Escherichia coli

    Thuy T.P. Doan;Anders S. Carlsson;Mats Hamberg;Leif Bülow

  • Tyrosine residues as redox cofactors in human hemoglobin: implications for engineering nontoxic blood substitutes.

    Brandon J. Reeder;Marie Grey;Radu-Lucian Silaghi-Dumitrescu;Dimitri A. Svistunenko

  • Multienzyme systems obtained by gene fusion.

    Leif Bülow;Klaus Mosbach

  • Pathological Conditions Involving Extracellular Hemoglobin: Molecular Mechanisms, Clinical Significance, and Novel Therapeutic Opportunities for alpha(1)-Microglobulin

    Magnus G Olsson;Maria Allhorn;Leif Bülow;Stefan R Hansson

  • Selection of cadmium specific hexapeptides and their expression as OmpA fusion proteins in Escherichia coli.

    M Mejàre;Sarah Ljung;L Bülow

  • Bacterial Imprinting at Pickering Emulsion Interfaces

    Xiantao Shen;Johan Svensson Bonde;Tripta Kamra;Leif Bülow

  • Redesign of the coenzyme specificity in L-lactate dehydrogenase from bacillus stearothermophilus using site-directed mutagenesis and media engineering.

    Niklas Holmberg;Ulf Ryde;Leif Bülow

  • Metal affinity precipitation of proteins carrying genetically attached polyhistidine affinity tails

    Gösta Lilius;Mats Persson;Leif Bülow;Klaus Mosbach

  • Multimodal chromatography: an efficient tool in downstream processing of proteins.

    Kristian Kallberg;Hans-Olof Johansson;Leif Bulow

  • Haptoglobin Binding Stabilizes Hemoglobin Ferryl Iron and the Globin Radical on Tyrosine β145

    Christopher E Cooper;Dominik J Schaer;Paul W Buehler;Michael T Wilson

  • Construction of an artificial bifunctional enzyme, beta-galactosidase/galactose dehydrogenase, exhibiting efficient galactose channeling.

    Ljungcrantz P;Carlsson H;Månsson Mo;Buckel P

  • Preparation and kinetic characterization of a fusion protein of yeast mitochondrial citrate synthase and malate dehydrogenase

    C Lindbladh;M Rault;C Hagglund;W C Small

  • Haptoglobin: the hemoglobin detoxifier in plasma

    Abdu I Alayash;Christian Brix Folsted Andersen;Søren Kragh Moestrup;Leif Bülow

Frequent Co-Authors

Klaus Mosbach
Klaus Mosbach Lund University
Lei Ye
Lei Ye Lund University
João A. Queiroz
João A. Queiroz University of Beira Interior
Chris E. Cooper
Chris E. Cooper University of Essex
Sten Stymne
Sten Stymne Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Abdu I. Alayash
Abdu I. Alayash US Food and Drug Administration
Bengt Danielsson
Bengt Danielsson Lund University
Michael T. Wilson
Michael T. Wilson University of Essex
Andrea Mozzarelli
Andrea Mozzarelli University of Parma
Bo Åkerström
Bo Åkerström Lund University

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