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Martin Hofrichter

Martin Hofrichter

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Chemistry

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18868
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Overview

Martin Hofrichter is affiliated with TU Dresden in Germany. Their research activity is primarily situated within the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Their work spans several subfields, including Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Pharmacology, Biotechnology, and Inorganic Chemistry.

Hofrichter's research covers multiple topics, with notable focus on:

  • Enzyme-mediated dye degradation
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization
  • Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
  • Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Hofrichter include Harald Kellner, René Ullrich, Katrin Scheibner, Jan Kiebist, and Christiane Liers.

Key publication venues where Hofrichter's work has appeared include Antioxidants, Microbiology Resource Announcements, Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Mycological Progress, and Catalysts.

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Hofrichter are:

  • Peroxide-Mediated Oxygenation of Organic Compounds by Fungal Peroxygenases, 2022, Antioxidants

Other significant papers associated with their research network include:

  • Engineering a Highly Regioselective Fungal Peroxygenase for the Synthesis of Hydroxy Fatty Acids, 2022, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Fatty-Acid Oxygenation by Fungal Peroxygenases: From Computational Simulations to Preparative Regio- and Stereoselective Epoxidation, 2020, ACS Catalysis
  • Directed evolution of unspecific peroxygenase in organic solvents, 2021, Biotechnology and Bioengineering
  • Functional Expression of Two Unusual Acidic Peroxygenases from Candolleomyces aberdarensis in Yeasts by Adopting Evolved Secretion Mutations, 2021, Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Best Publications

  • Fungal laccase: properties and activity on lignin

    Andrzej Leonowicz;NamSeok Cho;Jolanta Luterek;Anna Wilkolazka

  • New and classic families of secreted fungal heme peroxidases

    Martin Hofrichter;René Ullrich;Marek J. Pecyna;Christiane Liers

  • Novel Haloperoxidase from the Agaric Basidiomycete Agrocybe aegerita Oxidizes Aryl Alcohols and Aldehydes

    René Ullrich;Jörg Nüske;Katrin Scheibner;Jörg Spantzel

  • Enzymatic hydroxylation of aromatic compounds

    René Ullrich;Martin Hofrichter

  • Life in leaf litter: novel insights into community dynamics of bacteria and fungi during litter decomposition

    Witoon Purahong;Tesfaye Wubet;Guillaume Lentendu;Michael Schloter

  • Heme-thiolate haloperoxidases: versatile biocatalysts with biotechnological and environmental significance.

    Martin Hofrichter;René Ullrich

  • Oxidations catalyzed by fungal peroxygenases.

    Martin Hofrichter;René Ullrich

  • Oxidoreductases on their way to industrial biotransformations

    Angel T. Martínez;Francisco J. Ruiz-Dueñas;Susana Camarero;Ana Serrano

  • Directed evolution of unspecific peroxygenase from Agrocybe aegerita.

    Patricia Molina-Espeja;Eva Garcia-Ruiz;David Gonzalez-Perez;René Ullrich

  • DyP-like peroxidases of the jelly fungus Auricularia auricula-judae oxidize nonphenolic lignin model compounds and high-redox potential dyes.

    Christiane Liers;Caroline Bobeth;Marek Pecyna;René Ullrich

  • Mineralisation of 14C-labelled synthetic lignin and ligninolytic enzyme activities of litter-decomposing basidiomycetous fungi

    K. T. Steffen;M. Hofrichter;A. Hatakka

  • Wood decay rates of 13 temperate tree species in relation to wood properties, enzyme activities and organismic diversities

    Tiemo Kahl;Tobias Arnstadt;Kristin Baber;Kristin Baber;Claus Bässler

  • Production of lignocellulose-degrading enzymes and degradation of leaf litter by saprotrophic basidiomycetes isolated from a Quercus petraea forest

    Vendula Valášková;Jaroslav Šnajdr;Britta Bittner;Tomáš Cajthaml

  • Production of Manganese Peroxidase and Organic Acids and Mineralization of 14C-Labelled Lignin (14C-DHP) during Solid-State Fermentation of Wheat Straw with the White Rot Fungus Nematoloma frowardii

    Martin Hofrichter;Tamara Vares;Mika Kalsi;Sari Galkin

  • Degradation of Humic Acids by the Litter-Decomposing Basidiomycete Collybia dryophila

    Kari Timo Steffen;Annele Hatakka;Martin Hofrichter

  • Kinetics of the enzymatic decolorization of textile dyes by laccase from Cerrena unicolor

    Anna Michniewicz;Stanisław Ledakowicz;René Ullrich;Martin Hofrichter

  • Fungal unspecific peroxygenases: heme-thiolate proteins that combine peroxidase and cytochrome p450 properties.

    Martin Hofrichter;Harald Kellner;Marek J. Pecyna;René Ullrich

  • Patterns of lignin degradation and oxidative enzyme secretion by different wood‐ and litter‐colonizing basidiomycetes and ascomycetes grown on beech‐wood

    Christiane Liers;Tobias Arnstadt;René Ullrich;Martin Hofrichter

  • Peroxygenase-Catalyzed Oxyfunctionalization Reactions Promoted by the Complete Oxidation of Methanol.

    Yan Ni;Elena Fernández-Fueyo;Alvaro Gomez Baraibar;René Ullrich

  • Linking molecular deadwood-inhabiting fungal diversity and community dynamics to ecosystem functions and processes in Central European forests

    Björn Hoppe;Björn Hoppe;Witoon Purahong;Witoon Purahong;Tesfaye Wubet;Tesfaye Wubet;Tiemo Kahl

Frequent Co-Authors

René Ullrich
René Ullrich TU Dresden
Annele Hatakka
Annele Hatakka University of Helsinki
François Buscot
François Buscot Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Ángel T. Martínez
Ángel T. Martínez Spanish National Research Council
Ana Gutiérrez
Ana Gutiérrez Spanish National Research Council
Miguel Alcalde
Miguel Alcalde Spanish National Research Council
Frieder W. Scheller
Frieder W. Scheller University of Potsdam
José C. del Río
José C. del Río Spanish National Research Council
Claus Bässler
Claus Bässler Goethe University Frankfurt
Victor Guallar
Victor Guallar Barcelona Supercomputing Center

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