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2025

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Chemistry

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77
Citations
25137
World Ranking
3960
National Ranking
116

Biology and Biochemistry

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77
Citations
25096
World Ranking
4720
National Ranking
128

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in France Leader Award

Overview

Michel Rohmer is affiliated with the University of Strasbourg in France and has contributed extensively to the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research output includes a strong focus on Molecular Biology, Pharmacology, Biotechnology, Biochemistry, and Pharmaceutical Science as subfields of study.

Their work covers several main research topics, including:

  • Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Biochemical and Molecular Research
  • Plant Gene Expression Analysis
  • Biochemical and biochemical processes
  • Antioxidant Activity and Oxidative Stress
  • Pharmacological Effects of Natural Compounds

Michel Rohmer has published papers across various prominent scientific venues, showing a diverse and interdisciplinary focus. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Molecules
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Biochemical Journal
  • Biochemistry
  • 30th International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry (IMOG 2021)

Recent papers by Michel Rohmer illustrate their engagement with biochemical pathways, molecular mechanisms, and pharmacological applications. Notable publications include:

  • "A cytosolic bifunctional geranyl/farnesyl diphosphate synthase provides MVA-derived GPP for geraniol biosynthesis in rose flowers," 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Divergent contribution of the MVA and MEP pathways to the formation of polyprenols and dolichols in Arabidopsis," 2023, Biochemical Journal
  • "The Multifaceted MEP Pathway: Towards New Therapeutic Perspectives," 2023, Molecules
  • "α,α-Difluorophosphonohydroxamic Acid Derivatives among the Best Antibacterial Fosmidomycin Analogues," 2021, Molecules
  • "Biochemical and Mutational Analysis of Radical S-Adenosyl-L-Methionine Adenosylhopane Synthase HpnH from Zymomonas mobilis Reveals that the Conserved Residue Cysteine-106 Reduces a Radical Intermediate and Determines the Stereochemistry," 2021, Biochemistry

Michel Rohmer has collaborated frequently with several colleagues in their research projects. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Didier Lièvremont
  • Catherine Grosdemange-Billiard
  • Agata Lipko
  • Ewa Świeżewska
  • Mathilde Munier

Best Publications

  • Isoprenoid biosynthesis in bacteria: a novel pathway for the early steps leading to isopentenyl diphosphate.

    M. Rohmer;M'hamed Knani;P. Simonin;B. Sutter

  • The discovery of a mevalonate-independent pathway for isoprenoid biosynthesis in bacteria, algae and higher plants†

    Michel Rohmer

  • The Hopanoids: palaeochemistry and biochemistry of a group of natural products

    G. Ourisson;Pierre Albrecht;M. Rohmer

  • Distribution of Hopanoid Triterpenes in Prokaryotes

    Michel Rohmer;Pierrette Bouvier-Nave;Guy Ourisson

  • Biosynthesis of isoprenoids in higher plant chloroplasts proceeds via a mevalonate‐independent pathway

    Hartmut K Lichtenthaler;Jörg Schwender;Andrea Disch;Michel Rohmer

  • ENZYMATIC CYCLIZATION OF SQUALENE AND OXIDOSQUALENE TO STEROLS AND TRITERPENES

    Ikuro. Abe;Michel. Rohmer;Glenn D. Prestwich

  • Prokaryotic Hopanoids and other Polyterpenoid Sterol Surrogates

    G Ourisson;M Rohmer;K Poralla

  • Glyceraldehyde 3-Phosphate and Pyruvate as Precursors of Isoprenic Units in an Alternative Non-mevalonate Pathway for Terpenoid Biosynthesis

    Michel Rohmer;Myriam Seemann;Silke Horbach;Stephanie Bringer-Meyer

  • Two independent biochemical pathways for isopentenyl diphosphate and isoprenoid biosynthesis in higher plants

    Hartmut K. Lichtenthaler;Michel Rohmer;Jorg Schwender

  • Cloning and characterization of a gene from Escherichia coli encoding a transketolase-like enzyme that catalyzes the synthesis of d-1-deoxyxylulose 5-phosphate, a common precursor for isoprenoid, thiamin, and pyridoxol biosynthesis

    Luisa Maria Lois;Narciso Campos;Surya Rosa Putra;Knut Danielsen

  • Cross-talk between the Cytosolic Mevalonate and the Plastidial Methylerythritol Phosphate Pathways in Tobacco Bright Yellow-2 Cells

    Andréa Hemmerlin;Jean-François Hoeffler;Odile Meyer;Denis Tritsch

  • Biosynthesis of isoprenoids (carotenoids, sterols, prenyl side-chains of chlorophylls and plastoquinone) via a novel pyruvate/glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate non-mevalonate pathway in the green alga Scenedesmus obliquus.

    Jörg Schwender;Myriam Seemann;Hartmut K. Lichtenthaler;Michel Rohmer

  • Predictive microbial biochemistry — from molecular fossils to procaryotic membranes

    Guy Ourisson;Pierre Albrecht;Michel Rohmer

  • Tetrahymanol, the most likely precursor of gammacerane, occurs ubiquitously in marine sediments

    H.L.Ten Haven;M. Rohmer;J. Rullkötter;P. Bisseret

  • The Microbial Origin of Fossil Fuels

    Guy Ourisson;Pierre Albrecht;Michel Rohmer

  • Molecular evolution of biomembranes: structural equivalents and phylogenetic precursors of sterols

    Michel Rohmer;Pierrette Bouvier;Guy Ourisson

  • Prokaryotic hopanoids: the biosynthesis of the bacteriohopane skeleton. Formation of isoprenic units from two distinct acetate pools and a novel type of carbon/carbon linkage between a triterpene and D-ribose.

    Gérard Flesch;Michel Rohmer

  • Isoprenoid biosynthesis via the methylerythritol phosphate pathway: the (E)-4-hydroxy-3-methylbut-2-enyl diphosphate reductase (LytB/IspH) from Escherichia coli is a [4Fe-4S] protein.

    Murielle Wolff;Myriam Seemann;Bernadette Tse Sum Bui;Yves Frapart

  • Hopanoids. 2. Biohopanoids: a novel class of bacterial lipids

    Guy Ourisson;Michel Rohmer

  • Biosynthesis of monoterpene scent compounds in roses

    Jean-Louis Magnard;Aymeric Roccia;Aymeric Roccia;Jean-Claude Caissard;Philippe Vergne

  • Distribution of the mevalonate and glyceraldehyde phosphate/pyruvate pathways for isoprenoid biosynthesis in unicellular algae and the cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC 6714.

    Andrea Disch;Jörg Schwender;Christian Müller;Hartmut K. Lichtenthaler

Frequent Co-Authors

Albert Boronat
Albert Boronat University of Barcelona
Guy Ourisson
Guy Ourisson University of Strasbourg
Manuel Rodríguez-Concepción
Manuel Rodríguez-Concepción Spanish National Research Council
Helen M. Talbot
Helen M. Talbot University of York
Pierre Sinaÿ
Pierre Sinaÿ École Normale Supérieure
Paul Farrimond
Paul Farrimond University of Newcastle Australia
Hartmut K. Lichtenthaler
Hartmut K. Lichtenthaler Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Ikuro Abe
Ikuro Abe University of Tokyo
Alain Van Dorsselaer
Alain Van Dorsselaer University of Strasbourg
Pierre Albrecht
Pierre Albrecht University of Strasbourg

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