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Ralf Rabus is affiliated with the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg in Germany. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant body of work related to Environmental Science.

Their scientific contributions span several subfields, including Molecular Biology, Ecology, Oceanography, Pollution, and Clinical Biochemistry. The main topics of their research include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Protist Diversity and Phylogeny, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies, as well as Microbial Bioremediation and Biosurfactants.

Ralf Rabus has published extensively, with notable papers including the following:

  • Multi-omics analysis reveals the molecular response to heat stress in a "red tide" dinoflagellate, 2023, Genome Biology
  • Catabolic Network of the Fermentative Gut Bacterium Phocaeicola vulgatus (Phylum Bacteroidota) from a Physiologic-Proteomic Perspective, 2024, Microbial Physiology
  • Method development and validation for the quantification of organic acids in microbial samples using anionic exchange solid-phase extraction and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, 2020, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry
  • Suspect screening and targeted analysis of acyl coenzyme A thioesters in bacterial cultures using a high-resolution tribrid mass spectrometer, 2021, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry
  • Proteogenomic Insights into the Physiology of Marine, Sulfate-Reducing, Filamentous Desulfonema limicola and Desulfonema magnum, 2021, Microbial Physiology

Their work has frequently appeared in several publication venues, notably:

  • Microbial Physiology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  • Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Lars Wöhlbrand
  • Sabine Scheve
  • Michael Winklhofer
  • Meina Neumann-Schaal
  • Heinz Wilkes

Best Publications

  • Anaerobic biodegradation of saturated and aromatic hydrocarbons.

    Friedrich Widdel;Ralf Rabus

  • Anaerobic oxidation of hydrocarbons in crude oil by new types of sulphate-reducing bacteria

    Rueter P;Rabus R;Wilkes H;Aeckersberg F

  • Complete genome sequence of the marine planctomycete Pirellula sp. strain 1.

    F. O. Glöckner;M. Kube;M. Bauer;H. Teeling

  • Anaerobic degradation of ethylbenzene and other aromatic hydrocarbons by new denitrifying bacteria

    Ralf Rabus;Friedrich Widdel

  • Anaerobic Microbial Degradation of Hydrocarbons : from Enzymatic Reactions to the Environment

    Ralf Rabus;Matthias Boll;Johann Heider;Rainer U. Meckenstock

  • Complete oxidation of toluene under strictly anoxic conditions by a new sulfate-reducing bacterium.

    Ralf Rabus;R. Nordhaus;W. Ludwig;Friedrich Widdel

  • Microbial genome analyses: comparative transport capabilities in eighteen prokaryotes.

    Ian T Paulsen;Lily Nguyen;Marek K Sliwinski;Ralf Rabus

  • A Post-Genomic View of the Ecophysiology, Catabolism and Biotechnological Relevance of Sulphate-Reducing Prokaryotes

    Ralf Rabus;Sofia S. Venceslau;Lars Wöhlbrand;Gerrit Voordouw

  • The genome sequence of an anaerobic aromatic-degrading denitrifying bacterium, strain EbN1.

    Ralf Rabus;Michael Kube;Johann Heider;Alfred Beck

  • Anaerobic Initial Reaction of n-Alkanes in a Denitrifying Bacterium: Evidence for (1-Methylpentyl)succinate as Initial Product and for Involvement of an Organic Radical in n-Hexane Metabolism

    Ralf Rabus;Heinz Wilkes;Astrid Behrends;Antje Armstroff

  • The complete genome sequence of the algal symbiont Dinoroseobacter shibae: a hitchhiker's guide to life in the sea

    Irene Wagner-Döbler;Britta Ballhausen;Martine Berger;Thorsten Brinkhoff

  • Anaerobic Oxidation of o -Xylene, m -Xylene, and Homologous Alkylbenzenes by New Types of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria

    Gerda Harms;Karsten Zengler;Ralf Rabus;Frank Aeckersberg

  • Degradative capacities and 16S rRNA-targeted whole-cell hybridization of sulfate-reducing bacteria in an anaerobic enrichment culture utilizing alkylbenzenes from crude oil

    R Rabus;M Fukui;H Wilkes;F Widdle

  • A NOVEL PROTEIN KINASE THAT CONTROLS CARBON CATABOLITE REPRESSION IN BACTERIA

    Jonathan Reizer;Christian Hoischen;Friedrich Titgemeyer;Carlo Rivolta

  • Anaerobic degradation of naphthalene and 2‐methylnaphthalene by strains of marine sulfate‐reducing bacteria

    Florin Musat;Alexander S. Galushko;Jacob Jacob;Friedrich Widdel

  • Genes involved in the anaerobic degradation of toluene in a denitrifying bacterium, strain EbN1

    Michael Kube;Johann Heider;Judith Amann;Peter Hufnagel

  • Anaerobic degradation of n -hexane in a denitrifying bacterium: Further degradation of the initial intermediate (1-methylpentyl)succinate via C-skeleton rearrangement

    Heinz Wilkes;Ralf Rabus;Thomas Fischer;Antje Armstroff

  • Taxonomic heterogeneity within the Planctomycetales as derived by DNA-DNA hybridization, description of Rhodopirellula baltica gen. nov., sp. nov., transfer of Pirellula marina to the genus Blastopirellula gen. nov. as Blastopirellula marina comb. nov. and emended description of the genus Pirellula.

    Heinz Schlesner;Christina Rensmann;Brian J. Tindall;Dörte Gade

  • The genome of Desulfotalea psychrophila, a sulfate-reducing bacterium from permanently cold Arctic sediments

    R. Rabus;A. Ruepp;T. Frickey;T. Rattei

  • Initial reactions of anaerobic metabolism of alkylbenzenes in denitrifying and sulfate-reducing bacteria

    Ralf Rabus;J. Heider

Frequent Co-Authors

Heinz Wilkes
Heinz Wilkes Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Friedrich Widdel
Friedrich Widdel Max Planck Society
Richard Reinhardt
Richard Reinhardt Max Planck Society
Johann Heider
Johann Heider Philipp University of Marburg
Michael Kube
Michael Kube Max Planck Society
Rudolf Amann
Rudolf Amann Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
Dietmar Schomburg
Dietmar Schomburg Technische Universität Braunschweig
Bernard T. Golding
Bernard T. Golding Newcastle University
Frank Oliver Glöckner
Frank Oliver Glöckner Jacobs University
Karsten Zengler
Karsten Zengler University of California, San Diego

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