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Theodor Wieland

Theodor Wieland

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Chemistry

D-Index
56
Citations
13256
World Ranking
11505
National Ranking
840

Overview

Theodor Wieland is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research spans multiple areas within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a significant focus on molecular biology and cardiology-related topics. Wieland's work frequently appears in well-known scientific journals and contributes to a broad array of biomedical fields.

Wieland's recent publications demonstrate an active engagement with cardiovascular and cellular research. Notable papers include:

  • Lamin A/C-dependent chromatin architecture safeguards naïve pluripotency to prevent aberrant cardiovascular cell fate and function, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Chronic isoprenaline/phenylephrine vs. exclusive isoprenaline stimulation in mice: critical contribution of alpha1-adrenoceptors to early cardiac stress responses, 2022, Basic Research in Cardiology
  • TRPV1 activation and internalization is part of the LPS-induced inflammation in human iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Nucleoside Diphosphate Kinase B Contributes to Arrhythmogenesis in Human-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes from a Patient with Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy, 2020, Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • Contribution of the hexosamine biosynthetic pathway in the hyperglycemia-dependent and -independent breakdown of the retinal neurovascular unit, 2023, Molecular Metabolism

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Wieland include Santosh Lomada, Joerg Heineke, Julio Cordero, Gergana Dobreva, and Yuxi Feng. These collaborations reflect a multidisciplinary approach, combining expertise in molecular biology, cardiology, and cellular function.

Wieland's publications are often found in specific scientific venues where they have contributed multiple papers, such as:

  • Cells
  • Nature Communications
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Journal of Molecular Diagnostics
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Their main fields of study include biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology with 59 publications and medicine with 51 publications. Within these, subfields of focus encompass molecular biology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, cell biology, pathology and forensic medicine, and cancer research.

The core topics addressed in Wieland's research cover mechanisms of cancer metastasis, receptor mechanisms and signaling, cellular transport and secretion, cancer mechanisms and therapy, cardiac fibrosis and remodeling, retinal diseases and treatments, and diabetes treatment and management.

Best Publications

  • Fluorescent phallotoxin, a tool for the visualization of cellular actin

    E. Wulf;Axel Deboben;F. A. Bautz;Heinz Faulstich

  • Amatoxins, phallotoxins, phallolysin, and antamanide: the biologically active components of poisonous Amanita mushrooms.

    Theodor Wieland;Heinz Faulstich

  • Poisonous Principles of Mushrooms of the Genus Amanita Four-carbon amines acting on the central nervous system and cell-destroying cyclic peptides are produced

    Theodor Wieland

  • Interaction of actin with phalloidin: polymerization and stabilization of F-actin.

    Peter Dancker;Irmentraut Löw;Wilhelm Hasselbach;Theodor Wieland

  • Synthese von S‐β‐Oxybutyryl‐ und S‐Acetacetyl‐Coenzym A

    Theodor Wieland;Luistraud Rueff

  • Modification of Actins by Phallotoxins

    Theodor Wieland

  • Influence of the distance of the proline carbonyl from the beta and gamma carbon on the 13C chemical shifts.

    Ignacy Z. Siemion;Theodor Wieland;Karl-Heinz Pook

  • Über Peptidsynthesen. 8. Mitteilung Bildung von S‐haltigen Peptiden durch intramolekulare Wanderung von Aminoacylresten

    Unknown

  • Über Peptid‐Synthesen. 3. Mitteilung. Die Verwendung von Anhydriden aus N‐acylierten Aminosäuren und Derivaten anorganischer Säuren

    Unknown

  • The toxic peptides from Amanita mushrooms

    Theodor Wieland

  • The phalloidin binding site of F-actin

    Joel Vandekerckhove;Axel Deboben;Michael Nassal;Theodor Wieland

  • alpha-Amanitin uptake into hepatocytes. Identification of hepatic membrane transport systems used by amatoxins.

    K. D. Kröncke;G. Fricker;P. J. Meier;W. Gerok

  • Fifty years of amanitin.

    T Wieland;H Faulstich

  • Identity of hepatic membrane transport systems for bile salts, phalloidin, and antamanide by photoaffinity labeling

    Theodor Wieland;Michael Nassal;Werner Kramer;Gert Fricker

  • Virotoxins: actin-binding cyclic peptides of Amanita virosa mushrooms.

    Heinz Faulstich;Angeliki Buku;Heinz Bodenmüller;Theodor Wieland

  • Stabilization of F-actin by phalloidin reversal of the destabilizing effect of cytochalasin B

    Irmentraut Löw;Peter Dancker;Theodor Wieland

  • Identification of the amatoxin-binding subunit of RNA polymerase B by affinity labeling experiments. Subunit B 3 - the true amatoxin receptor protein of multiple RNA polymerase B

    Ortfried Georg Brodner;Theodor Wieland

  • Conformations of the Li-Antamanide Complex and Na-[Phe4, Val6]Antamanide Complex in the Crystalline State

    Isabella Karle;Jerome Karle;Theodor Wieland;Wolfgang Burgermeister

  • Contraluminal para-aminohippurate (PAH) transport in the proximal tubule of the rat kidney. VI. Specificity: amino acids, their N-methyl-, N-acetyl- and N-benzoylderivatives; glutathione- and cysteine conjugates, di- and oligopeptides

    Karl Julius Ullrich;Gerhard Rumrich;Theodor Wieland;W. Dekant

  • Über die Giftstoffe des grünen Knollenblätterpilzes X. Mitteilung. Die Konstitution des Phalloidins

    Theodor Wieland;Werner Schön

  • N-Acyl-Imidazole als energiereiche Acylverbindungen

    Theodor Wieland;Günter Schneider

  • Enhanced inhibition of virus DNA synthesis in hepatocytes by trifluorothymidine coupled to asialofetuin

    L. Fiume;A. Mattioli;P.G. Balboni;M. Tognon

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Kuhn
Richard Kuhn Max Planck Society
Isabella L. Karle
Isabella L. Karle United States Naval Research Laboratory
Falk Fahrenholz
Falk Fahrenholz Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
William N. Lipscomb
William N. Lipscomb Harvard University
Vincenzo Pavone
Vincenzo Pavone University of Naples Federico II
Douglas C. Rees
Douglas C. Rees California Institute of Technology
Bernhard Witkop
Bernhard Witkop National Institutes of Health
Gert Fricker
Gert Fricker Heidelberg University
Günther Jung
Günther Jung University of Tübingen
Fred Naider
Fred Naider City University of New York

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