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Overview

Tobias P. Dick is affiliated with Heidelberg University in Germany and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their scholarly work encompasses a variety of subfields, including Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Nutrition and Dietetics, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their research primarily explores topics related to redox biology and oxidative stress, sulfur compounds in biology, ferroptosis and cancer prognosis, antioxidant activity and oxidative stress, glutathione transferases and polymorphisms, air quality and health impacts, and heat shock proteins.

Significant recent papers authored or coauthored by Tobias P. Dick include:

  • Guidelines for measuring reactive oxygen species and oxidative damage in cells and in vivo, 2022, Nature Metabolism
  • The mechanism of action of N-acetylcysteine (NAC): The emerging role of H2S and sulfane sulfur species, 2021, Pharmacology & Therapeutics
  • Hydropersulfides inhibit lipid peroxidation and ferroptosis by scavenging radicals, 2022, Nature Chemical Biology
  • Ferroptosis in health and disease, 2024, Redox Biology
  • Methane formation driven by reactive oxygen species across all living organisms, 2022, Nature

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Tobias P. Dick include Uladzimir Barayeu, Danny Schilling, Deepti Talwar, Aubry K. Miller, and Frauke Gräter.

Their research has been published repeatedly in a number of notable scientific venues with multiple publications in:

  • Nature Communications
  • Free Radical Biology and Medicine
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Best Publications

  • Real-time imaging of the intracellular glutathione redox potential.

    Marcus Gutscher;Anne Laure Pauleau;Laurent Marty;Thorsten Brach

  • Peroxiredoxin-2 and STAT3 form a redox relay for H2O2 signaling

    Mirko C Sobotta;Willy Liou;Sarah Stöcker;Deepti Talwar

  • Exit from dormancy provokes DNA-damage-induced attrition in haematopoietic stem cells

    Dagmar Walter;Amelie Lier;Anja Geiselhart;Frederic B. Thalheimer

  • Fluorescent protein-based redox probes

    Andreas J. Meyer;Tobias P. Dick

  • Polysulfides Link H2S to Protein Thiol Oxidation

    Romy Greiner;Zoltán Pálinkás;Katrin Bäsell;Dörte Becher

  • Discrete Cleavage Motifs of Constitutive and Immunoproteasomes Revealed by Quantitative Analysis of Cleavage Products

    R. E.M. Toes;A. K. Nussbaum;S. Degermann;M. Schirle

  • Proximity-based Protein Thiol Oxidation by H2O2-scavenging Peroxidases *♦

    Marcus Gutscher;Mirko C. Sobotta;Guido H. Wabnitz;Seda Ballikaya

  • A role for the proteasome regulator PA28α in antigen presentation

    Marcus Groettrup;Andrea Soza;Maren Eggers;Lothar Kuehn

  • Cleavage motifs of the yeast 20S proteasome β subunits deduced from digests of enolase 1

    Alexander K. Nussbaum;Tobias P. Dick;Wieland Keilholz;Markus Schirle

  • N-Acetyl Cysteine Functions as a Fast-Acting Antioxidant by Triggering Intracellular H 2 S and Sulfane Sulfur Production

    Daria Ezeriņa;Yoko Takano;Kenjiro Hanaoka;Yasuteru Urano

  • Vitamin A-Retinoic Acid Signaling Regulates Hematopoietic Stem Cell Dormancy.

    Nina Cabezas-Wallscheid;Florian Buettner;Pia Sommerkamp;Daniel Klimmeck

  • Coordinated Dual Cleavages Induced by the Proteasome Regulator PA28 Lead to Dominant MHC Ligands

    Tobias P. Dick;Thomas Ruppert;Marcus Groettrup;Peter M. Kloetzel

  • Contribution of Proteasomal β-Subunits to the Cleavage of Peptide Substrates Analyzed with Yeast Mutants

    Tobias P. Dick;Alexander K. Nussbaum;Martin Deeg;Wolfgang Heinemeyer

  • In Vivo Mapping of Hydrogen Peroxide and Oxidized Glutathione Reveals Chemical and Regional Specificity of Redox Homeostasis

    Simone C. Albrecht;Ana Gomes Barata;Jörg Großhans;Aurelio A. Teleman

  • Multiple glutathione disulfide removal pathways mediate cytosolic redox homeostasis.

    Bruce Morgan;Daria Ezeriņa;Theresa N E Amoako;Jan Riemer

  • Dissecting Redox Biology Using Fluorescent Protein Sensors

    Markus Schwarzländer;Tobias P. Dick;Andreas J. Meyer;Bruce Morgan

  • Disulfide Bond Isomerization and the Assembly of MHC Class I-Peptide Complexes

    Tobias P Dick;Naveen Bangia;David R Peaper;Peter Cresswell

  • A novel persulfide detection method reveals protein persulfide- and polysulfide-reducing functions of thioredoxin and glutathione systems.

    Éva Dóka;Irina Pader;Adrienn Bíró;Katarina Johansson

  • Measuring EGSH and H2O2 with roGFP2-based redox probes

    Bruce Morgan;Mirko C. Sobotta;Tobias P. Dick

  • The mechanism of action of N-acetylcysteine (NAC): The emerging role of H2S and sulfane sulfur species.

    Brandán Pedre;Uladzimir Barayeu;Daria Ezeriņa;Tobias P. Dick

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce A. Morgan
Bruce A. Morgan Saarland University
Andreas J. Meyer
Andreas J. Meyer University of Bonn
Andreas Trumpp
Andreas Trumpp German Cancer Research Center
Hansjörg Schild
Hansjörg Schild Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Markus Schwarzländer
Markus Schwarzländer University of Münster
Thomas Ruppert
Thomas Ruppert Heidelberg University
Johannes M. Herrmann
Johannes M. Herrmann Technical University of Kaiserslautern
Hartmut Geiger
Hartmut Geiger University of Ulm
Vladimir Benes
Vladimir Benes European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Oliver Stegle
Oliver Stegle German Cancer Research Center

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