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Wolfgang Buckel is affiliated with Philipp University of Marburg in Germany and has conducted research primarily within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans a total of 23 publications in this main field, with a focus on several notable subfields including Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry, Environmental Engineering, Rheumatology, and Biochemistry.

Key research topics addressed by Wolfgang Buckel include Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, Porphyrin Metabolism and Disorders, Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation, Enzyme Structure and Function, Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction, Folate and B Vitamins Research, and Amino Acid Enzymes and Metabolism.

The scientist has a record of publications across frequent venues such as Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature, Frontiers in Microbiology, Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Journal of Biological Chemistry, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

  • Energy Conservation in Fermentations of Anaerobic Bacteria (2021) - Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Physiological limits to life in anoxic subseafloor sediment (2020) - FEMS Microbiology Reviews
  • Flavins in the electron bifurcation process (2021) - Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics
  • Ferredoxin reduction by hydrogen with iron functions as an evolutionary precursor of flavin-based electron bifurcation (2024) - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Modulations of the reduction potentials of flavin-based electron bifurcation complexes and semiquinone stabilities are key to control directional electron flow (2020) - FEBS Journal

Wolfgang Buckel has collaborated repeatedly with a number of co-authors, including Ulrich Ermler, Jeerus Sucharitakul, Stella Vitt, Pimchai Chaiyen, and William Martin. These frequent collaborations highlight a multidisciplinary approach spanning biochemistry and molecular biology.

Best Publications

  • Methanogenic archaea: ecologically relevant differences in energy conservation.

    Rudolf K. Thauer;Anne-Kristin Kaster;Henning Seedorf;Wolfgang Buckel

  • Energy conservation via electron bifurcating ferredoxin reduction and proton/Na+ translocating ferredoxin oxidation

    Wolfgang Buckel;Rudolf K. Thauer

  • A 3-Hydroxypropionate/4-Hydroxybutyrate Autotrophic Carbon Dioxide Assimilation Pathway in Archaea

    Ivan A. Berg;Daniel Kockelkorn;Wolfgang Buckel;Georg Fuchs

  • Chain Elongation with Reactor Microbiomes: Open-Culture Biotechnology To Produce Biochemicals.

    Largus T. Angenent;Hanno Richter;Wolfgang Buckel;Catherine M. Spirito

  • The genome of Clostridium kluyveri, a strict anaerobe with unique metabolic features

    Henning Seedorf;W. Florian Fricke;Birgit Veith;Holger Brüggemann

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

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

  • Coupled Ferredoxin and Crotonyl Coenzyme A (CoA) Reduction with NADH Catalyzed by the Butyryl-CoA Dehydrogenase/Etf Complex from Clostridium kluyveri

    Fuli Li;Julia Hinderberger;Henning Seedorf;Jin Zhang

  • Energy Conservation via Electron-Transferring Flavoprotein in Anaerobic Bacteria

    Gloria Herrmann;Elamparithi Jayamani;Galina Mai;Wolfgang Buckel

  • Flavin-Based Electron Bifurcation, A New Mechanism of Biological Energy Coupling.

    Wolfgang Buckel;Rudolf Kurt Thauer;Rudolf Kurt Thauer

  • Flavin-Based Electron Bifurcation, Ferredoxin, Flavodoxin, and Anaerobic Respiration With Protons (Ech) or NAD+ (Rnf) as Electron Acceptors: A Historical Review.

    Wolfgang Buckel;Rudolf K. Thauer

  • Two Pathways of Glutamate Fermentation by Anaerobic Bacteria

    Wolfgang Buckel;H. A. Barker

  • Radical enzymes in anaerobes.

    Wolfgang Buckel;Bernard T. Golding

  • 3-hydroxypropionic acid and other organic compounds

    Ravi R. Gokarn;Olga V. Selifonova;Holly Jean Jessen;Steven John Gort

  • On the mechanism of action of the antifungal agent propionate.

    Matthias Brock;Wolfgang Buckel

  • Glutamate mutase from Clostridium cochlearium: the structure of a coenzyme B12-dependent enzyme provides new mechanistic insights.

    R Reitzer;K Gruber;G Jogl;UG Wagner

  • Propionate oxidation in Escherichia coli: evidence for operation of a methylcitrate cycle in bacteria

    S Textor;V F Wendisch;A A De Graaf;U Müller

  • Glutaconate CoA‐Transferase from Acidaminococcus fermentans

    Wolfgang Buckel;Ulrike Dorn;Rosuitha Semmler

  • Unusual enzymes involved in five pathways of glutamate fermentation

    W. Buckel

  • Glutamate and 2-methyleneglutarate mutase: from microbial curiosities to paradigms for coenzyme B12-dependent enzymes

    Wolfgang Buckel;Bernard T. Golding

  • Acryloyl-CoA reductase from Clostridium propionicum. An enzyme complex of propionyl-CoA dehydrogenase and electron-transferring flavoprotein.

    Marc Hetzel;Matthias Brock;Thorsten Selmer;Antonio J. Pierik

  • On the dehydration of (R)-lactate in the fermentation of alanine to propionate by Clostridium propionicum

    Georg Schweiger;Wolfgang Buckel

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernard T. Golding
Bernard T. Golding Newcastle University
Antonio J. Pierik
Antonio J. Pierik Technical University of Kaiserslautern
Dietmar Linder
Dietmar Linder University of Giessen
Rudolf K. Thauer
Rudolf K. Thauer Max Planck Society
Ulrich Ermler
Ulrich Ermler Max Planck Society
Holger Dobbek
Holger Dobbek Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Albrecht Messerschmidt
Albrecht Messerschmidt Max Planck Society
Matthias Brock
Matthias Brock University of Nottingham
Gerhard Gottschalk
Gerhard Gottschalk University of Göttingen
Eckhard Bill
Eckhard Bill Max Planck Society

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