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Germany
2024

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Overview

Wolfgang Hillen is affiliated with the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany and specializes in the field of Medicine with a focus on several subfields. Their research spans Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Epidemiology.

The main topics covered in Hillen's research include:

  • Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments
  • Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches
  • Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management

One of the recent publications by Wolfgang Hillen is titled "Totally endoscopic aortic valve replacement after open surgical and subsequent transcatheter aortic valve replacement", published in 2025 in the Multimedia Manual of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. This publication represents their contribution to the surgical and interventional techniques related to aortic valve disease.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Hillen include:

  • Silke Van Genechten
  • Jade Claessens
  • Loren Packlé
  • Hanne Oosterbos
  • Samuel Heuts

Wolfgang Hillen's scholarly output has appeared predominantly in the Multimedia Manual of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, reflecting a consistent engagement with specialized surgical topics in cardiovascular medicine.

Best Publications

  • Transcriptional activation by tetracyclines in mammalian cells

    Manfred Gossen;Sabine Freundlieb;Gabriele Bender;Gerhard Müller

  • Exploring the sequence space for tetracycline-dependent transcriptional activators: Novel mutations yield expanded range and sensitivity

    Stefanie Urlinger;Udo Baron;Marion Thellmann;Mazahir T. Hasan

  • MECHANISMS UNDERLYING EXPRESSION OF TN10 ENCODED TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE

    Wolfgang Hillen;Christian Berens

  • Structural basis of gene regulation by the tetracycline inducible Tet repressor-operator system.

    Peter Orth;Dirk Schnappinger;Wolfgang Hillen;Wolfram Saenger

  • Tetracyclines: antibiotic action, uptake, and resistance mechanisms.

    Dirk Schnappinger;W. Hillen

  • Carbon catabolite repression in bacteria.

    Jörg Stülke;Wolfgang Hillen

  • Structure of the Tet repressor-tetracycline complex and regulation of antibiotic resistance

    Winfried Hinrichs;Caroline Kisker;Martina Düvel;Alexander Müller

  • Protein kinase-dependent HPr/CcpA interaction links glycolytic activity to carbon catabolite repression in Gram-positive bacteria

    Josef Deutscher;Elke Küster;Uta Bergstedt;Véronique Charrier

  • Regulation of carbon catabolism in Bacillus species.

    J Stülke;W Hillen

  • Catabolite repression in Bacillus subtilis: a global regulatory mechanism for the gram-positive bacteria?

    Christoph J. Hueck;Wolfgang Hillen

  • Gene regulation by tetracyclines. Constraints of resistance regulation in bacteria shape TetR for application in eukaryotes.

    Christian Berens;Wolfgang Hillen

  • Global control of sugar metabolism: a gram-positive solution.

    Fritz Titgemeyer;Wolfgang Hillen

  • Temperature-gradient gel electrophoresis of nucleic acids: analysis of conformational transitions, sequence variations, and protein-nucleic acid interactions.

    Detlev Riesner;Gerhard Steger;Rolf Zimmat;Robert A. Owens

  • A chimeric transactivator allows tetracycline-responsive gene expression in whole plants

    Pamela Weinmann;Manfred Gossen;Wolfgang Hillen;Hermann Bujard

  • Analysis and nucleotide sequence of an origin of DNA replication in Acinetobacter calcoaceticus and its use for Escherichia coli shuttle plasmids.

    Michael Hunger;Robert Schmucker;Veerabrahma Kishan;Wolfgang Hillen

  • Nomenclature for New Tetracycline Resistance Determinants

    Stuart B. Levy;Laura M. McMurry;Teresa M. Barbosa;Vickers Burdett

  • In vivo gene silencing identifies the Mycobacterium tuberculosis proteasome as essential for the bacteria to persist in mice

    Sheetal Gandotra;Dirk Schnappinger;Mercedes Monteleone;Wolfgang Hillen

  • A theophylline responsive riboswitch based on helix slipping controls gene expression in vivo

    Beatrix Suess;Barbara Fink;Christian Berens;Régis Stentz

  • Quantitative analysis of gene expression with an improved green fluorescent protein

    Oliver Scholz;Anja Thiel;Wolfgang Hillen;Michael Niederweis

  • Conditional gene expression by controlling translation with tetracycline-binding aptamers.

    Beatrix Suess;Shane Hanson;Christian Berens;Barbara Fink

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

    Jonathan Reizer;Christian Hoischen;Friedrich Titgemeyer;Carlo Rivolta

Frequent Co-Authors

Dirk Schnappinger
Dirk Schnappinger Cornell University
Wolfram Saenger
Wolfram Saenger Freie Universität Berlin
Jörg Stülke
Jörg Stülke University of Göttingen
Hermann Bujard
Hermann Bujard Heidelberg University
Masayuki Takahashi
Masayuki Takahashi Tokyo Institute of Technology
Richard G. Brennan
Richard G. Brennan Duke University
Sabine Ehrt
Sabine Ehrt Cornell University
Michael Niederweis
Michael Niederweis University of Alabama at Birmingham
Jonathan Reizer
Jonathan Reizer University of California, San Diego
Milton H. Saier
Milton H. Saier University of California, San Diego

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