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Wolfgang Maret is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom and conducts research primarily focused on Nursing and Medicine. Their work spans several subfields, including Nutrition and Dietetics, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Molecular Biology, Hematology, and Oncology.

The main research topics explored by Wolfgang Maret include:

  • Trace Elements in Health
  • Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
  • Iron Metabolism and Disorders
  • Drug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms
  • Aluminum toxicity and tolerance in plants and animals
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Pharmacological Effects of Medicinal Plants

Wolfgang Maret has contributed publications to several scientific journals, with frequent appearances in these venues:

  • Free Radical Biology and Medicine
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Redox Biology
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology

Their recent papers include:

  • "Total Iron Measurement in Human Serum With a Novel Smartphone-Based Assay," 2020, IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine
  • "The Bioinorganic Chemistry of Mammalian Metallothioneins," 2021, Chemical Reviews
  • "Zinc and Cadmium in the Aetiology and Pathogenesis of Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis," 2020, Nutrients
  • "The ZIP6/ZIP10 heteromer is essential for the zinc-mediated trigger of mitosis," 2020, Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
  • "Aryl hydrocarbon receptor utilises cellular zinc signals to maintain the gut epithelial barrier," 2023, Nature Communications

Wolfgang Maret collaborates frequently with a range of co-authors, including:

  • Matthew J. Smith
  • Alexander P. Morrell
  • Giovanni E. Mann
  • Christer Högstrand
  • Fan Yang

Best Publications

  • Zinc requirements and the risks and benefits of zinc supplementation

    Wolfgang Maret;Harold H. Sandstead

  • Zinc Biochemistry: From a Single Zinc Enzyme to a Key Element of Life

    Wolfgang Maret

  • The biological inorganic chemistry of zinc ions.

    Artur Krężel;Wolfgang Maret

  • Coordination dynamics of zinc in proteins.

    Wolfgang Maret;Yuan Li

  • Thiolate ligands in metallothionein confer redox activity on zinc clusters

    Wolfgang Maret;Bert L. Vallee

  • Control of zinc transfer between thionein, metallothionein, and zinc proteins

    Claus Jacob;Wolfgang Maret;Bert L. Vallee

  • The function of zinc metallothionein: a link between cellular zinc and redox state.

    Wolfgang Maret

  • Cytosolic zinc buffering and muffling: Their role in intracellular zinc homeostasis

    Robert A. Colvin;William R. Holmes;Charles P. Fontaine;Wolfgang Maret

  • Total iron measurement in human serum with a smartphone

    Michael Serhan;Mark Sprowls;David Jackemeyer;Mindy Long

  • Inhibitory sites in enzymes: Zinc removal and reactivation by thionein

    Wolfgang Maret;Claus Jacob;Bert L. Vallee;Edmond H. Fischer

  • Zinc-buffering capacity of a eukaryotic cell at physiological pZn.

    Artur Krężel;Wolfgang Maret

  • Zinc in Cellular Regulation: The Nature and Significance of "Zinc Signals"

    Wolfgang Maret

  • Oxidative metal release from metallothionein via zinc-thiol/disulfide interchange

    Wolfgang Maret

  • The glutathione redox couple modulates zinc transfer from metallothionein to zinc-depleted sorbitol dehydrogenase

    Li-Juan Jiang;Wolfgang Maret;Bert L. Vallee

  • Zinc coordination environments in proteins as redox sensors and signal transducers.

    Wolfgang Maret

  • Dual nanomolar and picomolar Zn(II) binding properties of metallothionein.

    Artur Krezel;Wolfgang Maret

  • Intracellular zinc fluctuations modulate protein tyrosine phosphatase activity in insulin/insulin-like growth factor-1 signaling.

    Hajo Haase;Wolfgang Maret

  • Zinc and sulfur: a critical biological partnership.

    Wolfgang Maret

  • Molecular aspects of human cellular zinc homeostasis: redox control of zinc potentials and zinc signals.

    Wolfgang Maret

  • Zinc metallothionein imported into liver mitochondria modulates respiration

    Bin Ye;Wolfgang Maret;Bert L. Vallee

  • Free zinc ions outside a narrow concentration range are toxic to a variety of cells in vitro

    Rebecca A Bozym;Fabrice Chimienti;Leonard J Giblin;Gunter W Gross

  • NMR of paramagnetic molecules in biological systems: Vol. 3, Physical Bioinorganic Chemistry Series. By Ivano Bertini and Claudio Luchinat, Benjamin/Cummings. Menlo Park, CA, 1986. xvi + 319 pp. $38.95

    Wolfgang Maret

Frequent Co-Authors

Bert L. Vallee
Bert L. Vallee Harvard University
Christer Hogstrand
Christer Hogstrand King's College London
Claus Jacob
Claus Jacob Saarland University
Hajo Haase
Hajo Haase Technical University of Berlin
Nongjian Tao
Nongjian Tao Arizona State University
Guy A. Rutter
Guy A. Rutter Imperial College London
Peter Kille
Peter Kille Cardiff University
Glen K. Andrews
Glen K. Andrews University of Kansas
Seymour H. Koenig
Seymour H. Koenig IBM (United States)
Jürgen Zentek
Jürgen Zentek Freie Universität Berlin

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