Bernd Schäfer

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
64 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Bernd Schäfer is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry and Pharmacology. According to data from OpenAlex, Bernd Schäfer has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Molecular Biology, 13 papers in Organic Chemistry and 10 papers in Pharmacology. Recurrent topics in Bernd Schäfer's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (10 papers), Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis (8 papers) and Botanical Research and Chemistry (7 papers). Bernd Schäfer is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (10 papers), Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis (8 papers) and Botanical Research and Chemistry (7 papers). Bernd Schäfer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Sweden. Bernd Schäfer's co-authors include Alfonso Lampen, Karen Ildico Hirsch‐Ernst, Rainer Ziegenhagen, Susanne Andres, Sophie Pevny, Nadiya Bakhiya, Ryouichi Tanaka, Stephen T. Mosley, Stephen Kalinowski and Andreas Eisenreich and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Bernd Schäfer

63 papers receiving 1.8k citations

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Safety Aspects of the Use of Quercetin as a Dietary Supplement

2017 441 citations Bernd Schäfer, Alfonso Lampen et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Genotoxic carcinogenicity of pyrrolizidine alkaloids: relevance of potency factors for the risk assessment 2025 ·Archives of Toxicology ·Benjamin Sachse, Stefanie Hessel‐Pras, Bernd Schäfer	0
2	Results of the BfR MEAL Study: Acrylamide in foods from the German market with highest levels in vegetable crisps 2024 ·Food Chemistry X ·(unknown), (unknown), Stefanie Hessel‐Pras, Bernd Schäfer, Martin Kaminski, Oliver Lindtner, Irmela Sarvan	5
3	Usage and health perception of cannabidiol-containing products among the population in Germany: a descriptive study conducted in 2020 and 2021 2023 ·BMC Public Health ·(unknown), (unknown), Stefanie Hessel‐Pras, (unknown), Bernd Schäfer, Benjamin Sachse	10
4	Genotoxicity assessment: opportunities, challenges and perspectives for quantitative evaluations of dose–response data 2023 ·Archives of Toxicology ·Jakob Menz, Mario E. Götz, Ulrike Gündel, Rainer Gürtler, (unknown), Stefanie Hessel‐Pras, Carsten Kneuer, (unknown), (unknown), Ulrike Pabel, Benjamin Sachse, Sebastian Schmeisser, David M. Schumacher, Tanja Schwerdtle, Tewes Tralau, Sebastian Zellmer, Bernd Schäfer	40
5	Occurrence of Alkenylbenzenes in Plants: Flavours and Possibly Toxic Plant Metabolites 2023 ·Plants ·Mario E. Götz, Andreas Eisenreich, (unknown), Benjamin Sachse, Bernd Schäfer	6
6	Matrine and Oxymatrine: evaluating the gene mutation potential using in silico tools and the bacterial reverse mutation assay (Ames test) 2023 ·Mutagenesis ·(unknown), (unknown), Jeannette König, Benjamin Sachse, Stefanie Hessel‐Pras, Bernd Schäfer, Carsten Kneuer, (unknown)	6
7	Investigations on the Transfer of Quinolizidine Alkaloids from Lupinus angustifolius into the Milk of Dairy Cows 2022 ·Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry ·(unknown), Fenja Klevenhusen, (unknown), Jorge Numata, Carola Fischer‐Tenhagen, Benjamin Sachse, Bernd Schäfer, Hildburg Fry, Oliver Kappenstein, Robert Pieper	14
8	Risk assessment of pyrrolizidine alkaloids in food of plant and animal origin 2018 ·Food and Chemical Toxicology ·Birgit Dusemund, (unknown), Christine Sommerfeld, Oliver Lindtner, Bernd Schäfer, Alfonso Lampen	88
9	State of the art in human risk assessment of silver compounds in consumer products: a conference report on silver and nanosilver held at the BfR in 2012 2013 ·Archives of Toxicology ·Bernd Schäfer, Jochen vom Brocke, (unknown), Mario E. Götz, Frank Herzberg, Carsten Kneuer, (unknown), Jutta Tentschert, Matthias Noll, Isabel Günther, U. Banasiak, Gaby‐Fleur Böl, Alfonso Lampen, Andreas Luch, Andreas Hensel	38
10	C‐ and N‐catabolic utilization of tricarboxylic acid cycle‐related amino acids by Scheffersomyces stipitis and other yeasts 2011 ·Yeast ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Bernd Schäfer, Volkmar Passoth, Ulrich Klinner	25
11	The 3′ Ends of Mature Transcripts Are Generated by a Processosome Complex in Fission Yeast Mitochondria 2008 ·Journal of Molecular Biology ·Bastian Hoffmann, Jens Nickel, (unknown), Bernd Schäfer	24
12	RNA Degradation in Fission Yeast Mitochondria Is Stimulated by a Member of a New Family of Proteins that Are Conserved in Lower Eukaryotes 2007 ·Journal of Molecular Biology ·Gerlinde Wiesenberger, (unknown), (unknown), Nathalie Bonnefoy, Alexander Schleiffer, Bernd Schäfer	8
13	Transcription and RNA-processing in fission yeast mitochondria 2005 ·RNA ·Bernd Schäfer, Monika Hansen, B. Franz Lang	38
14	RNA maturation in mitochondria of S. cerevisiae and S. pombe 2005 ·Gene ·Bernd Schäfer	48
15	Reverse Transcriptase and Reverse Splicing Activities Encoded by the Mobile Group II Intron COBI1 of Fission Yeast Mitochondrial DNA 2003 ·Journal of Molecular Biology ·Bernd Schäfer, Lin Gan, Philip S. Perlman	14
16	Characterization of the I-Spom I Endonuclease from Fission Yeast: Insights into the Evolution of a Group I Intron-Encoded Homing Endonuclease 2002 ·Journal of Molecular Evolution ·Stefan Pellenz, (unknown), Bernard Dujon, Klaus Wolf, Bernd Schäfer	28
17	Analysis of the hypoxia‐induced ADH2 promoter of the respiratory yeast Pichia stipitis reveals a new mechanism for sensing of oxygen limitation in yeast 2002 ·Yeast ·Volkmar Passoth, Marita Cohn, Bernd Schäfer, Bärbel Hahn‐Hägerdal, Ulrich Klinner	38
18	Molecular cloning of alcohol dehydrogenase genes of the yeastPichia stipitis and identification of the fermentative ADH 1998 ·Yeast ·Volkmar Passoth, Bernd Schäfer, (unknown), (unknown), Ulrich Klinner	42
19	Complete absence of mitochondrial DNA in the petite-negative yeastSchizosaccharomyces pombe leads to resistance towards the alkaloid lycorine 1994 ·Current Genetics ·Domenica Rita Massardo, (unknown), Bernd Schäfer, Klaus Wolf, Luigi Del Giudice	19
20	The mitochondrial genome of fission yeast: inability of all introns to splice autocatalytically, and construction and characterization of an intronless genome 1991 ·Molecular and General Genetics MGG ·Bernd Schäfer, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Klaus Wolf	33

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