Cluster for Metabolism and Inflammation

2022

• Ameen, AO, Freude, K, & Aldana, BI (2022). Fats, friends or foes: Investigating the role of short- and medium-chain fatty acids in Alzheimer’s disease. Biomedicines, 10(11) DOI: 3390/biomedicines10112778
• Andersen JV, Winther Westi E, Jakobsen E,  Urruticoechea N, Borges K, Aldana BI. (2021). Astrocyte metabolism of the medium-chain fatty acids octanoic acid and decanoic acid promotes GABA synthesis in neurons via elevated glutamine supply. Molecular Brain. 3;14:132. DOI: 1186/s13041-021-00842-2
• Petersen, M.J.; Liang, C.; Kjaerulff, L.; Ndi, C.; Semple, S.; Buirchell, B.; Coriani, S.; Møller, B.L.; Staerk, D. Serrulatane diterpenoids from the leaves of Eremophila glabra and their potential as antihyperglycaemic drug leads. Phytochemistry 2022, 196, 113072. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phytochem.2021.113072

• Viklund, M.; Fredriksson, J.; Holdfeldt, A.; Lind, S.; Franzyk,H.; Sundqvist, M.; Dahlgren, C.;  Forsman, H. Structural determinants in the Staphylococcus aureus derived phenol-soluble modulin α2 peptide required for neutrophil formyl peptide receptor activation. J. Immunol. 2022, 208, 1632-1641. https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.2101039

2021

• Liang, C.; Kjaerulff, L.; Hansen, P.R.; Kongstad, K.T.; Staerk, D. Dual high-resolution α-glucosidase and PTP1B profiling combined with HPLC-PDA-HRMS-SPE-NMR analysis for the identification of potentially antidiabetic chromene meroterpenoids in Rhododendron capitatum. Nat. Prod. 2021, 84, 2454-2467. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jnatprod.1c00454

2020

• Beidokhti, M.N.; Eid, H.M.; Villavicencio, M.L.S.; Jäger, A.K.; Lobbens, E.S.; Rasoavaivo, P.; McNair, L.M.; Haddad, P.S.; Staerk, D. Assessment of antidiabetic potential of Psidium guajava using assays for a-glucosidase, a-amylase, muscle glucose uptake, liver glucose production, and triglyceride accumulation if adipocytes. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 2020,257, 112877. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jep.2020.112877

• Bing, C.;  Wu, B. C.; Skovbakke, S. L.; Hancock, R. E. W.; Franzyk, H. In vivo anti-inflammatory activity of lipidated peptidomimetics Pam-(Lys-βNspe)₆-NH₂ and Lau-(Lys-βNspe)₆-NH₂ against PMA-induced acute inflammation. Front. Immunol. 2020, 11, 2102. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2020.02102

• Pedersen, H.A.; Semple, S.J.; Buirchell, B.; Møller, B.L.; Staerk, D. PTP1B-inhibiting branched-chain fatty acid dimers from Eremophila oppositifolia angustifolia identified by high-resolution PTP1B inhibition profiling and HPLC-PDA-HRMS-SPE-NMR analysis. Journal of Natural Products 2020, 83, 1598-1610. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jnatprod.0c00070

• Sundqvist, M.; Holdfeldt, A.; Wright, S. C.; Moller, T.; Siaw, E.; Jennbacken, K.; Franzyk, H.; Bouvier, M.; Dahlgren, C.; Forsman, H. Barbadin selectively modulates FPR2-mediated neutrophil functions independent of receptor endocytosis. BBA – Mol. Cell. Res. 2020, 1867, 118849 (13 pages). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbamcr.2020.118849

• Zhu, J.; Pedersen, M.D.; Ahmed, L.S.; Abdolalizadeh, B.; Grell, A.S.; Berg, J.O.; Thulstrup, P.W., Franzyk, H.; Edvinsson, L.; Sams, A.; Sheykhzade, M.; Hansen, P.R. Fluorescent analogues of human α-calcitonin gene-related peptide with potent vasodilator activity. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2020, 21,1343. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms21041343 
• Aldana, B.I.; Zhang, Y.; Jensen, P.; Chandrasekaran, A.; Christensen, S.K.; Nielsen, T.T.; Nielsen, J.E.; Hyttel, P.; Larsen, M.R.; Waagepetersen, H.S.; Freude, K,K. Glutamate-glutamine homeostasis is perturbed in neurons and astrocytes derived from patient iPSC models of frontotemporal dementia. Molecular Brain 2020, 13, 125. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13041-020-00658-6
• Ulven, E.R.; Quon, T.; Sergeev, E,; Barki, N.; Brvar, M.; Hudson, B.D., Dutta, P.; Hansen, A.H., Bielefeldt, L.Ø.; Tobin, A.B,; McKenzie, C.J,; Milligan, G.; Ulven, T. Structure-activity relationship studies of tetrahydroquinolone free fatty acid receptor 3 modulators. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 2020, 63, 3577-3595. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jmedchem.9b02036 

2019

• Arildsen L, Andersen JV, Waagepetersen HS, Nissen JBD, Sheykhzade M. Hypermetabolism and impaired endothelium-dependent vasodilation in mesenteric arteries of type 2 diabetes mellitus db/db mice. Diab Vasc Dis Res. 2019 Nov;16(6):539-548. doi: 10.1177/1479164119865885. Epub 2019 Jul 31. PMID: 31364402.

• Holdfeldt, A.; Skovbakke, S.; Gabl, M.; Nielsen, C.; Dahlgren, C.; Franzyk, H.; Forsman, H. Structure-function study of a biased lipidated peptidomimetic FPR2 agonist: influence of peptoid stereochemistry and residues in vicinity of the headgroup. ACS Omega 2019, 4, 5968-5982. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.9b00098