By Professor Nigel Turner

Journal articles

Wohlwend M; Laurila P-P; Goeminne LJE; Lima T; Daskalaki I; Li X; von Alvensleben G; Crisol B; Mangione R; Gallart-Ayala H; Burri O; Butler S; Morris J; Turner N; Ivanisevic J; Auwerx J, 2024, 'Inhibition of CERS1 in skeletal muscle exacerbates age-related muscle dysfunction', eLife, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/elife.90522.3

Wohlwend M; Laurila P-P; Goeminne LJE; Lima T; Daskalaki I; Li X; von Alvensleben G; Crisol B; Mangione R; Gallart-Ayala H; Burri O; Butler S; Morris J; Turner N; Ivanisevic J; Auwerx J, 2024, 'Inhibition of CERS1 in skeletal muscle exacerbates age-related muscle dysfunction.', Elife, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.90522

Beretta M; Dai Y; Olzomer EM; Vancuylenburg CS; Santiago-Rivera JA; Philp AM; Hargett SR; Li K; Shah DP; Chen SY; Alexopoulos SJ; Li C; Harris TE; Lee B; Wathier M; Cermak JM; Tucker SP; Turner N; Bayliss DA; Philp A; Byrne FL; Santos WL; Hoehn KL, 2024, 'Liver-Selective Imidazolopyrazine Mitochondrial Uncoupler SHD865 Reverses Adiposity and Glucose Intolerance in Mice', Diabetes, 73, pp. 374 - 384, http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/db23-0233

Chen SY; Telfser AJ; Olzomer EM; Vancuylenberg CS; Zhou M; Beretta M; Li C; Alexopoulos SJ; Turner N; Byrne FL; Santos WL; Hoehn KL, 2024, 'Beneficial effects of simultaneously targeting calorie intake and calorie efficiency in diet-induced obese mice', Clinical Science, 138, pp. 173 - 187, http://dx.doi.org/10.1042/CS20231016

Stener-Victorin E; Eriksson G; Mohan Shrestha M; Rodriguez Paris V; Lu H; Banks J; Samad M; Perian C; Jude B; Engman V; Boi R; Nilsson E; Ling C; Nyström J; Wernstedt Asterholm I; Turner N; Lanner J; Benrick A, 2024, 'Proteomic analysis shows decreased type I fibers and ectopic fat accumulation in skeletal muscle from women with PCOS', eLife, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/elife.87592.3

Chen SY; Beretta M; Olzomer EM; Alexopoulos SJ; Shah DP; Byrne FL; Salamoun JM; Garcia CJ; Smith GC; Larance M; Philp A; Turner N; Santos WL; Cantley J; Hoehn KL, 2024, 'Head-to-head comparison of BAM15, semaglutide, rosiglitazone, NEN, and calorie restriction on metabolic physiology in female db/db mice', Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Basis of Disease, 1870, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbadis.2023.166908

Clarke RA; Govindaraju H; Beretta M; Olzomer E; Lawther AJ; Walker AK; Fang Z; Eapen V; Hyams TC; Killingsworth M; Bridge W; Turner N; Siddiqui KS, 2024, 'Immp2l Enhances the Structure and Function of Mitochondrial Gpd2 Dehydrogenase', International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 25, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms25020990

Filipe EC; Velayuthar S; Philp A; Nobis M; Latham SL; Parker AL; Murphy KJ; Wyllie K; Major GS; Contreras O; Mok ETY; Enriquez RF; McGowan S; Feher K; Quek LE; Hancock SE; Yam M; Tran E; Setargew YFI; Skhinas JN; Chitty JL; Phimmachanh M; Han JZR; Cadell AL; Papanicolaou M; Mahmodi H; Kiedik B; Junankar S; Ross SE; Lam N; Coulson R; Yang J; Zaratzian A; Da Silva AM; Tayao M; Chin IL; Cazet A; Kansara M; Segara D; Parker A; Hoy AJ; Harvey RP; Bogdanovic O; Timpson P; Croucher DR; Lim E; Swarbrick A; Holst J; Turner N; Choi YS; Kabakova IV; Philp A; Cox TR, 2024, 'Tumor Biomechanics Alters Metastatic Dissemination of Triple Negative Breast Cancer via Rewiring Fatty Acid Metabolism', Advanced Science, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/advs.202307963

Diaz-Vegas A; Madsen S; Cooke KC; Carroll L; Khor JXY; Turner N; Lim XY; Astore MA; Morris JC; Don AS; Garfield A; Zarini S; Zemski Berry KA; Ryan AP; Bergman BC; Brozinick JT; James DE; Burchfield JG, 2023, 'Mitochondrial electron transport chain, ceramide, and coenzyme Q are linked in a pathway that drives insulin resistance in skeletal muscle', eLife, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/elife.87340.3

Assante G; Chandrasekaran S; Ng S; Tourna A; Chung CH; Isse KA; Banks JL; Soffientini U; Filippi C; Dhawan A; Liu M; Rozen SG; Hoare M; Campbell P; Ballard JWO; Turner N; Morris MJ; Chokshi S; Youngson NA, 2023, 'Correction: Acetyl-CoA metabolism drives epigenome change and contributes to carcinogenesis risk in fatty liver disease (Genome Medicine, (2022), 14, 1, (67), 10.1186/s13073-022-01071-5)', Genome Medicine, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13073-023-01190-7

Diaz-Vegas A; Madsen S; Cooke KC; Carroll L; Khor JXY; Turner N; Lim XY; Astore MA; Morris JC; Don AS; Garfield A; Zarini S; Berry KAZ; Ryan AP; Bergman BC; Brozinick JT; James DE; Burchfield JG, 2023, 'Mitochondrial electron transport chain, ceramide, and coenzyme Q are linked in a pathway that drives insulin resistance in skeletal muscle', eLife, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.87340

Wu LE; Fiveash CE; Bentley NL; Kang MJ; Govindaraju H; Barbour JA; Wilkins BP; Hancock SE; Madawala R; Das A; Massudi H; Li C; Kim LJ; Wong ASA; Marinova MB; Sultani G; Das A; Youngson NA; Le Couteur DG; Sinclair DA; Turner N, 2023, 'SIRT2 transgenic over-expression does not impact lifespan in mice', Aging Cell, 22, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/acel.14027

Lawther AJ; Zieba J; Fang Z; Furlong TM; Conn I; Govindaraju H; Choong LLY; Turner N; Siddiqui KS; Bridge W; Merlin S; Hyams TC; Killingsworth M; Eapen V; Clarke RA; Walker AK, 2023, 'Antioxidant Behavioural Phenotype in the Immp2l Gene Knock-Out Mouse', Genes, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genes14091717

Osborne B; Wright LE; Brandon AE; Stuart E; Small L; Hoeks J; Schrauwen P; Sinclair DA; Montgomery MK; Cooney GJ; Turner N, 2023, 'SIRT3 overexpression in rat muscle does not ameliorate peripheral insulin resistance', The Journal of endocrinology, 258, http://dx.doi.org/10.1530/JOE-22-0101

Machet J; Park M; Richardson A; Carnell M; Mouat MA; Smith NJ; Turner N; Cochran BJ; Rye KA; Di Girolamo N, 2023, 'Type 2 diabetes influences intraepithelial corneal nerve parameters and corneal stromal-epithelial nerve penetration sites', Journal of Diabetes Investigation, 14, pp. 591 - 601, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jdi.13974

Hancock SE; Ding E; Beves EJ; Mitchell T; Turner N, 2023, 'FACS-assisted single-cell lipidome analysis of phosphatidylcholines and sphingomyelins in cells of different lineages', Journal of Lipid Research, 64, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jlr.2023.100341

Stener-Victorin E; Eriksson G; Shrestha MM; Paris VR; Lu H; Banks J; Samad M; Perian C; Jude B; Engman V; Boi R; Nilsson E; Ling C; Nyström J; Asterholm IW; Turner N; Lanner J; Benrick A, 2023, 'Proteomic analysis shows decreased type I fibers and ectopic fat accumulation in skeletal muscle from women with PCOS', eLife, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.87592

Gilchrist R; Ho W-HJ; Marinova MB; Listijono DR; Bertoldo MJ; Richani D; Lynn-Jee K; Brown A; Riepsamen AH; Cabot S; Bustamante S; Zhong L; Selesniemi K; Wong D; Goss DM; Li C; Araki T; Livingston DJ; Turner N; Sinclair DA; Walters KA; Homer HA; Wu LE, 2023, '#389 : Fertility Preservation During Chemotherapy Treatment by NAD+ Repletion in Mice', Fertility & Reproduction, 05, pp. 518 - 518, http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s2661318223742790

Assante G; Chandrasekaran S; Ng S; Tourna A; Chung CH; Isse KA; Banks JL; Soffientini U; Filippi C; Dhawan A; Liu M; Rozen SG; Hoare M; Campbell P; Ballard JWO; Turner N; Morris MJ; Chokshi S; Youngson NA, 2022, 'Acetyl-CoA metabolism drives epigenome change and contributes to carcinogenesis risk in fatty liver disease', Genome Medicine, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13073-022-01071-5

Quek LE; van Geldermalsen M; Guan YF; Wahi K; Mayoh C; Balaban S; Pang A; Wang Q; Cowley MJ; Brown KK; Turner N; Hoy AJ; Holst J, 2022, 'Glutamine addiction promotes glucose oxidation in triple-negative breast cancer', Oncogene, 41, pp. 4066 - 4078, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41388-022-02408-5

Osborne B; Reznick J; Wright LE; Sinclair DA; Cooney GJ; Turner N, 2022, 'Liver-specific overexpression of SIRT3 enhances oxidative metabolism, but does not impact metabolic defects induced by high fat feeding in mice', Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 607, pp. 131 - 137, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2022.03.088

Mouat MA; Wilkins BP; Ding E; Govindaraju H; Coleman JLJ; Graham RM; Turner N; Smith NJ, 2022, 'Metabolic Profiling of Mice with Deletion of the Orphan G Protein-Coupled Receptor, GPR37L1', Cells, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cells11111814

Metcalfe LK; Shepherd PR; Smith GC; Turner N, 2022, 'Limited Metabolic Effect of the CREBRF^R457Q Obesity Variant in Mice', Cells, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cells11030497

Towarnicki SG; Youngson NA; Corley SM; St. John JC; Melvin RG; Turner N; Morris MJ; Ballard JWO, 2022, 'Ancestral dietary change alters the development of Drosophila larvae through MAPK signalling', Fly, 16, pp. 299 - 311, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19336934.2022.2088032

Brandon AE; Small L; Nguyen TV; Suryana E; Gong H; Yassmin C; Hancock SE; Pulpitel T; Stonehouse S; Prescott L; Kebede MA; Yau B; Quek LE; Kowalski GM; Bruce CR; Turner N; Cooney GJ, 2022, 'Insulin sensitivity is preserved in mice made obese by feeding a high starch diet', eLife, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.79250

Fotheringham AK; Solon-Biet SM; Bielefeldt-Ohmann H; McCarthy DA; McMahon AC; Ruohonen K; Li I; Sullivan MA; Whiddett RO; Borg DJ; Cogger VC; Ballard WO; Turner N; Melvin RG; Raubenheimer D; Le Couteur DG; Simpson SJ; Forbes JM, 2021, 'Kidney disease risk factors do not explain impacts of low dietary protein on kidney function and structure', iScience, 24, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.103308

Jayashankar V; Selwan E; Hancock SE; Verlande A; Goodson MO; Eckenstein KH; Milinkeviciute G; Hoover BM; Chen B; Fleischman AG; Cramer KS; Hanessian S; Masri S; Turner N; Edinger AL, 2021, 'Drug-like sphingolipid SH-BC-893 opposes ceramide-induced mitochondrial fission and corrects diet-induced obesity', EMBO Molecular Medicine, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.15252/emmm.202013086

Sharbeen G; McCarroll JA; Akerman A; Kopecky C; Youkhana J; Kokkinos J; Holst J; Boyer C; Erkan M; Goldstein D; Timpson P; Cox TR; Pereira BA; Chitty JL; Fey SK; Najumudeen AK; Campbell AD; Sansom OJ; Ignacio RMC; Naim S; Liu J; Russia N; Lee J; Chou A; Johns A; Gill AJ; Gonzales-Aloy E; Gebski V; Guan YF; Pajic M; Turner N; Apte MV; Davis TP; Morton JP; Haghighi KS; Kasparian J; McLean BJ; Setargew YF; Phillips PA, 2021, 'Cancer-associated fibroblasts in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma determine response to slc7a11 inhibition', Cancer Research, 81, pp. 3461 - 3479, http://dx.doi.org/10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-20-2496

Li YE; Wang Y; Du X; Zhang T; Mak H; Hancock SE; McEwen H; Pandzic E; Whan RM; Aw YC; Lukmantara IE; Yuan Y; Dong X; Don A; Turner N; Qi S; Yang H, 2021, 'TMEM41B and VMP1 are scramblases and regulate the distribution of cholesterol and phosphatidylserine', Journal of Cell Biology, 220, http://dx.doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202103105

Wang Q; Guan YF; Hancock SE; Wahi K; van Geldermalsen M; Zhang BK; Pang A; Nagarajah R; Mak B; Freidman N; Horvath LG; Turner N; Holst J, 2021, 'Inhibition of guanosine monophosphate synthetase (GMPS) blocks glutamine metabolism and prostate cancer growth', Journal of Pathology, 254, pp. 135 - 146, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/path.5665

Alexopoulos SJ; Chen SY; Brandon AE; Salamoun JM; Byrne FL; Garcia CJ; Beretta M; Olzomer EM; Shah DP; Philp AM; Hargett SR; Lawrence RT; Lee B; Sligar J; Carrive P; Tucker SP; Philp A; Lackner C; Turner N; Cooney GJ; Santos WL; Hoehn KL; Evans A, 2020, 'Mitochondrial uncoupler BAM15 reverses diet-induced obesity and insulin resistance in mice', Nature Communications, 11, pp. 2397, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16298-2

Metcalfe LK; Krishnan M; Turner N; Yaghootkar H; Merry TL; Dewes O; Hindmarsh JH; De Zoysa J; Dalbeth N; Stamp LK; Merriman TR; Smith G; Shepherd P; Murphy R, 2020, 'The Māori and Pacific specific CREBRF variant and adult height', International Journal of Obesity, 44, pp. 748 - 752, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41366-019-0437-6

Bertoldo MJ; Listijono DR; Ho WHJ; Riepsamen AH; Goss DM; Richani D; Jin XL; Mahbub S; Campbell JM; Habibalahi A; Loh WGN; Youngson NA; Maniam J; Wong ASA; Selesniemi K; Bustamante S; Li C; Zhao Y; Marinova MB; Kim LJ; Lau L; Wu RM; Mikolaizak AS; Araki T; Le Couteur DG; Turner N; Morris MJ; Walters KA; Goldys E; O'Neill C; Gilchrist RB; Sinclair DA; Homer HA; Wu LE, 2020, 'NAD⁺ Repletion Rescues Female Fertility during Reproductive Aging', Cell Reports, 30, pp. 1670 - 1681.e7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2020.01.058

Amorim NML; Kee A; Coster ACF; Lucas C; Bould S; Daniel S; Weir JM; Mellett NA; Barbour J; Meikle PJ; Cohn RJ; Turner N; Hardeman EC; Simar D, 2020, 'Irradiation impairs mitochondrial function and skeletal muscle oxidative capacity: significance for metabolic complications in cancer survivors', Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental, 103, pp. 154025, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.metabol.2019.154025

Du X; Zhou L; Aw YC; Mak HY; Xu Y; Rae J; Wang W; Zadoorian A; Hancock SE; Osborne B; Chen X; Wu JW; Turner N; Parton RG; Li P; Yang H, 2020, 'ORP5 localizes to ER-lipid droplet contacts and regulates the level of PI(4)P on lipid droplets', Journal of Cell Biology, 219, http://dx.doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201905162

Byrne FL; Olzomer EM; Marriott GR; Quek LE; Katen A; Su J; Nelson ME; Hart-Smith G; Larance M; Sebesfi VF; Cuff J; Martyn GE; Childress E; Alexopoulos SJ; Poon IK; Faux MC; Burgess AW; Reid G; McCarroll JA; Santos WL; Quinlan KG; Turner N; Fazakerley DJ; Kumar N; Hoehn KL, 2020, 'Phenotypic screen for oxygen consumption rate identifies an anti-cancer naphthoquinone that induces mitochondrial oxidative stress', Redox Biology, 28, pp. 101374, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.redox.2019.101374

Wang Q; Guan Y; Hancock S; Wahi K; van Geldermalsen M; Zhang B; Pang A; Nagarajah R; Mak B; Horvath L; Turner N; Holst J, 2020, 'Inhibition of guanosine monophosphate synthetase (GMPS) blocks glutamine metabolism and prostate cancer growth in vitro and in vivo', , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.09.07.286997

Xu Y; Du X; Turner N; Brown AJ; Yang H, 2019, 'Enhanced acyl-CoA:cholesterol acyltransferase activity increases cholesterol levels on the lipid droplet surface and impairs adipocyte function', Journal of Biological Chemistry, 294, pp. 19306 - 19321, http://dx.doi.org/10.1074/jbc.RA119.011160

Schömel N; Hancock SE; Gruber L; Olzomer EM; Byrne FL; Shah D; Hoehn KL; Turner N; Grösch S; Geisslinger G; Wegner MS, 2019, 'UGCG influences glutamine metabolism of breast cancer cells', Scientific Reports, 9, pp. 15665, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-52169-7

Montgomery MK; Osborne B; Brandon AE; O'Reilly L; Fiveash CE; Brown SHJ; Wilkins BP; Samsudeen A; Yu J; Devanapalli B; Hertzog A; Tolun AA; Kavanagh T; Cooper AA; Mitchell TW; Biden TJ; Smith NJ; Cooney GJ; Turner N, 2019, 'Regulation of mitochondrial metabolism in murine skeletal muscle by the medium-chain fatty acid receptor Gpr84', FASEB Journal, 33, pp. 12264 - 12276, http://dx.doi.org/10.1096/fj.201900234R

Small L; Brandon AE; Parker BL; Deshpande V; Samsudeen AF; Kowalski GM; Reznick J; Wilks DL; Preston E; Bruce CR; James DE; Turner N; Cooney GJ, 2019, 'Reduced insulin action in muscle of high fat diet rats over the diurnal cycle is not associated with defective insulin signaling', Molecular Metabolism, 25, pp. 107 - 118, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molmet.2019.04.006

Liu M; Hancock SE; Sultani G; Wilkins BP; Ding E; Osborne B; Quek LE; Turner N, 2019, 'Snail-overexpression induces epithelialmesenchymal transition and metabolic reprogramming in human pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma and non-tumorigenic ductal cells', Journal of Clinical Medicine, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm8060822

Somers K; Wen VW; Middlemiss SMC; Osborne B; Forgham H; Jung MS; Karsa M; Clifton M; Bongers A; Gao J; Mayoh C; Raoufi-Rad N; Kusnadi EP; Hannan KM; Scott DA; Kwek A; Liu B; Flemming C; Chudakova DA; Pandher R; Failes TW; Lim J; Angeli A; Osterman AL; Imamura T; Kees UR; Supuran CT; Pearson RB; Hannan RD; Davis TP; McCarroll J; Kavallaris M; Turner N; Gudkov AV; Haber M; Norris MD; Henderson MJ, 2019, 'A novel small molecule that kills a subset of MLL-rearranged leukemia cells by inducing mitochondrial dysfunction', Oncogene, 38, pp. 3824 - 3842, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41388-018-0666-5

Metcalfe LK; Smith GC; Turner N, 2019, 'Defining lipid mediators of insulin resistance: controversies and challenges', JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY, 62, pp. R65 - R82, http://dx.doi.org/10.1530/JME-18-0023

Metcalfe LK; Shepherd PR; Smith GC; Turner N, 2019, 'Metabolic characterisation of knock-in mice harbouring the ‘obesity variant’ of CREBRF', Obesity Research & Clinical Practice, 13, pp. 288 - 288, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orcp.2018.11.154

Turner N; Lim XY; Toop HD; Osborne B; Brandon AE; Taylor EN; Fiveash CE; Govindaraju H; Teo JD; McEwen HP; Couttas TA; Butler SM; Das A; Kowalski GM; Bruce CR; Hoehn KL; Fath T; Schmitz-Peiffer C; Cooney GJ; Montgomery MK; Morris JC; Don AS; Brandon A, 2018, 'A selective inhibitor of ceramide synthase 1 reveals a novel role in fat metabolism', Nature Communications, 9, pp. 3165, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05613-7

Bakshi I; Brown SHJ; Brandon AE; Suryana E; Mitchell TW; Turner N; Cooney GJ, 2018, 'Increasing Acyl CoA thioesterase activity alters phospholipid profile without effect on insulin action in skeletal muscle of rats', Scientific Reports, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-32354-w

Bentley NL; Fiveash CE; Osborne B; Quek LE; Ogura M; Inagaki N; Cooney GJ; Polly P; Montgomery MK; Turner N, 2018, 'Protein hypoacylation induced by Sirt5 overexpression has minimal metabolic effect in mice', Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 503, pp. 1349 - 1355, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2018.07.047

Du X; Turner N; Yang H, 2018, 'The role of oxysterol-binding protein and its related proteins in cancer', Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology, 81, pp. 149 - 153, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.semcdb.2017.07.017

Small L; Brandon AE; Quek LE; Krycer JR; James DE; Turner N; Cooney GJ, 2018, 'Acute activation of pyruvate dehydrogenase increases glucose oxidation in muscle without changing glucose uptake', American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism, 315, pp. E258 - E266, http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/ajpendo.00386.2017

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