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Overview

Christian Frezza is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily lies within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Within these broader areas, Frezza has contributed extensively to subfields such as Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Immunology, Oncology, and Physiology.

The scientist's work addresses various topics, including:

  • Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
  • Immune cells in cancer
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
  • Adipose Tissue and Metabolism

Frezza has been published in several notable scientific journals and venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Metabolism
  • The EMBO Journal

The following are some of the recent papers featuring work associated with Christian Frezza, highlighting paper titles, publication years, and venues:

  • Crosstalk between mechanotransduction and metabolism, 2020, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
  • Targeting Metabolic Plasticity and Flexibility Dynamics for Cancer Therapy, 2020, Cancer Discovery
  • Fumarate induces vesicular release of mtDNA to drive innate immunity, 2023, Nature
  • Neural stem cells traffic functional mitochondria via extracellular vesicles, 2021, PLoS Biology
  • Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells Support Acute Myeloid Leukemia Bioenergetics and Enhance Antioxidant Defense and Escape from Chemotherapy, 2020, Cell Metabolism

Christian Frezza has collaborated frequently with several co-authors who have contributed to their research output. Notable frequent co-authors include:

  • Ming Yang
  • Ana S.H. Costa
  • Christina Schmidt
  • Efterpi Nikitopoulou
  • Michael P. Murphy

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Succinate is an inflammatory signal that induces IL-1β through HIF-1α

    G. M. Tannahill;A. M. Curtis;J. Adamik;E. M. Palsson-McDermott

  • Ischaemic accumulation of succinate controls reperfusion injury through mitochondrial ROS.

    Edward T. Chouchani;Edward T. Chouchani;Victoria R. Pell;Edoardo Gaude;Dunja Aksentijević

  • Succinate Dehydrogenase Supports Metabolic Repurposing of Mitochondria to Drive Inflammatory Macrophages

    Evanna L. Mills;Beth Kelly;Angela Logan;Ana S.H. Costa

  • OPA1 Controls Apoptotic Cristae Remodeling Independently from Mitochondrial Fusion

    Christian Frezza;Sara Cipolat;Olga Martins de Brito;Massimo Micaroni

  • Itaconate is an anti-inflammatory metabolite that activates Nrf2 via alkylation of KEAP1.

    Evanna L Mills;Dylan G Ryan;Hiran A Prag;Dina Dikovskaya

  • Organelle isolation: functional mitochondria from mouse liver, muscle and cultured fibroblasts.

    Christian Frezza;Sara Cipolat;Luca Scorrano

  • Mitochondrial Cristae Shape Determines Respiratory Chain Supercomplexes Assembly and Respiratory Efficiency

    Sara Cogliati;Christian Frezza;Maria Eugenia Soriano;Tatiana Varanita

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Mitochondrial Rhomboid PARL Regulates Cytochrome c Release during Apoptosis via OPA1-Dependent Cristae Remodeling

    Sara Cipolat;Tomasz Rudka;Dieter Hartmann;Veronica Costa

  • A roadmap for interpreting 13 C metabolite labeling patterns from cells

    Joerg M. Buescher;Maciek R. Antoniewicz;Laszlo G. Boros;Shawn C Burgess

  • Serine Is an Essential Metabolite for Effector T Cell Expansion

    Eric H. Ma;Glenn Bantug;Takla Griss;Stephanie Condotta

  • Serine is a natural ligand and allosteric activator of pyruvate kinase M2

    Barbara Chaneton;Petra Hillmann;Liang Zheng;Agnès C. L. Martin

  • A Unifying Mechanism for Mitochondrial Superoxide Production during Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury.

    Edward T. Chouchani;Victoria R. Pell;Andrew M. James;Lorraine M. Work

  • Fumarate is an epigenetic modifier that elicits epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition

    Marco Sciacovelli;Emanuel Gonçalves;Timothy Isaac Johnson;Vincent Roberto Zecchini

  • Predicting selective drug targets in cancer through metabolic networks

    Ori Folger;Livnat Jerby;Christian Frezza;Eyal Gottlieb

  • Haem oxygenase is synthetically lethal with the tumour suppressor fumarate hydratase

    Christian Frezza;Liang Zheng;Ori Folger;Kartik N. Rajagopalan

  • Parkinson's disease mutations in PINK1 result in decreased Complex I activity and deficient synaptic function

    Vanessa Morais;Patrik Verstreken;Anne Roethig;Joel Smet

  • Mitochondria in cancer: not just innocent bystanders.

    Christian Frezza;Eyal Gottlieb

  • Fumarate is an epigenetic modifier that elicits epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (vol 537, pg 544, 2016)

    M Sciacovelli;E Goncalves;TI Johnson;VR Zecchini

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael P. Murphy
Michael P. Murphy University of Cambridge
Eyal Gottlieb
Eyal Gottlieb Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Julio Saez-Rodriguez
Julio Saez-Rodriguez Heidelberg University
Thomas Krieg
Thomas Krieg University of Cambridge
Luca Scorrano
Luca Scorrano University of Padua
Eytan Ruppin
Eytan Ruppin National Institutes of Health
Stefano Pluchino
Stefano Pluchino University of Cambridge
Gyorgy Szabadkai
Gyorgy Szabadkai University College London
adrian l harris
adrian l harris University of Oxford
Paul J. Lehner
Paul J. Lehner University of Cambridge

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