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Biology and Biochemistry
Belgium
2023

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
81
Citations
19874
World Ranking
3950
National Ranking
65

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Belgium Leader Award

Overview

Emile Van Schaftingen is affiliated with the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium and has a research focus in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with additional work in Medicine.

Their main subfields of study include Molecular Biology, Genetics, Clinical Biochemistry, Rheumatology, and Biochemistry.

The topics covered in their publications show concentration around Metabolism and Genetic Disorders, Glycogen Storage Diseases and Myoclonus, Mitochondrial Function and Pathology, Blood disorders and treatments, Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research, Amino Acid Enzymes and Metabolism, and Biochemical and Molecular Research.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Emile Van Schaftingen include Maria Veiga-da-Cunha, Guido T. Bommer, Takfarinas Kentache, Joseph P. Dewulf, and Francesco Caligiore.

Publication venues in which they have appeared multiple times are the Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease, Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Blood, and Cell.

Notable papers by Emile Van Schaftingen and collaborators include:

  • Treating neutropenia and neutrophil dysfunction in glycogen storage disease type Ib with an SGLT2 inhibitor, 2020, Blood
  • Molecular damage in aging, 2021, Nature Aging
  • Two Novel Homozygous Mutations in Phosphoglucomutase 3 Leading to Severe Combined Immunodeficiency, Skeletal Dysplasia, and Malformations, 2021, Journal of Clinical Immunology
  • Successful use of empagliflozin to treat neutropenia in two G6PC3-deficient children: Impact of a mutation in SGLT5, 2022, Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease
  • Treatment of the Neutropenia Associated with GSD1b and G6PC3 Deficiency with SGLT2 Inhibitors, 2023, Diagnostics

Best Publications

  • Vitamin C. Biosynthesis, recycling and degradation in mammals.

    Carole L Linster;Emile Van Schaftingen

  • A kinetic study of pyrophosphate: fructose-6-phosphate phosphotransferase from potato tubers. Application to a microassay of fructose 2,6-bisphosphate.

    Emile Van Schaftingen;Béatrice Lederer;Ramon Bartrons;Henri‐Géry Hers

  • The glucose-6-phosphatase system.

    Emile Van Schaftingen;Isabelle Gerin

  • Fructose 2,6-bisphosphate.

    Emile Van Schaftingen

  • Phosphomannomutase deficiency is a cause of carbohydrate-deficient glycoprotein syndrome type I.

    Emile Van Schaftingen;Jaak Jaeken

  • Inhibition of fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase by fructose 2,6-biphosphate

    E Van Schaftingen;H G Hers

  • A new class of phosphotransferases phosphorylated on an aspartate residue in an amino-terminal DXDX(T/V) motif.

    Jean-François Collet;Vincent Stroobant;Michel Pirard;Ghislain Delpierre

  • Metabolite damage and its repair or pre-emption

    Carole L Linster;Emile Van Schaftingen;Andrew D Hanson

  • Multiple Phenotypes in Phosphoglucomutase 1 Deficiency

    Laura C. Tegtmeyer;Stephan Rust;Monique van Scherpenzeel;Bobby G. Ng

  • Control of the fructose-6-phosphate/fructose 1,6-bisphosphate cycle in isolated hepatocytes by glucose and glucagon. Role of a low-molecular-weight stimulator of phosphofructokinase.

    Emile Van Schaftingen;Louis Hue;Henri-Géry Hers

  • Sequence of a putative glucose 6‐phosphate translocase, mutated in glycogen storage disease type Ib

    Isabelle Gerin;Maria Veiga-Da-Cunha;Younes Achouri;Jean François Collet

  • Congenital disorders of glycosylation (CDG): Quo vadis?

    Romain Péanne;Pascale de Lonlay;François Foulquier;Uwe Kornak

  • IDH2 Mutations in Patients with d-2-Hydroxyglutaric Aciduria

    Martijn Kranendijk;Eduard A. Struys;Emile van Schaftingen;K. Michael Gibson

  • A protein from rat liver confers to glucokinase the property of being antagonistically regulated by fructose 6-phosphate and fructose 1-phosphate

    Emile Van Schaftingen

  • Molecular Identification of Carnosine Synthase as ATP-grasp Domain-containing Protein 1 (ATPGD1)

    Jakub Drozak;Maria Veiga-da-Cunha;Didier Vertommen;Vincent Stroobant

  • A gene encoding a putative FAD-dependent l-2-hydroxyglutarate dehydrogenase is mutated in l-2-hydroxyglutaric aciduria

    Rim Rzem;Maria Veiga-da-Cunha;Gaëtane Noël;Sophie Goffette

  • The Mechanism By Which Glucose Increases Fructose 2,6-bisphosphate Concentration in Saccharomyces-cerevisiae - a Cyclic-amp-dependent Activation of Phosphofructokinase-2

    Jean François;Emile Van Schaftingen;Henri-Géry Hers

  • Lack of homozygotes for the most frequent disease allele in carbohydrate-deficient glycoprotein syndrome type 1A.

    Gert Matthijs;Els Schollen;Emile Van Schaftingen;Jean-Jacques Cassiman

  • TMEM165 Deficiency Causes a Congenital Disorder of Glycosylation

    François Foulquier;Mustapha Amyere;Jaak Jaeken;Renate Zeevaert

  • Mutations in the d-2-Hydroxyglutarate Dehydrogenase Gene Cause d-2-Hydroxyglutaric Aciduria

    Eduard A. Struys;Gajja S. Salomons;Younes Achouri;Emile Van Schaftingen

Frequent Co-Authors

Henri-Géry Hers
Henri-Géry Hers Université Catholique de Louvain
Didier Vertommen
Didier Vertommen Université Catholique de Louvain
Vincent Stroobant
Vincent Stroobant Ludwig Cancer Research
Gert Matthijs
Gert Matthijs KU Leuven
Jean-François Collet
Jean-François Collet Université Catholique de Louvain
Jaak Jaeken
Jaak Jaeken KU Leuven
Mark H. Rider
Mark H. Rider Université Catholique de Louvain
Willy Malaisse
Willy Malaisse Université Libre de Bruxelles
Fred R. Opperdoes
Fred R. Opperdoes Université Catholique de Louvain
Jean Marie François
Jean Marie François Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées

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