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Ernst R. Werner is affiliated with Innsbruck Medical University in Austria. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a total of 39 publications in these fields. Additionally, Werner has contributed to medicine through 12 publications.

Their subfields of study include molecular biology, biochemistry, physiology, building and construction, and immunology. The main topics covered in their work feature lipid metabolism and biosynthesis, metabolomics and mass spectrometry studies, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors, adipose tissue and metabolism, eicosanoids and hypertension pharmacology, fungal and yeast genetics research, and glycosylation and glycoproteins research.

Ernst R. Werner has frequently published in notable scientific venues, including:

  • Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • Cell & Bioscience
  • Journal of Lipid Research
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Cell Reports

Recent significant papers authored or co-authored by Werner include:

  • The TMEM189 gene encodes plasmanylethanolamine desaturase which introduces the characteristic vinyl ether double bond into plasmalogens, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Phospholipid Acyl Chain Diversity Controls the Tissue-Specific Assembly of Mitochondrial Cardiolipins, 2020, Cell Reports
  • Unequivocal Mapping of Molecular Ether Lipid Species by LC-MS/MS in Plasmalogen-Deficient Mice, 2020, Analytical Chemistry
  • Regulation of plasmalogen metabolism and traffic in mammals: The fog begins to lift, 2022, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • The Emerging Physiological Role of AGMO 10 Years after Its Gene Identification, 2021, Life

Throughout their career, Werner has frequently collaborated with several researchers, including:

  • Katrin Watschinger
  • Markus A. Keller
  • Katharina Lackner
  • S. Sailer
  • Jakob Koch

Best Publications

  • Neopterin as a marker for activated cell-mediated immunity: Application in HIV infection

    Dietmar Fuchs;Arno Hausen;Gilbert Reibnegger;Ernst R. Werner

  • Prognostic value of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase expression in colorectal cancer: effect on tumor-infiltrating T cells.

    Gerald Brandacher;Alexander Perathoner;Ruth Ladurner;Ruth Ladurner;Stefan Schneeberger

  • Brain nitric oxide synthase is a biopterin- and flavin-containing multi-functional oxido-reductase

    Bernd Mayer;Mathias John;Burghard Heinzel;Ernst R. Werner

  • Simultaneous measurement of serum tryptophan and kynurenine by HPLC.

    Bernhard Widner;Ernst R. Werner;Harald Schennach;Helmut Wachter

  • Iron regulates nitric oxide synthase activity by controlling nuclear transcription.

    Gtinter Weiss;Gabriele Werner-Felmayer;Ernst R. Werner;Kurt Grünewald

  • Neopterin as marker for activation of cellular immunity: immunologic basis and clinical application.

    Helmut Wachter;Dietmar Fuchs;Arno Hausen;Gilbert Reibnegger

  • Tetrahydrobiopterin: biochemistry and pathophysiology.

    Ernst R. Werner;Nenad Blau;Beat Thöny

  • L-ascorbic acid potentiates endothelial nitric oxide synthesis via a chemical stabilization of tetrahydrobiopterin.

    Regine Heller;Anett Unbehaun;Berit Schellenberg;Bernd Mayer

  • Metabolic Fate of Peroxynitrite in Aqueous Solution REACTION WITH NITRIC OXIDE AND pH-DEPENDENT DECOMPOSITION TO NITRITE AND OXYGEN IN A 2:1 STOICHIOMETRY

    Silvia Pfeiffer;Antonius C.F. Gorren;Kurt Schmidt;Ernst R. Werner

  • Tetrahydrobiopterin alters superoxide and nitric oxide release in prehypertensive rats.

    F Cosentino;S Patton;L V d'Uscio;E R Werner

  • Unipolar membrane association of Dishevelled mediates Frizzled planar cell polarity signaling

    Jeffrey D. Axelrod

  • Tetrahydrobiopterin-dependent formation of nitrite and nitrate in murine fibroblasts.

    G Werner-Felmayer;E R Werner;D Fuchs;A Hausen

  • Tetrahydrobiopterin biosynthetic activities in human macrophages, fibroblasts, THP-1, and T 24 cells. GTP-cyclohydrolase I is stimulated by interferon-gamma, and 6-pyruvoyl tetrahydropterin synthase and sepiapterin reductase are constitutively present.

    E R Werner;G Werner-Felmayer;D Fuchs;A Hausen

  • Pteridine biosynthesis in human endothelial cells. Impact on nitric oxide-mediated formation of cyclic GMP

    G Werner-Felmayer;E R Werner;D Fuchs;A Hausen

  • HapX-mediated adaption to iron starvation is crucial for virulence of Aspergillus fumigatus.

    Markus Schrettl;Nicola Beckmann;John Varga;Thorsten Heinekamp

  • SreA‐mediated iron regulation in Aspergillus fumigatus

    Markus Schrettl;H. Stanley Kim;Martin Eisendle;Claudia Kragl

  • The pteridine binding site of brain nitric oxide synthase. Tetrahydrobiopterin binding kinetics, specificity, and allosteric interaction with the substrate domain.

    P Klatt;M Schmid;E Leopold;K Schmidt

  • Decreased serum tryptophan in patients with HIV-1 infection correlates with increased serum neopterin and with neurologic/psychiatric symptoms.

    D. Fuchs;A. A. Möller;G. Reibnegger;E. Stöckle

  • HUMAN MACROPHAGES DEGRADE TRYPTOPHAN UPON INDUCTION BY INTERFERON GAMMA

    Ernst R. Werner;Gabriele Bitterlich;Dietmar Fuchs;Arno Hausen

  • Characterization of Heme-deficient Neuronal Nitric-oxide Synthase Reveals a Role for Heme in Subunit Dimerization and Binding of the Amino Acid Substrate and Tetrahydrobiopterin

    Peter Klatt;Silvia Pfeiffer;Barbara M. List;Dieter Lehner

Frequent Co-Authors

Dietmar Fuchs
Dietmar Fuchs Innsbruck Medical University
Gilbert Reibnegger
Gilbert Reibnegger Medical University of Graz
Gabriele Werner-Felmayer
Gabriele Werner-Felmayer Innsbruck Medical University
Helmut Wachter
Helmut Wachter University of Innsbruck
Bernd Mayer
Bernd Mayer University of Graz
Kurt Schmidt
Kurt Schmidt University of Graz
Günter Weiss
Günter Weiss Innsbruck Medical University
Raimund Margreiter
Raimund Margreiter Innsbruck Medical University
Hubertus Haas
Hubertus Haas Innsbruck Medical University
Albin Hermetter
Albin Hermetter Graz University of Technology

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