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Fong-Fu Hsu is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their research predominantly spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these broad areas, their specific subfields of study include Molecular Biology, Physiology, Epidemiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Spectroscopy.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Research on Leishmaniasis Studies
  • Trypanosoma species research and implications
  • Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
  • Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior
  • Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
  • Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors
  • Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Fong-Fu Hsu include:

  • "Lipidomics Analysis of Outer Membrane Vesicles and Elucidation of the Inositol Phosphoceramide Biosynthetic Pathway in Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron," 2022, published in Microbiology Spectrum
  • "Liver ACOX1 regulates levels of circulating lipids that promote metabolic health through adipose remodeling," 2024, published in Nature Communications
  • "Nitrous Oxide, a Rapid Antidepressant, Has Ketamine-like Effects on Excitatory Transmission in the Adult Hippocampus," 2022, published in Biological Psychiatry
  • "De Novo Synthesis of Phosphatidylcholine Is Essential for the Promastigote But Not Amastigote Stage in Leishmania major," 2021, published in Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
  • "Engineering diverse fatty acid compositions of phospholipids in Escherichia coli," 2022, published in Metabolic Engineering

Fong-Fu Hsu has collaborated frequently with several co-authors throughout their career. Notable co-authors include:

  • Clay F. Semenkovich (12 collaborations)
  • Kai Zhang (11 collaborations)
  • Cheryl Frankfater (10 collaborations)
  • Brian Kleiboeker (6 collaborations)
  • Irfan J. Lodhi (6 collaborations)

Their publications have appeared often in several key scientific venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 9 publications
  • Methods in Molecular Biology with 7 publications
  • Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry with 4 publications
  • Journal of Lipid Research with 3 publications
  • Journal of Biological Chemistry with 3 publications

Best Publications

  • Jasmonate perception by inositol-phosphate-potentiated COI1-JAZ co-receptor

    Laura B Sheard;Xu-Hui Tan;Haibin Mao;John Withers

  • A novel mouse model of lipotoxic cardiomyopathy.

    Hsiu-Chiang Chiu;Attila Kovacs;David A. Ford;Fong-Fu Hsu

  • Memory CD8+ T cells use cell intrinsic lipolysis to support the metabolic programming necessary for development

    David O’Sullivan;Gerritje J.W. van der Windt;Stanley Ching-Cheng Huang;Jonathan D. Curtis

  • Caseation of human tuberculosis granulomas correlates with elevated host lipid metabolism

    Mi-Jeong Kim;Helen C. Wainwright;Michael Locketz;Linda-Gail Bekker

  • Mass Spectrometric Quantification of Markers for Protein Oxidation by Tyrosyl Radical, Copper, and Hydroxyl Radical in Low Density Lipoprotein Isolated from Human Atherosclerotic Plaques *

    Christiaan Leeuwenburgh;Jane E. Rasmussen;Fong Fu Hsu;Dianne M. Mueller

  • Electrospray Ionization with Low-energy Collisionally Activated Dissociation Tandem Mass Spectrometry of Glycerophospholipids: Mechanisms of Fragmentation and Structural Characterization

    Fong-Fu Hsu;J. Turk

  • Matrix metalloproteinase-9 degrades amyloid-β fibrils in vitro and compact plaques in situ

    Ping Yan;Xiaoyan Hu;Haowei Song;Kejie Yin

  • Matrix Metalloproteinases Expressed by Astrocytes Mediate Extracellular Amyloid-β Peptide Catabolism

    Ke Jie Yin;John R. Cirrito;Ping Yan;Xiaoyan Hu

  • The PmrA-Regulated pmrC Gene Mediates Phosphoethanolamine Modification of Lipid A and Polymyxin Resistance in Salmonella enterica

    Hyunwoo Lee;Fong Fu Hsu;John Turk;Eduardo A. Groisman

  • Characterization of phosphatidylinositol, phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate, and phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate by electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry: a mechanistic study.

    Fong-Fu Hsu;John Turk

  • Human neutrophils employ the myeloperoxidase-hydrogen peroxide-chloride system to convert hydroxy-amino acids into glycolaldehyde, 2-hydroxypropanal, and acrolein. A mechanism for the generation of highly reactive alpha-hydroxy and alpha,beta-unsaturated aldehydes by phagocytes at sites of inflammat

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  • Invariant natural killer T cells recognize lipid self antigen induced by microbial danger signals

    Patrick J. Brennan;Raju V.V. Tatituri;Manfred Brigl;Edy Y. Kim

  • Structural characterization of triacylglycerols as lithiated adducts by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry using low-energy collisionally activated dissociation on a triple stage quadrupole instrument

    Fong-Fu Hsu;John Turk

  • Electrospray ionization/tandem quadrupole mass spectrometric studies on phosphatidylcholines : the fragmentation processes

    Fong-F.u Hsu;John Turk

  • Innate and cytokine-driven signals, rather than microbial antigens, dominate in natural killer T cell activation during microbial infection

    Manfred Brigl;Raju V.V. Tatituri;Gerald F.M. Watts;Veemal Bhowruth

  • Human neutrophils employ chlorine gas as an oxidant during phagocytosis.

    Stanley L. Hazen;Fong Fu Hsu;Dianne M. Mueller;Jan R. Crowley

  • Molecular Chlorine Generated by the Myeloperoxidase-Hydrogen Peroxide-Chloride System of Phagocytes Converts Low Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol into a Family of Chlorinated Sterols

    Stanley L. Hazen;Fong Fu Hsu;Kevin Duffin;Jay W. Heinecke

  • Charge-remote and charge-driven fragmentation processes in diacyl glycerophosphoethanolamine upon low-energy collisional activation: a mechanistic proposal

    Fong-Fu Hsu;J. Turk

  • aprABC: a Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex‐specific locus that modulates pH‐driven adaptation to the macrophage phagosome

    Robert B. Abramovitch;Kyle H. Rohde;Fong Fu Hsu;David G. Russell

  • Identification of α-Chloro Fatty Aldehydes and Unsaturated Lysophosphatidylcholine Molecular Species in Human Atherosclerotic Lesions

    Arun K. Thukkani;Jane McHowat;Fong Fu Hsu;Marie Luise Brennan

  • Formation of lithiated adducts of glycerophosphocholine lipids facilitates their identification by electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry

    Fong-Fu Hsu;Alan Bohrer;John Turk

Frequent Co-Authors

John Turk
John Turk Washington University in St. Louis
Sasanka Ramanadham
Sasanka Ramanadham University of Alabama at Birmingham
Clay F. Semenkovich
Clay F. Semenkovich Washington University in St. Louis
Stephen M. Beverley
Stephen M. Beverley Washington University in St. Louis
Michael B. Brenner
Michael B. Brenner Harvard Medical School
Stanley L. Hazen
Stanley L. Hazen Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
David G. Russell
David G. Russell Cornell University
Gurdyal S. Besra
Gurdyal S. Besra University of Birmingham
Eduardo A. Groisman
Eduardo A. Groisman Yale University
Elizabeth Rhoades
Elizabeth Rhoades University of Pennsylvania

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