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Johannes V. Swinnen

Johannes V. Swinnen

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Biology and Biochemistry

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83
Citations
24480
World Ranking
3505
National Ranking
57

Overview

Johannes V. Swinnen is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their work spans multiple subfields, including molecular biology, cancer research, immunology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and physiology.

The main research themes focus on cancer, lipids, and metabolism, with additional specialized topics such as cancer hypoxia and metabolism, metabolomics and mass spectrometry studies, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors, immune cells in cancer, prostate cancer treatment and research, and ferroptosis and cancer prognosis.

Notable recent publications include:

  • Lipid metabolism in cancer: New perspectives and emerging mechanisms, 2021, Developmental Cell
  • Lipids and cancer: Emerging roles in pathogenesis, diagnosis and therapeutic intervention, 2020, Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews
  • ATP13A2 deficiency disrupts lysosomal polyamine export, 2020, Nature
  • Human DECR1 is an androgen-repressed survival factor that regulates PUFA oxidation to protect prostate tumor cells from ferroptosis, 2020, eLife
  • Stearoyl-CoA desaturase-1 impairs the reparative properties of macrophages and microglia in the brain, 2020, The Journal of Experimental Medicine

Frequent co-authors working alongside Johannes V. Swinnen include Jonas Dehairs, Lisa M. Butler, Patrizia Agostinis, Xander Spotbeen, and Zeyad D. Nassar.

The most common venues where Swinnen's research is published include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cancer Research, Nature Communications, UNC Libraries, and Cell Reports.

Best Publications

  • EV-TRACK: transparent reporting and centralizing knowledge in extracellular vesicle research

    Jan Van Deun;Pieter Mestdagh;Patrizia Agostinis;Özden Akay

  • A Sertoli cell-selective knockout of the androgen receptor causes spermatogenic arrest in meiosis.

    Karel De Gendt;Johannes V. Swinnen;Philippa T. K. Saunders;Luc Schoonjans

  • Increased lipogenesis in cancer cells: new players, novel targets

    Johannes V Swinnen;Koen Brusselmans;Guido Verhoeven

  • De novo Lipogenesis Protects Cancer Cells from Free Radicals and Chemotherapeutics by Promoting Membrane Lipid Saturation

    Evelien Rysman;Koen Brusselmans;Katryn Scheys;Leen Timmermans

  • Induction of Cancer Cell Apoptosis by Flavonoids Is Associated with Their Ability to Inhibit Fatty Acid Synthase Activity

    Koen Brusselmans;Ruth Vrolix;Guido Verhoeven;Johannes V. Swinnen

  • ATP-Citrate Lyase: A Key Player in Cancer Metabolism

    Nousheen Zaidi;Johannes V. Swinnen;Karine Smans

  • Lipogenesis and lipolysis: the pathways exploited by the cancer cells to acquire fatty acids.

    Nousheen Zaidi;Leslie Lupien;Nancy B. Kuemmerle;William B. Kinlaw

  • Evidence for an alternative fatty acid desaturation pathway increasing cancer plasticity

    Kim Vriens;Stefan Christen;Sweta Parik;Dorien Broekaert

  • Lipids and cancer: Emerging roles in pathogenesis, diagnosis and therapeutic intervention

    Lisa M. Butler;Ylenia Perone;Jonas Dehairs;Leslie E. Lupien

  • Overexpression of fatty acid synthase is an early and common event in the development of prostate cancer

    Johannes V. Swinnen;Tania Roskams;Steven Joniau;Hein Van Poppel

  • Chemical inhibition of acetyl-CoA carboxylase induces growth arrest and cytotoxicity selectively in cancer cells.

    Annelies Beckers;Sophie Organe;Leen Timmermans;Katryn Scheys

  • RNA interference-mediated silencing of the acetyl-CoA-carboxylase-alpha gene induces growth inhibition and apoptosis of prostate cancer cells.

    Koen Brusselmans;Ellen De Schrijver;Guido Verhoeven;Johannes V. Swinnen

  • Contribution of circulating lipids to the improved outcome of critical illness by glycemic control with intensive insulin therapy.

    Dieter Mesotten;Johannes V. Swinnen;Frank Vanderhoydonc;Pieter J. Wouters

  • RNA interference-mediated silencing of the fatty acid synthase gene attenuates growth and induces morphological changes and apoptosis of LNCaP prostate cancer cells.

    Ellen De Schrijver;Koen Brusselmans;Walter Heyns;Guido Verhoeven

  • Lipid metabolism in cancer: New perspectives and emerging mechanisms.

    Lindsay A. Broadfield;Antonino Alejandro Pane;Ali Talebi;Johannes V. Swinnen

  • Coordinate regulation of lipogenic gene expression by androgens: Evidence for a cascade mechanism involving sterol regulatory element binding proteins

    Johannes V. Swinnen;William Ulrix;Walter Heyns;Guido Verhoeven

  • Lipoprotein lipase links dietary fat to solid tumor cell proliferation

    Nancy B. Kuemmerle;Evelien Rysman;Portia S. Lombardo;Alison J. Flanagan

  • Fatty acid synthase drives the synthesis of phospholipids partitioning into detergent-resistant membrane microdomains

    Johannes V Swinnen;Paul P Van Veldhoven;Leen Timmermans;Ellen De Schrijver

  • Androgens stimulate fatty acid synthase in the human prostate cancer cell line LNCaP.

    Johannes V. Swinnen;Murielle Esquenet;Karine Goossens;Walter Heyns

  • Role of the Phosphatidylinositol 3′-Kinase/PTEN/Akt Kinase Pathway in the Overexpression of Fatty Acid Synthase in LNCaP Prostate Cancer Cells

    Tine Van de Sande;Ellen De Schrijver;Walter Heyns;Guido Verhoeven

Frequent Co-Authors

Lisa M. Butler
Lisa M. Butler University of Adelaide
Wayne D. Tilley
Wayne D. Tilley University of Adelaide
Philippa T. K. Saunders
Philippa T. K. Saunders University of Edinburgh
Tania Roskams
Tania Roskams KU Leuven

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