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Biology and Biochemistry
Australia
2023

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
79
Citations
18543
World Ranking
4398
National Ranking
107

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Stefan Bröer is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia, contributing extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their research spans across molecular biology, biochemistry, cellular and molecular neuroscience, clinical biochemistry, and oncology.

Their main research topics include amino acid enzymes and metabolism, metabolism and genetic disorders, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, epigenetics and DNA methylation, polyamine metabolism and applications, pancreatic function and diabetes, and drug transport and resistance mechanisms.

Stefan Bröer has published studies in several scientific venues, most notably in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, Frontiers in Pharmacology, Human Reproduction, and the British Journal of Pharmacology.

Among their recent publications are:

  • THE CONCISE GUIDE TO PHARMACOLOGY 2021/22: Transporters, 2021, British Journal of Pharmacology
  • The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2023/24: Transporters, 2023, British Journal of Pharmacology
  • Amino acid metabolism, transport and signalling in the liver revisited, 2022, Biochemical Pharmacology
  • Amino Acid Transporters as Targets for Cancer Therapy: Why, Where, When, and How, 2020, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Quantitative modelling of amino acid transport and homeostasis in mammalian cells, 2021, Nature Communications

The scientist has frequently collaborated with colleagues such as Angelika Bröer, Gregory Gauthier-Coles, Kiran Javed, Stephen J. Fairweather, and Aditya Yadav.

Best Publications

  • Amino acid transport across mammalian intestinal and renal epithelia.

    Stefan Bröer

  • The low-affinity monocarboxylate transporter MCT4 is adapted to the export of lactate in highly glycolytic cells.

    Kai-Stefan Dimmer;Björn Friedrich;Florian Lang;Joachim W. Deitmer

  • The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2017/18: Overview

    Stephen P. H. Alexander;Eamonn Kelly;Neil V. Marrion;John A. Peters

  • Amino acid homeostasis and signalling in mammalian cells and organisms.

    Stefan Bröer;Angelika Bröer

  • Function and structure of heterodimeric amino acid transporters.

    Carsten A. Wagner;Florian Lang;Stefan Bröer

  • Transfer of glutamine between astrocytes and neurons

    Stefan Bröer;Neville Brookes

  • Chloroquine Transport via the Malaria Parasite’s Chloroquine Resistance Transporter

    Rowena E. Martin;Rosa V. Marchetti;Anna I. Cowan;Susan M. Howitt

  • Characterization of the monocarboxylate transporter 1 expressed in Xenopus laevis oocytes by changes in cytosolic pH

    Stefan Bröer;Hans-Peter Schneider;Angelika Bröer;Basim Rahman

  • Comparison of Lactate Transport in Astroglial Cells and Monocarboxylate Transporter 1 (MCT 1) Expressing Xenopus laevis Oocytes EXPRESSION OF TWO DIFFERENT MONOCARBOXYLATE TRANSPORTERS IN ASTROGLIAL CELLS AND NEURONS

    Stefan Bröer;Basim Rahman;Gioranni Pellegri;Luc Pellerin

  • Characterization of the high-affinity monocarboxylate transporter MCT2 in Xenopus laevis oocytes.

    Stefan Bröer;Angelika Bröer;Hans-Peter Schneider;Carola Stegen

  • Deranged transcriptional regulation of cell-volume-sensitive kinase hSGK in diabetic nephropathy.

    F. Lang;K. Klingel;C. A. Wagner;C. Stegen

  • Hartnup disorder is caused by mutations in the gene encoding the neutral amino acid transporter SLC6A19

    Heng F Seow;Stefan Bröer;Angelika Bröer;Charles G Bailey

  • Molecular Cloning of Mouse Amino Acid Transport System B0, a Neutral Amino Acid Transporter Related to Hartnup Disorder

    Angelika Broer;Karen Klingel;Sonja Kowalczuk;John Edward Rasko

  • The solute carrier 6 family of transporters.

    Stefan Bröer;Ulrik Gether

  • A protein complex in the brush-border membrane explains a Hartnup disorder allele

    Sonja Kowalczuk;Angelika Broer;Nadine Tietze;Jessica M. Vanslambrouck

  • The astroglial ASCT2 amino acid transporter as a mediator of glutamine efflux.

    Bröer A;Brookes N;Ganapathy;Dimmer Ks

  • The SLC38 family of sodium-amino acid co-transporters

    Stefan Bröer

  • The use of Xenopus laevis oocytes for the functional characterization of heterologously expressed membrane proteins.

    Carsten A. Wagner;Björn Friedrich;Iwan Setiawan;Florian Lang

  • Deletion of Amino Acid Transporter ASCT2 (SLC1A5) Reveals an Essential Role for Transporters SNAT1 (SLC38A1) and SNAT2 (SLC38A2) to Sustain Glutaminolysis in Cancer Cells.

    Angelika Bröer;Farid Rahimi;Stefan Bröer

  • The heterodimeric amino acid transporter 4F2hc/y+LAT2 mediates arginine efflux in exchange with glutamine

    Angelika Bröer;Carsten A. Wagner;Carsten A. Wagner;Florian Lang;Stefan Bröer;Stefan Bröer

Frequent Co-Authors

Florian Lang
Florian Lang University of Tübingen
Carsten A. Wagner
Carsten A. Wagner University of Zurich
Siegfried Waldegger
Siegfried Waldegger Innsbruck Medical University
Karin Klingel
Karin Klingel University of Tübingen
Kiaran Kirk
Kiaran Kirk Australian National University
John E.J. Rasko
John E.J. Rasko Centenary Institute of Cancer Medicine and Cell Biology
Joachim W. Deitmer
Joachim W. Deitmer Technical University of Kaiserslautern
Bernd Hamprecht
Bernd Hamprecht University of Tübingen
Caroline Rae
Caroline Rae Neuroscience Research Australia
Manuel Palacín
Manuel Palacín Institute for Research in Biomedicine

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