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Overview

Timothy F. Osborne is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the United States. Their research spans across multiple fields, primarily focused on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Within these broad areas, their work notably intersects with molecular biology, physiology, immunology, epidemiology, and surgery as key subfields of study.

The scientist's main topics of research cover adipose tissue and metabolism, cholesterol and lipid metabolism, adipokines, inflammation and metabolic diseases, lipid metabolism and biosynthesis, epigenetics and DNA methylation, cancer-related molecular mechanisms research, and immune cells in cancer.

Recent publications by Timothy F. Osborne include:

  • SREBP-1c impairs ULK1 sulfhydration-mediated autophagic flux to promote hepatic steatosis in high-fat-diet-fed mice (2021), Molecular Cell
  • Isocitrate dehydrogenase 2 protects mice from high-fat diet-induced metabolic stress by limiting oxidative damage to the mitochondria from brown adipose tissue (2020), Experimental & Molecular Medicine
  • SREBP signaling is essential for effective B cell responses (2022), Nature Immunology
  • Transcriptional and DNA Methylation Signatures of Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue and Adipose-Derived Stem Cells in PCOS Women (2022), Cells
  • Therapeutic strategy targeting host lipolysis limits infection by SARS-CoV-2 and influenza A virus (2022), Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy

Frequent coauthors associated with Osborne include Yoshihiro Matsumura, Juro Sakai, Ryo Ito, Toshiya Tanaka, and Hiroshi Kimurâ, reflecting collaborative efforts in related scientific inquiries.

Osborne's work is often published in a range of scientific journals, with frequent appearances in Experimental & Molecular Medicine, Nature Communications, SSRN Electronic Journal, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Cells. These venues correspond with the scientist's multidisciplinary focus and contributions to evolving research in molecular mechanisms and clinical applications.

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Fabio C. Abdalla;Hagai Abeliovich;Robert T. Abraham

  • Direct and indirect mechanisms for regulation of fatty acid synthase gene expression by liver X receptors.

    Sean B. Joseph;Bryan A. Laffitte;Parthive H. Patel;Michael A. Watson

  • Mutant p53 disrupts mammary tissue architecture via the mevalonate pathway

    William A. Freed-Pastor;Hideaki Mizuno;Xi Zhao;Anita Langerød

  • Sterol Regulatory Element-binding Proteins (SREBPs): Key Regulators of Nutritional Homeostasis and Insulin Action

    Timothy F. Osborne

  • SREBPs: Metabolic Integrators in Physiology and Metabolism

    Tae Il Jeon;Timothy F. Osborne

  • HMG CoA Reductase: A Negatively Regulated Gene with Unusual Promoter and 5' Untranslated Regions

    Gary A. Reynolds;Sandip K. Basu;Timothy F. Osborne;Daniel J. Chin

  • Sterol regulatory element–binding proteins are essential for the metabolic programming of effector T cells and adaptive immunity

    Yoko Kidani;Heidi Elsaesser;M Benjamin Hock;M Benjamin Hock;Laurent Vergnes

  • Sterol Regulation of Fatty Acid Synthase Promoter COORDINATE FEEDBACK REGULATION OF TWO MAJOR LIPID PATHWAYS

    Mary K. Bennett;Jose M. Lopez;Hugo B. Sanchez;Timothy F. Osborne

  • Two Tandem Binding Sites for Sterol Regulatory Element Binding Proteins Are Required for Sterol Regulation of Fatty-acid Synthase Promoter

    Marisa M. Magaña;Timothy F. Osborne

  • Polyunsaturated fatty acids decrease expression of promoters with sterol regulatory elements by decreasing levels of mature sterol regulatory element-binding protein.

    Tilla S. Worgall;Tilla S. Worgall;Stephen L. Sturley;Toru Seo;Toru Seo;Timothy F. Osborne

  • Cooperation by Sterol Regulatory Element-binding Protein and Sp1 in Sterol Regulation of Low Density Lipoprotein Receptor Gene

    Hugo B. Sanchez;Lynn Yieh;Timothy F. Osborne

  • A feed-forward loop amplifies nutritional regulation of PNPLA3.

    Yongcheng Huang;Shaoqing He;John Zhong Li;Young Kyo Seo

  • Linking Lipid Metabolism to the Innate Immune Response in Macrophages through Sterol Regulatory Element Binding Protein -1a

    Seung Soon Im;Leyla Yousef;Christoph Blaschitz;Janet Z. Liu

  • Host Defense against Viral Infection Involves Interferon Mediated Down-Regulation of Sterol Biosynthesis

    Mathieu Blanc;Wei Yuan Hsieh;Kevin A. Robertson;Steven Watterson

  • Sterol regulation of acetyl coenzyme A carboxylase: a mechanism for coordinate control of cellular lipid

    Jose M. Lopez;Mary K. Bennett;Hugo B. Sanchez;John M. Rosenfeld

  • Thyroid Hormone Regulation and Cholesterol Metabolism Are Connected through Sterol Regulatory Element-binding Protein-2 (SREBP-2)

    Dong Ju Shin;Timothy F. Osborne

  • Identification of nucleotides responsible for enhancer activity of sterol regulatory element in low density lipoprotein receptor gene

    Jeffrey R. Smith;Timothy F. Osborne;Joseph L. Goldstein;Michael S. Brown

  • Evolutionary conservation and adaptation in the mechanism that regulates SREBP action: what a long, strange tRIP it's been

    Timothy F. Osborne;Peter J. Espenshade

  • A Direct Role for Sterol Regulatory Element Binding Protein in Activation of 3-Hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl Coenzyme A Reductase Gene

    Shawn Millinder Vallett;Hugo B. Sanchez;John M. Rosenfeld;Timothy F. Osborne

  • Partitioning circadian transcription by SIRT6 leads to segregated control of cellular metabolism.

    Selma Masri;Paul Rigor;Marlene Cervantes;Nicholas Ceglia

Frequent Co-Authors

Seung Soon Im
Seung Soon Im Hanyang University
Juro Sakai
Juro Sakai University of Tokyo
Tatsuhiko Kodama
Tatsuhiko Kodama University of Tokyo
Stephen G. Young
Stephen G. Young University of California, Los Angeles
Hiroyuki Aburatani
Hiroyuki Aburatani University of Tokyo
Xiaohui Xie
Xiaohui Xie University of California, Irvine
Hiroshi Kimura
Hiroshi Kimura Tokyo Institute of Technology
Makoto Naito
Makoto Naito Niigata University
Peter A. Edwards
Peter A. Edwards University of California, Los Angeles
Kiyoko Fukami
Kiyoko Fukami Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences

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