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  • The role of compartmentalized β-AR/cAMP signaling in the regulation of lipolysis in white and brown adipocytes.

    The FEBS journal

    Authors: Kirstie A De Jong, Sana Siddig, Alexander Pfeifer, Viacheslav O Nikolaev

  • Sulfonylureas exert antidiabetic action on adipocytes by inhibition of PPARγ serine 273 phosphorylation.

    Molecular metabolism

    Authors: Bodo Haas, Moritz David Sebastian Hass, Alexander Voltz, Matthias Vogel, Julia Walther, Arijit Biswas, Daniela Hass, Alexander Pfeifer

  • Cold-induced expression of a truncated adenylyl cyclase 3 acts as rheostat to brown fat function.

    Nature metabolism

    Authors: Sajjad Khani, Hande Topel, Ronja Kardinal, Ana Rita Tavanez, Ajeetha Josephrajan, Bjørk Ditlev Marcher Larsen, Michael James Gaudry, Philipp Leyendecker, Nadia Meincke Egedal, Aylin Seren Güller, Natasa Stanic, Phillip M M Ruppert, Isabella Gaziano, Nils Rouven Hansmeier, Elena Schmidt, Paul Klemm, Lara-Marie Vagliano, Rainer Stahl, Fraser Duthie, Jens-Henning Krause, Ana Bici, Christoph Andreas Engelhard, Sabrina Gohlke, Peter Frommolt, Thorsten Gnad, Alvaro Rada-Iglesias, Marta Pradas-Juni, Tim Julius Schulz, Frank Thomas Wunderlich, Alexander Pfeifer, Alexander Bartelt, Martin Jastroch, Dagmar Wachten, Jan-Wilhelm Kornfeld

  • Corrigendum to "Lack of Gα proteins in adipocytes attenuates diet-induced obesity" [Mol Metab 40 (2020 Oct) 101029].

    Molecular metabolism

    Authors: Veronika Leiss, Annika Schönsiegel, Thorsten Gnad, Johannes Kerner, Jyotsna Kaur, Tina Sartorius, Jürgen Machann, Fritz Schick, Lutz Birnbaumer, Hans-Ulrich Häring, Alexander Pfeifer, Bernd Nürnberg

  • CD73-dependent generation of extracellular adenosine by vascular endothelial cells modulates lipogenesis in adipose tissue.

    Frontiers in immunology

    Authors: Michelle Y Jaeckstein, Isabell Schulze, Michael Wolfgang Zajac, Markus Heine, Oliver Mann, Alexander Pfeifer, Joerg Heeren

  • EPAC1 enhances brown fat growth and beige adipogenesis.

    Nature cell biology

    Authors: Laia Reverte-Salisa, Sana Siddig, Staffan Hildebrand, Xi Yao, Jelena Zurkovic, Michelle Y Jaeckstein, Joerg Heeren, Frank Lezoualc'h, Natalie Krahmer, Alexander Pfeifer

  • Inosine: novel activator of brown adipose tissue and energy homeostasis.

    Trends in cell biology

    Authors: Alexander Pfeifer, Mickel Mikhael, Birte Niemann

  • GPCR in Adipose Tissue Function-Focus on Lipolysis.

    Biomedicines

    Authors: Davide Malfacini, Alexander Pfeifer

  • AdipoQ-a simple, open-source software to quantify adipocyte morphology and function in tissues and in vitro.

    Molecular biology of the cell

    Authors: Katharina Sieckmann, Nora Winnerling, Mylene Huebecker, Philipp Leyendecker, Dalila Juliana Silva Ribeiro, Thorsten Gnad, Alexander Pfeifer, Dagmar Wachten, Jan N Hansen

  • Apoptotic brown adipocytes enhance energy expenditure via extracellular inosine.

    Nature

    Authors: Birte Niemann, Saskia Haufs-Brusberg, Laura Puetz, Martin Feickert, Michelle Y Jaeckstein, Anne Hoffmann, Jelena Zurkovic, Markus Heine, Eva-Maria Trautmann, Christa E Müller, Anke Tönjes, Christian Schlein, Azin Jafari, Holger K Eltzschig, Thorsten Gnad, Matthias Blüher, Natalie Krahmer, Peter Kovacs, Joerg Heeren, Alexander Pfeifer