Alan Sheng-Hwa Tung

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Life Sciences

6h-index489citations9works20.52yr avg
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Research Topics

Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer(4), Adipose Tissue and Metabolism(4), Diet and metabolism studies(3), Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications(2), Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling(2)

Publications9 total

Glucose modulates IRF6 transcription factor dimerization to enable epidermal differentiation
Cell stem cell·2025· 8 citedOpen Access
A β-hydroxybutyrate shunt pathway generates anti-obesity ketone metabolites
Cell·2024· 41 citedOpen Access
A secondary β-hydroxybutyrate metabolic pathway linked to energy balance
2024Open Access
SLC17A1/3 transporters mediate renal excretion of Lac-Phe in mice and humans
Nature Communications·2024· 10 citedOpen Access
SLC17 transporters mediate renal excretion of Lac-Phe in mice and humans
2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Lac-Phe mediates the effects of metformin on food intake and body weight
Nature Metabolism·2024· 63 citedOpen Access
Organism-wide, cell-type-specific secretome mapping of exercise training in mice
Cell Metabolism·2023· 74 citedOpen Access
Organism-wide secretome mapping uncovers pathways of tissue crosstalk in exercise
2022· 1 citedOpen Access
An exercise-inducible metabolite that suppresses feeding and obesity
Nature·2022· 291 citedOpen Access

Frequent Co-authors

Jonathan Z. Long(9), Veronica L. Li(6), Xuchao Lyu(6), Wei Wei(6), Amanda L. Wiggenhorn(4), Meng Zhao(4), María Dolores Moya-Garzón(4), Katrin J. Svensson(4), Jan Spaas(4), Steven M. Banik(3), M Snyder(3), Yong Xu(3), Steffen H. Raun(3), Shuke Xiao(3), Nicholas M. Riley(2), Xiaotao Shen(2), Jing Guo(2), Himanish Basu(2), Veronica L. Li(2), Wentao Huang(2)