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Per Sunnerhagen
Professor
Department of Chemistry & Molecular BiologyAbout Per Sunnerhagen
91Ě˝»¨: Medicinaregatan 7B, room 7179
RESEARCH
Posttranscriptional regulation under stress
A cell uses several mechanisms to deal with the stress imposed by a rapidly changing environment. It has to focus on expressing those particular proteins that enable it to survive the stress, and then quickly readapt to normal conditions. Regulation on the RNA level (”post-transcriptional regulation”) is both rapid and energy-efficient since it interferes before the energy-demanding process of protein synthesis. Under stress, the cell chooses certain mRNAs for making proteins (translation). We search for the sequence signals in mRNA that control this mechanism, and also the RNA-binding proteins that recognize these signals and direct mRNA to ribosomes for translation.
We work specifically with nonsense-mediated decay (NMD), which is a pathway for regulation of mRNAs with special sequence motifs or cellular functions. NMD affects a large proportion of mRNA molecules in a cell, e.g. in response to stress conditions, or in diseases such as cancer.
Stress granules (SGs) constitute a spectacular mechanism used by the cell under severe stress. These are large complexes of RNA and proteins. In SGs, mRNAs remain silent without being translated, in order to later be reactivated when the stress disappears and conditions improve. We identify the genes required for formation of SGs. We want to understand how formation of SGs is organized, and how the cellular signaling pathways control this pathway according to the type of stress. SGs can also affect aspects of cellular life, such as intracellular signaling and apoptosis, which makes SGs significant for cellular responses to cancer therapy.
Antimicrobial resistance
Pathogens resistant to treatment with antimicrobial agents pose a rising global threat. Antibiotics are being overused, misused, and spread into the environment. As a result, genes encoding proteins designated to inactivate antibiotics, as well as mutations in genes encoding target proteins for antibiotics, accumulate in microbial populations. In an international collaboration with partners in Brazil, we search for novel molecules active against drug-resistant Plasmodium, the malaria parasite. Here we use yeast genetic engineering tools to find bioactive molecules selective for the parasite’s proteins over the human counterparts.
Research group: Hanna Alalam (postdoctoral scientist), Suélen Fernandes Silva (postdoctoral scientist), Sunniva Sigurdardóttir (PhD student), Monika Šafhauzer (PhD student)
Publications ORCID
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TEACHING
Molecular genetics BIO906
Molecular biology BIO545
Eukaryotic molecular microbiology BIO440 (course examiner)
The cell and its hereditary material CEB210
Cell physiology CEB220
Drug development BIO523/KMG046
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Hanna Alalam, Monika Ĺ afhauzer, Per Sunnerhagen
RNA - 2025 -
Lihua Chen, Yuan Gao, Xinxin Hao, Xiaoxue Yang, Michelle Lindström, Shan Jiang, Xiuling Cao, Huisheng Liu, Thomas Nyström, Per Sunnerhagen, Beidong Liu
THERANOSTICS - 2025 -
SuĂ©len Fernandes Silva, AngĂ©lica Hollunder Klippel, Sunniva SigurdardĂłttir, Sayyed Jalil Mahdizadeh, Ievgeniia Tiukova, Catarina Bourgard, Luis Carlos Salazar-Alvarez, HeloĂsa Monteiro do Amaral Prado, Renan Vinicius de Araujo, Fabio Trindade MaranhĂŁo Costa, Elizabeth Bilsland, Ross D King, Katlin Brauer Massirer, Leif A Eriksson, Mário Henrique Bengtson, Cleslei Fernando Zanelli, Per Sunnerhagen
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases - 2024 -
Sunniva Sigurdardóttir, Suélen Fernandes Silva, Ievgeniia Tiukova, Hanna Alalam, Ross D. King, Morten Grötli, Leif A Eriksson, Per Sunnerhagen
Microbiology Spectrum - 2024 -
LetĂcia Tiburcio Ferreira, Gustavo Capatti Cassiano, Luis Carlos Salazar Alvarez, John Okombo, Juliana Calit, Diana Fontinha, Eva Gil-Iturbe, Rachael Coyle, Carolina Horta Andrade, Per Sunnerhagen, Daniel Youssef Bargieri, Miguel PrudĂŞncio, Matthias Quick, Pedro V Cravo, Marcus C S Lee, David A Fidock, Fabio Trindade MaranhĂŁo Costa
PLoS Pathogens - 2024 -
Diego RodrĂguez-Hernández, Michael K. Fenwick, Rachael Zigweid, Banumathi Sankaran, Peter J. Myler, Per Sunnerhagen, Alexis Kaushansky, Bart L. Staker, Morten Grötli
JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY - 2024 -
Kateřina Abrhámová, Martina Groušlová, Anna Valentová, Xinxin Hao, Beidong Liu, Martin Převorovský, Ondřej Gahura, František Půta, Per Sunnerhagen, Petr Folk
RNA Biology - 2024 -
Diego RodrĂguez-Hernández, Kamalakannan Vijayan, Rachael Zigweid, Michael K Fenwick, Banumathi Sankaran, Wanlapa Roobsoong, Jetsumon Sattabongkot, Elizabeth K K Glennon, Peter J Myler, Per Sunnerhagen, Bart L Staker, Alexis Kaushansky, Morten Grøtli
Nature Communications - 2023 -
Katarzyna Palica, Fritz Deufel, Susann Skagseth, Gabriela Paula Di Santo Metzler, Johannes Thoma, Anna Andersson Rasmussen, Arto Valkonen, Per Sunnerhagen, Hanna Kirsti S. Leiros, Hanna Andersson, Mate Erdelyi
RSC Medicinal Chemistry - 2023 -
Kaira C P Tomaz, Tatyana A Tavella, Joyce V B Borba, Luis C Salazar-Alvarez, João E Levandoski, Melina Mottin, Bruna K P Sousa, José T Moreira-Filho, Vitor M Almeida, Leandro C Clementino, Catarina Bourgard, Katlin B Massirer, Rafael M Couñago, Carolina H Andrade, Per Sunnerhagen, Elizabeth Bilsland, Gustavo C Cassiano, Fabio T M Costa
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy - 2023 -
Emanuel T Mahambo, Colores Uwamariya, Masum Miah, Leandro da Costa Clementino, Luis Carlos Salazar Alvarez, Gabriela Paula Di Santo Metzler, Edward Trybala, Joanna Said, Lianne H E Wieske, Jas S Ward, Kari Rissanen, Joan J E Munissi, Fabio T M Costa, Per Sunnerhagen, Tomas Bergström, Stephen S Nyandoro, Mate Erdelyi
Journal of Natural Products - 2023 -
D. Umereweneza, Y. Atilaw, S. Peintner, Catarina Bourgard, Anastasia Rudenko, R. S. Xiong, T. Muhizi, Per Sunnerhagen, A. Gogoll, M. Erdelyi
European Journal of Organic Chemistry - 2023 -
Michelle Lindström, Lihua Chen, Shan Jiang, Dan Zhang, Yuan Gao, J. Zheng, Xinxin Hao, Xiaoxue Yang, Arpitha Kabbinale, Johannes Thoma, Lisa Metzger, D. Y. Zhang, Xuefeng Zhu, H. S. Liu, Claes M Gustafsson, Björn Marcus Burmann, J. Winderickx, Per Sunnerhagen, Beidong Liu
Nature Communications - 2022 -
Catarina Bourgard, Diego RodrĂguez-Hernández, Anastasia Rudenko, Carolin Rutgersson, Martin Palm, D. G. Joakim Larsson, Anne Farewell, Morten Grøtli, Per Sunnerhagen
Antibiotics - 2022 -
Mariana Hernández-Elvira, Per Sunnerhagen
FEMS Yeast Research - 2022 -
Hanna Alalam, Jorge Arturo Zepeda-Martinez, Per Sunnerhagen
RNA - 2022 -
Gasper Maeda, Pieter J Gilissen, Anastasia Rudenko, Jelle van der Wal, Catarina Bourgard, Arvind Kumar Gupta, Per Sunnerhagen, Joan J E Munissi, Stephen S Nyandoro, Máté Erdélyi
Journal of Natural Products - 2021 -
Hanna Alalam, Sunniva Sigurdardóttir, Catarina Bourgard, Ievgeniia Tiukova, Ross D King, Morten Grøtli, Per Sunnerhagen
mSystems - 2021 -
T A Tavella, G C Cassiano, Fabio Trindade MaranhĂŁo Costa, Per Sunnerhagen, E Bilsland
Advances in Protein Chemistry and Structural Biology - 2021 -
Michal Otreba, Johanna Johansson Sjölander, Morten Grøtli, Per Sunnerhagen
Life (Basel) - 2021 -
Thobias M Kalenga, Monica M Ndoile, Yoseph Atilaw, Pieter J Gilissen, Joan J E Munissi, Anastasia Rudenko, Catarina Bourgard, Per Sunnerhagen, Stephen S Nyandoro, Mate Erdelyi
Journal of Natural Products - 2021 -
Thobias M Kalenga, Monica M Ndoile, Yoseph Atilaw, Joan J E Munissi, Pieter J Gilissen, Anastasia Rudenko, Catarina Bourgard, Per Sunnerhagen, Stephen S Nyandoro, Mate Erdelyi
Fitoterapia - 2021 -
Daniel Umereweneza, Yoseph Atilaw, Anastasia Rudenko, Yukino Gütlin, Catarina Bourgard, Arvind Kumar Gupta, Andreas Orthaber, Théoneste Muhizi, Per Sunnerhagen, Máté Erdélyi, Adolf Gogoll
Fitoterapia - 2021 -
Tatyana Almeida Tavella, Noeli Soares Melo da Silva, Natalie Spillman, Ana Carolina Andrade Vitor Kayano, Gustavo Capatti Cassiano, Adrielle Ayumi Vasconcelos, AntĂ´nio Pedro Camargo, Djane Clarys Baia da Silva, Diana Fontinha, Luis Carlos Salazar Alvarez, LetĂcia Tiburcio Ferreira, Kaira Cristina Peralis Tomaz, Bruno Junior Neves, Ludimila Dias Almeida, Daniel Youssef Bargieri, Marcus Vinicius GuimarĂŁes de Lacerda, Pedro Vitor Lemos Cravo, Per Sunnerhagen, Miguel PrudĂŞncio, Carolina Horta Andrade, Stefanie Costa Pinto Lopes, Marcelo Falsarella Carazzolle, Leann Tilley, Elizabeth Bilsland, JĂşlio CĂ©sar Borges, Fabio Trindade MaranhĂŁo Costa
ACS Infectious Diseases - 2021 -
Ibrahim Mamedov, Farid Naghiyev, Abel Maharramov, Owens Uwangue, Anne Farewell, Per Sunnerhagen, Mate Erdelyi
Mendeleev Communications - 2020 -
John Patrick Alao, Johanna Johansson Sjölander, Charalampos Rallis, Per Sunnerhagen
Microorganisms - 2020 -
Johanna Johansson Sjölander, Per Sunnerhagen
Cell Biology International - 2020 -
Hanna Alalam, Fabrice Graf, Martin Palm, Marie Abadikhah, Martin Zackrisson, Jonas Boström, Alfred Fransson, Chris Hadjineophytou, Linnéa Persson, Simon Stenberg, Matilda Mattsson, Payam Ghiaci, Per Sunnerhagen, Jonas Warringer, Anne Farewell
mSystems - 2020 -
LetĂcia Tiburcio Ferreira, Juliana Rodrigues, Gustavo Capatti Cassiano, Tatyana Almeida Tavella, Kaira Cristina Peralis Tomaz, Djane Clarys Baia-da-Silva, Macejane Ferreira Souza, Marilia Nunes do Nascimento Lima, Melina Mottin, Ludimila Dias Almeida, Juliana Calit, Maria Carolina Silva de Barros Puça, Gisely Cardoso Melo, Daniel Youssef Bargieri, Stefanie Costa Pinto Lopes, Marcus Vinicius GuimarĂŁes Lacerda, Elizabeth Bilsland, Per Sunnerhagen, Bruno Junior Neves, Carolina Horta Andrade, Pedro Vitor Lemos Cravo, Fabio Trindade MaranhĂŁo Costa
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy - 2020 -
John Patrick Alao, Per Sunnerhagen
Cell Division - 2020 -
Gasper Maeda, Jelle van der Wal, Arvind Kumar Gupta, Joan J E Munissi, Andreas Orthaber, Per Sunnerhagen, Stephen S Nyandoro, Mate Erdelyi
Journal of Natural Products - 2020 -
Johanna J Sjölander, Agata Tarczykowska, Cecilia Picazo, Itziar Cossio, Itedale Namro Redwan, Chunxia Gao, Carlos Solano, Michel B Toledano, Morten Grøtli, Mikael Molin, Per Sunnerhagen
Molecular and Cellular Biology - 2020 -
Maugeri Marco, Muhammad Nawaz, Alexandros Papadimitriou, Annelie Angerfors, Alessandro Camponeschi, Manli Na, Mikko Hölttä, Pia Skantze, Svante Johansson, Martina Sundqvist, Johnny Lindquist, Tomas Kjellman, Inga-Lill Mårtensson, Tao Jin, Per Sunnerhagen, Sofia Östman, Lennart Lindfors, Hadi Valadi
Nature Communications - 2019 -
LetĂcia T Ferreira, VinĂcius P Venancio, Taila Kawano, Lailah C C AbrĂŁo, Tatyana A Tavella, Ludimila D Almeida, Gabriel S Pires, Elizabeth Bilsland, Per Sunnerhagen, Luciana Azevedo, Stephen T Talcott, Susanne U Mertens-Talcott, Fabio T M Costa
ACS Omega - 2019 -
Luisa Statello, Maugeri Marco, Elena Garre, Muhammad Nawaz, Jessica Wahlgren, Alexandros Papadimitriou, Christina Lundqvist, Lennart Lindfors, Anna Collén, Per Sunnerhagen, Marco Ragusa, Michele Purrello, Cinzia Di Pietro, Natalie Tigue, Hadi Valadi
PLoS One - 2018 -
Catarina Bourgard, Letusa Albrecht, Ana C A V Kayano, Per Sunnerhagen, Fabio T M Costa
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology - 2018 -
Fabrice Graf, Hanna Alalam, Martin Zackrisson, Martin Palm, Payam Ghiaci, Per Sunnerhagen, Jonas Warringer, Anne Farewell
International Symposium of the International Society for Plasmid Biology and other Mobile Genetic Elements - 2018 -
Elena Garre, Vicent Pelechano, Manuel Sánchez Del Pino, Paula Alepuz, Per Sunnerhagen
PLoS Genetics - 2018 -
Hanna Alalam, Fabrice Graf, Martin Palm, Marie Abadikhah, Martin Zackrisson, Matilda Mattsson, Chris Hadjineophytou, Linnèa Persson, Simon Stenberg, Payam Ghiaci, Per Sunnerhagen, Jonas Warringer, Anne Farewell
BioRxiv - 2018 -
Fabrice Graf, Hanna Alalam, Martin Zackrisson, Per Sunnerhagen, Jonas Warringer, Anne Farewell
7th Congress of European Microbiologists (FEMS 2017) - 2017 -
Tianlu Li, Nikki De Clercq, Daniel Medina, Elena Garre, Per Sunnerhagen, JosĂ© PĂ©rez-OrtĂn, Paula Alepuz
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta. Gene Regulatory Mechanisms - 2016 -
John Patrick Alao, Andrea Weber, Aidin Shabro, Per Sunnerhagen
PLoS One - 2015 -
Jon Halvor Knutsen, Gro Elise Rødland, Cathrine Arnason Bøe, Tine Weise Håland, Per Sunnerhagen, Beata Grallert, Erik Boye
Journal of Cell 91Ě˝»¨ - 2015 -
Ivan Gumula, John Patrick Alao, Isiah Omolo Ndiege, Per Sunnerhagen, Abiy Yenesew, Mate Erdelyi
Journal of Natural Products - 2014 -
Sofia Muñoz, Elvira ManjĂłn, Patricia GarcĂa, Per Sunnerhagen, Yolanda Sánchez
Molecular Biology of the Cell - 2014 -
Negera Abdissa, Martha Induli, Paul A. Fitzpatrick, John Patrick Alao, Per Sunnerhagen, Göran Landberg, Abiy Yenesew, Mate Erdelyi
Molecules - 2014 -
Xiaoxue Yang, Yi Shen, Elena Garre, Xinxin Hao, Daniel Krumlinde, Marija Cvijovic, Christina Arens, Thomas Nyström, Beidong Liu, Per Sunnerhagen
PLoS Genetics - 2014 -
John Patrick Alao, Sona MichlĂková, Peter DinĂ©r, Morten Grøtli, Per Sunnerhagen
BMC Cancer - 2014 -
John Patrick Alao, Johanna J Sjölander, Juliane Baar, Nejla Özbaki-Yagan, Bianca Kakoschky, Per Sunnerhagen
Molecular Microbiology - 2014 -
Enikö Zörgö, Karolina Chwialkowska, A. B. Gjuvsland, Elena Garre, Per Sunnerhagen, G. Liti, Anders Blomberg, S. W. Omholt, Jonas Warringer
PLoS Genetics - 2013 -
Jia-Fei Poon, John Patrick Alao, Per Sunnerhagen, Peter Dinér
Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry - 2013 -
Kristina Jansson, John Patrick Alao, kristina Viktorsson, Jonas Warringer, Rolf Lewensohn, Per Sunnerhagen
Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis - 2013 -
Milkyas Endale, Annabel Ekberg, John Patrick Alao, Hoseah Akala, Albert Ndakala, Per Sunnerhagen, Mate Erdelyi, Abiy Yenesew
Molecules - 2013 -
Elena Garre, Lorena Romero-Santacreu, Nikki De Clercq, Nati Blasco-Angulo, Per Sunnerhagen, Paula Alepuz
Molecular Biology of the Cell - 2012 -
Milkyas Endale, John Patrick Alao, H. M. Akala, N. K. Rono, F. L. Eyase, S. Derese, A. Ndakala, M. Mbugua, D. S. Walsh, Per Sunnerhagen, Mate Erdelyi, Abiy Yenesew
Planta Medica - 2012 -
Milkyas Endale, Annabel Ekberg, Hoseah Akala, John Patrick Alao, Per Sunnerhagen, Abiy Yenesew, Mate Erdelyi
Journal of Natural Products - 2012 -
Jessica Wahlgren, Tanya (De L.) Karlson, Mikael Brisslert, Forugh Vazirisani, Esbjörn Telemo, Per Sunnerhagen, Hadi Valadi
Nucleic acids research - 2012 -
Chun-Yu Wang, Wei-Ling Wen, Daniel Nilsson, Per Sunnerhagen, Tien-Hsien Chang, Shao-Win Wang
RNA - 2012 -
Peter Dinér, John Patrick Alao, J. Söderlund, Per Sunnerhagen, Morten Grøtli
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry - 2012 -
Eun-Hee Park, Fan Zhang, Jonas Warringer, Per Sunnerhagen, Alan G. Hinnebusch
BMC Genomics - 2011 -
Julia MarĂn-Navarro, Alexandra Jauhiainen, JoaquĂn Moreno, Paula Alepuz, JosĂ© E. PĂ©rez-OrtĂn, Per Sunnerhagen
Methods in Molecular Biology - 2011 -
Christine Dyrager, Linda N Möllers, Linda K Kjäll, John Patrick Alao, Peter Dinér, Fredrik Wallner, Per Sunnerhagen, Morten Grøtli
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry - 2011 -
Daniel Nilsson, Per Sunnerhagen
RNA - 2011 -
Jonas Warringer, Malin Hult, Sergi Regot, Francesc Posas, Per Sunnerhagen
Molecular Biology of the Cell - 2010 -
Lars-Göran Ottosson, Katarina Logg, Sebastian Ibstedt, Per Sunnerhagen, Mikael Käll, Anders Blomberg, Jonas Warringer
Eukaryotic Cell - 2010 -
John Patrick Alao, Pim J Huis in’t Veld, Frederike Buhse, Per Sunnerhagen
Molecular Microbiology - 2010 -
Kristina Jansson, Anders Blomberg, Per Sunnerhagen, Magnus Alm Rosenblad
Genome Integrity - 2010 -
John Patrick Alao, Jeanette Olesch, Per Sunnerhagen
Molecular Cancer Therapeutics - 2009 -
Claes Molin, Alexandra Jauhiainen, Jonas Warringer, Olle Nerman, Per Sunnerhagen
RNA - 2009 -
John Patrick Alao, Per Sunnerhagen
Radiation Oncology - 2009 -
. Selpi, Christopher H. Bryant, Graham J.L. Kemp, Janeli Sarv, Erik Kristiansson, Per Sunnerhagen
BMC Bioinformatics - 2009 -
Kristina Jansson, Jonas Warringer, Anne Farewell, Han-Oh Park, Kwang-Lae Hoe, Dong-Uk Kim, Jacqueline Hayles, Per Sunnerhagen
Mutation Research - 2008 -
Eva Asp, Daniel Nilsson, Per Sunnerhagen
Eukaryot. Cell - 2008 -
John Patrick Alao, Per Sunnerhagen
Molecular Microbiology - 2008 -
Malin Hult, Per Sunnerhagen
Topics in Current Genetics - 2008 -
Elizabeth Bilsland, Malin Hult, S. D. Bell, Per Sunnerhagen, J. A. Downs
DNA Repair (Amst) - 2007 -
Per Sunnerhagen
Mol Genet Genomics - 2007 -
Marija Cvijovic, Daniel Dalevi, Elizabeth Bilsland, Graham J.L. Kemp, Per Sunnerhagen
BMC Bioinformatics - 2007 -
L. Barreto, A. Garcera, Kristina Jansson, Per Sunnerhagen, E. Herrero
Eukaryot Cell - 2006 -
Swarna Swaminathan, Tomas Masek, Claes Molin, Martin Pospisek, Per Sunnerhagen
Molecular Biology of the Cell - 2006 -
Isaac Corbacho, Isabel Olivero, Stefan Hohmann, Per Sunnerhagen
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek - 2006 -
Marina Axelson-Fisk, Per Sunnerhagen
Topics in Current Genetics - 2006 -
Swarna Swaminathan, Per Sunnerhagen
Molecular Genetics and Genomics - 2005 -
Marina Axelson-Fisk, Per Sunnerhagen
Topics in Current Genetics: Comparative genomics using fungi as models - 2005 -
Felipe Vilella, Rui Alves, MarĂa Teresa RodrĂguez-Manzaneque, Gemma BellĂ, Swarna Swaminathan, Per Sunnerhagen, Enrique Herrero
Comparative and Functional Genomics - 2004 -
Elizabeth Bilsland, Claes Molin, Swarna Swaminathan, Anna Ramne, Per Sunnerhagen
Molecular Microbiology - 2004 -
Maria Dahlén, Per Sunnerhagen, Teresa S. Wang
Molecular and Cellular Biology - 2003 -
Eva Asp, Per Sunnerhagen
Molecular Genetics and Genomics - 2003