- Position:
- Senior Scientist, Deputy Head
- Email:
- kata.valentova@email.cz
- katerina.valentova@biomed.cas.cz
- Phone:
- (+420) 296 442 509
- Address:
- Laboratory of Biotransformation
- Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences
- Vídeňská 1083
- Prague 4 – Krč
- 142 20
- Czech Republic
Positions
- 2021-2024 Head of the Laboratory of Biotransformation
- 2018 (07)- Senior Researcher
- 2017-2021, 2024- Deputy Head of Laboratory of Biotransformation
- 2013 (09)- Researcher, Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences
- 2013 (01-08) Associate Professor
- 2004-2012 Assistant Professor
- 2003-2004 Research Assistant, Department of Medical Chemistry and Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Education
- 2011-2013 Associate Professor in Medical Chemistry and Biochemistry, Palacký University, Olomouc, CZ
- 2000-2004 PhD in Medical Chemistry and Biochemistry, Palacký University, Olomouc, CZ
- 1995-2000 in Biochemistry, Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague, CZ
- 1990-1995 Bilingual high school (French – Czech) in Olomouc, CZ
Research Orientation
- Metabolism and biotransformation of polyphenols
- Biological activity of natural substances and plant extracts
- Free radicals and their scavenging
- Antioxidant and cytoprotective activity
- Lipid peroxidation
- Glucose metabolism
- Hepatocytes, HUVEC
- Angiogenesis
Experience
- 1999 (1 month) Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Olomouc Teaching Hospital.
- 1999 (3 months) Laboratory of Heterocycles and Glucides Chemistry, University Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France
- 2001 (1 week) Ivax-Pharmaceuticals Co., Opava
- 2002 (2 months) Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Physiology of the Vein, INSERM U541, Paris, France
- 2003 (2 weeks) Laboratory of Food Chemistry, National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia
- 2004 (2 weeks) Laboratory of Food Chemistry, National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia
- 2005 (3 weeks) Laboratory of Molecular Toxicology, INSERM U490, Paris, France
- 2006 (2 weeks) INSERM U775, Paris, France
- 2012 (1 week) Université de Lille 2, France
- 2013 (1 week) University of Colorado, USA
- 2017 (1 week) ITQB NOVA, Oeiras, Portugal
- 2018 (2 weeks) CNR, Milano, Italy
Courses
- 1998–2000 Teaching of chemistry for high schools, Institute of Chemical Technology, in Prague, Czech Republic.
- 2001 ACS Workshop, How to develop, Validate and Troubleshoot GS & HPLC Methods.
- 2002 Chemistry and Biochemistry of Natural Compounds, Czech Academy of Science.
- 2003 Good Research Practice in Biomedicine, Biological and Veterinary Sciences, international I-workshop for Ph.D. students.
Membership
- 2000 Czech Chemical Society
- 2006 Phytochemical Society of Europe
- 2006 Czech Society for Probiotics and Prebiotics
Awards
- 2003 Pharmacy Price, Aventis and French Embassy in Prague
- 2003, 2005, 2008 Dean of Medical Faculty in Olomouc Price for Meaningful scientific publication
Languages
- French
- English
Projects
- CZ.02.01.01/00/22_008/0004597: Talking to Microbes – Understanding Microbial Interactions in the One Health Concept (INTER-MICRO)(2024-2028)
- GA23-04654S: Chemoenzymatic preparation and biological activity of metabolites of food polyphenols (2023-2025)
- GA23-04655S: Role of prenylation and glycosylation patterns in antiinflammatory activity and metabolism of natural phenolic compounds (2023-2025)
- NU21-02-00135: Cardiovascular effects of flavonoid metabolites and the influence of metabolic risk factors (2021-2024)
- GA21-00551S: Metabolites and other derivatives of polyphenols – chemoenzymatic preparation and biological activity (2021-2023)
- LTC20070: Natural polyphenolic compounds for adjunct tumor treatment combined with MDR inhibition (2020-2022)
- GA18-00132S: Inter-individual variability in the metabolism of silymarin flavonolignans in humans (2018-2021)
- GA18-00121S: The role of optically pure flavonolignans in cardiovascular effects of silymarin (2018-2021)
- COST CA17104 – New diagnostic and therapeutic tools against multidrug resistant tumors (STRATAGEM, 2018-2022)
- LTC19039: Gastrointestinal transformations of polyphenolic drugs (2019-2021)
- COST Action CA16205 – European network on understanding gastrointestinal absorption-related processes (UNGAP, 2017-21)
- GA15–03037S – Dehydro-derivatives of the silymarin flavonolignans: metabolism and biological activity (2015–2017)
- LTC18003: Metabolism of silymarin flavonolignans in aging population (2018-2021)
- COST Action CA16112: Personalized Nutrition in aging society: redox control of major age-related diseases (NutRedOx, 2017–2021)
- LD15082 – Chemoenzymatic preparation of the metabolites of food bioactive quercetin for bioavailability studies (2015–2017)
- COST Action FA1403 – Interindividual variation in response to consumption of plant food bioactives and determinants involved (POSITIVe, 2014–2018)
Publications
- 99 original papers and reviews
- 123 conference presentations
- 5 textbooks
- 2 patents
ResearcherID: H-2515-2014, ORCID: 0000-0002-7714-5350, Scopus Author ID: 6602269085, vedidk: 3973654
Citation index (SCI, without autocitations): 3,327
h-index: 31 (WOS All databases 14/06/24)
Selected recent publications
- Tímea Bencsik, Orsolya Balázs, Róbert G. Vida, Balázs Z. Zsidó, Csaba Hetényi, Kateřina Valentová, Miklós Poór: Effects of catechins, resveratrol, silymarin components and some of their conjugates on xanthine oxidase-catalyzed xanthine and 6-mercaptopurine oxidation. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, 14045:1-12 online (2024).
- Tomisová Kateřina, Jarošová Veronika, Maršík Petr, Bergo Mascellani Anna, Cinek Ondřej, Hlináková Lucie, Klouček Pavel, Janoušek Václav, Valentová Kateřina, Havlík Jaroslav: Mutual Interactions of Silymarin and Colon Microbiota in Healthy Young and Healthy Elder Subjects. Molecular Nutrition & Food Research, 68 (22) 2400500: (1-14) (2024).
- Katerina Brodsky, Barbora Petránková, Lucie Petrásková, Helena Pelantová, Vladimír Křen, Kateřina Valentová, Pavla Bojarová: New Bacterial Aryl Sulfotransferases: Effective Tools for Sulfation of Polyphenols. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 72 (40), 22208-22216 (2024).
- Ágnes Dombi, Hana Kaci, Kateřina Valentová, Éva Bakos, Csilla Özvegy-Laczka, Miklós Poór: Interaction of myricetin, ampelopsin (dihydromyricetin), and their sulfate metabolites with serum albumin, cytochrome P450 (CYP2C9, 2C19, and 3A4) enzymes, and organic anion-transporting polypeptides (OATP1B1 and OATP2B1). Pharmacology Research & Perspectives, 12 (5), e70021: 1-12 (2024).
- Martina Hurtová, Daniela Brdová, Bára Křížskovská, Guglielmo Tedeschi, Tomáš Nejedlý, Ondřej Strnad, Simona Dobiasová, Zuzana Osifová, Gabriela Kroneislová, Jan Lipov, Kateřina Valentová, Jitka Viktorová, Vladimír Křen: Nitrogen-Containing Flavonoids–Preparation and Biological Activity. ACS Omega, 9 (32), 34938-34950 (2024).
- Michael Kotík, Natalia Kulik, Kateřina Valentová: Flavonoids as Aglycones in Retaining Glycosidase-Catalyzed Reactions: Prospects for Green Chemistry. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 71 (41), 14890-14910 (2023).
- Kateřina Lněničková, Jiří Vrba, Pavel Kosina, Barbora Papoušková, Chahrazed Mekadim, Jakub Mrázek, Milan Sova, Eliška Sovová, Kateřina Valentová, Vladimír Křen, Pavla Kouřilová, Jana Vrbková, Jitka Ulrichová: Metabolic profiling of silymarin constituents in urine and feces of healthy volunteers: A 90-day study. Journal of Functional Foods, 100, 105391:1-16 (2023).
- Martina Hurtová, David Biedermann, Zuzana Osifová, Josef Cvačka, Kateřina Valentová, Vladimír Křen: Preparation of Synthetic and Natural Derivatives of Flavonoids Using Suzuki-Miyaura Cross-Coupling Reaction. Molecules, 27, 3, 967:1-16 (2022).
- Kateřina Holasová, Bára Křížskovská, Lan Hoang, Simona Dobiasová, Jan Lipov, Tomáš Macek, Vladimír Křen, Kateřina Valentová, Tomáš Ruml, Jitka Viktorová: Flavonolignans from silymarin modulate antibiotic resistance and virulence in Staphylococcus aureus. Biomedicine & Pharmacoteraphy, 149, 112806:1-14 (2022).
- Lucie Petrásková, Kristýna Káňová, Katerina Brodsky, Anastasiia Hetman, Barbora Petránková, Helena Pelantová, Vladimír Křen, Kateřina Valentová: Sulfated Phenolic Substances: Preparation and Optimized HPLC Analysis. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 23 (10), 5743:1-18 (2022).
- Marcel Hrubša, Václav Tvrdý, Michal Kutý, Kateřina Valentová, Vladimír Křen, Přemysl Mladěnka: Interaction of Flavonoids with Zinc and Zinc-Containing Enzymes. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 70 (20), 6134-6144 (2022).
- Vladimír Křen, Kateřina Valentová: Silybin and its congeners: from traditional medicine to molecular effects. Natural Product Reports, 39 (6), 1264-1281 (2022).
- Katerina Brodsky, Kristýna Káňová, Dorota Konvalinková, Kristýna Slámová, Helena Pelantová, Kateřina Valentová, Pavla Bojarová, Vladimír Křen, Lucie Petrásková: Bacterial Aryl Sulfotransferases in Selective and Sustainable Sulfation of Biologically Active Compounds using Novel Sulfate Donors. ChemSusChem, 15 (18), e202201253: 1-9 (2022).
- Martina Hurtová, Kristýna Káňová, Simona Dobiasová, Kateřina Holasová, Denisa Čáková, Lan Hoang, David Biedermann, Marek Kuzma, Josef Cvačka, Vladimír Křen, Jitka Viktorová, Kateřina Valentová: Selectively Halogenated Flavonolignans – Preparation and Antibacterial Activity. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 23 (23), 15121: 1-18 (2022).
- Viola Kolaříková, Katerina Brodsky, Lucie Petrásková, Helena Pelantová, Josef Cvačka, Libor Havlíček, Vladimír Křen, Kateřina Valentová: Sulfation of Phenolic Acids: Chemoenzymatic vs. Chemical Synthesis. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 23 (23), 15171: 1-16 (2022).
Commissions of Trust and Serving Scientific Community:
Membership:
- Expert advisory board of the program INTER-ACTION (2020 onwards) and INTER-INFORM (2016 onwards, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic)
- Evaluation panel P306 (2020-2023) and P303 (2019-2020)
- Doctoral Study Board of Medical Chemistry and Clinical Biochemistry, Palacký University Olomouc
Reviewing grant proposals:
- HORIZON 2020 FET-OPEN, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic
- Technology Agency of the Czech Republic
Peer reviewing manuscripts:
- Food Chem. Toxicol., Molecules, Int. J. Mol. Sci, Biomedicines, Crit. Rev. Food Sci. Nutr., Marine Drugs, Crit. Rev. Anal. Chem., Pathogens, Crit. Rev. Toxicol., Medicina, Cosmetics, Redox Biol., J. Sci. Food Agr., Int. J. Exp. Pathol., Antioxidants, Appl. Microbiol., Plant Foods Hum. Nutr., J. Agr. Food Chem., etc. – 81 verified reviews, WOS
Conference organization:
- 4th International Conference on Food Bioactives & Health 2023, Prague (chair)
Last update: November 05, 2024