N-Oleoyl-L-phenylalanine is an N-acyl amide.1 It increases the oxygen consumption rate (OCR) of mitochondria isolated from mouse brown adipose tissue in a Seahorse assay and decreases oligomycin-induced increases in the mitochondrial membrane potential in C2C12 cells, indicating mitochondrial uncoupling activity, when used at a concentration of 50 μM. N-Oleoyl-L-phenylalanine (30 mg/kg for eight days) reduces food intake and body weight of diet-induced obese mice.

|1. Long, J.Z., Svensson, K.J., Bateman, L.A., et al. The secreted enzyme PM20D1 regulates lipidated amino acid uncouplers of mitochondria. Cell 166(2), 1-12 (2016).