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James E. Cox

James E. Cox, PhD

Languages spoken: English

Academic Information

Departments Primary - Biochemistry

Academic Office Information

jcox@cores.utah.edu

Education History

Doctoral Training Ohio State University
PhD
University of Kentucky
BA, BS

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. Marcero JR, Cox JE, Bergonia HA, Medlock AE, Phillips JD, Dailey HA (2021). The immunometabolite itaconate inhibits heme synthesis and remodels cellular metabolism in erythroid precursors. Blood Adv, 5(23), 4831-4841.
  2. Jadhav S, Protchenko O, Li F, Baratz E, Shakoury-Elizeh M, Maschek A, Cox J, Philpott CC (2021). Mitochondrial dysfunction in mouse livers depleted of iron chaperone PCBP1. Free Radic Biol Med, 175, 18-27.
  3. Nuebel E, Morgan JT, Fogarty S, Winter JM, Lettlova S, Berg JA, Chen YC, Kidwell CU, Maschek JA, Clowers KJ, Argyriou C, Chen L, Wittig I, Cox JE, Roh-Johnson M, Braverman N, Bonkowsky J, Gygi SP, Rutter J (2021). The biochemical basis of mitochondrial dysfunction in Zellweger Spectrum Disorder. EMBO Rep, 22(10), e51991.
  4. Ferrara PJ, Verkerke ARP, Maschek JA, Shahtout JL, Siripoksup P, Eshima H, Johnson JM, Petrocelli JJ, Mahmassani ZS, Green TD, McClung JM, Cox JE, Drummond MJ, Funai K (2021). Low lysophosphatidylcholine induces skeletal muscle myopathy that is aggravated by high-fat diet feeding. FASEB J, 35(10), e21867.
  5. Nicholson RJ, Poss AM, Maschek JA, Cox JE, Hopkins PN, Hunt SC, Playdon MC, Holland WL, Summers SA (2020). Characterizing a Common CERS2 Polymorphism in a Mouse Model of Metabolic Disease and in Subjects from the Utah CAD Study. J Clin Endocrinol Metab, 106(8), e3098-e3109.
  6. Huffaker TB, Ekiz HA, Barba C, Lee SH, Runtsch MC, Nelson MC, Bauer KM, Tang WW, Mosbruger TL, Cox JE, Round JL, Voth WP, OConnell RM (2021). A Stat1 bound enhancer promotes Nampt expression and function within tumor associated macrophages. Nat Commun, 12(1), 2620.
  7. Yan D, Franzini A, Pomicter AD, Halverson BJ, Antelope O, Mason CC, Ahmann JM, Senina AV, Vellore NA, Jones CL, Zabriskie MS, Than H, Xiao MJ, van Scoyk A, Patel AB, Clair PM, Heaton WL, Owen SC, Andersen JL, Egbert CM, Reisz JA, DAlessandro A, Cox JE, Gantz KC, Redwine HM, Iyer SM, Khorashad JS, Rajabi N, Olsen CA, OHare T, Deininger MW (2019). SIRT5 IS A DRUGGABLE METABOLIC VULNERABILITY IN ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA. Blood Cancer Discov, 2(3), 266-287.
  8. Ferrara PJ, Rong X, Maschek JA, Verkerke AR, Siripoksup P, Song H, Green TD, Krishnan KC, Johnson JM, Turk J, Houmard JA, Lusis AJ, Drummond MJ, McClung JM, Cox JE, Shaikh SR, Tontonoz P, Holland WL, Funai K (2019). Lysophospholipid acylation modulates plasma membrane lipid organization and insulin sensitivity in skeletal muscle. J Clin Invest, 131(8).
  9. Cluntun AA, Badolia R, Lettlova S, Parnell KM, Shankar TS, Diakos NA, Olson KA, Taleb I, Tatum SM, Berg JA, Cunningham CN, Van Ry T, Bott AJ, Krokidi AT, Fogarty S, Skedros S, Swiatek WI, Yu X, Luo B, Merx S, Navankasattusas S, Cox JE, Ducker GS, Holland WL, McKellar SH, Rutter J, Drakos SG (2020). The pyruvate-lactate axis modulates cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure. Cell Metab, 33(3), 629-648.e10.
  10. Protchenko O, Baratz E, Jadhav S, Li F, Shakoury-Elizeh M, Gavrilova O, Ghosh MC, Cox JE, Maschek JA, Tyurin VA, Tyurina YY, Bayir H, Aron AT, Chang CJ, Kagan VE, Philpott CC (2020). Iron Chaperone Poly rC Binding Protein 1 Protects Mouse Liver From Lipid Peroxidation and Steatosis. Hepatology, 73(3), 1176-1193.
  11. Chaurasia B, Ying L, Talbot CL, Maschek JA, Cox J, Schuchman EH, Hirabayashi Y, Holland WL, Summers SA (2020). Ceramides are necessary and sufficient for diet-induced impairment of thermogenic adipocytes. Mol Metab, 45, 101145.
  12. Liou TG, Adler FR, Cahill BC, Cox DR, Cox JE, Grant GJ, Hanson KE, Hartsell SC, Hatton ND, Helms MN, Jensen JL, Kartsonaki C, Li Y, Leung DT, Marvin JE, Middleton EA, Osburn-Staker SM, Packer KA, Shakir SM, Sturrock AB, Tardif KD, Warren KJ, Waddoups LJ, Weaver LJ, Zimmerman E, Paine R 3rd (2020). SARS-CoV-2 innate effector associations and viral load in early nasopharyngeal infection. Physiol Rep, 9(4), e14761.
  13. Cortes-Selva D, Gibbs L, Maschek JA, Nascimento M, Van Ry T, Cox JE, Amiel E, Fairfax KC (2021). Metabolic reprogramming of the myeloid lineage by Schistosoma mansoni infection persists independently of antigen exposure. PLoS Pathog, 17(1), e1009198.
  14. Zhang Y, Taufalele PV, Cochran JD, Robillard-Frayne I, Marx JM, Soto J, Rauckhorst AJ, Tayyari F, Pewa AD, Gray LR, Teesch LM, Puchalska P, Funari TR, McGlauflin R, Zimmerman K, Kutschke WJ, Cassier T, Hitchcock S, Lin K, Kato KM, Stueve JL, Haff L, Weiss RM, Cox JE, Rutter J, Taylor EB, Crawford PA, Lewandowski ED, Des Rosiers C, Abel ED (2020). Mitochondrial pyruvate carriers are required for myocardial stress adaptation. Nat Metab, 2(11), 1248-1264.
  15. Nowinski SM, Solmonson A, Rusin SF, Maschek JA, Bensard CL, Fogarty S, Jeong MY, Lettlova S, Berg JA, Morgan JT, Ouyang Y, Naylor BC, Paulo JA, Funai K, Cox JE, Gygi SP, Winge DR, DeBerardinis RJ, Rutter J (2020). Mitochondrial fatty acid synthesis coordinates oxidative metabolism in mammalian mitochondria. Elife, 9.
  16. Panic V, Pearson S, Banks J, Tippetts TS, Velasco-Silva JN, Lee S, Simcox J, Geoghegan G, Bensard CL, van Ry T, Holland WL, Summers SA, Cox J, Ducker GS, Rutter J, Villanueva CJ (2020). Mitochondrial pyruvate carrier is required for optimal brown fat thermogenesis. Elife, 9.
  17. Naylor BC, Catrow JL, Maschek JA, Cox JE (2020). QSRR Automator: A Tool for Automating Retention Time Prediction in Lipidomics and Metabolomics. Metabolites, 10(6).
  18. Poss AM, Maschek JA, Cox JE, Hauner BJ, Hopkins PN, Hunt SC, Holland WL, Summers SA, Playdon MC (2019). Machine learning reveals serum sphingolipids as cholesterol-independent biomarkers of coronary artery disease. J Clin Invest, 130(3), 1363-1376.
  19. Weinheimer C, Wang H, Comstock JM, Singh P, Wang Z, Locklear BA, Goodwin KL, Maschek JA, Cox JE, Baack ML, Joss-Moore LA (2020). Maternal Tobacco Smoke Exposure Causes Sex-Divergent Changes in Placental Lipid Metabolism in the Rat. Reprod Sci, 27(2), 631-643.
  20. Schober ME, Requena DF, Maschek JA, Cox J, Parra L, Lolofie A (2019). Effects of controlled cortical impact and docosahexaenoic acid on rat pup fatty acid profiles. Behav Brain Res, 378, 112295.
  21. Varedi A, Rahman H, Kumar D, Catrow JL, Cox JE, Liu T, Florell SR, Boucher KM, Okwundu N, Burnett WJ, VanBrocklin MW, Grossman D (2020). ASA Suppresses PGE2 in Plasma and Melanocytic Nevi of Human Subjects at Increased Risk for Melanoma. Pharmaceuticals (Basel), 13(1).
  22. Johnson JM, Verkerke ARP, Maschek JA, Ferrara PJ, Lin CT, Kew KA, Neufer PD, Lodhi IJ, Cox JE, Funai K (2019). Alternative splicing of UCP1 by non-cell-autonomous action of PEMT. Mol Metab, 31, 55-66.
  23. Chalermwat C, Thosapornvichai T, Wongkittichote P, Phillips JD, Cox JE, Jensen AN, Wattanasirichaigoon D, Jensen LT (2019). Overexpression of the peroxin Pex34p suppresses impaired acetate utilization in yeast lacking the mitochondrial aspartate/glutamate carrier Agc1p. FEMS Yeast Res, 19(8).
  24. Heden TD, Johnson JM, Ferrara PJ, Eshima H, Verkerke ARP, Wentzler EJ, Siripoksup P, Narowski TM, Coleman CB, Lin CT, Ryan TE, Reidy PT, de Castro Brs LE, Karner CM, Burant CF, Maschek JA, Cox JE, Mashek DG, Kardon G, Boudina S, Zeczycki TN, Rutter J, Shaikh SR, Vance JE, Drummond MJ, Neufer PD, Funai K (2019). Mitochondrial PE potentiates respiratory enzymes to amplify skeletal muscle aerobic capacity. Sci Adv, 5(9), eaax8352.
  25. Chaurasia B, Tippetts TS, Mayoral Monibas R, Liu J, Li Y, Wang L, Wilkerson JL, Sweeney CR, Pereira RF, Sumida DH, Maschek JA, Cox JE, Kaddai V, Lancaster GI, Siddique MM, Poss A, Pearson M, Satapati S, Zhou H, McLaren DG, Previs SF, Chen Y, Qian Y, Petrov A, Wu M, Shen X, Yao J, Nunes CN, Howard AD, Wang L, Erion MD, Rutter J, Holland WL, Kelley DE, Summers SA (2019). Targeting a ceramide double bond improves insulin resistance and hepatic steatosis. Science, 365(6451), 386-392.
  26. Petersen C, Bell R, Klag KA, Lee SH, Soto R, Ghazaryan A, Buhrke K, Ekiz HA, Ost KS, Boudina S, OConnell RM, Cox JE, Villanueva CJ, Stephens WZ, Round JL (2018). T cell-mediated regulation of the microbiota protects against obesity. Science, 365(6451).
  27. Sharma A, Oonthonpan L, Sheldon RD, Rauckhorst AJ, Zhu Z, Tompkins SC, Cho K, Grzesik WJ, Gray LR, Scerbo DA, Pewa AD, Cushing EM, Dyle MC, Cox JE, Adams C, Davies BS, Shields RK, Norris AW, Patti G, Zingman LV, Taylor EB (2019). Impaired skeletal muscle mitochondrial pyruvate uptake rewires glucose metabolism to drive whole-body leanness. Elife, 8.
  28. Nakamura M, Liu T, Husain S, Zhai P, Warren JS, Hsu CP, Matsuda T, Phiel CJ, Cox JE, Tian B, Li H, Sadoshima J (2019). Glycogen Synthase Kinase-3α Promotes Fatty Acid Uptake and Lipotoxic Cardiomyopathy. Cell Metab, 29(5), 1119-1134.e12.
  29. Ganeshan K, Nikkanen J, Man K, Leong YA, Sogawa Y, Maschek JA, Van Ry T, Chagwedera DN, Cox JE, Chawla A (2019). Energetic Trade-Offs and Hypometabolic States Promote Disease Tolerance. Cell, 177(2), 399-413.e12.
  30. Washburn RL, Cox JE, Muhlestein JB, May HT, Carlquist JF, Le VT, Anderson JL, Horne BD (2019). Pilot Study of Novel Intermittent Fasting Effects on Metabolomic and Trimethylamine N-oxide Changes During 24-hour Water-Only Fasting in the FEELGOOD Trial. Nutrients, 11(2).
  31. Speirs MMP, Swensen AC, Chan TY, Jones PM, Holman JC, Harris MB, Maschek JA, Cox JE, Carson RH, Hill JT, Andersen JL, Prince JT, Price JC (2019). Imbalanced sphingolipid signaling is maintained as a core proponent of a cancerous phenotype in spite of metabolic pressure and epigenetic drift. Oncotarget, 10(4), 449-479.
  32. Kumar D, Rahman H, Tyagi E, Liu T, Li C, Lu R, Lum D, Holmen SL, Maschek JA, Cox JE, VanBrocklin MW, Grossman D (2018). Aspirin Suppresses PGE2 and Activates AMP Kinase to Inhibit Melanoma Cell Motility, Pigmentation, and Selective Tumor Growth In Vivo. Cancer Prev Res (Phila), 11(10), 629-642.
  33. Burch JS, Marcero JR, Maschek JA, Cox JE, Jackson LK, Medlock AE, Phillips JD, Dailey HA Jr (2018). Glutamine via α-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase provides succinyl-CoA for heme synthesis during erythropoiesis. Blood, 132(10), 987-998.
  34. Warren JS, Tracy CM, Miller MR, Makaju A, Szulik MW, Oka SI, Yuzyuk TN, Cox JE, Kumar A, Lozier BK, Wang L, Llana JG, Sabry AD, Cawley KM, Barton DW, Han YH, Boudina S, Fiehn O, Tucker HO, Zaitsev AV, Franklin S (2018). Histone methyltransferase Smyd1 regulates mitochondrial energetics in the heart. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 115(33), E7871-E7880.
  35. Ward DM, Chen OS, Li L, Kaplan J, Bhuiyan SA, Natarajan SK, Bard M, Cox JE (2018). Altered sterol metabolism in budding yeast affects mitochondrial iron-sulfur (Fe-S) cluster synthesis. J Biol Chem, 293(27), 10782-10795.
  36. Deering-Rice CE, Nguyen N, Lu Z, Cox JE, Shapiro D, Romero EG, Mitchell VK, Burrell KL, Veranth JM, Reilly CA (2018). Activation of TRPV3 by Wood Smoke Particles and Roles in Pneumotoxicity. Chem Res Toxicol, 31(5), 291-301.
  37. Szaniawski MA, Spivak AM, Cox JE, Catrow JL, Hanley T, Williams ESCP, Tremblay MJ, Bosque A, Planelles V (2018). SAMHD1 Phosphorylation Coordinates the Anti-HIV-1 Response by Diverse Interferons and Tyrosine Kinase Inhibition. mBio, 9(3).
  38. Libbey JE, Sanchez JM, Doty DJ, Sim JT, Cusick MF, Cox JE, Fischer KF, Round JL, Fujinami RS (2018). Variations in diet cause alterations in microbiota and metabolites that follow changes in disease severity in a multiple sclerosis model. Benef Microbes, 9(3), 495-513.
  39. Pires KM, Buffolo M, Schaaf C, David Symons J, Cox J, Abel ED, Selzman CH, Boudina S (2017). Activation of IGF-1 receptors and Akt signaling by systemic hyperinsulinemia contributes to cardiac hypertrophy but does not regulate cardiac autophagy in obese diabetic mice. J Mol Cell Cardiol, 113, 39-50.
  40. Rauckhorst AJ, Gray LR, Sheldon RD, Fu X, Pewa AD, Feddersen CR, Dupuy AJ, Gibson-Corley KN, Cox JE, Burgess SC, Taylor EB (2017). The mitochondrial pyruvate carrier mediates high fat diet-induced increases in hepatic TCA cycle capacity. Mol Metab, 6(11), 1468-1479.
  41. Simcox J, Geoghegan G, Maschek JA, Bensard CL, Pasquali M, Miao R, Lee S, Jiang L, Huck I, Kershaw EE, Donato AJ, Apte U, Longo N, Rutter J, Schreiber R, Zechner R, Cox J, Villanueva CJ (2016). Global Analysis of Plasma Lipids Identifies Liver-Derived Acylcarnitines as a Fuel Source for Brown Fat Thermogenesis. Cell Metab, 26(3), 509-522.e6.
  42. Schell JC, Wisidagama DR, Bensard C, Zhao H, Wei P, Tanner J, Flores A, Mohlman J, Sorensen LK, Earl CS, Olson KA, Miao R, Waller TC, Delker D, Kanth P, Jiang L, DeBerardinis RJ, Bronner MP, Li DY, Cox JE, Christofk HR, Lowry WE, Thummel CS, Rutter J (2017). Control of intestinal stem cell function and proliferation by mitochondrial pyruvate metabolism. Nat Cell Biol, 19(9), 1027-1036.
  43. Cox JE, Thummel CS, Tennessen JM (2017). Metabolomic Studies in Drosophila. Genetics, 206(3), 1169-1185.
  44. Chiaro TR, Soto R, Zac Stephens W, Kubinak JL, Petersen C, Gogokhia L, Bell R, Delgado JC, Cox J, Voth W, Brown J, Stillman DJ, OConnell RM, Tebo AE, Round JL (2015). A member of the gut mycobiota modulates host purine metabolism exacerbating colitis in mice. Sci Transl Med, 9(380).
  45. Li H, Chawla G, Hurlburt AJ, Sterrett MC, Zaslaver O, Cox J, Karty JA, Rosebrock AP, Caudy AA, Tennessen JM (2017). Drosophila larvae synthesize the putative oncometabolite L-2-hydroxyglutarate during normal developmental growth. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 114(6), 1353-1358.
  46. Diakos NA, Navankasattusas S, Abel ED, Rutter J, McCreath L, Ferrin P, McKellar SH, Miller DV, Park SY, Richardson RS, Deberardinis R, Cox JE, Kfoury AG, Selzman CH, Stehlik J, Fang JC, Li DY, Drakos SG (2016). Evidence of Glycolysis Up-Regulation and Pyruvate Mitochondrial Oxidation Mismatch During Mechanical Unloading of the Failing Human Heart: Implications for Cardiac Reloading and Conditioning. JACC Basic Transl Sci, 1(6), 432-444.
  47. McClelland EE, Ramagopal UA, Rivera J, Cox J, Nakouzi A, Prabu MM, Almo SC, Casadevall A (2016). A Small Protein Associated with Fungal Energy Metabolism Affects the Virulence of Cryptococcus neoformans in Mammals. PLoS Pathog, 12(9), e1005849.
  48. Nam H, Jones D, Cooksey RC, Gao Y, Sink S, Cox J, McClain DA (2016). Synergistic Inhibitory Effects of Hypoxia and Iron Deficiency on Hepatic Glucose Response in Mouse Liver. Diabetes, 65(6), 1521-33.
  49. Robinson GL, Philip B, Guthrie MR, Cox JE, Robinson JP, VanBrocklin MW, Holmen SL (2016). In vitro visualization and characterization of wild type and mutant IDH homo- and heterodimers using Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation. Cancer Res Front, 2(2), 311-329.
  50. Frech TM, Revelo MP, Ryan JJ, Shah AA, Gordon J, Domsic R, Hant F, Assassi S, Shanmugam VK, Hinchcliff M, Steen V, Khanna D, Bernstein EJ, Cox J, Luem N, Drakos S (2015). Cardiac metabolomics and autopsy in a patient with early diffuse systemic sclerosis presenting with dyspnea: a case report. J Med Case Rep, 9, 136.
  51. Simcox JA, Mitchell TC, Gao Y, Just SF, Cooksey R, Cox J, Ajioka R, Jones D, Lee SH, King D, Huang J, McClain DA (2014). Dietary iron controls circadian hepatic glucose metabolism through heme synthesis. Diabetes, 64(4), 1108-19.
  52. Philip M, Funkhouser SA, Chiu EY, Phelps SR, Delrow JJ, Cox J, Fink PJ, Abkowitz JL (2015). Heme exporter FLVCR is required for T cell development and peripheral survival. J Immunol, 194(4), 1677-85.
  53. Shen PS, Park J, Qin Y, Li X, Parsawar K, Larson MH, Cox J, Cheng Y, Lambowitz AM, Weissman JS, Brandman O, Frost A (2015). Protein synthesis. Rqc2p and 60S ribosomal subunits mediate mRNA-independent elongation of nascent chains. Science, 347(6217), 75-8.
  54. Kohl KD, Weiss RB, Cox J, Dale C, Dearing MD (2014). Gut microbes of mammalian herbivores facilitate intake of plant toxins. Ecol Lett, 17(10), 1238-46.
  55. Na U, Yu W, Cox J, Bricker DK, Brockmann K, Rutter J, Thummel CS, Winge DR (2014). The LYR factors SDHAF1 and SDHAF3 mediate maturation of the iron-sulfur subunit of succinate dehydrogenase. Cell Metab, 20(2), 253-66.
  56. Tennessen JM, Barry WE, Cox J, Thummel CS (2014). Methods for studying metabolism in Drosophila. Methods, 68(1), 105-15.
  57. Tennessen JM, Bertagnolli NM, Evans J, Sieber MH, Cox J, Thummel CS (2014). Coordinated metabolic transitions during Drosophila embryogenesis and the onset of aerobic glycolysis. G3 (Bethesda), 4(5), 839-50.
  58. Huang J, Simcox J, Mitchell TC, Jones D, Cox J, Luo B, Cooksey RC, Boros LG, McClain DA (2013). Iron regulates glucose homeostasis in liver and muscle via AMP-activated protein kinase in mice. FASEB J, 27(7), 2845-54.
  59. Shibayama J, Taylor TG, Venable PW, Rhodes NL, Gil RB, Warren M, Wende AR, Abel ED, Cox J, Spitzer KW, Zaitsev AV (2013). Metabolic determinants of electrical failure in ex-vivo canine model of cardiac arrest: evidence for the protective role of inorganic pyrophosphate. PLoS One, 8(3), e57821.
  60. Fung C, Brown A, Cox J, Callaway C, McKnight R, Lane R (2014). Novel thromboxane A2 analog-induced IUGR mouse model. J Dev Orig Health Dis, 2(5), 291-301.

Letter

  1. Verkerke ARP, Ferrara PJ, Lin CT, Johnson JM, Ryan TE, Maschek JA, Eshima H, Paran CW, Laing BT, Siripoksup P, Tippetts TS, Wentzler EJ, Huang H, Spangenburg EE, Brault JJ, Villanueva CJ, Summers SA, Holland WL, Cox JE, Vance DE, Neufer PD, Funai K (2019). Phospholipid methylation regulates muscle metabolic rate through Ca2+ transport efficiency. [Letter to the editor]. Nat Metab, 1(9), 876-885.