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Featured Publications

Select recent research articles

  • Triacylglycerol mobilization underpins mitochondrial stress recovery   
    Baker ZN, Zhu Y, Guerra RM, Smith AJ, Arra A, Serrano LR, Overmyer KA, Mukherji S, Craig EA, Coon JJ, Pagliarini DJ.  
    Nature Cell Biology (2025) 
  • Systematic analysis of NDUFAF6 in complex I assembly and mitochondrial disease
    Sung AY, Guerra RM, Steenberge LH, Alston CL, Murayama K, Okazaki Y, Shimura M, Prokisch H, Ghezzi D, Torraco A, Carrozzo R, Rötig A, Taylor RW, Keck JL, and Pagliarini DJ  
    Nature Metabolism 2024
  • Coenzyme Q4 is a functional substitute for coenzyme Q10 and can be targeted to the mitochondria
    Steenberge LH, Rogers S, Sung AY, Fan J, and Pagliarini DJ
    Journal of Biological Chemistry 2024
  • ACAD10 and ACAD11 enable mammalian 4-hydroxy acid lipid catabolism  
    Rashan EH, Bartlett AK, Khana DB, Zhang J, Jain R, Smith AJ, Baker ZN, Cook T, Caldwell A, Chevalier AR, Pfleger BF, Yuan P, Amador-Noguez D, Simcox JA, and Pagliarini DJ
    bioRxiv 2024
  • Pptc7 maintains mitochondrial protein content by suppressing receptor-mediated mitophagy
    Niemi NM†, Serrano L, Muehlbauer LK, Balnis C, Kozul K, Rashan EH, Shishkova E, Schueler K, Keller MP, Attie AD, Pagan J, Coon JJ, and Pagliarini DJ†
    Nature Communications, 2023
  • Hem25p is required for mitochondrial IPP transport in fungi
    Tai JT, Guerra RM, Rogers SW, Fang Z, Muehlbauer KL, Shishkova E, Overmyer KA, Coon JJ, and Pagliarini DJ
    Nature Cell Biology, 2023
  • Small Molecule Inhibition of the Archetypal UbiB protein COQ8
    Murray NH, Asquith CR, Fang Z, Smith RW, Vasta JD, Zimprich CA, Corona CR, Robers MB, Bingman CA, and Pagliarini DJ
    Nature Chemical Biology, 2022
  • Structure and functionality of a multimeric human COQ7:COQ9 complex
    Manicki M*, Aydin H*, Abriata LA, Overmyer KA, Guerra RM, Coon JJ, Dal Peraro M, Frost A† and Pagliarini DJ†
    Molecular Cell, 2022
  • Defining mitochondrial protein functions through deep multiomic profiling
    Rensvold JW*, Shishkova E*, Miller IJ, Sverchkov Y, Cetinkaya A, Pyle A, Manicki M, Brademan DR, Alanay Y, Raiman J, Jochem J, Peters SR, Linke V, Hutchins PD, Overmyer KA, Salome AZ, Hebert AS, Balnis CV, Kwiecien NW, Rush MJ, Westphall MS, Craven M, Akarsu NA, Taylor RW, Coon JJ†, and Pagliarini DJ†
    Nature, 2022  
  • UbiB proteins regulate cellular CoQ distribution in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    Kemmerer ZA, Robinson KP, Schmitz JM, Manicki M, Paulson BR, Jochem A, Hutchins PD, Coon JJ, and Pagliarini DJ
    Nature Communications, 2021 
  • Pathogenic biallelic mutations in NDUFAF8 cause Leigh syndrome with an isolated complex I deficiency
    Alston CL*, Veling MT*, Heidler J, Taylor LC, Alaimo JT, Sung AY, He L, Hopton S, Broomfield A, Pavaine J, Pavaine J, Diaz J, Wolf P, McFarland R, Prokisch H, Wortmann SB, Bonnen PE, Wittig I, Pagliarini DJ†, and Taylor RW†
    American Journal of Human Genetics, 2020 
  • Pptc7 is an essential phosphatase that promotes mitochondrial metabolism by enabling protein import and processingNiemi NM, Wilson GM, Overmyer KA, Vögtle FN, Lohman DC, Schueler KL, Attie AD, Meisinger C, Coon JJ, and Pagliarini DJ
    Nature Communications, 2019 
  • An isoprene lipid binding protein promotes eukaryotic coenzyme Q biosynthesis
    Lohman DC*, Aydin D*, Von Bank H, Smith R, Linke V, Weisenhorn EM, McDevitt MT, Hutchins PD, Wilkerson EM, Wancewicz B, Russell JD, Stefely MS, Beebe ET, Jochem A, Coon JJ, Bingman CA, Dal Peraro M†, and Pagliarini DJ†
    Molecular Cell, 2019 
  • Systems analyses reveal physiological roles and genetic regulators of liver lipid species
    Jha P*, McDevitt MT*, Gupta R*, Quiros PM, Williams EG, Gariani K, Sleiman MB, Diserens L, Jochem A, Ulbrich A, Coon JJ, Auwerx J†, and Pagliarini DJ†
    Cell Systems, 2018 
  • Genetic regulation of plasma lipid species and their association with metabolic phenotypes
    Jha P*, McDevitt MT*, Halilbasic E, Williams EG, Quiros PM, Gariani K, Sleiman MB, Ulbrich A, Coon JJ, Trauner M, Pagliarini DJ†, and Auwerx J†
    Cell Systems, 2018 6(6):709-721
  • Multi-Omics Reveal Specific Targets of the RNA-Binding Protein Puf3p and Its Orchestration of Mitochondrial Biogenesis
    Lapointe CP*, Stefely JA*, Jochem A, Hutchins PD, Wilson GM, Kwiecien NW, Coon JJ, Wickens MP†, and Pagliarini DJ†
    Cell Systems, 2018 6(1):125-135
  • Conserved lipid and small molecule modulation of COQ8 reveals regulation of the ancient kinase-like UbiB family
    Reidenbach AG, Kemmerer ZA, Aydin D, Jochem A, McDevitt MT, Hutchins PD, Stark JL, Stefely JA, Reddy T, Hebert AS, Wilkerson EM, JA, Johnson IE, Bingman CA, Markley JL, Coon JJ, Dal Peraro M, and Pagliarini DJ
    Cell Chemical Biology, 2018 
  • Multi-omic mitoprotease profiling defines a role for Oct1p in coenzyme Q production
    Veling MT, Reidenbach AG, Freiberger EC, Kwiecien NW, Hutchins PD, Drahnak MJ, Jochem A, Ulbrich A, Rush JPR, Russell JD, Coon JJ, and Pagliarini DJ
    Molecular Cell, 2017 
  • Ptc7p Dephosphorylates Select Mitochondrial Proteins to Enhance Metabolic Function
    Guo X*, Niemi NM*, Hutchins PD, Condon SG, Jochem A, Ulbrich A, Higbee AJ, Russell JD, Senes A, Coon JJ, Pagliarini DJ
    Cell Reports, 2017 
  • Mitochondrial Protein Functions Elucidated by Multi-Omic Mass Spectrometry Profiling
    Stefely JA*, Kwiecien NW*, Freiberger EC, Richards AL, Jochem A, Rush MJ, Ulbrich A, Robinson KP, Hutchins PD, Veiling MT, Guo X, Kemmerer ZA, Connors KJ, Trujillo EA, Sokol J, Marx H, Westphall MS, Hebert AS, Pagliarini DJ†, Coon JJ†
    Nature Biotechnology, 2016 
  • Mitochondrial Protein Interaction Mapping Identifies Regulators of Respiratory Chain Function
    Floyd BJ*, Wilkerson EM*, Veling MT*, Minogue CE*, Xia C, Beebe ET, Wrobel RL, Cho H, Kremer LS, Alston CL, Gromek KA, Dolan BK, Ulbrich A, Stefely JA, Bohl SL, Werner KM, Jochem A, Westphall MS, Rensvold JW, Taylor RW, Prokisch H, Kim JJ, Coon JJ,  Pagliarini DJ
    Molecular Cell, 2016 
  • Cerebellar Ataxia and Coenzyme Q Deficiency through Loss of Unorthodox Kinase Activity
    Stefely JA*, Licitra F*, Laredj L, Reidenbach AG, Kemmerer ZA, Grangeray A, Jaeg-Ehret T, Minogue CE, Ulbrich A, Hutchins PD, Wilkerson EM, Ruan Z, Aydin D, Hebert AS, Guo X, Freiberger EC, Reutenauer L, Jochem A, Chergova M, Johnson IE, Lohman DC, Rush MJ, Kwiecien NW, Singh PK, Schlagowski AI, Floyd BJ, Forsman U, Sindelar PJ, Westphall MS, Pierrel F, Zoll J, Dal Peraro M, Kannan N, Bingman CA, Coon JJ, Isope P, Puccio H†, Pagliarini DJ†
    Molecular Cell, 2016 
  • Mitochondrial ADCK3 Employs an Atypical Protein Kinase-like Fold to Enable Coenzyme Q Biosynthesis
    Stefely JA*, Reidenbach AG*, Ulbrich A, Oruganty K, Floyd BJ, Jochem A, Saunders JM, Johnson IE, Minogue CE, Wrobel RL, Barber GE, Lee D, Li S, Kannan N, Coon JJ, Bingman CA and Pagliarini DJ
    Molecular Cell, 2015

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Reviews and commentaries

  • Mitochondrial proteome research: the road ahead
    Baker ZN, Forny P, and Pagliarini DJ
    Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2023
  • The extensive and functionally uncharacterized mitochondrial phosphoproteome
    Niemi NM and Pagliarini DJ
    Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2021 Jun 15:100880
  • Systems biochemistry approaches to defining mitochondrial protein function
    Sung AY, Floyd BJ, and Pagliarini DJ
    Cell Metabolism, 2020, 31 (4): 669-678
  • ADCK3/COQ8A: The choice target of the UbiB protein kinase-like family
    Asquith CRM†, Murray NH, and Pagliarini DJ†
    Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2019 Oct;18(11):815
  • A path to the powerhouse: systems-to-structure approaches for studying mitochondrial proteins
    Pagliarini DJ
    Protein Science, 2018 27(8):1518-1525
  • Biochemistry of Mitochondrial Coenzyme Q Biosynthesis
    Stefely JA and Pagliarini DJ
    Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 2017 42(10):824-843
  • Transomics: Mitochondrial Systems Analyses Get Supercomplex
    Pagliarini DJ
    Cell Metabolism, 2016 Jul 12;24(1):13-4
  • Hallmarks of a new era in mitochondrial biochemistry
    Pagliarini DJ† and Rutter J†
    Genes and Development 2013, 27(24): 2615-27 
  • Mitochondrial modulation: reversible phosphorylation takes center stage?
    Pagliarini DJ and Dixon JE
    Trends in Biochemical Sciences 2006, 31(1): 26-34


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