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Overview

Jeffery S. Cox is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine, Immunology and Microbiology, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these broader areas, their work focuses particularly on Immunology, Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, and Oncology.

The scientist's research topics include tuberculosis research and epidemiology, interferon and immune responses, autophagy in disease and therapy, galectins and cancer biology, immune cells in cancer, Mycobacterium research and diagnosis, and cytokine signaling pathways and interactions.

Jeffery S. Cox has contributed to publications in several key venues with a notable frequency. These include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 14 publications, PLoS Pathogens with 3, Nature Microbiology with 2, mBio with 2, and Cell Reports with 2.

Frequent co-authors in their work are Jonathan M. Budzik (12 collaborations), Nevan J. Krogan (10 collaborations), Teresa Repasy (8), Huntly M. Morrison (7), and Nicholas E. Garelis (7).

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Jeffery S. Cox include:

  • Interferon-independent STING signaling promotes resistance to HSV-1 in vivo, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Autophagy restricts Mycobacterium tuberculosis during acute infection in mice, 2023, Nature Microbiology
  • Galectin-8 Senses Phagosomal Damage and Recruits Selective Autophagy Adapter TAX1BP1 To Control Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection in Macrophages, 2021, mBio
  • Dynamic post-translational modification profiling of Mycobacterium tuberculosis-infected primary macrophages, 2020, eLife
  • TRIM14 Is a Key Regulator of the Type I IFN Response during Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection, 2020, The Journal of Immunology

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Transcriptional induction of genes encoding endoplasmic reticulum resident proteins requires a transmembrane protein kinase

    Jeffery S. Cox;Caroline E. Shamu;Peter Walter

  • A novel mechanism for regulating activity of a transcription factor that controls the unfolded protein response.

    Jeffery S Cox;Peter Walter

  • Type VII secretion — mycobacteria show the way

    Abdallah M Abdallah;Nicolaas C Gey van Pittius;Patricia A DiGiuseppe Champion;Jeffery Cox

  • Complex lipid determines tissue-specific replication of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in mice

    Jeffery S. Cox;Bing Chen;Michael McNeil;William R. Jacobs

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • The HMG domain of lymphoid enhancer factor 1 bends DNA and facilitates assembly of functional nucleoprotein structures

    Klaus Giese;Jeffery Cox;Rudolf Grosschedl

  • A novel mycolic acid cyclopropane synthetase is required for cording, persistence, and virulence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

    Michael S Glickman;Jeffery S Cox;William R Jacobs

  • Extracellular M. tuberculosis DNA Targets Bacteria for Autophagy by Activating the Host DNA-Sensing Pathway

    Robert O. Watson;Paolo S. Manzanillo;Jeffery S. Cox

  • Acute infection and macrophage subversion by Mycobacterium tuberculosis require a specialized secretion system

    Sarah A. Stanley;Sridharan Raghavan;William W. Hwang;Jeffery S. Cox

  • Circadian gene Bmal1 regulates diurnal oscillations of Ly6C(hi) inflammatory monocytes.

    Khoa D. Nguyen;Sarah J. Fentress;Yifu Qiu;Karen Yun

  • The Cytosolic Sensor cGAS Detects Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA to Induce Type I Interferons and Activate Autophagy

    Robert O. Watson;Samantha L. Bell;Donna A. MacDuff;Jacqueline M. Kimmey

  • Comprehensive Functional Analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Toxin-Antitoxin Systems: Implications for Pathogenesis, Stress Responses, and Evolution

    Holly R. Ramage;Lynn E. Connolly;Jeffery S. Cox

  • The ubiquitin ligase parkin mediates resistance to intracellular pathogens

    Paolo S. Manzanillo;Janelle S. Ayres;Robert O. Watson;Angela C. Collins

  • The unfolded protein response coordinates the production of endoplasmic reticulum protein and endoplasmic reticulum membrane.

    J S Cox;R E Chapman;P Walter

  • Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Activates the DNA-Dependent Cytosolic Surveillance Pathway within Macrophages

    Paolo S. Manzanillo;Michael U. Shiloh;Daniel A. Portnoy;Jeffery S. Cox

  • tRNA Ligase Is Required for Regulated mRNA Splicing in the Unfolded Protein Response

    Carmela Sidrauski;Jeffery S Cox;Peter Walter

  • The Type I IFN response to infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis requires ESX-1-mediated secretion and contributes to pathogenesis.

    Sarah A. Stanley;James E. Johndrow;Paolo Manzanillo;Jeffery S. Cox

  • Role of KatG catalase-peroxidase in mycobacterial pathogenesis: countering the phagocyte oxidative burst

    Vincent H. Ng;Jeffery S. Cox;Alexandra O. Sousa;John D. MacMicking

  • Pyrazinamide inhibits the eukaryotic-like fatty acid synthetase I (FASI) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    Oren Zimhony;Jeffery S. Cox;John T. Welch;Catherine Vilchèze

Frequent Co-Authors

Nevan J. Krogan
Nevan J. Krogan University of California, San Francisco
Jeffrey R. Johnson
Jeffrey R. Johnson Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Evelina Gatti
Evelina Gatti Aix-Marseille University
Daniel A. Portnoy
Daniel A. Portnoy University of California, Berkeley
Carolyn R. Bertozzi
Carolyn R. Bertozzi Stanford University
Peter Walter
Peter Walter University of California, San Francisco
Shazib Pervaiz
Shazib Pervaiz National University of Singapore
Beth Levine
Beth Levine The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
William R. Jacobs
William R. Jacobs Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Yee-Joo Tan
Yee-Joo Tan National University of Singapore

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