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Justin Fletcher, Ph.D.

Justin Fletcher, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

School
School of Health Professions
Department
Clinical Nutrition
  • Education
    Graduate School
    Uni of Missouri - Columbia (2014), Exercise Physiology
  • Research Interest
    • Effects of alcohol consumption on heart health/function
    • Exercise Physiology
    • Liver Disease (alcoholic, non-alcoholic)
    • Metabolism
    • Pathophysiology of Obesity
    • Stable Isotope Tracers
  • Publications

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    Hepatic malonyl-CoA synthesis restrains gluconeogenesis by suppressing fat oxidation, pyruvate carboxylation, and amino acid availability.
    Deja S, Fletcher JA, Kim CW, Kucejova B, Fu X, Mizerska M, Villegas M, Pudelko-Malik N, Browder N, Inigo-Vollmer M, Menezes CJ, Mishra P, Berglund ED, Browning JD, Thyfault JP, Young JD, Horton JD, Burgess SC, Cell Metab 2024 Mar
    Persistent fasting lipogenesis links impaired ketogenesis with citrate synthesis in humans with nonalcoholic fatty liver.
    Fu X, Fletcher JA, Deja S, Inigo-Vollmer M, Burgess SC, Browning JD, J Clin Invest 2023 May 133 9
    Silencing alanine transaminase 2 in diabetic liver attenuates hyperglycemia by reducing gluconeogenesis from amino acids.
    Martino MR, Gutiérrez-Aguilar M, Yiew NKH, Lutkewitte AJ, Singer JM, McCommis KS, Ferguson D, Liss KHH, Yoshino J, Renkemeyer MK, Smith GI, Cho K, Fletcher JA, Klein S, Patti GJ, Burgess SC, Finck BN, Cell Rep 2022 Apr 39 4 110733
    Hepatic TM6SF2 is Required for Lipidation of VLDL in a Pre-Golgi Compartment in Mice and Rats.
    Luo F, Smagris E, Martin S, Vale G, McDonald JG, Fletcher JA, Burgess SC, Hobbs HH, Cohen JC, Cell Mol Gastroenterol Hepatol 2021 Dec
    Measurement of lipogenic flux by deuterium resolved mass spectrometry.
    Fu X, Deja S, Fletcher JA, Anderson NN, Mizerska M, Vale G, Browning JD, Horton JD, McDonald JG, Mitsche MA, Burgess SC, Nat Commun 2021 06 12 1 3756
    Fibroblast growth factor 21 increases hepatic oxidative capacity but not physical activity or energy expenditure in hepatic peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor ? coactivator-1a-deficient mice.
    Fletcher JA, Linden MA, Sheldon RD, Meers GM, Morris EM, Butterfield A, Perfield JW, Rector RS, Thyfault JP, Exp. Physiol. 2018 03 103 3 408-418