With the inauguration of a new research center, we have changed our name to the Joint Research Center for Human Retrovirus Infection, Kumamoto University Campus.
Month: April 2019
Selection for JSPS Core-to-Core Program
Intercontinental Research and Educational Platform Aiming for Eradication of HIV/AIDS (Representative: Takamasa Ueno, Infection and Immunity) was selected for the JSPS Core-to-Core Program.
Selection for FY2019 AMED Research Program on HIV/AIDS
Neutralizing Antibody-Mediated Treatment Strategy towards Cure of HIV-1 Infection (Representative: Shuzo Matsushita, Clinical Retrovirology) was selected for FY2019 AMED Research Program on HIV/AIDS.
Selection for FY2019 AMED Research Program on HIV/AIDS
Creation of New Druggable Targets to Overcome HIV-1 Latency via Collaboration between High-Resolution Nucleic Acid Analyses and Leading-Edge Techniques for Viral Dynamics (Representative: Yorifumi Satou, Genomics and Transcript
Updated publications.
Ueno M, Nogawa M, Siddiqui R, Watashi K, Wakita T, Kato N, Ikeda M, Okimura T, Isaka S, Oda T, Ariumi Y. Acidic polysaccharides isolated from marine algae inhibit the early step of viral infection. Int. J. Biol. Macromol. 124:282-290, 2019.(Division of Retroelement)
Smita Kulkarni, Alexandra Lied, Viraj Kulkarni, Marijana Rucevic, Maureen P. Martin, Victoria Walker-Sperling, Stephen K. Anderson, Rodger Ewy, Sukhvinder Singh, Hoang Nguyen, Paul J. McLaren, Mathias Viard, Vivek Naranbhai, Chengcheng Zou, Zhansong Lin, Hiroyuki Gatanaga, Shinichi Oka, Masafumi Takiguchi, Chloe L. Thio, Joseph Margolick, Gregory D. Kirk, James J. Goedert, W. Keith Hoots, Steven G. Deeks, David W. Haas, Nelson Michael, Bruce Walker, Sylvie Le Gall, Fatema Z. Chowdhury, Xu G. Yu and Mary Carrington, CCR5AS lncRNA variation differentially regulates CCR5, influencing HIV disease outcome, Nat Immunol. 20:824-834, 2019(Division of International Collaboration Research / Takiguchi Lab)
Nozomi Kuse, Xiaoming Sun, Tomohiro Akahoshi, Anna Lissina, Takuya Yamamoto, Victor Appay, and Masafumi Takiguchi, Priming of HIV-1-specific CD8+ T cells with strong functional properties from naive T cells, EBioMedicine 42:109-119, 2019(Division of International Collaboration Research / Takiguchi Lab)
Chengcheng Zou*, Hayato Murakoshi*, Nozomi Kuse, Tomohiro Akahoshi, Takayuki Chikata, Hiroyuki Gatanaga, Shinichi Oka, Tomas Hanke, and Masafumi Takiguchi (*Equal contribution), Effective suppression of HIV-1 replication by CTLs specific for Pol epitopes in conserved mosaic vaccine immunogens, J. Virol. 93:e02142-18, 2019(Division of International Collaboration Research / Takiguchi Lab)