The study of Virological characteristics of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2 spike has been published in Cell. (Ikeda Lab./Ueno Lab.)

Daichi Yamasoba#, Izumi Kimura#, Hesham Nasser#, Yuhei Morioka#, Naganori Nao#, Jumpei Ito#, Keiya Uriu#, Masumi Tsuda#, Jiri Zahradnik#, Kotaro Shirakawa, Rigel Suzuki, Mai Kishimoto, Yusuke Kosugi, Kouji Kobiyama, Teppei Hara, Mako Toyoda, Yuri L. Tanaka, Erika P. Butlertanaka, Ryo Shimizu, Hayato Ito, Lei Wang, Yoshitaka Oda, Yasuko Orba, Michihito Sasaki, Kayoko Nagata, Kumiko Yoshimatsu, Hiroyuki Asakura, Mami Nagashima, Kenji Sadamasu, Kazuhisa Yoshimura, Jin Kuramochi, Motoaki Seki, Ryoji Fujiki, Atsushi Kaneda, Tadanaga Shimada, Taka-aki Nakada, Seiichiro Sakao, Takuji Suzuki, Takamasa Ueno, Akifumi Takaori-Kondo, Ken J. Ishii, Gideon Schreiber, The Genotype to Phenotype Japan (G2P-Japan) Consortium, Hirofumi Sawa, Akatsuki Saito*, Takashi Irie*, Shinya Tanaka*, Keita Matsuno*, Takasuke Fukuhara*, Terumasa Ikeda*, Kei Sato*.   (#Equal contribution; *Corresponding author)

Virological characteristics of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2 spike. 2022

DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2022.04.035

URL: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(22)00533-5

The study of HTLV-1 infection promotes excessive T-cell activation and malignant transformation into adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma has been published in Journal of Clinical Investigation. (Sato Lab)

Benjy Jek Yang Tan, Kenji Sugata, Omnia Reda, Misaki Matsuo, Kyosuke Uchiyama, Paola Miyazato, Vincent Hahaut, Makoto Yamagishi, Kaoru Uchimaru, Yutaka Suzuki, Takamasa Ueno, Hitoshi Suzushima, Hiroo Katsuya, Masahito Tokunaga, Yoshikazu Uchiyama, Hideaki Nakamura, Eisaburo Sueoka, Atae Utsunomiya, Masahiro Ono and Yorifumi Satou

DOI:10.1172/JCI150472

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Imperial College
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The study of M-Sec induced by HTLV-1 mediates an efficient viral transmission has been published in PLOS PATHOGENS.(Suzu Lab)

Masateru Hiyoshi, Naofumi Takahashi, Youssef M. Eltalkhawy, Osamu Noyori, Sameh Lotfi, Jutatip Panaampon, Seiji Okada, Yuetsu Tanaka, Takaharu Ueno, Jun-ichi Fujisawa, Yuko Sato, Tadaki Suzuki, Hideki Hasegawa, Shinya Suzu, M-Sec induced by HTLV-1 mediates an efficient viral transmission, Plos Pathogens, 2021

DOI:org/ 10.1371/journal.ppat.1010126

The paper has been published in Journal of Virology. (Division of International Collaboration Research / Takiguchi Lab.)

Nozomi Kuse,* Hayato Murakoshi,* Tomohiro Akahoshi,* Takayuki Chikata, Katherine L James, Hiroyuki Gatanaga, Sarah L Rowland-Jones, Shinichi Oka, and Masafumi Takiguchi (*equal contribution), Collaboration of a detrimental HLA-B*35:01 allele with HLA-A*24:02 in co-evolution of HIV-1 with T-cells leading to poorer clinical outcomes, J. Virol. 95: e01259-21, 2021

 

We report ACE1 II genotype as a “Factor X”: Why does Asian population have low rates of COVID-19 morbidity and mortality, compared with European population? 2020.7.3

Yamamoto N*, Ariumi Y*(*co-first), Nishida Y, Yamamoto R, Bauer G, Gojobori T, Shimotohno K, Mizokami M. (2020) SARS-CoV-2 infections and COVID-19 mortalities strongly correlate with ACE1 I/D genotype. Gene Jul 3:144944. Online ahead of print(Division of Retroelement)

The Nature of the HTLV-1 Provirus in Naturally Infected Individuals Analyzed by the Viral DNA-Capture-Seq Approach.(Cell Reports)

Katsuya, H., Islam, S., Tan, B., Ito, J., Miyazato, P., Matsuo, M., Inada, Y., Iwase, S., Uchiyama, Y., Hata, H., Sato, T., Yagishita, N., Araya, N., Ueno, T., Nosaka, K., Tokunaga, M., Yamagishi, M., Watanabe, T., Uchimaru, K., Fujisawa, J., Utsunomiya, A., Yamano, Y. and Satou, Y. (2019). The Nature of the HTLV-1 Provirus in Naturally Infected Individuals Analyzed by the Viral DNA-Capture-Seq Approach. Cell Reports, 29(3), pp.724-735.e4.(Division of Genomics and Transcriptomics)

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