Research Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases

Subjects:

1. Studies on hepatitis C virus.
2. Development of viral vectors.
3. Development of prophylaxes and therapeutics against emerging viral infectious diseases.

Published Papers

1. Comparison of serum sensitivities of pseudotype retroviruses produced from newly established packaging cell lines of human and feline origins.

   Rie Watanabe, Takayuki Miyazawa and Yoshiharu Matsuura

   Virus Res, 99 (1), 89-93, 2004.
2. Intramembrane proteolysis and endoplasmic reticulum retention of hepatitis C virus core protein.

   Kiyoko Okamoto, Kohji Moriishi, Tatsuo Miyamura and Yoshiharu Matsuura

   J Virol, 78 (12), 6370-6380, 2004.

Link

http://www.biken.osaka-u.ac.jp/