Laboratory of Viral Infection

Subjects:

1. Studies on positive stranded RNA virus replication.
2. Mechanism of virus assembly and release.

Papers published in 2012

1. Attenuated protein expression vectors for use in siRNA rescue experiments.

   Eiji Morita, Jun Arii, Devin Christensen, Jörg Votteler and Wesley I Sundquist

   Biotechniques, 0 (0), 1-5, 2012.
2. Proteomic analysis of hepatitis C virus (HCV) core protein transfection and host regulator PA28γ knockout in HCV pathogenesis: a network-based study.

   Lokesh P Tripathi, Hiroto Kambara, Kohji Moriishi, Eiji Morita, Takayuki Abe, Yoshio Mori, Yi-An Chen, Yoshiharu Matsuura and Kenji Mizuguchi

   J Proteome Res, 11 (7), 3664-3679, 2012.
3. Expression of microRNA miR-122 facilitates an efficient replication in nonhepatic cells upon infection with hepatitis C virus.

   Takasuke Fukuhara, Hiroto Kambara, Mai Shiokawa, Chikako Ono, Hiroshi Katoh, Eiji Morita, Daisuke Okuzaki, Yoshihiko Maehara, Kazuhiko Koike and Yoshiharu Matsuura

   J Virol, 86 (15), 7918-7933, 2012.
4. Differential requirements of mammalian ESCRTs in multivesicular body formation, virus budding and cell division.

   Eiji Morita

   FEBS J, 279 (8), 1399-1406, 2012.
5. Membrane recruitment of autophagy proteins in selective autophagy.

   Eiji Morita and Tamotsu Yoshimori

   Hepatol Res, 42 (5), 435-441, 2012.

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