Laboratory of Viral Infection

Staff:

Specially Appointed Associate Professor

Eiji Morita, Ph.D.

Specially Appointed Assistant Professor

Keisuke Tabata, Ph.D.

Specially Appointed Researcher

Yumiko Hara

Graduate Student

Fumihiro Ukai

Makiko Kobayashi

Subjects:

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

Papers published in 2013

1. Recruitment of the autophagic machinery to endosomes during infection is mediated by ubiquitin.

   Naonobu Fujita, Eiji Morita, Takashi Itoh, Atsushi Tanaka, Megumi Nakaoka, Yuki Osada, Tetsuo Umemoto, Tatsuya Saitoh, Hitoshi Nakatogawa, Shouhei Kobayashi, Tokuko Haraguchi, Jun-Lin Guan, Kazuhiro Iwai, Fuminori Tokunaga, Kazunobu Saito, Koutaro Ishibashi, Shizuo Akira, Mitsunori Fukuda, Takeshi Noda and Tamotsu Yoshimori

   J Cell Biol, 203 (1), 115-128, 2013.
2. Understanding the biological context of NS5A-host interactions in HCV infection: a network-based approach.

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

   J Proteome Res, 12 (6), 2537-2551, 2013.
3. Japanese encephalitis virus core protein inhibits stress granule formation through an interaction with Caprin-1 and facilitates viral propagation.

   Hiroshi Katoh, Toru Okamoto, Takasuke Fukuhara, Hiroto Kambara, Eiji Morita, Yoshio Mori, Wataru Kamitani and Yoshiharu Matsuura

   J Virol, 87 (1), 489-502, 2013.

Link

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