Department of Molecular Immunology

Staff

Professor

Hitoshi Kikutani, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Teruhito Yasui, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Shuhei Sakakibara, Ph.D.

Specially Appointed Researcher

Takeharu Minamitani, Ph.D.

Subjects:

1. Molecular mechanisms involved in regulation of immune responses.
2. Mechanism of development of autoimmune diseases.
3. Molecular mechanism by which Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) causes B cell growth transformation and the modification of the differentiation.

Papers published in 2015

1. Evasion of affinity-based selection in germinal centers by Epstein-Barr virus LMP2A.

   Takeharu Minamitani, Teruhito Yasui, Yijie Ma, Hufeng Zhou, Daisuke Okuzaki, Chiau-Yuang Tsai, Shuhei Sakakibara, Benjamin E Gewurz, Elliott Kieff and Hitoshi Kikutani

   Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 112 (37), 11612-11617, 2015.

Link

Department of Molecular Immunology

Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University