Department of Molecular Immunology

Staff

Professor

Sho Yamasaki, Ph.D.

Professor(SUP)

Kazuhiro Suzuki, Ph.D. (July 1, 2017-)

Assistant Professor

Eri Ishikawa, Ph.D.

Chihiro Motozono, Ph.D.

Specially Appointed Researcher

Masahiro Nagata, Ph.D.

Graduate Student

Daiki Mori, Ph.D.

Tomotsugu Takano, M.D.

Takashi Imai, M.D.

Takane Kamichi, M.D.

Moe Shiokawa

Shojiro Haji, M.D.

Naoya Nishimura, M.D.

Zakaria Omahdi

Shota Torigoe

Undergraduate Student

Miyuki Watanabe

Anna Maria Knieper

Ayaka Tajima

Toru Shimane

Hendra Saputra Ismanto

Guest Associate Professor(SUP)

Masatsugu Ohora, Ph.D.

Guest Assistant Professor(SUP)

Kensuke Shibata, Ph.D.

Subjects:

1. Immune sensing of pathogens and damaged-self via C-type lectin receptors
2. Unique T cell responses induced by self antigen
3. Atypical T cell subsets critical for autoimmune diseases

Papers published in 2017

1. C-type lectin receptors in anti-fungal immunity.

   Moe Shiokawa, Sho Yamasaki and Shinobu Saijo

   Curr Opin Microbiol, 40, 123-130, 2017.
2. Spontaneous chondroma formation in CD2-Cre-driven Erk-deficient mice.

   Moe Shiokawa, Xiuyuan Lu, Yasunobu Miyake, Eri Ishikawa, Gilles Pagès, Jacques Pouysségur, Masato Ogata and Sho Yamasaki

   Int Immunol, 29 (10), 479-485, 2017.
3. Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of O-Methylated Glycolipids Related to PGLs via Direct Stereoselective Glycosidation and Sequential Suzuki-Miyaura Coupling using Boracyclane.

   Ko Sato, Zakaria Omahdi, Kensuke Shibata, Koh-Hei Sonoda, Sho Yamasaki and Hiroshi Tanaka

   Chemistry, 23 (64), 16374-16379, 2017.
4. Dectin-1 intracellular domain determines species-specific ligand spectrum by modulating receptor sensitivity.

   Tomotsugu Takano, Chihiro Motozono, Takashi Imai, Koh-Hei Sonoda, Yoichi Nakanishi and Sho Yamasaki

   J Biol Chem, 292 (41), 16933-16941, 2017.
5. Intracellular metabolite β-glucosylceramide is an endogenous Mincle ligand possessing immunostimulatory activity.

   Masahiro Nagata, Yoshihiro Izumi, Eri Ishikawa, Ryoko Kiyotake, Rieko Doi, Satoru Iwai, Zakaria Omahdi, Toshiyuki Yamaji, Tomofumi Miyamoto, Takeshi Bamba and Sho Yamasaki

   Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 114 (16), E3285-E3294, 2017.

Link

Department of Molecular Immunology

Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University