Yamasaki, Sho

Profile

Dr. Yamasaki received his Ph.D. from Kyoto University in 1999. After working at Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation and Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, he worked for Research Center for Allergy and Immunology, RIKEN from 2004 to 2009. He was appointed as Professor in Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University in 2009. He took his current position at RIMD from 2017.

Publication

  • (1)Helicobacter pylori metabolites exacerbate gastritis through C-type lectin receptors. Nagata M., et al. J. Exp. Med. (2021) Jan 4;218(1):e20200815
  • (2) Structural insight into the recognition of pathogen-derived phosphoglycolipids by C-type lectin receptor DCAR. Omahdi Z., et al J Biol Chem. (2020) 295(17):5807-5817
  • (3)Lipoteichoic acid anchor triggers Mincle to drive protective immunity against invasive group A Streptococcus infection.I mai T., et al. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci USA. (2018) 115:E10662-71
  • (4) Intracellular metabolite β-glucosylceramide is an endogenous Mincle ligand possessing immunostimulatory activity. Nagata M., et al. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. (2017) 114:E3285-94
  • (5) Protein kinase D regulates positive selection of CD4(+) thymocytes through phosphorylation of SHP-1. Ishikawa E., et .al. Nat. Commun. (2016)7:12756
  • (6)C-type Iectin receptor DCAR recognizes mycobacterial phosphatidyl-inositol mannosides to promote a Th1 response during infection. Toyonaga K., et al. Immunity. (2016) 45:1245-57

Lab

Abe, Ryuichiro

International Research Center for Infectious Diseases

Laboratory of Bacterial Pathogenesis

Akira, Shizuo

Division of Host Defense

Department of Host Defense

Arase, Hisashi

Division of Host Defense

Department of Immunochemistry

Ebina, Hirotaka

BIKEN Innovative Vaccine Research Alliance Laboratories

Virus Vaccine Group

Hara, Eiji

Division of Cellular and Molecular Biology

Department of Molecular Microbiology

Horiguchi, Yasuhiko

Division of Infectious Disease

Department of Molecular Bacteriology

Horii, Toshihiro

Endowed Chair

Department of Malaria Vaccine Development

Iida, Tetsuya

Research Center for Infectious Disease Control

Department of Bacterial Infections

Ikawa, Masahito

Bioinformatics Center

Department of Experimental Genome Research

Ishitani, Tohru

Division of Cellular and Molecular Biology

Department of Homeostatic Regulation

Iwanaga, Shiroh

Research Center for Infectious Disease Control

Department of Molecular Protozoology

Iwasaki, Masaharu

International Research Center for Infectious Diseases

Laboratory of Emerging Viral Diseases

Kobayashi, Takeshi

Research Center for Infectious Disease Control

Department of Virology

Kotani, Ai

Division of Cellular and Molecular Biology

Department of Regulation of Infectious Cancer

Matsuura, Yoshiharu

Research Center for Infectious Disease Control

Laboratory of Virus Control

Murakami, Yoshiko

Division of Host Defense

Laboratory of Immunoglycobiology

Nakamura, Shota

Bioinformatics Center

Department of Infection Metagenomics

Shioda, Tatsuo

Division of Infectious Disease

Department of Viral Infections

Standley, Daron

Bioinformatics Center

Department of Genome Informatics

Suzuki, Kazuhiro

Division of Host Defense

Department of Immune Response Dynamics

Takakura, Nobuyuki

Division of Cellular and Molecular Biology

Department of Signal Transduction

Tsukamoto, Kentaro

International Research Center for Infectious Diseases

Laboratory of Bacterial Zoonoses

Watanabe, Tokiko

Division of Infectious Disease

Department of Molecular Virology

Yamamoto, Masahiro

Division of Infectious Disease

Department of Immunoparasitology

Yoshioka, Yasuo

BIKEN Innovative Vaccine Research Alliance Laboratories

Vaccine Creation Group