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Overview

Derya Unutmaz is affiliated with the University of Connecticut in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains primarily within medicine, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, immunology, and microbiology. The subfields of study they focus on include immunology, oncology, molecular biology, infectious diseases, and biomedical engineering.

Their main research topics cover areas such as CAR-T cell therapy research, immune cell function and interaction, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, 3D printing in biomedical research, T-cell and B-cell immunology, and cancer cells and metastasis.

Some of the recent papers published by Derya Unutmaz include:

  • 3D bioprinting for reconstituting the cancer microenvironment, 2020, npj Precision Oncology
  • Decoy exosomes provide protection against bacterial toxins, 2020, Nature
  • Mechanisms of T-Cell Exhaustion in Pancreatic Cancer, 2020, Cancers
  • SARS-CoV-2 specific antibody and neutralization assays reveal the wide range of the humoral immune response to virus, 2021, Communications Biology
  • Multi-'omics of gut microbiome-host interactions in short- and long-term myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome patients, 2023, Cell Host & Microbe

Derya Unutmaz has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Lina Kozhaya, Mikail Dogan, Lindsey Placek, Suzanne D. Vernon, and Lucinda Bateman.

Their publications have often appeared in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), The Journal of Immunology, Nature, Advanced Functional Materials, and Journal of Hepatology.

Best Publications

  • Identification of a major co-receptor for primary isolates of HIV-1

    H Deng;R Liu;W Ellmeier;S Choe

  • In Vivo Depletion of CD11c+ Dendritic Cells Abrogates Priming of CD8+ T Cells by Exogenous Cell-Associated Antigens

    Steffen Jung;Derya Unutmaz;Phillip Wong;Gen Ichiro Sano

  • The differentiation of human T(H)-17 cells requires transforming growth factor-beta and induction of the nuclear receptor RORgammat.

    Nicolas Manel;Derya Unutmaz;Dan R Littman

  • Recruitment of HIV and its receptors to dendritic cell-T cell junctions.

    David McDonald;Li Wu;Stacy M. Bohks;Vineet N. KewalRamani

  • Requirement for RORγ in Thymocyte Survival and Lymphoid Organ Development

    Zuoming Sun;Derya Unutmaz;Yong-Rui Zou;Mary Jean Sunshine

  • Expression cloning of new receptors used by simian and human immunodeficiency viruses

    HongKui Deng;Derya Unutmaz;Vineet N. KewalRamani;Dan R. Littman

  • Yeast zymosan, a stimulus for TLR2 and dectin-1, induces regulatory antigen-presenting cells and immunological tolerance

    Stephanie Dillon;Sudhanshu Agrawal;Kaustuv Banerjee;John Letterio

  • Unique subpopulations of CD56+ NK and NK-T peripheral blood lymphocytes identified by chemokine receptor expression repertoire.

    James J. Campbell;Shixin Qin;Derya Unutmaz;Dulce Soler

  • GARP (LRRC32) is essential for the surface expression of latent TGF-β on platelets and activated FOXP3+ regulatory T cells

    Dat Q. Tran;John Andersson;Rui Wang;Heather Ramsey

  • Flexible Use of Nuclear Import Pathways by HIV-1

    KyeongEun Lee;Zandrea Ambrose;Thomas D. Martin;Ilker Oztop

  • Cytokine Signals Are Sufficient for HIV-1 Infection of Resting Human T Lymphocytes

    Derya Unutmaz;Vineet N. KewalRamani;Shana Marmon;Dan R. Littman

  • A cryptic sensor for HIV-1 activates antiviral innate immunity in dendritic cells

    Nicolas Manel;Brandon Hogstad;Yaming Wang;David E. Levy

  • Signal Transduction Due to HIV-1 Envelope Interactions with Chemokine Receptors CXCR4 or CCR5

    Craig B. Davis;Ivan Dikic;Derya Unutmaz;C. Mark Hill

  • Pro-inflammatory human Th17 cells selectively express P-glycoprotein and are refractory to glucocorticoids

    Radha Ramesh;Lina Kozhaya;Kelly McKevitt;Ivana M. Djuretic

  • Halofuginone Inhibits TH17 Cell Differentiation by Activating the Amino Acid Starvation Response

    Mark S. Sundrud;Sergei B. Koralov;Markus Feuerer;Dinis Pedro Calado

  • Antigen-independent activation of naive and memory resting T cells by a cytokine combination.

    Derya Unutmaz;Piero Pileri;Sergio Abrignani

  • T-lymphocyte response to hepatitis C virus in different clinical courses of infection

    Patrizia Botarelli;Maurizia R. Brunetto;Maria A. Minutello;Pierluigi Calvo

  • HIV infection of naturally occurring and genetically reprogrammed human regulatory T-cells.

    Kyra Oswald-Richter;Stacy M Grill;Nikki Shariat;Mindy Leelawong

  • APOBEC3B and APOBEC3C Are Potent Inhibitors of Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Replication

    Qin Yu;Darlene Chen;Renate König;Roberto Mariani

  • Inhibition of primary human T cell proliferation by Helicobacter pylori vacuolating toxin (VacA) is independent of VacA effects on IL-2 secretion

    Mark S. Sundrud;Victor J. Torres;Derya Unutmaz;Timothy L. Cover

  • CCR5 is a receptor for Staphylococcus aureus leukotoxin ED

    Francis Alonzo;Lina Kozhaya;Stephen A. Rawlings;Tamara Reyes-Robles

Frequent Co-Authors

Dan R. Littman
Dan R. Littman New York University
Vineet N. KewalRamani
Vineet N. KewalRamani National Institutes of Health
Victor J. Torres
Victor J. Torres New York University
Stefan Feske
Stefan Feske New York University
Sebastian Joyce
Sebastian Joyce Vanderbilt University Medical Center
David W. Haas
David W. Haas Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Timothy L. Cover
Timothy L. Cover Vanderbilt University Medical Center
William Borkowsky
William Borkowsky New York University
Hongkui Deng
Hongkui Deng Peking University

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