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Hans-Christian Reinecker

Hans-Christian Reinecker

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
54
Citations
14681
World Ranking
15419
National Ranking
6435

Overview

Hans-Christian Reinecker is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research focuses on immunology and microbiology, with contributions also in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The scientist's work spans several subfields including immunology, molecular biology, microbiology, food science, and cell biology.

Their published research covers a range of topics primarily related to immune cell function and interaction, antimicrobial peptides and activities, gut microbiota and health, probiotics and fermented foods, immunotherapy and immune responses, T-cell and B-cell immunology, and glycosylation and glycoproteins research.

Reinecker has authored several papers recently, including:

  • Bacterial Peptidoglycan Fragments Differentially Regulate Innate Immune Signaling (2021) published in ACS Central Science
  • The persistence of interleukin-6 is regulated by a blood buffer system derived from dendritic cells (2020) published in Immunity
  • PGLYRP1-mediated intracellular peptidoglycan detection promotes intestinal mucosal protection (2025) published in Nature Communications
  • The Rab32-LRMDA-Retriever Complex is a Key Regulator of Intestinal Immune Homeostasis (2025) published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Their frequent coauthors include Klare L. Bersch, Shuyuan Chen, Catherine L. Grimes, Alka Diwaker, and Ezra Burstein.

Reinecker's work has been published across several venues, including:

  • ACS Central Science
  • Immunity
  • Nature Communications
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • CX3CR1-Mediated Dendritic Cell Access to the Intestinal Lumen and Bacterial Clearance

    Jan Hendrik Niess;Stephan Brand;Xiubin Gu;Limor Landsman

  • Lipopolysaccharide Activates Distinct Signaling Pathways in Intestinal Epithelial Cell Lines Expressing Toll-Like Receptors

    Elke Cario;Ian M. Rosenberg;Steven L. Brandwein;Paul L. Beck

  • CARD15/NOD2 functions as an antibacterial factor in human intestinal epithelial cells

    Tadakazu Hisamatsu;Manabu Suzuki;Hans Christian Reinecker;William J. Nadeau

  • Claudins regulate the intestinal barrier in response to immune mediators.

    Tetsushi Kinugasa;Takanori Sakaguchi;Xuibin Gu;Hans–Christian Reinecker

  • Reovirus infection triggers inflammatory responses to dietary antigens and development of celiac disease

    Romain Bouziat;Reinhard Hinterleitner;Judy J. Brown;Jennifer E. Stencel-Baerenwald

  • NF-kappa B-inducing kinase is a common mediator of IL-17-, TNF-alpha-, and IL-1 beta-induced chemokine promoter activation in intestinal epithelial cells.

    Masaaki Awane;Pietro G. Andres;Dan Jun Li;Hans Christian Reinecker

  • Membrane recruitment of NOD2 in intestinal epithelial cells is essential for nuclear factor-ΚB activation in muramyl dipeptide recognition

    Nicolas Barnich;Jose E. Aguirre;Hans-Christian Reinecker;Ramnik J Xavier

  • Monocyte-chemoattractant protein 1 gene expression in intestinal epithelial cells and inflammatory bowel disease mucosa.

    Hans Christian Reinecker;Hans Christian Reinecker;Elwyn Y. Loh;Douglas J. Ringler;Anjali Mehta

  • Fractalkine Is an Epithelial and Endothelial Cell-Derived Chemoattractant for Intraepithelial Lymphocytes in the Small Intestinal Mucosa

    Andreas Muehlhoefer;Lawrence J. Saubermann;Xuibin Gu;Kerstin Luedtke-Heckenkamp

  • Mice with a Selective Deletion of the CC Chemokine Receptors 5 or 2 Are Protected from Dextran Sodium Sulfate-Mediated Colitis: Lack of CC Chemokine Receptor 5 Expression Results in a NK1.1+ Lymphocyte-Associated Th2-Type Immune Response in the Intestine

    Pietro G. Andres;Paul L. Beck;Emiko Mizoguchi;Atsushi Mizoguchi

  • Intestinal epithelial cells both express and respond to interleukin 15

    HC Reinecker;RP MacDermott;S Mirau;A Dignass

  • CCR6-mediated dendritic cell activation of pathogen-specific T cells in Peyer's patches.

    Rosa Maria Salazar-Gonzalez;Jan H. Niess;David J. Zammit;Rajesh Ravindran

  • Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells Mediate Anti-inflammatory Responses to a Gut Commensal Molecule via Both Innate and Adaptive Mechanisms

    Suryasarathi Dasgupta;Deniz Erturk-Hasdemir;Javier Ochoa-Reparaz;Hans Christian Reinecker

  • Atg16l1 is Required for Autophagy in Intestinal Epithelial Cells and Protection of Mice From Salmonella Infection

    Kara L. Conway;Petric Kuballa;Joo Hye Song;Khushbu K. Patel

  • Human intestinal epithelial cells express functional cytokine receptors sharing the common gamma c chain of the interleukin 2 receptor

    Hans Christian Reinecker;Hans Christian Reinecker;Daniel K. Podolsky

  • Cloning of the Human Claudin-2 5′-Flanking Region Revealed a TATA-less Promoter with Conserved Binding Sites in Mouse and Human for Caudal-related Homeodomain Proteins and Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor-1α

    Takanori Sakaguchi;Xiubin Gu;Heidi M. Golden;Eunran Suh

  • SLAM is a microbial sensor that regulates bacterial phagosome functions in macrophages

    Scott B. Berger;Xavier Romero;Chunyan Ma;Guoxing Wang

  • The central role of chemokines (chemotactic cytokines) in the immunopathogenesis of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease.

    Richard P. MacDermott;Ian R. Sanderson;Hans Christian Reinecker

  • Shigella flexneri regulates tight junction-associated proteins in human intestinal epithelial cells.

    Takanori Sakaguchi;Henrik Köhler;Xiubin Gu;Beth A. McCormick

  • GRIM-19 Interacts with Nucleotide Oligomerization Domain 2 and Serves as Downstream Effector of Anti-bacterial Function in Intestinal Epithelial Cells

    Nicolas Barnich;Tadakazu Hisamatsu;Jose E. Aguirre;Ramnik Xavier

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel K. Podolsky
Daniel K. Podolsky The University of Texas at Dallas
Richard P. MacDermott
Richard P. MacDermott Albany Medical Center Hospital
Atul K. Bhan
Atul K. Bhan Harvard University
Ramnik J. Xavier
Ramnik J. Xavier Broad Institute
Emiko Mizoguchi
Emiko Mizoguchi Kurume University
Cox Terhorst
Cox Terhorst Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Beth A. McCormick
Beth A. McCormick University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Scott B. Snapper
Scott B. Snapper Boston Children's Hospital
Atsushi Mizoguchi
Atsushi Mizoguchi Harvard University
Nicolas Barnich
Nicolas Barnich University of Clermont Auvergne

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