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Hugh S. Mason is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research has a notable emphasis on Epidemiology, Biotechnology, Molecular Biology, Hepatology, and Infectious Diseases.

Their work frequently explores topics including:

  • Transgenic Plants and Applications
  • Hepatitis B Virus Studies
  • Hepatitis C virus research
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Plant tissue culture and regeneration
  • Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research

Hugh S. Mason has collaborated repeatedly with several researchers, including:

  • Peter Revill
  • Andrew G. Diamos
  • Joseph G. L. Hunter
  • Vitina Sozzi
  • Margaret Littlejohn

The primary venues for their publications include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • Journal of Visualized Experiments
  • Journal of Hepatology
  • International Journal for Population Data Science

Some of the recent notable publications by Hugh S. Mason include:

  • High Level Production of Monoclonal Antibodies Using an Optimized Plant Expression System, 2020, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
  • Construction of SARS-CoV-2 virus-like particles in plant, 2022, Scientific Reports
  • Intrahepatic CXCL10 is strongly associated with liver fibrosis in HIV-Hepatitis B co-infection, 2020, PLoS Pathogens
  • Codelivery of improved immune complex and virus-like particle vaccines containing Zika virus envelope domain III synergistically enhances immunogenicity, 2020, Vaccine
  • HIV DNA persists in hepatocytes in people with HIV-hepatitis B co-infection on antiretroviral therapy, 2022, EBioMedicine

Best Publications

  • Expression of hepatitis B surface antigen in transgenic plants.

    Hugh S. Mason;Dominic Man Kit Lam;Charles J. Arntzen

  • Oral immunization with a recombinant bacterial antigen produced in transgenic plants

    Tariq A. Haq;Hugh S. Mason;John D. Clements;Charles J. Arntzen

  • Expression of Norwalk virus capsid protein in transgenic tobacco and potato and its oral immunogenicity in mice.

    Hugh S. Mason;Judith M. Ball;Jian Jian Shi;Xi Jiang;Xi Jiang

  • Immunogenicity in humans of a recombinant bacterial antigen delivered in a transgenic potato.

    Carol O. Tacket;Hugh S. Mason;Genevieve Losonsky;John D. Clements

  • Production of hepatitis B surface antigen in transgenic plants for oral immunization.

    Liz J. Richter;Yasmin Thanavala;Charles J. Arntzen;Hugh S. Mason

  • HUMAN IMMUNE RESPONSES TO A NOVEL NORWALK VIRUS VACCINE DELIVERED IN TRANSGENIC POTATOES

    Carol O. Tacket;Hugh S. Mason;Genevieve Losonsky;Mary K. Estes

  • Edible vaccine protects mice against Escherichia coli heat-labile enterotoxin (LT): potatoes expressing a synthetic LT-B gene.

    Hugh S. Mason;Tariq A. Haq;John D. Clements;Charles J. Arntzen

  • Immunogenicity of transgenic plant-derived hepatitis B surface antigen.

    Y Thanavala;Y F Yang;P Lyons;H S Mason

  • Plant-made vaccine antigens and biopharmaceuticals.

    Henry Daniell;Nameirakpam D. Singh;Hugh Mason;Stephen J. Streatfield

  • Generation of transgenic banana (musa acuminata) plants via agrobacterium-mediated transformation

    Gregory D. May;Rownak Afza;Hugh S. Mason;Alicja Wiecko

  • Oral immunization with hepatitis B surface antigen expressed in transgenic plants.

    Qingxian Kong;Liz Richter;Yu Fang Yang;Charles J. Arntzen

  • Immunogenicity in humans of an edible vaccine for hepatitis B.

    Yasmin Thanavala;Martin Mahoney;Sribani Pal;Sribani Pal;Adrienne Scott

  • Water Deficit and Abscisic Acid Cause Differential Inhibition of Shoot versus Root Growth in Soybean Seedlings Analysis of Growth, Sugar Accumulation, and Gene Expression

    Robert A. Creelman;Hugh S. Mason;Robert J. Bensen;Robert J. Bensen;John S. Boyer

  • Edible plant vaccines: applications for prophylactic and therapeutic molecular medicine.

    Hugh S. Mason;Heribert Warzecha;Tsafrir Mor;Charles J. Arntzen

  • Transgenic plants as vaccine production systems.

    Hugh S. Mason;Charles J. Arntzen

  • Expression of Two Soybean Vegetative Storage Protein Genes during Development and in Response to Water Deficit, Wounding, and Jasmonic Acid

    Hugh S. Mason;John E. Mullet

  • Light-regulated translation of chloroplast proteins. I. Transcripts of psaA-psaB, psbA, and rbcL are associated with polysomes in dark-grown and illuminated barley seedlings.

    Robert R. Klein;Hugh S. Mason;John E. Mullet

  • Identification of a methyl jasmonate-responsive domain in the soybean vspB promoter.

    Hugh S. Mason;Daryll B. DeWald;John E. Mullet

  • An efficient plant viral expression system generating orally immunogenic Norwalk virus-like particles.

    Luca Santi;Lance Batchelor;Zhong Huang;Brooke Hjelm

  • A DNA replicon system for rapid high-level production of virus-like particles in plants.

    Zhong Huang;Qiang Chen;Brooke Hjelm;Charles Arntzen

  • High-level rapid production of full-size monoclonal antibodies in plants by a single-vector DNA replicon system.

    Zhong Huang;Waranyoo Phoolcharoen;Huafang Lai;Khanrat Piensook

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles J. Arntzen
Charles J. Arntzen Arizona State University
John E. Mullet
John E. Mullet Texas A&M University
Michael L. Shuler
Michael L. Shuler Cornell University
Carol O. Tacket
Carol O. Tacket University of Maryland, Baltimore
Mary K. Estes
Mary K. Estes Baylor College of Medicine
John S. Boyer
John S. Boyer University of Missouri
Kan Wang
Kan Wang Iowa State University
John D. Clements
John D. Clements Tulane University
Herta Steinkellner
Herta Steinkellner BOKU University

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