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Overview

Jonathan W. Yewdell is affiliated with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine, Immunology and Microbiology, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these, their work focuses on subfields such as Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology, Epidemiology, and Animal Science and Zoology.

Their recent publications include a variety of topics related to immune responses and molecular biology. Notable papers include:

  • A few good peptides: MHC class I-based cancer immunosurveillance and immunoevasion (2020), published in Nature Reviews Immunology
  • Broadly neutralizing antibodies target the coronavirus fusion peptide (2022), published in Science
  • Decoding mRNA translatability and stability from the 5' UTR (2020), published in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
  • The Transcription Factor T-bet Resolves Memory B Cell Subsets with Distinct Tissue Distributions and Antibody Specificities in Mice and Humans (2020), published in Immunity
  • Most non-canonical proteins uniquely populate the proteome or immunopeptidome (2021), published in Cell Reports

Their research addresses main topics such as SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, immune cell function and interaction, influenza virus research studies, immunotherapy and immune responses, T-cell and B-cell immunology, animal virus infections studies, and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms.

Jonathan W. Yewdell frequently publishes in venues that include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Journal of Immunology
  • Immunity
  • Cell Reports
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

They have collaborated extensively with several co-authors who have contributed to their publications multiple times. These frequent collaborators include Ivan Košík, Jaroslav Hollý, Devin Dersh, James S. Gibbs, and Tiansheng Li.

Best Publications

  • Rapid degradation of a large fraction of newly synthesized proteins by proteasomes

    Ulrich Schubert;Luis C. Antón;James Gibbs;Christopher C. Norbury

  • A novel influenza A virus mitochondrial protein that induces cell death

    Weisan Chen;Paul A. Calvo;Daniela Malide;James Gibbs

  • The antigenic structure of the influenza virus A/PR/8/34 hemagglutinin (H1 subtype).

    Andrew J. Caton;George G. Brownlee;Jonathan W. Yewdell;Walter Gerhard

  • Recognition of haemagglutinins on virus-infected cells by NKp46 activates lysis by human NK cells

    Ofer Mandelboim;Niva Lieberman;Marianna Lev;Lada Paul

  • XBP1, downstream of Blimp-1, expands the secretory apparatus and other organelles, and increases protein synthesis in plasma cell differentiation.

    A.L Shaffer;Miriam Shapiro-Shelef;Neal N Iwakoshi;Ann-Hwee Lee

  • Immunodominance in major histocompatibility complex class I-restricted T lymphocyte responses.

    Jonathan W. Yewdell;Jack R. Bennink

  • CD1 recognition by mouse NK1+ T lymphocytes

    Albert Bendelac;Albert Bendelac;Olivier Lantz;Mary E. Quimby;Jonathan W. Yewdell

  • Herpes simplex virus turns off the TAP to evade host immunity

    Ann Hill;Pieter Jugovic;lan York;Gustav Russ

  • Wild Mouse Gut Microbiota Promotes Host Fitness and Improves Disease Resistance.

    Stephan P. Rosshart;Brian G. Vassallo;Davide Angeletti;Diane S. Hutchinson

  • Identification of human cancers deficient in antigen processing.

    Nicholas P. Restifo;Fernando Esquivel;Yutaka Kawakami;Jonathan W. Yewdell

  • Localization, quantitation, and in situ detection of specific peptide-MHC class I complexes using a monoclonal antibody.

    Angel Porgador;Jonathan W Yewdell;Yuping Deng;Jack R Bennink

  • Brefeldin A Redistributes Resident and Itinerant Golgi Proteins to the Endoplasmic Reticulum

    Robert W. Doms;Gustav Russ;Jonathan W. Yewdell

  • Influenza A virus nucleoprotein is a major target antigen for cross-reactive anti-influenza A virus cytotoxic T lymphocytes

    Jonathan W. Yewdell;Jack R. Bennink;Geoffrey L. Smith;Bernard Moss

  • Quantitating Protein Synthesis, Degradation, and Endogenous Antigen Processing

    Michael F. Princiotta;Diana Finzi;Shu-Bing Qian;James Gibbs

  • Making sense of mass destruction: quantitating MHC class I antigen presentation.

    Jonathan W. Yewdell;Eric Reits;Jacques Neefjes

  • Antigenic structure of influenza virus haemagglutinin defined by hybridoma antibodies

    Walter Gerhard;Jonathan Yewdell;Mark E. Frankel;Robert Webster

  • Hemagglutinin Receptor Binding Avidity Drives Influenza A Virus Antigenic Drift

    S. E. Hensley;S. R. Das;A. L. Bailey;L. M. Schmidt

  • Defective ribosomal products (DRiPs): a major source of antigenic peptides for MHC class I molecules?

    J W Yewdell;L C Antón;J R Bennink

  • Expression of the 1918 influenza A virus PB1-F2 enhances the pathogenesis of viral and secondary bacterial pneumonia.

    Julie L. McAuley;Felicita Hornung;Kelli L. Boyd;Amber M. Smith

  • Confronting Complexity: Real-World Immunodominance in Antiviral CD8+ T Cell Responses

    Jonathan W. Yewdell

Frequent Co-Authors

Jack R. Bennink
Jack R. Bennink National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Weisan Chen
Weisan Chen La Trobe University
Alexandre David
Alexandre David Aalborg University
David C. Tscharke
David C. Tscharke Australian National University
Scott E. Hensley
Scott E. Hensley University of Pennsylvania
Kazuyo Takeda
Kazuyo Takeda US Food and Drug Administration
Adrian B. McDermott
Adrian B. McDermott National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Nicholas P. Restifo
Nicholas P. Restifo National Institutes of Health
Adam K. Wheatley
Adam K. Wheatley University of Melbourne
Alessandro Sette
Alessandro Sette La Jolla Institute For Allergy & Immunology

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