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Keizo Tomonaga

Keizo Tomonaga

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Microbiology

D-Index
43
Citations
7014
World Ranking
5259
National Ranking
214

Overview

Keizo Tomonaga is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan, focusing primarily on research within the field of Medicine. Their work spans several subfields including Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Molecular Biology, Virology, and Animal Science and Zoology.

The scientist's research topics cover a broad range of viral and infection-related studies, including:

  • Viral Infections and Vectors
  • Virology and Viral Diseases
  • Animal Virus Infections Studies
  • Rabies epidemiology and control
  • Plant Virus Research Studies
  • Virus-based gene therapy research
  • Viral Infections and Immunology Research

Tomonaga's recent published papers include:

  • 100-My history of bornavirus infections hidden in vertebrate genomes, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Bornaviridae, 2021, Journal of General Virology
  • Identification of novel avian and mammalian deltaviruses provides new insights into deltavirus evolution, 2021, Virus Evolution
  • Hidden Viral Sequences in Public Sequencing Data and Warning for Future Emerging Diseases, 2021, mBio
  • Borna disease virus phosphoprotein triggers the organization of viral inclusion bodies by liquid-liquid phase separation, 2021, International Journal of Biological Macromolecules

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Tomonaga include:

  • Masayuki Horie
  • Akiko Makino
  • Ryo Komorizono
  • Shohei Kojima
  • Junna Kawasaki

Tomonaga publishes regularly in well-known venues with a significant number of publications in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Microbiology and Immunology
  • Journal of Virology
  • Viruses
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

  • Endogenous non-retroviral RNA virus elements in mammalian genomes

    Masayuki Horie;Tomoyuki Honda;Tomoyuki Honda;Yoshiyuki Suzuki;Yuki Kobayashi

  • Taxonomy of the order Mononegavirales: update 2016

    Claudio L. Afonso;Gaya K. Amarasinghe;Krisztián Bányai;Yīmíng Bào

  • Taxonomy of the order Mononegavirales: update 2018

    Gaya K. Amarasinghe;Nidia G. Aréchiga Ceballos;Ashley C. Banyard;Christopher F. Basler

  • Taxonomy of the order Mononegavirales: update 2019.

    Gaya K. Amarasinghe;María A. Ayllón;Yīmíng Bào;Christopher F. Basler

  • Taxonomy of the order Mononegavirales: update 2017

    Gaya K. Amarasinghe;Yīmíng Bào;Christopher F. Basler;Sina Bavari

  • 2020 taxonomic update for phylum Negarnaviricota (Riboviria: Orthornavirae), including the large orders Bunyavirales and Mononegavirales

    Jens H. Kuhn;Scott Adkins;Daniela Alioto;Sergey V. Alkhovsky

  • Isolation of Borna Disease Virus from Human Brain Tissue

    Yurie Nakamura;Hirokazu Takahashi;Yuko Shoya;Takaaki Nakaya

  • Molecular and cellular biology of Borna disease virus infection.

    Keizo Tomonaga;Takeshi Kobayashi;Kazuyoshi Ikuta

  • Taxonomic reorganization of the family Bornaviridae

    Jens H. Kuhn;Ralf Dürrwald;Yīmíng Bào;Thomas Briese

  • Inhibition of Borna disease virus replication by an endogenous bornavirus-like element in the ground squirrel genome.

    Kan Fujino;Masayuki Horie;Tomoyuki Honda;Dana K. Merriman

  • Genetic Diversity of Argentine Isolates of Feline Immunodeficiency Virus

    Marcelo R. Pecoraro;Keizo Tomonaga;Takayuki Miyazawa;Yasushi Kawaguchi

  • Taxonomy of the order Mononegavirales: second update 2018

    Piet Maes;Gaya K. Amarasinghe;María A. Ayllón;Christopher F. Basler

  • Bornavirus Closely Associates and Segregates with Host Chromosomes to Ensure Persistent Intranuclear Infection

    Yusuke Matsumoto;Yohei Hayashi;Yohei Hayashi;Hiroko Omori;Tomoyuki Honda

  • Glial expression of Borna disease virus phosphoprotein induces behavioral and neurological abnormalities in transgenic mice

    Wataru Kamitani;Etsuro Ono;Saori Yoshino;Tsutomu Kobayashi

  • Comprehensive analysis of endogenous bornavirus-like elements in eukaryote genomes.

    Masayuki Horie;Yuki Kobayashi;Yoshiyuki Suzuki;Keizo Tomonaga

  • Borna disease virus and infection in humans.

    Kazuyoshi Ikuta;Madiha S Ibrahim;Takeshi Kobayashi;Keizo Tomonaga

  • Identification of a feline immunodeficiency virus gene which is essential for cell-free virus infectivity.

    K. Tomonaga;J. Norimine;Yeon-Sil Shin;M. Fukasawa

  • The genome of feline immunodeficiency virus.

    T Miyazawa;K Tomonaga;Y Kawaguchi;T Mikami

  • Borna Disease Virus Phosphoprotein Binds a Neurite Outgrowth Factor, Amphoterin/HMG-1

    Wataru Kamitani;Yuko Shoya;Takeshi Kobayashi;Makiko Watanabe

  • Biological characterization of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 and type 2 mutants in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells.

    H. Akari;J. Sakuragi;Y. Takebe;K. Tomonaga

  • Borna Disease Virus Nucleoprotein Requires both Nuclear Localization and Export Activities for Viral Nucleocytoplasmic Shuttling

    Takeshi Kobayashi;Wataru Kamitani;Guoqi Zhang;Makiko Watanabe

  • piRNAs derived from ancient viral processed pseudogenes as transgenerational sequence-specific immune memory in mammals

    Nicholas F. Parrish;Kan Fujino;Yusuke Shiromoto;Yuka W. Iwasaki

  • Autogenous Translational Regulation of the Borna Disease Virus Negative Control Factor X from Polycistronic mRNA Using Host RNA Helicases

    Yohei Watanabe;Naohiro Ohtaki;Yohei Hayashi;Kazuyoshi Ikuta

Frequent Co-Authors

Kazuyoshi Ikuta
Kazuyoshi Ikuta Osaka University
Takeshi Mikami
Takeshi Mikami University of Tokyo
Yasushi Kawaguchi
Yasushi Kawaguchi University of Tokyo
Yasuhiro Ikeda
Yasuhiro Ikeda AstraZeneca (United Kingdom)
Norbert Nowotny
Norbert Nowotny University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Martin Schwemmle
Martin Schwemmle University of Freiburg
Koichi Watashi
Koichi Watashi National Institute of Infectious Diseases
Jens H. Kuhn
Jens H. Kuhn National Institutes of Health
Thomas Briese
Thomas Briese Columbia University
Akio Adachi
Akio Adachi Kansai Medical University

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