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Overview

Nilabh Shastri was affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily focused on fields related to Immunology and Microbiology, with significant contributions also made in Medicine. The scientist's work spanned several immunological subfields, including Immunology, Epidemiology, Oncology, Physiology, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's research topics covered a broad range of immunological themes. These included:

  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • Galectins and Cancer Biology
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research
  • Adenosine and Purinergic Signaling
  • CAR-T cell therapy research

Nilabh Shastri published extensively, with numerous articles appearing in well-known journals. Frequent publication venues comprised:

  • The Journal of Immunology (7 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (3 publications)
  • Frontiers in Immunology (2 publications)
  • Immune Network (1 publication)
  • Current Opinion in Immunology (1 publication)

Among their recent papers were the following works:

  • The Role of T Cells in Obesity-Associated Inflammation and Metabolic Disease (2022), published in Immune Network
  • The nonclassical immune surveillance for ERAAP function (2021), published in Current Opinion in Immunology
  • Murine cytomegalovirus downregulates ERAAP and induces an unconventional T cell response to self (2023), published in Cell Reports
  • The ER Aminopeptidases, ERAP1 and ERAP2, synergize to self-modulate their respective activities (2022), published in Frontiers in Immunology
  • The promiscuous development of an unconventional Qa1b-restricted T cell population (2023), published in Frontiers in Immunology

Collaborations played a significant role in their research output. Frequent co-authors included Jian Guan, Chan-Su Park, Scheherazade Sadegh-Nasseri, Ellen A. Robey, and Laurent Coscoy. These frequent partnerships contributed to a substantial number of joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Ligands for the murine NKG2D receptor: expression by tumor cells and activation of NK cells and macrophages.

    Andreas Diefenbach;Amanda M. Jamieson;Scot D. Liu;Nilabh Shastri

  • The Molecular Genetics of the T-Cell Antigen Receptor and T-Cell Antigen Recognition

    M Kronenberg;G Siu;L E Hood;N Shastri

  • Requirement for association of p56lck with CD4 in antigen-specific signal transduction in T cells.

    Nicolas Glaichenhaus;Nilabh Shastri;Dan R. Littman;Julia M. Turner

  • Class I MHC presentation of exogenous soluble antigen via macropinocytosis in bone marrow macrophages

    Christopher C. Norbury;Lindsay J. Hewlett;Alan R. Prescott;Nilabh Shastri

  • Translation from the 5′ untranslated region shapes the integrated stress response

    Shelley R. Starck;Shelley R. Starck;Jordan C. Tsai;Keling Chen;Michael Shodiya

  • Intracellular calcium dependence of gene expression in single T lymphocytes.

    Paul A. Negulescu;Nilabh Shastri;Michael D. Cahalan

  • Leucine-tRNA initiates at CUG start codons for protein synthesis and presentation by MHC class I.

    Shelley R. Starck;Vivian Jiang;Mariana Pavon-Eternod;Sharanya Prasad

  • Endogenous generation and presentation of the ovalbumin peptide/Kb complex to T cells.

    Nilabh Shastri;F. Gonzalez

  • Immunodominant, protective response to the parasite Toxoplasma gondii requires antigen processing in the endoplasmic reticulum

    Nicolas Blanchard;Federico Gonzalez;Marie Schaeffer;Nathalie T Joncker

  • Discrete proteolytic intermediates in the MHC class I antigen processing pathway and MHC I-dependent peptide trimming in the ER.

    Pedro Paz;Nathalie Brouwenstijn;Robin Perry;Nilabh Shastri

  • Tyrosyl phosphorylation and activation of MAP kinases by p56lck.

    Elham Ettehadieh;Jasbinder S. Sanghera;Steven L. Pelech;Denise Hess-Bienz

  • ERAAP Synergizes with MHC Class I Molecules to Make the Final Cut in the Antigenic Peptide Precursors in the Endoplasmic Reticulum

    Takayuki Kanaseki;Nicolas Blanchard;Gianna Elena Hammer;Federico Gonzalez

  • Expression of endogenous peptide-major histocompatibility complex class II complexes derived from invariant chain-antigen fusion proteins

    Sarah Sanderson;Kenneth Frauwirth;Nilabh Shastri

  • Brain microvessel cross-presentation is a hallmark of experimental cerebral malaria

    Shanshan W. Howland;Chek Meng Poh;Chek Meng Poh;Sin Yee Gun;Sin Yee Gun;Carla Claser

  • All the peptides that fit: the beginning, the middle, and the end of the MHC class I antigen-processing pathway

    Nilabh Shastri;Sylvain Cardinaud;Susan R. Schwab;Thomas Serwold

  • Constitutive display of cryptic translation products by MHC class I molecules.

    Susan R. Schwab;Katy C. Li;Chulho Kang;Nilabh Shastri

  • Unanticipated Antigens: Translation Initiation at CUG with Leucine

    Susan R Schwab;Jessica A Shugart;Tiffany Horng;Subramaniam Malarkannan

  • The final touches make perfect the peptide-MHC class I repertoire.

    Gianna Elena Hammer;Takayuki Kanaseki;Nilabh Shastri

  • Hsp90α Chaperones Large C-Terminally Extended Proteolytic Intermediates in the MHC Class I Antigen Processing Pathway

    Jun Kunisawa;Nilabh Shastri

  • Efficient MHC Class I Presentation by Controlled Intracellular Trafficking of Antigens in Octaarginine-modified Liposomes

    Takashi Nakamura;Rumiko Moriguchi;Kentaro Kogure;Nilabh Shastri

Frequent Co-Authors

Ellen A. Robey
Ellen A. Robey University of California, Berkeley
Derry C. Roopenian
Derry C. Roopenian The Jackson Laboratory
Jun Kunisawa
Jun Kunisawa National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition
Tao Pan
Tao Pan Jinan University
Edith M. Lord
Edith M. Lord University of Rochester Medical Center
Jonathan W. Yewdell
Jonathan W. Yewdell National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Hideyoshi Harashima
Hideyoshi Harashima Hokkaido University
Benedikt M. Kessler
Benedikt M. Kessler University of Oxford
Kentaro Kogure
Kentaro Kogure University of Tokushima
Noriyuki Sato
Noriyuki Sato Sapporo Medical University

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