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Reiji Kannagi

Reiji Kannagi

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Biology and Biochemistry
Taiwan
2025

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
86
Citations
24677
World Ranking
2996
National Ranking
12

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Taiwan Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Taiwan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Taiwan Leader Award

Overview

Reiji Kannagi is affiliated with Academia Sinica in Taiwan. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Immunology and Microbiology, and Medicine. The scientist's work is focused on several subfields including Molecular Biology, Immunology, Biochemistry, Oncology, and Cancer Research.

The key topics explored in Kannagi's research include:

  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research
  • Immune Response and Inflammation
  • NF-κB Signaling Pathways
  • Reproductive System and Pregnancy
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology

Kannagi has contributed to a number of scientific publications across various venues. These include:

  • BGN/TLR4/NF-κB Mediates Epigenetic Silencing of Immunosuppressive Siglec Ligands in Colon Cancer Cells, 2020, Cells
  • SSEA3 and Sialyl Lewis a Glycan Expression Is Controlled by B3GALT5 LTR through Lamin A-NFYA and SIRT1-STAT3 Signaling in Human ES Cells, 2020, Cells
  • Cellular concentrations of plasmalogen species containing a polyunsaturated fatty acid significantly increase under hypoxia in human colorectal cancer, Caco2 cells, 2022, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
  • A Simple and Affordable Method to Create Nonsense Mutation Clones of p53 for Studying the Premature Termination Codon Readthrough Activity of PTC124, 2023, Biomedicines
  • Hypoxia increases cellular levels of phosphatidic acid and lysophospholipids in undifferentiated Caco-2 cells, 2023, Lipids

Frequent publication venues for Kannagi include Cells, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, Biomedicines, Lipids, and Glycobiology.

Kannagi has collaborated extensively with several coauthors, frequently working alongside:

  • Bi-He Cai
  • Hsiang-Chi Huang
  • Hsueh-Yi Lee
  • Keiko Tamiya-Koizumi
  • Mamoru Kyogashima

Best Publications

  • Glycosphingolipids as tumor-associated and differentiation markers.

    Sen-itiroh Hakomori;Reiji Kannagi

  • Contribution of Carbohydrate Antigens Sialyl Lewis A and Sialyl Lewis X to Adhesion of Human Cancer Cells to Vascular Endothelium

    Akiko Takada;Katsuyuki Ohmori;Tomoya Yoneda;Kiyotaka Tsuyuoka

  • Carbohydrate‐mediated cell adhesion in cancer metastasis and angiogenesis

    Reiji Kannagi;Mineko Izawa;Tetsufumi Koike;Keiko Miyazaki

  • Stage-specific embryonic antigens (SSEA-3 and -4) are epitopes of a unique globo-series ganglioside isolated from human teratocarcinoma cells.

    R. Kannagi;N. A. Cochran;F. Ishigami;S.-I. Hakomori

  • New globoseries glycosphingolipids in human teratocarcinoma reactive with the monoclonal antibody directed to a developmentally regulated antigen, stage-specific embryonic antigen 3.

    R Kannagi;S B Levery;F Ishigami;S Hakomori

  • Adhesion of human cancer cells to vascular endothelium mediated by a carbohydrate antigen, sialyl Lewis A.

    Akiko Takada;Katsuyuki Ohmori;Naofumi Takahashi;Kiyotaka Tsuyuoka

  • A series of human erythrocyte glycosphingolipids reacting to the monoclonal antibody directed to a developmentally regulated antigen SSEA-1.

    R Kannagi;E Nudelman;S B Levery;S Hakomori

  • Carbohydrate-mediated cell adhesion involved in hematogenous metastasis of cancer

    Reiji Kannagi

  • Novel fucolipids accumulating in human adenocarcinoma. I. Glycolipids with di- or trifucosylated type 2 chain

    S Hakomori;E Nudelman;S B Levery;R Kannagi

  • Molecular cloning of a cDNA encoding a novel human leukocyte alpha-1,3-fucosyltransferase capable of synthesizing the sialyl Lewis x determinant.

    S Natsuka;K M Gersten;K Zenita;R Kannagi

  • A novel mechanism for the inhibition of hyaluronan biosynthesis by 4-methylumbelliferone.

    Ikuko Kakizaki;Kaoru Kojima;Keiichi Takagaki;Masahiko Endo

  • Quantitative and Qualitative Characterization of Human Cancer-associated Serum Glycoprotein Antigens Expressing Fucosyl or Sialyl-Fucosyl Type 2 Chain Polylactosamine

    Reiji Kannagi;Yasuo Fukushi;Tetsuya Tachikawa;Atsunari Noda

  • A glycolipid antigen associated with Burkitt lymphoma defined by a monoclonal antibody.

    E Nudelman;R Kannagi;S Hakomori;M Parsons

  • Characterization of a human melanoma-associated ganglioside antigen defined by a monoclonal antibody, 4.2.

    E Nudelman;S Hakomori;R Kannagi;S Levery

  • Sulfotransferases of Two Specificities Function in the Reconstitution of High Endothelial Cell Ligands for L-selectin

    Annette Bistrup;Sunil Bhakta;Jin Kyu Lee;Yevgeniy Y. Belov

  • IDENTIFICATION OF A MAJOR CARBOHYDRATE CAPPING GROUP OF THE L-SELECTIN LIGAND ON HIGH ENDOTHELIAL VENULES IN HUMAN LYMPH NODES AS 6-SULFO SIALYL LEWIS X

    Chikako Mitsuoka;Mikiko Sawada-Kasugai;Keiko Ando-Furui;Mineko Izawa

  • Characterization of a glycosphingolipid antigen defined by the monoclonal antibody MBr1 expressed in normal and neoplastic epithelial cells of human mammary gland

    E G Bremer;S B Levery;S Sonnino;R Ghidoni

  • Glycosylation Changes in Cancer

    Ajit Varki;Reiji Kannagi;Bryan Toole;Pamela Stanley

  • Distribution of calpains I and II in rat brain.

    T Hamakubo;R Kannagi;T Murachi;A Matus

  • 6-Sulfo LacNAc, a novel carbohydrate modification of PSGL-1, defines an inflammatory type of human dendritic cells.

    Knut Schäkel;Reiji Kannagi;Bernhard Kniep;Yoshiko Goto

Frequent Co-Authors

Takashi Murachi
Takashi Murachi Kyoto University
Makoto Kiso
Makoto Kiso Gifu University
Steven B. Levery
Steven B. Levery University of Copenhagen
Takashi Muramatsu
Takashi Muramatsu Nagoya University
Sen-itiroh Hakomori
Sen-itiroh Hakomori Pacific Northwest Diabetes Research Institute
Hideharu Ishida
Hideharu Ishida Gifu University
Sadao Imamura
Sadao Imamura Kyoto University
Kay-Hooi Khoo
Kay-Hooi Khoo National Taiwan University
Takuya Tamatani
Takuya Tamatani Japan Tobacco (United States)
Naoyuki Taniguchi
Naoyuki Taniguchi Osaka University

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