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Sho Yamasaki

Sho Yamasaki

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Biology and Biochemistry

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62
Citations
17770
World Ranking
10611
National Ranking
721

Overview

Sho Yamasaki is affiliated with Osaka University in Japan and has contributed significantly to the fields of immunology and microbiology, medicine, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research spans subfields including immunology, infectious diseases, molecular biology, epidemiology, and physiology.

The main topics covered by Sho Yamasaki's work include:

  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Immune Response and Inflammation
  • Vaccines and Immunoinformatics Approaches
  • Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research

Yamasaki has published extensively with frequent appearances in prominent journals and venues. Their frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Chemical Communications
  • The Journal of Experimental Medicine
  • International Immunology
  • Nature Communications

Among their recent papers are:

  • "TREM2 is a receptor for non-glycosylated mycolic acids of mycobacteria that limits anti-mycobacterial macrophage activation" (2021, Nature Communications)
  • "Helicobacter pylori metabolites exacerbate gastritis through C-type lectin receptors" (2020, The Journal of Experimental Medicine)
  • "Myeloid C-type lectin receptors in innate immune recognition" (2024, Immunity)
  • "C-type lectin Mincle mediates cell death-triggered inflammation in acute kidney injury" (2020, The Journal of Experimental Medicine)
  • "Identification of conserved SARS-CoV-2 spike epitopes that expand public cTfh clonotypes in mild COVID-19 patients" (2021, The Journal of Experimental Medicine)

Sho Yamasaki collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Eri Ishikawa
  • Xiuyuan Lu
  • Shigenari Ishizuka
  • Masamichi Nagae
  • Bridget L. Stocker

Best Publications

  • Induction of Colonic Regulatory T Cells by Indigenous Clostridium Species

    Koji Atarashi;Takeshi Tanoue;Tatsuichiro Shima;Akemi Imaoka

  • Direct recognition of the mycobacterial glycolipid, trehalose dimycolate, by C-type lectin Mincle

    Eri Taniguchi Ishikawa;Tetsuaki Ishikawa;Tetsuaki Ishikawa;Yasu S Morita;Kenji Toyonaga

  • Dectin-2 Recognition of α-Mannans and Induction of Th17 Cell Differentiation Is Essential for Host Defense against Candida albicans

    Shinobu Saijo;Satoshi Ikeda;Keiko Yamabe;Shigeru Kakuta

  • Mincle is an ITAM-coupled activating receptor that senses damaged cells.

    Sho Yamasaki;Eri Ishikawa;Machie Sakuma;Hiromitsu Hara

  • Thymic Selection Determines γδ T Cell Effector Fate: Antigen-Naive Cells Make Interleukin-17 and Antigen-Experienced Cells Make Interferon γ

    Kirk D.C. Jensen;Xiaoqin Su;Sunny Shin;Luke Li

  • C-type lectin Mincle is an activating receptor for pathogenic fungus, Malassezia

    Sho Yamasaki;Makoto Matsumoto;Osamu Takeuchi;Tetsuhiro Matsuzawa

  • Dectin-2 Is a Direct Receptor for Mannose-Capped Lipoarabinomannan of Mycobacteria

    Akiko Yonekawa;Shinobu Saijo;Shinobu Saijo;Yoshihiko Hoshino;Yasunobu Miyake

  • Identification of distinct ligands for the C-type lectin receptors mincle and dectin-2 in the pathogenic fungus Malassezia

    Tetsuaki Ishikawa;Fumie Itoh;Sayumi Yoshida;Shinobu Saijo;Shinobu Saijo

  • C-type lectin MCL is an FcRγ-coupled receptor that mediates the adjuvanticity of mycobacterial cord factor.

    Yasunobu Miyake;Kenji Toyonaga;Daiki Mori;Shigeru Kakuta

  • Mechanistic basis of pre–T cell receptor–mediated autonomous signaling critical for thymocyte development

    Shou Yamasaki;Eri Ishikawa;Machie Sakuma;Koji Ogata

  • Cutting Edge: Negative Regulation of Immune Synapse Formation by Anchoring Lipid Raft to Cytoskeleton Through Cbp-EBP50-ERM Assembly

    Katsuhiko Itoh;Masahiro Sakakibara;Sho Yamasaki;Arata Takeuchi

  • Macrophage-inducible C-type lectin underlies obesity-induced adipose tissue fibrosis

    Miyako Tanaka;Kenji Ikeda;Takayoshi Suganami;Chikara Komiya

  • Structural analysis for glycolipid recognition by the C-type lectins Mincle and MCL.

    Atsushi Furukawa;Jun Kamishikiryo;Daiki Mori;Kenji Toyonaga

  • C-type lectin Mincle is an activating receptor for pathogenic fungus

    S Yamasaki

  • Intracellular metabolite β-glucosylceramide is an endogenous Mincle ligand possessing immunostimulatory activity.

    Masahiro Nagata;Yoshihiro Izumi;Eri Ishikawa;Ryoko Kiyotake

  • Evaluation of thermal properties of UO2 and PuO2 by equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations from 300 to 2000 K

    Tatsumi Arima;Sho Yamasaki;Yaohiro Inagaki;Kazuya Idemitsu

  • Restoration of Pattern Recognition Receptor Costimulation to Treat Chromoblastomycosis, a Chronic Fungal Infection of the Skin

    Maria da Glória Sousa;Delyth M. Reid;Edina Schweighoffer;Victor Tybulewicz

  • Androgen receptor antagonist suppresses exercise-induced hypertrophy of skeletal muscle.

    Kazuo Inoue;Sho Yamasaki;Tohru Fushiki;Yoshimune Okada

  • The actin cloud induced by LFA-1-mediated outside-in signals lowers the threshold for T-cell activation.

    Jun Ichiro Suzuki;Sho Yamasaki;Jennifer Wu;Gary A. Koretzky

  • Human Mincle Binds to Cholesterol Crystals and Triggers Innate Immune Responses

    Ryoko Kiyotake;Masatsugu Oh-hora;Eri Ishikawa;Tomofumi Miyamoto

Frequent Co-Authors

Takashi Saito
Takashi Saito Nagoya City University
Spencer J. Williams
Spencer J. Williams University of Melbourne
Shinobu Saijo
Shinobu Saijo Chiba University
Hisashi Arase
Hisashi Arase Osaka University
Toshiro Hara
Toshiro Hara Kyushu University
Gordon D. Brown
Gordon D. Brown University of Exeter
Yoichiro Iwakura
Yoichiro Iwakura Tokyo University of Science
Tomohiro Kurosaki
Tomohiro Kurosaki Osaka University
Hiroki Yoshida
Hiroki Yoshida Saga University
Ikuya Yano
Ikuya Yano Osaka Metropolitan University

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