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Shoichi Kusumoto

Shoichi Kusumoto

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
58
Citations
17199
World Ranking
10459
National Ranking
761

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Nakanishi Prize, Chemical Society of Japan and the American Chemical Society.

Best Publications

  • Host Recognition of Bacterial Muramyl Dipeptide Mediated through NOD2 IMPLICATIONS FOR CROHN′S DISEASE

    Naohiro Inohara;Yasunori Ogura;Ana Fontalba;Olga Gutierrez

  • An essential role for NOD1 in host recognition of bacterial peptidoglycan containing diaminopimelic acid.

    Mathias Chamaillard;Masahito Hashimoto;Yasuo Horie;Junya Masumoto

  • Toll-like receptor 4 imparts ligand-specific recognition of bacterial lipopolysaccharide

    Egil Lien;Terry K. Means;Holger Heine;Atsutoshi Yoshimura

  • Synthetic and natural Escherichia coli free lipid A express identical endotoxic activities

    Chris Galanos;Otto Lüderitz;Ernst Th. Rietschel;Otto Westphal

  • Monomeric and Polymeric Gram-Negative Peptidoglycan but Not Purified LPS Stimulate the Drosophila IMD Pathway

    Takashi Kaneko;Takashi Kaneko;William E. Goldman;Peter Mellroth;Hakan Steiner

  • Lipopolysaccharide Interaction with Cell Surface Toll-like Receptor 4-MD-2 Higher Affinity than That with MD-2 or CD14

    Sachiko Akashi;Shin-ichiroh Saitoh;Yasutaka Wakabayashi;Takane Kikuchi

  • The chemical structure of bacterial endotoxin in relation to bioactivity.

    Ernst Th. Rietschel;Teruo Kirikae;F. Ulrich Schade;Artur J. Ulmer

  • Human MD-2 confers on mouse Toll-like receptor 4 species-specific lipopolysaccharide recognition.

    Sachiko Akashi;Yoshinori Nagai;Hirotaka Ogata;Masato Oikawa

  • Aggregates are the biologically active units of endotoxin.

    Mareike Mueller;Buko Lindner;Shoichi Kusumoto;Koichi Fukase

  • Human Peptidoglycan Recognition Protein-L Is an N-Acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine Amidase

    Zheng-Ming Wang;Xinna Li;Ross R. Cocklin;Minhui Wang

  • Intrinsic conformation of lipid A is responsible for agonistic and antagonistic activity.

    Ulrich Seydel;Masato Oikawa;Koichi Fukase;Shoichi Kusumoto

  • Total Synthesis of Escherichia coli Lipid A, the Endotoxically Active Principle of Cell-Surface Lipopolysaccharide

    Masahiro Imoto;Hiroyuki Yoshimura;Tetsuo Shimamoto;Nobuki Sakaguchi

  • Endotoxic properties of chemically synthesized lipid A part structures. Comparison of synthetic lipid A precursor and synthetic analogues with biosynthetic lipid A precursor and free lipid A.

    Chris Galanos;Volker Lehmann;Otto Lüderitz;Ernst Th. Rietschel

  • The Charge of Endotoxin Molecules Influences Their Conformation and IL-6-Inducing Capacity

    Andra B. Schromm;Klaus Brandenburg;Harald Loppnow;Ulrich Zähringer

  • Structural requirements of lipid A responsible for the functions: a study with chemically synthesized lipid A and its analogues.

    J. Yuzuru Homma;Motohiro Matsuura;Shiro Kanegasaki;Yasuaki Kawakubo

  • CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS OF N-ACETYLMURAMYL PEPTIDES WITH PARTIAL STRUCTURES OF BACTERIAL CELL WALL AND THEIR ANALOGS IN RELATION TO IMMUNOADJUVANT ACTIVITIES

    Shoichi Kusumoto;Yuzo Tarumi;Kazuhiro Ikenaka;Tetsuo Shiba

  • Chemical Synthesis of N-Acetylmuramyl Peptides with Partial Structures of Bacterial Cell Wall and Their Analogs in Relation to Immunoadjuvant Activities

    Shoichi Kusumoto;Yuzo Tarumi;Kazuhiro Ikenaka;Tetsuo Shiba

  • Combinational clustering of receptors following stimulation by bacterial products determines lipopolysaccharide responses

    Martha Triantafilou;Klaus Brandenburg;Shoichi Kusumoto;Koichi Fukase

  • A Dominant Role of Toll-Like Receptor 4 in the Signaling of Apoptosis in Bacteria-Faced Macrophages

    Rudolf Haase;Carsten J. Kirschning;Andreas Sing;Percy Schröttner

  • Induction of human interleukin 1 by bacterial and synthetic lipid A.

    Harald Loppnow;Lore Brade;Helmut Brade;Ernst Theodor Rietschel

Frequent Co-Authors

Koichi Fukase
Koichi Fukase Osaka University
Tomohiko Ogawa
Tomohiko Ogawa Asahi University
Robert W. Finberg
Robert W. Finberg University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Holger Heine
Holger Heine Hannover Medical School
Matthew J. Fenton
Matthew J. Fenton National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Klaus Brandenburg
Klaus Brandenburg Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
Douglas T. Golenbock
Douglas T. Golenbock University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Egil Lien
Egil Lien University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School

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