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Overview

Toshiaki Kawakami is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology, with a focus on immunology, physiology, immunology and allergy, dermatology, and surgery as subfields of study.

The main topics covered in Kawakami's work include mast cells and histamine, asthma and respiratory diseases, IL-33, ST2, and ILC pathways, urticaria and related conditions, allergic rhinitis and sensitization, dermatology and skin diseases, and food allergy and anaphylaxis research.

Kawakami has published research in multiple venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Current Opinion in Immunology
  • The Journal of Immunology
  • Cells
  • Japanese Journal of Radiology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Kawakami are:

  • Yuko Kawakami
  • Yu Kawakami
  • Kazumi Kasakura
  • Tomoaki Ando
  • Jiro Kitaura

Notable recent papers include:

  • "The high affinity IgE receptor: a signaling update," 2021, published in Current Opinion in Immunology
  • "Recent advances in mast cell activation and regulation," 2020, published in F1000Research
  • "Cooperative Regulation of the Mucosal Mast Cell-Specific Protease Genes Mcpt1 and Mcpt2 by GATA and Smad Transcription Factors," 2020, published in The Journal of Immunology
  • "Dendritic cell immunoreceptor drives atopic dermatitis by modulating oxidized CaMKII-involved mast cell activation," 2022, published in JCI Insight
  • "Role of TCTP in Cell Biological and Disease Processes," 2021, published in Cells

Best Publications

  • Regulation of mast-cell and basophil function and survival by IgE

    Toshiaki Kawakami;Stephen J Galli

  • Development, migration, and survival of mast cells.

    Yoshimichi Okayama;Toshiaki Kawakami

  • PKC-beta controls I kappa B kinase lipid raft recruitment and activation in response to BCR signaling.

    Thomas T. Su;Beichu Guo;Yuko Kawakami;Karen Sommer

  • The pleckstrin homology domain of Bruton tyrosine kinase interacts with protein kinase C

    Libo Yao;Yuko Kawakami;Toshiaki Kawakami

  • Regulation of mast cell survival by IgE.

    Koichi Asai;Jiro Kitaura;Yuko Kawakami;Noboru Yamagata

  • Involvement of Bruton's Tyrosine Kinase in FcεRI-dependent Mast Cell Degranulation and Cytokine Production

    Daisuke Hata;Yuko Kawakami;Naoki Inagaki;Chris S. Lantz

  • Mast cells in atopic dermatitis.

    Toshiaki Kawakami;Tomoaki Ando;Miho Kimura;Bridget S Wilson

  • Evidence that IgE molecules mediate a spectrum of effects on mast cell survival and activation via aggregation of the FcεRI

    Jiro Kitaura;Jinming Song;Mindy Tsai;Koichi Asai

  • Tyrosine phosphorylation and activation of Bruton tyrosine kinase upon Fc epsilon RI cross-linking.

    Y Kawakami;L Yao;T Miura;S Tsukada

  • CD28 is associated with and induces the immediate tyrosine phosphorylation and activation of the Tec family kinase ITK/EMT in the human Jurkat leukemic T-cell line

    Avery August;Spencer Gibson;Yuko Kawakami;Toshiaki Kawakami

  • Akt-dependent cytokine production in mast cells.

    Jiro Kitaura;Koichi Asai;Mari Maeda-Yamamoto;Yuko Kawakami

  • Critical role for galectin-3 in airway inflammation and bronchial hyperresponsiveness in a murine model of asthma

    Riaz I. Zuberi;Daniel K. Hsu;Omer Kalayci;Huan Yuan Chen

  • Rearrangement of immunoglobulin gamma 1-chain gene and mechanism for heavy-chain class switch

    Tohru Kataoka;Toshiaki Kawakami;Naoki Takahashi;Tasuku Honjo

  • Protein Kinase C βII Regulates Akt Phosphorylation on Ser-473 in a Cell Type- and Stimulus-specific Fashion

    Yuko Kawakami;Hajime Nishimoto;Jiro Kitaura;Mari Maeda-Yamamoto

  • Mast Cell Survival and Activation by IgE in the Absence of Antigen: A Consideration of the Biologic Mechanisms and Relevance

    Toshiaki Kawakami;Jiro Kitaura

  • IgE stimulates human and mouse arterial cell apoptosis and cytokine expression and promotes atherogenesis in Apoe-/- mice.

    Jing Wang;Xiang Cheng;Xiang Cheng;Mei Xiang Xiang;Mervi Alanne-Kinnunen

  • Bruton’s tyrosine kinase regulates apoptosis and JNK/SAPK kinase activity

    Yuko Kawakami;Toru Miura;Reid Bissonnette;Daisuke Hata

  • Redundant and opposing functions of two tyrosine kinases, Btk and Lyn, in mast cell activation.

    Yuko Kawakami;Jiro Kitaura;Anne B. Satterthwaite;Roberta M. Kato

  • Positive and Negative Regulation of Mast Cell Activation by Lyn via the FcεRI

    Wenbin Xiao;Hajime Nishimoto;Hong Hong;Jiro Kitaura

  • PKCβ modulates antigen receptor signaling via regulation of Btk membrane localization

    Shin W. Kang;Matthew I. Wahl;Julia Chu;Jiro Kitaura

Frequent Co-Authors

Yuko Kawakami
Yuko Kawakami La Jolla Institute For Allergy & Immunology
Clifford A. Lowell
Clifford A. Lowell University of California, San Francisco
Kenji Matsumoto
Kenji Matsumoto Izumi Municipal Hospital
Chisei Ra
Chisei Ra Nihon University
Stephen J. Galli
Stephen J. Galli Stanford University
Naoki Inagaki
Naoki Inagaki Gifu Pharmaceutical University
David J. Rawlings
David J. Rawlings Seattle Children's Hospital
Michael Leitges
Michael Leitges University of Oslo
Sanford J. Shattil
Sanford J. Shattil University of California, San Diego
Amnon Altman
Amnon Altman La Jolla Institute For Allergy & Immunology

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