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Overview

Trairak Pisitkun is affiliated with Chulalongkorn University in Thailand and has a significant body of research primarily in the fields of Medicine, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Immunology and Microbiology. Their work spans various subfields including Molecular Biology, Immunology, Oncology, Infectious Diseases, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The scientist's research covers topics such as interferon and immune responses, vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches, monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies research, immunotherapy and immune responses, inflammasome and immune disorders, cancer immunotherapy and biomarkers, and SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Trairak Pisitkun include:

  • STING Mediates Lupus via the Activation of Conventional Dendritic Cell Maturation and Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Differentiation, 2020, iScience
  • Endotoxemia and circulating bacteriome in severe COVID-19 patients, 2020, Intensive Care Medicine Experimental
  • A STING antagonist modulating the interaction with STIM1 blocks ER-to-Golgi trafficking and inhibits lupus pathology, 2021, EBioMedicine
  • Machine Learning-Driven and Smartphone-Based Fluorescence Detection for CRISPR Diagnostic of SARS-CoV-2, 2021, ACS Omega
  • The LIN28B/TGF-β/TGFBI feedback loop promotes cell migration and tumour initiation potential in cholangiocarcinoma, 2021, Cancer Gene Therapy

Frequent collaborators in their research include Prapaporn Pisitkun, Piriya Wongkongkathep, Asada Leelahavanichkul, Nuttiya Kalpongnukul, and Chatikorn Boonkrai, all of whom have co-authored multiple studies alongside Trairak Pisitkun.

Publication venues regularly featuring their work include Scientific Reports, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Frontiers in Immunology, Cancer Research, and iScience. Among these, Scientific Reports is the leading venue with eight publications.

Best Publications

  • Identification and proteomic profiling of exosomes in human urine

    Trairak Pisitkun;Rong-Fong Shen;Mark A. Knepper

  • Large-Scale Proteomics and Phosphoproteomics of Urinary Exosomes

    Patricia A. Gonzales;Trairak Pisitkun;Jason D. Hoffert;Dmitry Tchapyjnikov

  • Collection, storage, preservation, and normalization of human urinary exosomes for biomarker discovery

    Hua Zhou;Peter S.T. Yuen;Trairak Pisitkun;Patricia A. Gonzales

  • Rapid isolation of urinary exosomal biomarkers using a nanomembrane ultrafiltration concentrator.

    Anita Cheruvanky;Hua Zhou;Trairak Pisitkun;Jeffrey B. Kopp

  • Exosomal Fetuin-A identified by proteomics: a novel urinary biomarker for detecting acute kidney injury.

    Hua Zhou;Trairak Pisitkun;Angel Aponte;Peter S.T. Yuen

  • Discovery of Urinary Biomarkers

    Trairak Pisitkun;Rose Johnstone;Mark A. Knepper

  • Quantitative phosphoproteomics of vasopressin-sensitive renal cells: Regulation of aquaporin-2 phosphorylation at two sites

    Jason D. Hoffert;Trairak Pisitkun;Guanghui Wang;Rong-Fong Shen

  • Tamm-Horsfall protein and urinary exosome isolation

    Patricia Fernández-Llama;Sookkasem Khositseth;Patricia A. Gonzales;Robert A. Star

  • Vasopressin-stimulated Increase in Phosphorylation at Ser269 Potentiates Plasma Membrane Retention of Aquaporin-2

    Jason D. Hoffert;Robert A. Fenton;Hanne B. Moeller;Brigitte Simons

  • Exosomes and the kidney: prospects for diagnosis and therapy of renal diseases

    Bas W.M. van Balkom;Trairak Pisitkun;Marianne C. Verhaar;Mark A. Knepper

  • Prospects for urinary proteomics: Exosomes as a source of urinary biomarkers

    Ewout J Hoorn;Trairak Pisitkun;Robert Zietse;Peter Gross

  • Large Scale Protein Identification in Intracellular Aquaporin-2 Vesicles from Renal Inner Medullary Collecting Duct

    Maria Barile;Trairak Pisitkun;Ming-Jiun Yu;Chung-Lin Chou

  • Quantitative phosphoproteomic analysis reveals vasopressin V2-receptor–dependent signaling pathways in renal collecting duct cells

    Markus M. Rinschen;Ming-Jiun Yu;Guanghui Wang;Emily S. Boja

  • Dynamics of aquaporin-2 serine-261 phosphorylation in response to short-term vasopressin treatment in collecting duct.

    Jason D. Hoffert;Jakob Nielsen;Ming-Jiun Yu;Trairak Pisitkun

  • Thiazide Diuretics Directly Induce Osteoblast Differentiation and Mineralized Nodule Formation by Interacting with a Sodium Chloride Co-Transporter in Bone

    Melita M. Dvorak;Cyrille De Joussineau;D. Howard Carter;Trairak Pisitkun

  • Systems-level analysis of cell-specific AQP2 gene expression in renal collecting duct

    Ming-Jiun Yu;R. Lance Miller;Panapat Uawithya;Markus M. Rinschen

  • Isolation and purification of exosomes in urine.

    Patricia A. Gonzales;Hua Zhou;Trairak Pisitkun;Nam Sun Wang

  • Proteome-Wide Measurement of Protein Half-Lives and Translation Rates in Vasopressin-Sensitive Collecting Duct Cells

    Pablo C. Sandoval;Dane H. Slentz;Trairak Pisitkun;Fahad Saeed

  • Quantitative phosphoproteomic analysis reveals cAMP/vasopressin-dependent signaling pathways in native renal thick ascending limb cells

    Ruwan Gunaratne;Drew W. W. Braucht;Markus M. Rinschen;Chung-Lin Chou

  • TAMM-HORSFALL PROTEIN AND URINARY EXOSOME ISOLATION: PP.9.380

    P Fernandez-Llama;S Khositseth;PA Gonzales;RA Star

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark A. Knepper
Mark A. Knepper National Institutes of Health
Robert A. Star
Robert A. Star National Institutes of Health
John A. Kellum
John A. Kellum University of Pittsburgh
Søren R. Paludan
Søren R. Paludan Aarhus University
Sylvie Breton
Sylvie Breton Harvard University
Dennis Brown
Dennis Brown Harvard University
Thomas Benzing
Thomas Benzing University of Cologne
Fuyuhiko Tamanoi
Fuyuhiko Tamanoi Kyoto University
Anavaj Sakuntabhai
Anavaj Sakuntabhai Institut Pasteur
Lance Miller
Lance Miller University of Oxford

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