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Overview

William W. Kwok is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on immunology, medicine, and microbology, with significant contributions across subfields such as immunology, genetics, infectious diseases, surgery, and immunology and allergy.

Their work covers a range of topics including T-cell and B-cell immunology, immune cell function and interaction, diabetes and associated disorders, immunotherapy and immune responses, pancreatic function and diabetes, diabetes management and research, and monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies research.

A selection of recent papers by William W. Kwok includes:

  • HLA-DR15 Molecules Jointly Shape an Autoreactive T Cell Repertoire in Multiple Sclerosis (2020), Cell
  • Evaluating Responses to Gluten Challenge: A Randomized, Double-Blind, 2-Dose Gluten Challenge Trial (2020), Gastroenterology
  • A gut microbial peptide and molecular mimicry in the pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes (2022), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Bystander CD4 + T cells infiltrate human tumors and are phenotypically distinct (2022), OncoImmunology
  • Broadly directed SARS-CoV-2-specific CD4+ T cell response includes frequently detected peptide specificities within the membrane and nucleoprotein in patients with acute and resolved COVID-19 (2021), PLoS Pathogens

William W. Kwok has published frequently in journals such as:

  • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Diabetes
  • PLoS Pathogens
  • Frontiers in Immunology

Collaborations form a significant part of their research, with frequent co-authors including Eddie A. James, I-Ting Chow, Åke Lernmark, George K. Papadopoulos, and George P. Bondinas.

Their research often intersects with multiple areas addressing immune responses, T cell biology, diabetes-related disorders, and infectious diseases, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach within the medical and immunological sciences.

Best Publications

  • A phenotypically and functionally distinct human TH2 cell subpopulation is associated with allergic disorders

    Erik Wambre;Veronique Bajzik;Jonathan H. DeLong;Kimberly O’Brien

  • Disease-associated Bias in T Helper Type 1 (Th1)/Th2 CD4+ T Cell Responses Against MAGE-6 in HLA-DRB10401+ Patients With Renal Cell Carcinoma or Melanoma

    Tomohide Tatsumi;Lisa S. Kierstead;Elena Ranieri;Elena Ranieri;Loreto Gesualdo

  • Functional inflammatory profiles distinguish myelin-reactive T cells from patients with multiple sclerosis

    Yonghao Cao;Brittany A. Goods;Khadir Raddassi;Gerald T. Nepom

  • Antibiotic-refractory Lyme arthritis is associated with HLA-DR molecules that bind a Borrelia burgdorferi peptide

    Allen C. Steere;William Klitz;William Klitz;Elise E. Drouin;Ben A. Falk

  • Molecular Basis for HLA-DQ Associations With IDDM

    Gerald T Nepom;William W Kwok

  • Differentiation stage determines pathologic and protective allergen-specific CD4+ T-cell outcomes during specific immunotherapy.

    Erik Wambre;Jonathan H. DeLong;Eddie A. James;Rebecca E. LaFond

  • Allele-specific motifs characterize HLA-DQ interactions with a diabetes-associated peptide derived from glutamic acid decarboxylase.

    William W. Kwok;Mary Ellen Domeier;Fenella C. Raymond;Patricia Byers

  • Recognition of Posttranslationally Modified GAD65 Epitopes in Subjects With Type 1 Diabetes

    John W. McGinty;I-Ting Chow;Carla Greenbaum;Jared Odegard

  • HLA-DQ Tetramers Identify Epitope-Specific T Cells in Peripheral Blood of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2-Infected Individuals: Direct Detection of Immunodominant Antigen-Responsive Cells

    William W. Kwok;Andrew W. Liu;Erik J. Novak;John A. Gebe

  • Healthy Human Subjects Have CD4+ T Cells Directed against H5N1 Influenza Virus

    Michelle Roti;Junbao Yang;DeAnna Berger;Laurie Huston

  • Ara h 1–reactive T cells in individuals with peanut allergy

    Jonathan H. DeLong;Kelly Hetherington Simpson;Erik Wambre;Eddie A. James

  • Comparative study of GAD65-specific CD4+ T cells in healthy and type 1 diabetic subjects

    Nancy A. Danke;Junbao Yang;Carla Greenbaum;William W. Kwok;William W. Kwok

  • Autoreactive T cells specific for insulin B:11-23 recognize a low-affinity peptide register in human subjects with autoimmune diabetes.

    Junbao Yang;I-Ting Chow;Tomasz Sosinowski;Nadia Torres-Chinn

  • Islet-specific glucose-6-phosphatase catalytic subunit-related protein-reactive CD4+ T cells in human subjects.

    Junbao Yang;Nancy A. Danke;DeAnna Berger;Sandra Reichstetter

  • CD8 CTL from genital herpes simplex lesions: recognition of viral tegument and immediate early proteins and lysis of infected cutaneous cells.

    David M. Koelle;Hongbo B. Chen;Marc A. Gavin;Anna Wald

  • Specific immunotherapy modifies allergen-specific CD4+ T-cell responses in an epitope-dependent manner

    Erik Wambre;Jonathan H. DeLong;Eddie A. James;Nadia Torres-Chinn

  • HLA-DQ allelic polymorphisms constrain patterns of class II heterodimer formation.

    William W. Kwok;Susan Kovats;Philip Thurtle;Gerald T. Nepom

  • DNA from the A6S/2 crown gall tumor contains scrambled Ti-plasmid sequences near its junctions with plant DNA

    Robert B. Simpson;Robert B. Simpson;Patrick J. O'Hara;William Kwok;Alice L. Montoya

  • MHC II tetramers visualize human CD4+ T cell responses to Epstein-Barr virus infection and demonstrate atypical kinetics of the nuclear antigen EBNA1 response.

    Heather M. Long;Odette L. Chagoury;Alison M. Leese;Gordon B. Ryan

  • CD4+ T cells from type 1 diabetic and healthy subjects exhibit different thresholds of activation to a naturally processed proinsulin epitope.

    Junbao Yang;Nancy Danke;Michelle Roti;Laurie Huston

  • Generation of high quantities of viral and tumor-specific human CD4+ and CD8+ T-cell clones using peptide pulsed mature dendritic cells.

    Jean-François Fonteneau;Marie Larsson;Selin Somersan;Catherine Sanders

Frequent Co-Authors

Eddie A. James
Eddie A. James Virginia Mason Medical Center
Gerald T. Nepom
Gerald T. Nepom Virginia Mason Medical Center
David M. Koelle
David M. Koelle University of Washington
Carla J. Greenbaum
Carla J. Greenbaum Virginia Mason Medical Center
David G. Robinson
David G. Robinson Heidelberg University
Helena Reijonen
Helena Reijonen City Of Hope National Medical Center
Jane H. Buckner
Jane H. Buckner Virginia Mason Medical Center
David A. Hafler
David A. Hafler Yale University
Milton P. Gordon
Milton P. Gordon University of Washington
Eugene W. Nester
Eugene W. Nester University of Washington

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