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Yousuke Takahama is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in immunology and related fields. Their scientific work is primarily focused on understanding immune cell function, T-cell and B-cell immunology, and molecular mechanisms influencing immune responses.

The research topics covered by their publications include:

  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways
  • Circadian rhythm and melatonin
  • Cancer Cells and Metastasis
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics

Their notable papers reflect a focus on thymic epithelial cells, thymus involution, memory B cell recycling, and T cell receptor repertoires. Selected recent publications are:

  • Diversity in medullary thymic epithelial cells controls the activity and availability of iNKT cells, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Postnatal Involution and Counter-Involution of the Thymus, 2020, Frontiers in Immunology
  • Recycling of memory B cells between germinal center and lymph node subcapsular sinus supports affinity maturation to antigenic drift, 2022, Nature Communications
  • The thymoproteasome hardwires the TCR repertoire of CD8+ T cells in the cortex independent of negative selection, 2021, The Journal of Experimental Medicine
  • Embryonic keratin19+ progenitors generate multiple functionally distinct progeny to maintain epithelial diversity in the adult thymus medulla, 2023, Nature Communications

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Izumi Ohigashi
  • Graham Anderson
  • Andrea J. White
  • Kieran D. James
  • Sayumi Fujimori

Yousuke Takahama publishes often in journals recognized in immunology and molecular biology, such as:

  • The Journal of Experimental Medicine
  • Nature Communications
  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • eLife
  • Cell Reports

Their scientific work spans across multiple fields including:

  • Immunology and Microbiology
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine

Subfields of study include:

  • Immunology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Oncology
  • Endocrine and Autonomic Systems
  • Cell Biology

Best Publications

  • Nuclear reprogramming of somatic cells by in vitro hybridization with ES cells

    Masako Tada;Yousuke Takahama;Yousuke Takahama;Kuniya Abe;Norio Nakatsuji

  • Guidelines for the use of flow cytometry and cell sorting in immunological studies

    Andrea Cossarizza;Hyun Dong Chang;Andreas Radbruch;Mübeccel Akdis

  • Journey through the thymus: stromal guides for T-cell development and selection

    Yousuke Takahama

  • Guidelines for the use of flow cytometry and cell sorting in immunological studies (second edition)

    Andrea Cossarizza;Hyun Dong Chang;Andreas Radbruch;Andreas Acs

  • Regulation of CD8+ T Cell Development by Thymus-Specific Proteasomes

    Shigeo Murata;Katsuhiro Sasaki;Toshihiko Kishimoto;Shin-ichiro Niwa

  • The tumor necrosis factor family receptors RANK and CD40 cooperatively establish the thymic medullary microenvironment and self-tolerance.

    Taishin Akiyama;Yusuke Shimo;Hiromi Yanai;Junwen Qin

  • CCR7 Signals Are Essential for Cortex–Medulla Migration of Developing Thymocytes

    Tomoo Ueno;Fumi Saito;Daniel Herbert Donald Gray;Sachiyo Kuse

  • The Cytokine RANKL Produced by Positively Selected Thymocytes Fosters Medullary Thymic Epithelial Cells that Express Autoimmune Regulator

    Yu Hikosaka;Takeshi Nitta;Izumi Ohigashi;Kouta Yano

  • Thymic epithelial cells: working class heroes for T cell development and repertoire selection

    Graham Anderson;Yousuke Takahama

  • CCR7-dependent cortex-to-medulla migration of positively selected thymocytes is essential for establishing central tolerance.

    Hirotsugu Kurobe;Cunlan Liu;Tomoo Ueno;Tomoo Ueno;Fumi Saito

  • Negative selection of CD4+CD8+ thymocytes by T cell receptor-induced apoptosis requires a costimulatory signal that can be provided by CD28

    J A Punt;B A Osborne;Y Takahama;S O Sharrow

  • Development of Autoimmunity against Transcriptionally Unrepressed Target Antigen in the Thymus of Aire-Deficient Mice

    Noriyuki Kuroda;Tasuku Mitani;Naoki Takeda;Naozumi Ishimaru

  • Aire-dependent production of XCL1 mediates medullary accumulation of thymic dendritic cells and contributes to regulatory T cell development

    Yu Lei;Yu Lei;Adiratna Mat Ripen;Naozumi Ishimaru;Izumi Ohigashi

  • Defective Brain Development in Mice Lacking the Hif-1α Gene in Neural Cells

    Shuhei Tomita;Masaki Ueno;Masami Sakamoto;Yuki Kitahama

  • Differential Roles of ERK and p38 MAP Kinase Pathways in Positive and Negative Selection of T Lymphocytes

    Takehiko Sugawara;Tetsuo Moriguchi;Eisuke Nishida;Yousuke Takahama

  • Role for CCR7 Ligands in the Emigration of Newly Generated T Lymphocytes from the Neonatal Thymus

    Tomoo Ueno;Kyoko Hara;Melissa S Willis;M A Malin

  • A Role for Pref-1 and HES-1 in Thymocyte Development

    Midori Kaneta;Masatake Osawa;Mitsujiro Osawa;Kazuhiro Sudo

  • Autoantigen-specific interactions with CD4(+) thymocytes control mature medullary thymic epithelial cell cellularity

    Magali Irla;Stéphanie Hugues;Jason Gill;Takeshi Nitta

  • The immunoproteasome and thymoproteasome: functions, evolution and human disease.

    Shigeo Murata;Yousuke Takahama;Masanori Kasahara;Keiji Tanaka

  • NF-κB-Inducing Kinase Establishes Self-Tolerance in a Thymic Stroma-Dependent Manner

    Fumiko Kajiura;Shijie Sun;Takashi Nomura;Keisuke Izumi

Frequent Co-Authors

Shigeo Murata
Shigeo Murata University of Tokyo
Keiji Tanaka
Keiji Tanaka Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science
Georg A. Holländer
Georg A. Holländer University of Oxford
Graham Anderson
Graham Anderson University of Birmingham
Alfred Singer
Alfred Singer National Institutes of Health
Hiromitsu Nakauchi
Hiromitsu Nakauchi Stanford University
Susan O. Sharrow
Susan O. Sharrow National Institutes of Health
Martin Lipp
Martin Lipp Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
Makoto Furutani-Seiki
Makoto Furutani-Seiki Yamaguchi University
Hisato Kondoh
Hisato Kondoh Kyoto Sangyo University

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