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Yusuke Ohba is affiliated with Hokkaido University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as well as Medicine. Their research spans numerous subfields including Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, and Cell Biology.

Their work addresses a variety of main topics such as Mitochondrial Function and Pathology, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls, Ion Channel Regulation and Function, Cardiac Electrophysiology and Arrhythmias, Plant Molecular Biology Research, and Influenza Virus Research Studies.

Yusuke Ohba has published papers in several notable venues, with a frequency of work particularly in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cell Structure and Function, Plant and Cell Physiology, Current Biology, and Nature Communications.

  • Calcium Wave Promotes Cell Extrusion, 2020, Current Biology
  • A phospho-switch controls RNF43-mediated degradation of Wnt receptors to suppress tumorigenesis, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Comparative pathogenicity of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariants including BA.1, BA.2, and BA.5, 2023, Communications Biology
  • Intravenous Administration of Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Derived Exosome Alleviates Spinal Cord Injury by Regulating Neutrophil Extracellular Trap Formation through Exosomal miR-125a-3p, 2024, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Development of Polymer-Lipid Hybrid Nanoparticles for Large-Sized Plasmid DNA Transfection, 2023, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

The scientist collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including Yoichiro Fujioka, Maho Amano, Sayaka Kashiwagi, Aiko Yoshida, and Takasuke Fukuhara.

Best Publications

  • Induction of Colonic Regulatory T Cells by Indigenous Clostridium Species

    Koji Atarashi;Takeshi Tanoue;Tatsuichiro Shima;Akemi Imaoka

  • IRF-7 is the master regulator of type-I interferon-dependent immune responses

    Kenya Honda;Hideyuki Yanai;Hideo Negishi;Masataka Asagiri

  • DAI (DLM-1/ZBP1) is a cytosolic DNA sensor and an activator of innate immune response

    Akinori Takaoka;Zhichao Wang;Myoung Kwon Choi;Hideyuki Yanai

  • Apoptosis and Molecular Targeting Therapy in Cancer

    Mohamed Hassan;Hidemichi Watari;Ali AbuAlmaaty;Yusuke Ohba

  • Integral role of IRF-5 in the gene induction programme activated by Toll-like receptors

    Akinori Takaoka;Hideyuki Yanai;Seiji Kondo;Gordon Duncan

  • Spatiotemporal regulation of MyD88-IRF-7 signalling for robust type-I interferon induction.

    Kenya Honda;Yusuke Ohba;Yusuke Ohba;Hideyuki Yanai;Hideo Negishi

  • Tumor-infiltrating DCs suppress nucleic acid–mediated innate immune responses through interactions between the receptor TIM-3 and the alarmin HMGB1

    Shigeki Chiba;Muhammad Baghdadi;Hisaya Akiba;Hironori Yoshiyama

  • Spatio-temporal images of growth-factor-induced activation of Ras and Rap1.

    Naoki Mochizuki;Shigeko Yamashita;Kazuo Kurokawa;Yusuke Ohba

  • Activation of Rac and Cdc42 video imaged by fluorescent resonance energy transfer-based single-molecule probes in the membrane of living cells

    Reina E. Itoh;Kazuo Kurokawa;Yusuke Ohba;Hisayoshi Yoshizaki

  • Role of a transductional-transcriptional processor complex involving MyD88 and IRF-7 in Toll-like receptor signaling

    Kenya Honda;Hideyuki Yanai;Tatsuaki Mizutani;Hideo Negishi

  • Activity of Rho-family GTPases during cell division as visualized with FRET-based probes

    Hisayoshi Yoshizaki;Yusuke Ohba;Kazuo Kurokawa;Reina E. Itoh

  • Negative regulation of Toll-like-receptor signaling by IRF-4

    Hideo Negishi;Yusuke Ohba;Hideyuki Yanai;Akinori Takaoka

  • Evidence for licensing of IFN-γ-induced IFN regulatory factor 1 transcription factor by MyD88 in Toll-like receptor-dependent gene induction program

    Hideo Negishi;Yasuyuki Fujita;Hideyuki Yanai;Shinya Sakaguchi

  • Activation of the ERK/MAPK pathway by an isoform of rap1GAP associated with G alpha(i)

    Naoki Mochizuki;Yusuke Ohba;Etsuko Kiyokawa;Takeshi Kurata

  • Requirement for C3G-dependent Rap1 activation for cell adhesion and embryogenesis.

    Yusuke Ohba;Koichi Ikuta;Atsuo Ogura;Junichiro Matsuda

  • ZAPS is a potent stimulator of signaling mediated by the RNA helicase RIG-I during antiviral responses

    Sumio Hayakawa;Souichi Shiratori;Hiroaki Yamato;Takeshi Kameyama

  • Cell competition with normal epithelial cells promotes apical extrusion of transformed cells through metabolic changes

    Shunsuke Kon;Kojiro Ishibashi;Hiroto Katoh;Sho Kitamoto

  • Lypd8 promotes the segregation of flagellated microbiota and colonic epithelia

    Ryu Okumura;Takashi Kurakawa;Takashi Nakano;Hisako Kayama;Hisako Kayama

  • CalDAG-GEFIII activation of Ras, R-Ras, and Rap1

    Shigeko Yamashita;Naoki Mochizuki;Yusuke Ohba;Minoru Tobiume

  • Regulatory proteins of R-Ras, TC21/R-Ras2, and M-Ras/R-Ras3.

    Yusuke Ohba;Naoki Mochizuki;Shigeko Yamashita;Andrew M. Chan

Frequent Co-Authors

Michiyuki Matsuda
Michiyuki Matsuda Kyoto University
Kenya Honda
Kenya Honda Keio University
Shinya Tanaka
Shinya Tanaka Hokkaido University
Yasuyuki Kita
Yasuyuki Kita Ritsumeikan University
Tadatsugu Taniguchi
Tadatsugu Taniguchi University of Tokyo
Akinori Takaoka
Akinori Takaoka Hokkaido University
Kazuo Nagashima
Kazuo Nagashima Hokkaido University
Takanori Teshima
Takanori Teshima Hokkaido University
Hirofumi Sawa
Hirofumi Sawa Hokkaido University
Yoshihiro Kawaoka
Yoshihiro Kawaoka University of Tokyo

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