Scientific Achievements

This work was supported in part by Global COE Program "Center of Education and Research for the Advanced Genome - Based Medicine - For personalized medicine and the control of worldwide infectious diseases - ",MEXT, Japan.

Genome-wide association study identifies a susceptibility locus for HCV-induced hepatocellular carcinoma Immunity doi:10.1038/ng.809.

Vinod Kumar, Naoya Kato,Yuji Urabe, Atsushi Takahashi, Ryosuke Muroyama, Naoya Hosono, Motoyuki Otsuka, Ryosuke Tateishi, Masao Omata, Hidewaki Nakagawa, Kazuhiko Koike, Naoyuki Kamatani, Michiaki Kubo, Yusuke Nakamura & Koichi Matsuda

Differential roles of interleukin-17A and interleukin-17F in host defense against mucoepithelial bacterial infection and allergic responses Immunity 30 (1):108-119, (2009)

Harumichi Ishigame, Shigeru Kakuta, Takeshi Nagai, Motohiko Kadoki, Aya Nambu, Yutaka Komiyama, Noriyuki Fujikado, Yuko Tanahashi, Aoi Akitsu, Hayato Kotaki, Katsuko Sudo, Susumu Nakae, Chihiro Sasakawa, & Yoichiro Iwakura

Conformational transition of Sec machinery inferred from bacterial SecYE structures Nature 455, 988-991 (2008)

Tomoya Tsukazaki, Hiroyuki Mori, Shuya Fukai, Ryuichiro Ishitani, Takaharu Mori, Naoshi Dohmae, Anna Perederina, Yuji Sugita, Dmitry G. Vassylyev, Koreaki Ito & Osamu Nureki

The tumor necrosis factor family receptors RANK and CD40 cooperatively establish the thymic medullary microenvironment and self-tolerance Immunity , 29, 423-437 (2008)

Akiyama T, Shimo Y, Yanai H, Qin J, Ohshima D, Maruyama Y, Asaumi Y, Kitazawa J, Takayanagi H, Penninger JM, Matsumoto M, Nitta T, Takahama Y, Inoue J.

Division of Cellular and Molecular biology, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Shirokane-dai, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan.