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  • Attenuation of regulatory T cell function by type I IFN signaling in an MDA5 gain-of-function mutant mouse model.

    Biochemical and biophysical research communications

    Authors: Sumin Lee, Keiji Hirota, Verena Schuette, Takashi Fujita, Hiroki Kato

  • PKR and TLR3 trigger distinct signals that coordinate the induction of antiviral apoptosis.

    Cell death & disease

    Authors: Wenjie Zuo, Mai Wakimoto, Noriyasu Kozaiwa, Yutaro Shirasaka, Seong-Wook Oh, Shiori Fujiwara, Hitoshi Miyachi, Amane Kogure, Hiroki Kato, Takashi Fujita

  • Top publication

    Impaired ketogenesis ties metabolism to T cell dysfunction in COVID-19.

    Nature

    Authors: Fotios Karagiannis, Konrad Peukert, Laura Surace, Marcel Michla, Fabian Nikolka, Mario Fox, Patricia Weiss, Caroline Feuerborn, Paul Maier, Susanne Schulz, Burcu Al, Benjamin Seeliger, Tobias Welte, Sascha David, Inge Grondman, Aline H de Nooijer, Peter Pickkers, Jan Lukas Kleiner, Marc Moritz Berger, Thorsten Brenner, Christian Putensen, Hiroki Kato, Natalio Garbi, Mihai G Netea, Karsten Hiller, Katarzyna Placek, Christian Bode, Christoph Wilhelm

  • Attenuation of SARS-CoV-2 replication and associated inflammation by concomitant targeting of viral and host cap 2'-O-ribose methyltransferases.

    The EMBO journal

    Authors: Valter Bergant, Shintaro Yamada, Vincent Grass, Yuta Tsukamoto, Teresa Lavacca, Karsten Krey, Maria-Teresa Mühlhofer, Sabine Wittmann, Armin Ensser, Alexandra Herrmann, Anja Vom Hemdt, Yuriko Tomita, Shutoku Matsuyama, Takatsugu Hirokawa, Yiqi Huang, Antonio Piras, Constanze A Jakwerth, Madlen Oelsner, Susanne Thieme, Alexander Graf, Stefan Krebs, Helmut Blum, Beate M Kümmerer, Alexey Stukalov, Carsten B Schmidt-Weber, Manabu Igarashi, Thomas Gramberg, Andreas Pichlmair, Hiroki Kato

  • The RNA helicase DDX3 promotes IFNB transcription via enhancing IRF-3/p300 holocomplex binding to the IFNB promoter.

    Scientific reports

    Authors: Wilaiporn Saikruang, Lena Ang Yan Ping, Hiroto Abe, Dacquin M Kasumba, Hiroki Kato, Takashi Fujita

  • RIG-I-induced innate antiviral immunity protects mice from lethal SARS-CoV-2 infection.

    Molecular therapy. Nucleic acids

    Authors: Samira Marx, Beate M Kümmerer, Christian Grützner, Hiroki Kato, Martin Schlee, Marcel Renn, Eva Bartok, Gunther Hartmann

  • Intracellular virus sensor MDA5 mutation develops autoimmune myocarditis and nephritis.

    Journal of autoimmunity

    Authors: Taisuke Ohto, Ahmed Abu Tayeh, Ryuta Nishikomori, Hiroto Abe, Kyota Hashimoto, Shiro Baba, Anahi-Paula Arias-Loza, Nobumasa Soda, Saya Satoh, Masashi Matsuda, Yusuke Iizuka, Takashi Kondo, Haruhiko Koseki, Nan Yan, Takahiro Higuchi, Takashi Fujita, Hiroki Kato

  • The Role of Non-Structural Protein NSs in the Pathogenesis of Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome.

    Viruses

    Authors: Jumana Khalil, Hiroki Kato, Takashi Fujita

  • Aicardi-Goutières syndrome-like encephalitis in mutant mice with constitutively active MDA5.

    International immunology

    Authors: Hideo Onizawa, Hiroki Kato, Hiroyuki Kimura, Tomoo Kudo, Nobumasa Soda, Shota Shimizu, Masahide Funabiki, Yusuke Yagi, Yuji Nakamoto, Josef Priller, Ryuta Nishikomori, Toshio Heike, Nan Yan, Tohru Tsujimura, Tsuneyo Mimori, Takashi Fujita

  • Psoriasis-like skin disorder in transgenic mice expressing a RIG-I Singleton-Merten syndrome variant.

    International immunology

    Authors: Ahmed Abu Tayeh, Masahide Funabiki, Shota Shimizu, Saya Satoh, Lee Sumin, Yoichiro Iwakura, Hiroki Kato, Takashi Fujita