Publications

Kazuki Nagai , Wataru Fujii , Junya Yamagishi , Chizu Sanjoba and Yasuyuki Goto
’ Inflammatory CD11b+ Macrophages Produce BAFF in Spleen of Mice Infected with Leishmania donovani ’
Pathogens 2024 , 13(3) , 232

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is an infectious disease caused by parasitic protozoa of the genus Leis...more

Jing Hong, Budhaditya Mukherjee, Chizu Sanjoba, Junya Yamagishi, Yasuyuki Goto
‘Upregulation of ATP6V0D2 benefits intracellular survival of Leishmania donovani in erythrocytes-engulfing macrophages’
Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol., 31 January 2024, Sec. Parasite and Host, Volume 14 – 2024

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is the most severe type of leishmaniasis which is caused by infection o...more

Yasuyuki Goto, Tatsumi Ito, Souradeepa Ghosh, Budhaditya Mukherjee
’Access and utilization of host-derived iron by Leishmania parasites ‘
The Journal of Biochemistry, mvad082

Iron is involved in many biochemical processes including oxygen transport, ATP production, DNA syn...more

Saito-Nakano Y, Umeki Y, Shimokawa C,,Kobayashi K, Hashimoto K, Takada T, Makii C, Hasebe R, Yoshida Y, Nakajima R, Kobayashi S, Hisaeda H.,
‘Prevalence and metronidazole resistance of Trichomonas vaginalis among Japanese woman in 2021’
IJID Reg. 2023 Feb 28 ; 7:130-135

The first report about the prevalence ofTrichomonas vaginalisin Japanese women. The...more

Kofi Dadzie Kwofie, Emmanuel Pacia Hernandez, Anisuzzaman, Hayato Kawada, Yuki Koike, Sana Sasaki, Takahiro Inoue, Kei Jimbo, Fusako Mikami, Danielle Ladzekpo, Rika Umemiya-Shirafuji, Kayoko Yamaji, Tetsuya Tanaka, Makoto Matsubayashi, Md Abdul Alim, Samuel Kweku Dadzie, Shiroh Iwanaga, Naotoshi Tsuji & Takeshi Hatta
‘RNA activation in ticks’
volume 13, Article number: 9341 Scientific Reports 2023

RNA activation (RNAa) is a burgeoning area of research in which double-stranded RNAs (dsRNAs) or...more

Hana Hirai, Jing Hong, Wataru Fujii, Chizu Sanjoba, Yasuyuki Goto
‘Leishmania Infection-Induced Proteolytic Processing of SIRPα in Macrophages’
12(4), 593, Pathogens2023

The shedding of cell surface receptors may bring synergistic outcomes through the loss of receptor-m...more

Hajime Koizumi, Wataru Fujii, Chizu Sanjoba, Yasuyuki Goto
‘BAFF induces CXCR5 expression during B cell differentiation in bone marrow’
B B Reports, Volume 34, July 2023, 101451

B cell activating factor (BAFF) plays an important role in antibody production through differentiati...more

Yasuyuki Goto, Haruka Mizobuchi
‘Pathological roles of macrophages in Leishmania infections’
Parasitology International, Volume 94, June 2023, 102738

Macrophages are the major host cells for Leishmania parasites, and determine the fate of infection b...more

Naoyoshi Nagata, Tadashi Takeuchi, Hiroaki Masuoka, Ryo Aoki, Masahiro Ishikane, Noriko Iwamoto, Masaya Sugiyama, Wataru Suda, Yumiko Nakanishi, Junko Terada-Hirashima, Moto Kimura, Tomohiko Nishijima, Hiroshi Inooka, Tohru Miyoshi-Akiyama, Yasushi Kojima, Chikako Shimokawa, Hajime Hisaeda, Fen Zhang, Hiroshi Ohno
‘Human Gut Microbiota and Its Metabolites Impact Immune Responses in COVID-19 and Its Complications’
Gastroenterology Available online 23 September 2022

We discovered that COVID-19 patients and patients with complications show unique changes in the int...more

Jing Hong, Chizu Sanjoba, Wataru Fujii, Junya Yamagishi, Yasuyuki Goto
‘Leishmania infection-induced multinucleated giant cell formation via upregulation of ATP6V0D2 expression’
Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol., 23 September 2022

In patients with visceral leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease, macrophages in the bone marrow and ly...more

Eiji Miyauchi, Chikako Shimokawa, Alex Steimle, Mahesh S. Desai, Hiroshi Ohno
‘The impact of the gut microbiome on extra-intestinal autoimmune diseases’
Nat Rev Immunol,09 May 2022
*Co-first authorship

The prevalence of autoimmune diseases (ADs) worldwide has rapidly increasedover the past few decades...more

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