Masanori Kasahara

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1 Origin and evolution of the adaptive immune system: genetic events and selective pressures. Nat Rev Genet 2009 3.11
2 The amphioxus genome illuminates vertebrate origins and cephalochordate biology. Genome Res 2008 3.04
3 Abnormal conformation and impaired degradation of propylthiouracil-induced neutrophil extracellular traps: implications of disordered neutrophil extracellular traps in a rat model of myeloperoxidase antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis. Arthritis Rheum 2012 2.69
4 Variable lymphocyte receptors in hagfish. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2005 1.99
5 Structural diversity of the hagfish variable lymphocyte receptors. J Biol Chem 2006 1.89
6 Genomic analysis of immunity in a Urochordate and the emergence of the vertebrate immune system: "waiting for Godot". Immunogenetics 2003 1.75
7 VLR-based adaptive immunity. Annu Rev Immunol 2012 1.56
8 A novel type of E3 ligase for the Ufm1 conjugation system. J Biol Chem 2009 1.47
9 Crystal structure of a chaperone complex that contributes to the assembly of yeast 20S proteasomes. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2008 1.45
10 Cooperation of multiple chaperones required for the assembly of mammalian 20S proteasomes. Mol Cell 2006 1.37
11 Identification of a third variable lymphocyte receptor in the lamprey. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010 1.37
12 Two novel NKG2D ligands of the mouse H60 family with differential expression patterns and binding affinities to NKG2D. J Immunol 2008 1.31
13 Decreased proteasomal activity causes age-related phenotypes and promotes the development of metabolic abnormalities. Am J Pathol 2011 1.08
14 Natural killer cell receptors in the horse: evidence for the existence of multiple transcribed LY49 genes. Eur J Immunol 2004 1.05
15 Transcriptome analysis of hagfish leukocytes: a framework for understanding the immune system of jawless fishes. Dev Comp Immunol 2004 1.04
16 Identification of the mouse killer immunoglobulin-like receptor-like (Kirl) gene family mapping to chromosome X. Immunogenetics 2003 1.03
17 Hagfish leukocytes express a paired receptor family with a variable domain resembling those of antigen receptors. J Immunol 2005 1.03
18 Identification of the rat IgA Fc receptor encoded in the leukocyte receptor complex. Immunogenetics 2003 0.98
19 Corticomedullary differentiation and maturational arrest in thymomas. Histopathology 2013 0.97
20 Rat CD4+CD8+ macrophages kill tumor cells through an NKG2D- and granzyme/perforin-dependent mechanism. J Immunol 2008 0.95
21 Variable domains in hagfish: NICIR is a polymorphic multigene family expressed preferentially in leukocytes and is related to lamprey TCR-like. Immunogenetics 2006 0.92
22 Involvement of an NKG2D ligand H60c in epidermal dendritic T cell-mediated wound repair. J Immunol 2012 0.91
23 CD4+/CD8+ macrophages infiltrating at inflammatory sites: a population of monocytes/macrophages with a cytotoxic phenotype. Blood 2005 0.89
24 Two variable lymphocyte receptor genes of the inshore hagfish are located far apart on the same chromosome. Immunogenetics 2007 0.89
25 Evidence for the involvement of testicular protein CRISP2 in mouse sperm-egg fusion. Biol Reprod 2007 0.89
26 Xenopus class II A genes: studies of genetics, polymorphism, and expression. Dev Comp Immunol 2002 0.89
27 Chicken CD1 genes are located in the MHC: CD1 and endothelial protein C receptor genes constitute a distinct subfamily of class-I-like genes that predates the emergence of mammals. Immunogenetics 2005 0.89
28 Phylogenetic and expression analysis of lamprey toll-like receptors. Dev Comp Immunol 2010 0.88
29 Exclusive expression of proteasome subunit {beta}5t in the human thymic cortex. Blood 2009 0.88
30 The leukocyte common antigen (CD45) of the Pacific hagfish, Eptatretus stoutii: implications for the primordial function of CD45. Immunogenetics 2002 0.87
31 Construction of a bacterial artificial chromosome library from the inshore hagfish, Eptatretus burgeri: A resource for the analysis of the agnathan genome. Genes Genet Syst 2004 0.84
32 Overexpression of TNF-α-converting enzyme in fibroblasts augments dermal fibrosis after inflammation. Lab Invest 2012 0.83
33 A degenerate ParaHox gene cluster in a degenerate vertebrate. Mol Biol Evol 2007 0.83
34 Comparative genomic analysis of mammalian NKG2D ligand family genes provides insights into their origin and evolution. Immunogenetics 2010 0.83
35 Plasma-dependent, antibody- and Fcγ receptor-mediated translocation of CD8 molecules from T cells to monocytes. Cytometry A 2011 0.82
36 Comparative genomic analysis of the proteasome β5t subunit gene: implications for the origin and evolution of thymoproteasomes. Immunogenetics 2011 0.81
37 Comparative genomics of the Mill family: a rapidly evolving MHC class I gene family. Eur J Immunol 2004 0.81
38 Agnathan VIP, PACAP and their receptors: ancestral origins of today's highly diversified forms. PLoS One 2012 0.79
39 Protective roles of epithelial cells in the survival of adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma cells. Am J Pathol 2013 0.79
40 Mechanism of Fcγ receptor-mediated trogocytosis-based false-positive results in flow cytometry. PLoS One 2012 0.78
41 Role of neuronal interferon-gamma in the development of myelopathy in rats infected with human T-cell leukemia virus type 1. Am J Pathol 2006 0.78
42 Human endogenous retrovirus-R Env glycoprotein as possible autoantigen in autoimmune disease. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 2009 0.78
43 Expression of proteasome subunit β5t in thymic epithelial tumors. Am J Surg Pathol 2011 0.77
44 Impact of whole-genome duplication on vertebrate development and evolution. Semin Cell Dev Biol 2013 0.77
45 Enhanced production of p24 Gag protein in HIV-1-infected rat cells fused with uninfected human cells. Exp Mol Pathol 2007 0.76
46 Decrease of peripheral and intestinal NKG2A-positive T cells in patients with ulcerative colitis. PLoS One 2012 0.75
47 MHC class I-like MILL molecules are beta2-microglobulin-associated, GPI-anchored glycoproteins that do not require TAP for cell surface expression. J Immunol 2006 0.75
48 Thymoproteasome: role in thymic selection and clinical significance as a diagnostic marker for thymic epithelial tumors. Arch Immunol Ther Exp (Warsz) 2013 0.75
49 [A case of primary diffuse leptomeningeal gliomatosis, clinically indistinguishable from metastatic meningeal carcinomatosis]. Rinsho Shinkeigaku 2011 0.75
50 Proteasome subunit β5t expression in cervical ectopic thymoma. J Clin Pathol 2012 0.75
51 Expression of thymoproteasome subunit β5t in type AB thymoma. J Clin Pathol 2013 0.75
52 [Structure and function of non-classical MHC class I molecules]. Seikagaku 2009 0.75
53 A human PSMB11 variant affects thymoproteasome processing and CD8+ T cell production. JCI Insight 2017 0.75
54 Copy number and sequence variation of leucine-rich repeat modules suggests distinct functional constraints operating on variable lymphocyte receptors expressed by agnathan T cell-like and B cell-like lymphocytes. Immunogenetics 2014 0.75