2001

1. Fukui, A., N, Inoue, M. Matsumoto, M. Nomura, Y, Matsuda, K. Toyoshima, and T. Seya. 2001. Molecular cloning and functional characterization of chicken Toll-like receptors.J. Biol. Chem.276: 47143-47149.
2. Moriwaki, Y., N. A. Begum, M.. Kobayashi, S. Tsuji, M. Nomura, M. Matsumoto, K. Toyoshima, and T. Seya. 2001. Mycobacterium bovis Bacillus Calmette-Guerin and its cell wall complex induce a novel lysosomal membrane protein, SIMPLE, that bridges the missing link between lipopolysaccharide and p53-inducible gene, LITAF (PIG7), and estrogen-inducible gene, EET-1.J. Biol. Chem.276: 23065-23076.
3. Tsuji, S., J. Uehori, M. Matsumoto, Y. Suzuki, A. Matsuhisa, K. Toyoshima, and T..Seya. 2002. Human intelectin is a novel soluble lectin that recognizes galactofranose in carbohydrate chains of bacterial cell wall.J. Biol. Chem.276: 23456-23463.
4. Seya T. (one of the 96 authors). 2001. Functional annotation of a full-length mouse cDNA collection. The RIKEN Genome Exploration Research Group Phase II Team and the FANTOM Consortium. Functional annotation meeting.Nature409: 685-690.
5. Shiratori, I., S. Tsuji, M. Matsumoto, M. Nomura, K. Toyoshima, and T. Seya. 2001. Molecular cloning and functional characterization of guinea pig IL-12.Int. Immunol.13: 1129-1139.
6. Shida K., H. Koizumi, M. Matsumoto, I. Shiratori, S. Kikkawa, S. Tsuji, N. A. Begum, K. Toyoshima, and T. Seya. 2001. High serum levels and additional species of IL-18 may participate in suppressing IgE levels in patients with atopic dermatitis.Immunol. Lett.79: 169-175.
7. Matsumoto, M., T. Seya, S. Kikkawa, S. Tsuji, K. Shida, M. Nomura, M. Kurita-Taniguchi, H. Ohigashi, H. Yokouchi, H. Takami, A. Hayashi, I. Azuma, T. Masaoka, K. Kodama, and K. Toyoshima. 2001. IFNg-producing ability in blood of patients with lung cancer: production of IL-12 p40 and IL-18 in response to BCG-CWS.Int. Immunopharmacology1: 1559-1569.
8. Shida, K., M. Matsumoto, S. Kikkawa, H. Okamura, S. Tsuji, Y. Fukumori, K. Toyoshima, and T. Seya. 2001. An alternative form of human IL-18 in human blood plasma: complex formation with IgM defined by monoclonal antibodies.J. Immunol.166: 6671-6679.
9. Nishiguchi, M., M. Matsumoto, T. Takao, M. Hoshino, Y. Shimonishi, S. Tsuji, O. Takeuchi, S. Akira, K. Toyoshima, and T. Seya. 2001. Mycoplasma fermentans lipoprotein M161Ag-induced cell activation is mediated by Toll-like receptor 2: Role of N-terminal hydrophobic portion in its multiple functions.J. Immunol.166: 2610-2616.
10. Inoue, N., A. Fukui, M. Nomura, M. Matsumoto, K. Toyoshima, and T. Seya. 2001. A novel chicken membrane-associated complement-regulatory protein: Molecular cloning and functional characterization of a chicken membrane SCR protein.J. Immunol.166: 424-431.
11. Kikkawa, S., M. Matsumoto, K. Shida, Y. Fukumori, K. Toyoshima, and T. Seya. 2001. Human macrophages produce dimeric forms of IL-18 which can be detected with monoclonal antibodies specific for inactive IL-18.Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun.281: 461-467.
12. Nomura, M., K. Matsumiya, M. Kitamura, A. Okuyama, M. Matsumoto, K. Toyoshima, and T. Seya. 2001. Gnomic analysis of ideopathic infertile patients with sperm-specific depletion of CD46.Exp. Clin. Immunogen.18: 42-50.
13. Soldan S. S., A. Fogdell-Hahn, M. B. Brennan, B. B. Mittleman, L. Massacesi, T. Seya, and S. Jacobson. 2001. Elevated serum and CSF levels of soluble HHV-6 cellular receptor, membrane cofactor protein (MCP; CD46), in patients with multiple sclerosis.Ann. Neurol.50: 486-493.
14. Koizumi, H., K. Sato-Matsumura, H. Nakamura, K. Shida, S. Kikkawa, M. Matsumoto, K. Toyoshima, and T. Seya. 2001. Distribution of IL-18 and IL-18 receptor in human skin: various forms of IL-18 are produced in keratinocytes.Arch. Dermatol. Res.293: 325-333.
15. Yimin, M. Kohanawa, Y. Sato, and T. Minagawa. 2001. Role of T cells in granuloma formation induced by Rhodococcus aurantiacus is independent of their interferon-gamma production.J Med Microbiol.50: 688-694.