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MOTOZONO Chihiro
Research associate
Faculty Department of Medicine
Researchmap https://researchmap.jp/immunol1

Research Activities

Research Areas

  • Life sciences, Immunology

Published Papers

  1. Virological characteristics of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron XBB.1.5 variant
    Tomokazu Tamura; Takashi Irie; Sayaka Deguchi; Hisano Yajima; Masumi Tsuda; Hesham Nasser; Keita Mizuma; Arnon Plianchaisuk; Saori Suzuki; Keiya Uriu; Mst Monira Begum; Ryo Shimizu; Michael Jonathan; Rigel Suzuki; Takashi Kondo; Hayato Ito; Akifumi Kamiyama; Kumiko Yoshimatsu; Maya Shofa; Rina Hashimoto; Yuki Anraku; Kanako Terakado Kimura; Shunsuke Kita; Jiei Sasaki; Kaori Sasaki-Tabata; Katsumi Maenaka; Naganori Nao; Lei Wang; Yoshitaka Oda; Terumasa Ikeda; Akatsuki Saito; Keita Matsuno; Jumpei Ito; Shinya Tanaka; Kei Sato; Takao Hashiguchi; Kazuo Takayama; Takasuke Fukuhara; Hirofumi Sawa; Ryoko Kawabata; Yukio Watanabe; Ayaka Sakamoto; Naoko Yasuhara; Tateki Suzuki; Yukari Nakajima; Zannatul Ferdous; Kenji Shishido; Yuka Mugita; Otowa Takahashi; Kimiko Ichihara; Yu Kaku; Naoko Misawa; Ziyi Guo; Alfredo Hinay; Yusuke Kosugi; Shigeru Fujita; Jarel M. Tolentino; Luo Chen; Lin Pan; Mai Suganami; Mika Chiba; Ryo Yoshimura; Kyoko Yasuda; Keiko Iida; Naomi Ohsumi; Adam P. Strange; Yuki Shibatani; Tomoko Nishiuchi; Shiho Tanaka; Olivia Putri; Gustav Joas; Yoonjin Kim; Daichi Yamasoba; Kazuhisa Yoshimura; Kenji Sadamasu; Mami Nagashima; Hiroyuki Asakura; Isao Yoshida; So Nakagawa; Akifumi Takaori-Kondo; Kotaro Shirakawa; Kayoko Nagata; Ryosuke Nomura; Yoshihito Horisawa; Yusuke Tashiro; Yugo Kawai; Takamasa Ueno; Chihiro Motozono; Mako Toyoda
    Nature Communications  15  (1)  Dec. 2024 
  2. Multiple mutations of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2 variant orchestrate its virological characteristics
    Izumi Kimura; Daichi Yamasoba; Hesham Nasser; Hayato Ito; Jiri Zahradnik; Jiaqi Wu; Shigeru Fujita; Keiya Uriu; Jiei Sasaki; Tomokazu Tamura; Rigel Suzuki; Sayaka Deguchi; Arnon Plianchaisuk; Kumiko Yoshimatsu; Yasuhiro Kazuma; Shuya Mitoma; Gideon Schreiber; Hiroyuki Asakura; Mami Nagashima; Kenji Sadamasu; Kazuhisa Yoshimura; Akifumi Takaori-Kondo; Jumpei Ito; Kotaro Shirakawa; Kazuo Takayama; Takashi Irie; Takao Hashiguchi; So Nakagawa; Takasuke Fukuhara; Akatsuki Saito; Terumasa Ikeda; Kei Sato; Naoko Misawa; Yusuke Kosugi; Lin Pan; Mai Suganami; Mika Chiba; Ryo Yoshimura; Kyoko Yasuda; Keiko Iida; Naomi Ohsumi; Adam P. Strange; Yu Kaku; Arnon Plianchaisuk; Ziyi Guo; Alfredo Jr. Amolong Hinay; Jarel Elgin Mendoza Tolentino; Luo Chen; Ryo Shimizu; M. S. T. Monira Begum; Otowa Takahashi; Kimiko Ichihara; Michael Jonathan; Yuka Mugita; Saori Suzuki; Tateki Suzuki; Kanako Kimura; Yukari Nakajima; Hisano Yajima; Rina Hashimoto; Yukio Watanabe; Ayaka Sakamoto; Naoko Yasuhara; Kayoko Nagata; Ryosuke Nomura; Yoshihito Horisawa; Yusuke Tashiro; Yugo Kawai; Yuki Shibatani; Tomoko Nishiuchi; Isao Yoshida; Ryoko Kawabata; Keita Matsuno; Naganori Nao; Hirofumi Sawa; Shinya Tanaka; Masumi Tsuda; Lei Wang; Yoshikata Oda; Zannatul Ferdous; Kenji Shishido; Chihiro Motozono; Mako Toyoda; Takamasa Ueno; Kaori Tabata
    Journal of Virology  97  (10)  31, Oct. 2023 
  3. Evaluation of Neutralizing Activity against Omicron Subvariants in BA.5 Breakthrough Infection and Three-Dose Vaccination Using a Novel Chemiluminescence-Based, Virus-Mediated Cytopathic Assay.
    Mako Toyoda; Toong Seng Tan; Chihiro Motozono; Godfrey Barabona; Akiko Yonekawa; Nobuyuki Shimono; Rumi Minami; Yoji Nagasaki; Yusuke Miyashita; Hiroyuki Oshiumi; Kimitoshi Nakamura; Shuzo Matsushita; Takeo Kuwata; Takamasa Ueno
    Microbiology spectrum  , e0066023-, 13, Jun. 2023 

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MISC

  1. Evaluation of T cell antigen recognition for peptides introduced unnatural amino acids , 有津由樹; 北松瑞生; TAN Toong Seng; 上野貴将; 本園千尋 , 日本化学会春季年会講演予稿集(Web) , 102nd , 2022
  2. Vaccine-elicited preferential induction of polyfunctional Th cells is associated with protection against acute retroviral infection , C. Motozono; S. Tsuji-Kawahara; S. Takamura; M. Miyazawa , EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY , 46 , 817 , 817 , Aug. 2016
  3. Clonotypically similar hybrid alpha beta T cell receptors can exhibit markedly different surface expression, antigen specificity and cross-reactivity (vol 180, pg 560, 2015) , C. Motozono; J. S. Bridgeman; D. A. Price; A. K. Sewell; T. Ueno , CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL IMMUNOLOGY , 185 , 1 , 119 , 123 , Jul. 2016

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Research Grants & Projects

  1. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Development of immune regulation for emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases by human T cell cross-reactivity , Kumamoto University
  2. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Development of HLA-independent T cell receptor-T cell therapy for innovative immunological cancer therapy , University of Toyama
  3. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Immune regulation by sensing endogenous lipid composition changes via inhibitory C-type lectin receptor , Kumamoto University

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