2025

1. Yoshihiko Goto, You Min Ahn, Mako Toyoda, Hiroshi Hamana, Yan Jin, Yoshiki Aritsu, Takeshi Nakama, Yuka Tajima, Janesha C. Maddumage, Huanyu Li, Mizuki Kitamatsu, Hiroyuki Kishi, Akiko Yonekawa, Dhilshan Jayasinghe, Nobuyuki Shimono, Yoji Nagasaki, Rumi Minami, Takashi Toya, Noritaka Sekiya, Yusuke Tomita, Demetra S. M. Chatzileontiadou, Hirotomo Nakata, So Nakagawa, Takuro Sakagami, …Chihiro Motozono:Molecular basis of potent antiviral HLA-C-restricted CD8+ T cell response to an immunodominant SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid epitope. Nature Communications, in press 2025

2. Yudai Oishi, Mako Toyoda, Nanami Hano, Chihiro Motozono, Takamasa Ueno, Makoto Takafuji. Polycyclic aromatic polymer nanoparticles show potent infectious particle adsorption capability. J Materials Chemistry B, Vol. 13. 568, 2025

   https://doi.org/10.1039/d4tb01793e

3. Kenji Sugata, Akhinur Rahman, Koki Niimura, Kazuaki Monde, Takaharu Ueno, Samiul Alam Rajib, Mitsuyoshi Takatori, Wajihah Sakhor, Md Belal Hossain, Sharmin Nahar Sithi, M Ishrat Jahan, Kouki Matsuda, Mitsuharu Ueda, Yoshihisa Yamano, Terumasa Ikeda, Takamasa Ueno, Kiyoto Tsuchiya, Yuetsu Tanaka, Masahito Tokunaga, Kenji Maeda, Atae Utsunomiya, Kazu Okuma, Masahiro Ono, Yorifumi Satou. Intragenic viral silencer element regulates HTLV-1 latency via RUNX complex recruitment. Nature Microbiol 2025

4. Mark Ndubi, Mako Toyoda, Isaac Ngare, Chihiro Motozono, Rumi Minami, Takamasa Ueno. SARS-CoV-2 Spike-specific T cell responses following COVID-19 vaccination in Japanese people living with HIV. Jpn J Infect Dis 2025 in press

5. Tosi M. Mwakyandile, Grace A. Shayo, Philip G. Sasi, Ferdinand M. Mugusi, Godfrey Barabona, Takamasa Ueno, Eligius F. Lyamuya: Sociodemographic and clinical correlates of markers of immune activation, exhaustion and platelet activation among HIV-infected patients initiating antiretroviral therapy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Jpn J Infect Dis 2025 in press

6. Tosi Mwakyandile, Grace A. Shayo, Philip G. Sasi, Peter P. Kunambi, Ferdinand M. Mugusi, Godfrey Barabona, Takamasa Ueno, Eligius F. Lyamuya. Low-dose aspirin is not effective as an adjunct treatment for HIV infection among people living with HIV on dolutegravir-based antiretroviral therapy: a randomised double-blind, parallel-group placebo-controlled trial. PLoS ONE, 2025

   https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0331087

7. Lilian Nkinda, Godfrey Barabona, Mark Ndubi, Chihiro Motozono, Emmanuel Nkuwi, Doreen Kamori, Frank Msafiri, Posian P Kunambi, Elisha Osati, Benson R Kidenya, Harrison Chuwa, Frank Eric Hassan, Juma Kisuse, Sayoki Mfinanga, Mbazi Senkoro, Takamasa Ueno, Eligius Francis Lyamuya, Emmanuel Balandya: T-Cell Interferon Gamma Responses to SARS-CoV-2 Following Infection with/Without Vaccination in a Tanzanian Population. Infection and Drug Resistance Volume 18, pages 6323-6333, 2025