| Direct recognition of the mycobacterial glycolipid, trehalose dimycolate, by C-type lectin Mincle E Ishikawa, T Ishikawa, YS Morita, K Toyonaga, H Yamada, O Takeuchi, ... Journal of experimental medicine 206 (13), 2879-2888, 2009 | 830 | 2009 |
| Specialized fatty acid synthesis in African trypanosomes: myristate for GPI anchors YS Morita, KS Paul, PT Englund Science 288 (5463), 140-143, 2000 | 153 | 2000 |
| PimE is a polyprenol-phosphate-mannose-dependent mannosyltransferase that transfers the fifth mannose of phosphatidylinositol mannoside in mycobacteria YS Morita, CBC Sena, RF Waller, K Kurokawa, MF Sernee, F Nakatani, ... Journal of Biological Chemistry 281 (35), 25143-25155, 2006 | 152 | 2006 |
| Critical roles for lipomannan and lipoarabinomannan in cell wall integrity of mycobacteria and pathogenesis of tuberculosis T Fukuda, T Matsumura, M Ato, M Hamasaki, Y Nishiuchi, Y Murakami, ... MBio 4 (1), 10.1128/mbio. 00472-12, 2013 | 139 | 2013 |
| Compartmentalization of lipid biosynthesis in mycobacteria YS Morita, R Velasquez, E Taig, RF Waller, JH Patterson, D Tull, ... Journal of Biological Chemistry 280 (22), 21645-21652, 2005 | 101 | 2005 |
| Biosynthesis of mycobacterial phosphatidylinositol mannosides YS Morita, JH Patterson, H Billman-Jacobe, MJ McCONVILLE Biochemical Journal 378 (2), 589-597, 2004 | 101 | 2004 |
| Peptidoglycan precursor synthesis along the sidewall of pole-growing mycobacteria A García-Heredia, AA Pohane, ES Melzer, CR Carr, TJ Fiolek, SR Rundell, ... Elife 7, e37243, 2018 | 100 | 2018 |
| PIG-V involved in transferring the second mannose in glycosylphosphatidylinositol JY Kang, Y Hong, H Ashida, N Shishioh, Y Murakami, YS Morita, Y Maeda, ... Journal of Biological Chemistry 280 (10), 9489-9497, 2005 | 98 | 2005 |
| C-type lectin receptor DCAR recognizes mycobacterial phosphatidyl-inositol mannosides to promote a Th1 response during infection K Toyonaga, S Torigoe, Y Motomura, T Kamichi, JM Hayashi, YS Morita, ... Immunity 45 (6), 1245-1257, 2016 | 92 | 2016 |
| Fatty acid synthesis in African trypanosomes: a solution to the myristate mystery KS Paul, D Jiang, YS Morita, PT Englund Trends in parasitology 17 (8), 381-387, 2001 | 84 | 2001 |
| Spatially distinct and metabolically active membrane domain in mycobacteria JM Hayashi, CY Luo, JA Mayfield, T Hsu, T Fukuda, AL Walfield, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113 (19), 5400-5405, 2016 | 77 | 2016 |
| Identification of a novel protein with a role in lipoarabinomannan biosynthesis in mycobacteria S Kovacevic, D Anderson, YS Morita, J Patterson, R Haites, BNI McMillan, ... Journal of biological chemistry 281 (14), 9011-9017, 2006 | 77 | 2006 |
| Function of phosphatidylinositol in mycobacteria RE Haites, YS Morita, MJ McConville, H Billman-Jacobe Journal of Biological Chemistry 280 (12), 10981-10987, 2005 | 74 | 2005 |
| Inositol lipid metabolism in mycobacteria: biosynthesis and regulatory mechanisms YS Morita, T Fukuda, CBC Sena, Y Yamaryo-Botte, MJ McConville, ... Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-General Subjects 1810 (6), 630-641, 2011 | 68 | 2011 |
| Lipoarabinomannan binding to lactosylceramide in lipid rafts is essential for the phagocytosis of mycobacteria by human neutrophils H Nakayama, H Kurihara, YS Morita, T Kinoshita, L Mauri, A Prinetti, ... Science Signaling 9 (449), ra101-ra101, 2016 | 67 | 2016 |
| Metabolism of plasma membrane lipids in mycobacteria and corynebacteria PK Crellin, CY Luo, YS Morita Lipid Metabolism 6, 119-148, 2013 | 61 | 2013 |
| Mutations in pimE Restore Lipoarabinomannan Synthesis and Growth in a Mycobacterium smegmatis lpqW Mutant PK Crellin, S Kovacevic, KL Martin, R Brammananth, YS Morita, ... Journal of bacteriology 190 (10), 3690-3699, 2008 | 55 | 2008 |
| Controlled expression of branch-forming mannosyltransferase is critical for mycobacterial lipoarabinomannan biosynthesis CBC Sena, T Fukuda, K Miyanagi, S Matsumoto, K Kobayashi, ... Journal of biological chemistry 285 (18), 13326-13336, 2010 | 52 | 2010 |
| Photoactivatable glycolipid probes for identifying mycolate–protein interactions in live mycobacteria HW Kavunja, KJ Biegas, N Banahene, JA Stewart, BF Piligian, ... Journal of the American chemical society 142 (17), 7725-7731, 2020 | 50 | 2020 |
| Characterization of conserved and novel septal factors in Mycobacterium smegmatis KJ Wu, J Zhang, C Baranowski, V Leung, EH Rego, YS Morita, EJ Rubin, ... Journal of Bacteriology 200 (6), 10.1128/jb. 00649-17, 2018 | 49 | 2018 |
Takeuchi OsamuGraduate School of Medicine, Kyoto UniversityVerified email at mfour.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp
