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Y. Ohta

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Y. Ohta — researcher profile on SciRah

h-index: 35
Works: 115
Citations: 6,003

Most-cited papers

Genome evolution in the allotetraploid frog Xenopus laevis
Adam M. Session, Yoshinobu Uno, T. Kwon, J. Chapman +70 more
2016Nature909 citations Open access
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The Genome of the Western Clawed Frog Xenopus tropicalis
U. Hellsten, R. Harland, Michael J. Gilchrist, D. Hendrix +44 more
2010Science831 citations Open access
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Elephant shark genome provides unique insights into gnathostome evolution
B. Venkatesh, Alison P. Lee, V. Ravi, A. Maurya +29 more
2014Nature676 citations Open access
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Comparative and Developmental Study of the Immune System in Xenopus
J. Robert, Y. Ohta
2009Developmental Dynamics274 citations Open access
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IgD, like IgM, is a primordial immunoglobulin class perpetuated in most jawed vertebrates.
Y. Ohta, M. Flajnik
2006Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America223 citations Open access
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In vivo anti-influenza virus activity of an immunomodulatory acidic polysaccharide isolated from Cordyceps militaris grown on germinated soybeans.
Y. Ohta, Jung-Bum Lee, Kyoko Hayashi, A. Fujita +2 more
2007Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry180 citations
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Primitive synteny of vertebrate major histocompatibility complex class I and class II genes.
Y. Ohta, Kazuhiko Okamura, E. Mckinney, Simona Bartl +2 more
2000Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America167 citations Open access
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Ancestral Organization of the MHC Revealed in the Amphibian Xenopus1
Y. Ohta, W. Goetz, M. Hossain, M. Nonaka +1 more
2006Journal of Immunology149 citations Open access
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Hypermutation in shark immunoglobulin light chain genes results in contiguous substitutions.
S. Lee, D. Tranchina, Y. Ohta, M. Flajnik +1 more
2002Immunity110 citations Open access
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Marked improvement of PAC and BAC cloning is achieved using electroelution of pulsed-field gel-separated partial digests of genomic DNA.
S. J. Strong, Y. Ohta, G. Litman, C. Amemiya
1997Nucleic Acids Research103 citations Open access
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Insight into the primordial MHC from studies in ectothermic vertebrates
M. Flajnik, Y. Ohta, Chisato Namikawa‐Yomada, M. Nonaka
1999Immunological Reviews101 citations
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Homologs of CD83 from Elasmobranch and Teleost Fish12
Y. Ohta, Eric D. Landis, T. Boulay, R. Phillips +4 more
2004Journal of Immunology97 citations Open access
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Shiga Toxin 2 Is Specifically Released from Bacterial Cells by Two Different Mechanisms
Takeshi Shimizu, Y. Ohta, M. Noda
2009Infection and Immunity95 citations Open access
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Isolation of sulfated galactan from Codium fragile and its antiviral effect.
Y. Ohta, Jung-Bum Lee, Kyoko Hayashi, Toshimitsu Hayashi
2009Biological and Pharmaceutical Bulletin89 citations Open access
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Proteasome, Transporter Associated with Antigen Processing, and Class I Genes in the Nurse Shark Ginglymostoma cirratum: Evidence for a Stable Class I Region and MHC Haplotype Lineages1
Y. Ohta, E. McKinney, M. Criscitiello, M. Flajnik
2002Journal of Immunology83 citations Open access
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Immunostimulating effects of a sulfated galactan from Codium fragile.
Jung-Bum Lee, Y. Ohta, Kyoko Hayashi, Toshimitsu Hayashi
2010Carbohydrate Research81 citations
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Evolutionarily conserved and divergent regions of the Autoimmune Regulator (Aire) gene: a comparative analysis
Mark Saltis, M. Criscitiello, Y. Ohta, Matthew D. Keefe +3 more
2008Immunogenetics68 citations Open access
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Immunoglobulin Heavy Chain Exclusion in the Shark
K. Malecek, V. Lee, Wendy Feng, Jing Huang +3 more
2008PLoS Biology67 citations Open access
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Two ancient allelic lineages at the single classical class I locus in the Xenopus MHC.
M. Flajnik, Y. Ohta, Andrew S. Greenberg, Luisa Salter-Cid +3 more
1999Journal of Immunology66 citations
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Evolution of the B7 family: Co-evolution of B7H6 and NKp30, identification of a new B7 family member, B7H7, and of B7’s historical relationship with the MHC
M. Flajnik, T. Tlapáková, M. Criscitiello, V. Krylov +1 more
2012Immunogenetics63 citations Open access
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The dynamic TCRδ: TCRδ chains in the amphibian Xenopus tropicalis utilize antibody-like V genes
Z. Parra, Y. Ohta, M. Criscitiello, M. Flajnik +1 more
2010European Journal of Immunology63 citations Open access
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Synthesis of functionalized resorcinols by rhodium-catalyzed [5+1] cycloaddition reaction of 3-acyloxy-1,4-enynes with CO.
Célia Brancour, T. Fukuyama, Y. Ohta, I. Ryu +3 more
2010Chemical Communications56 citations
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Profiling contents of water-soluble metabolites and mineral nutrients to evaluate the effects of pesticides and organic and chemical fertilizers on tomato fruit quality.
M. Watanabe, Y. Ohta, Licang Sun, N. Motoyama +1 more
2015Food Chemistry55 citations Open access
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Rh-catalyzed [5+1] and [4+1] cycloaddition reactions of 1,4-enyne esters with CO: a shortcut to functionalized resorcinols and cyclopentenones.
T. Fukuyama, Y. Ohta, Célia Brancour, K. Miyagawa +4 more
2012Chemistry53 citations
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Remarkable Conservation of Distinct Nonclassical MHC Class I Lineages in Divergent Amphibian Species
A. Goyos, J. Sowa, Y. Ohta, J. Robert
2010Journal of Immunology53 citations Open access
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Two highly divergent ancient allelic lineages of the transporter associated with antigen processing (TAP) gene in Xenopus: further evidence for co‐evolution among MHC class I region genes
Y. Ohta, S. Powis, Rebecca L. Lohr, M. Nonaka +2 more
2003European Journal of Immunology45 citations
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Somatic Hypermutation and Junctional Diversification at Ig Heavy Chain Loci in the Nurse Shark1
K. Malecek, Julie Brandman, Jennie E. Brodsky, Y. Ohta +2 more
2005Journal of Immunology44 citations Open access
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Molecular Cloning of C4 Gene and Identification of the Class III Complement Region in the Shark MHC 1
T. Terado, K. Okamura, Y. Ohta, Dong-Ho Shin +7 more
2003Journal of Immunology43 citations Open access
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Primordial Linkage of β2-Microglobulin to the MHC
Y. Ohta, T. Shiina, Rebecca L. Lohr, K. Hosomichi +5 more
2011Journal of Immunology42 citations Open access
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The leukocyte common antigen (CD45) of the Pacific hagfish, Eptatretus stoutii: implications for the primordial function of CD45
T. Nagata, Takashi Suzuki, Y. Ohta, M. Flajnik +1 more
2002Immunogenetics40 citations
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Shark Class II Invariant Chain Reveals Ancient Conserved Relationships with Cathepsins and MHC Class II
M. Criscitiello, Y. Ohta, M. Graham, Jeannine O Eubanks +2 more
2011Developmental and Comparative Immunology38 citations Open access
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Non-coordinate expression of J-chain and Blimp-1 define nurse shark plasma cell populations during ontogeny
C. Castro, Y. Ohta, H. Dooley, M. Flajnik
2013European Journal of Immunology37 citations Open access
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The Evolution of Multiple Isotypic IgM Heavy Chain Genes in the Shark1
V. Lee, Jing Huang, M. F. Lui, K. Malecek +3 more
2008Journal of Immunology37 citations Open access
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Venkatesh et al. reply
B. Venkatesh, Alison P. Lee, Jeremy B. Swann, Y. Ohta +4 more
2014Nature35 citations
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Somatic hypermutation of T cell receptor α chain contributes to selection in nurse shark thymus
Jeannine A. Ott, C. Castro, Thaddeus C. Deiss, Y. Ohta +2 more
2018eLife34 citations Open access
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Comparative genomic analysis of the proteasome β5t subunit gene: implications for the origin and evolution of thymoproteasomes
Yoichi Sutoh, Mizuho Kondo, Y. Ohta, T. Ota +3 more
2011Immunogenetics34 citations Open access
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Construction of a nurse shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum) bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) library and a preliminary genome survey
Meizhong Luo, Hyeran Kim, D. Kudrna, Nicholas B. Sisneros +12 more
2006BMC Genomics34 citations Open access
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NOVEL NONCLASSSICAL MHC CLASS IB GENES ASSOCIATED WITH CD8 T CELL DEVELOPMENT AND THYMIC TUMORS
A. Goyos, Y. Ohta, S. Guselnikov, J. Robert
2009Molecular Immunology33 citations Open access
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Inferring the “Primordial Immune Complex”: Origins of MHC class I and antigen receptors revealed by comparative genomics
Y. Ohta, M. Kasahara, T. O'Connor, M. Flajnik
2019Journal of Immunology32 citations Open access
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Coevolution of MHC genes (LMP/TAP/class Ia; NKT-class Ib; NKp30-B7H6): Lessons from cold-blooded vertebrates
Y. Ohta, M. Flajnik
2015Immunological Reviews30 citations Open access
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Erratum to: Evolution of the B7 family: co-evolution of B7H6 and Nkp30, identification of a new B7 family member, B7H7, and of B7's historical relationship with the MHC
M. Flajnik, T. Tlapáková, M. Criscitiello, V. Krylov +1 more
2012Immunogenetics30 citations Open access
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Construction of a novel bioluminescent reporter system for investigating Shiga toxin expression of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli.
Takeshi Shimizu, Y. Ohta, Hiroyasu Tsutsuki, M. Noda
2011Gene29 citations
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Unusual evolutionary conservation and further species-specific adaptations of a large family of Nonclassical MHC class Ib genes across different degrees of genome ploidy in the amphibian subfamily Xenopodinae
Eva‐stina Edholm, A. Goyos, J. Tarán, F. De Jesús Andino +2 more
2014Immunogenetics28 citations Open access
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The multiple shark immunoglobulin heavy chain genes rearrange and hypermutate autonomously
Catherine Zhu, Wendy Feng, J. Weedon, P. Hua +4 more
2011Journal of Immunology27 citations Open access
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Detection of abundant megakaryocytes in pulmonary artery blood in lung cancer patients using a microfluidic platform.
H. Dejima, H. Nakanishi, H. Kuroda, Mayumi Yoshimura +10 more
2018Lung Cancer22 citations
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Exploitation or cooperation? Evolution of a host (ciliate)-benefiting alga in a long-term experimental microcosm culture
Toshiyuki Nakajima, T. Matsubara, Y. Ohta, Daisuke Miyake
2013Biosyst.19 citations
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Haptoglobin is a divergent MASP family member that neofunctionalized to recycle hemoglobin via CD163 in mammals
Anthony K. Redmond, Y. Ohta, M. Criscitiello, D. Macqueen +2 more
2018Journal of Immunology18 citations Open access
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Promising antiviral glyco-molecules from an edible alga.
Toshimitsu Hayashi, Kyoko Hayashi, K. Kanekiyo, Y. Ohta +3 more
200718 citations
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Terminal deoxynucleotidyltransferase forms a ternary complex with a novel chromatin remodeling protein with 82 kDa and core histone
Kiyoko Fujita, Noriko Shimazaki, Y. Ohta, Takashi Kubota +6 more
2003Genes to Cells18 citations
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Anti-influenza A virus activity of an acidic polysaccharide from a blue-green alga Nostoc flagelliforme
Kyoko Hayashi, K. Kanekiyo, Y. Ohta, Jung-Bum Lee +2 more
200817 citations
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