James Matsunaga

Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System

Affiliated withVeterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles

Research Area

Immunology and Infection

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JoVE Journal Publications

ArticleTotal : 1	Year
Publication title Cited by 3	2017

Other Publications

Article	Year
Leptospiral outer membrane proteins OmpL1 and LipL41 exhibit synergistic immunoprotection. Infection and immunity\| PubMed ID: 10569777	1999
The leptospiral major outer membrane protein LipL32 is a lipoprotein expressed during mammalian infection. Infection and immunity\| PubMed ID: 10722630	2000
Leptospiral proteins recognized during the humoral immune response to leptospirosis in humans. Infection and immunity\| PubMed ID: 11447174	2001
Evaluation of recombinant Leptospira antigen-based enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays for the serodiagnosis of leptospirosis. Journal of clinical microbiology\| PubMed ID: 11526167	2001
Novel 45-kilodalton leptospiral protein that is processed to a 31-kilodalton growth-phase-regulated peripheral membrane protein. Infection and immunity\| PubMed ID: 11748198	2002
Characterization of the leptospiral outer membrane and description of three novel leptospiral membrane proteins. Infection and immunity\| PubMed ID: 12183539	2002
Pathogenic Leptospira species express surface-exposed proteins belonging to the bacterial immunoglobulin superfamily. Molecular microbiology\| PubMed ID: 12890019	2003
Osmolarity, a key environmental signal controlling expression of leptospiral proteins LigA and LigB and the extracellular release of LigA. Infection and immunity\| PubMed ID: 15618142	2005
Surfaceome of Leptospira spp. Infection and immunity\| PubMed ID: 16040999	2005
LruA and LruB, novel lipoproteins of pathogenic Leptospira interrogans associated with equine recurrent uveitis. Infection and immunity\| PubMed ID: 16239521	2005
Lipoprotein computational prediction in spirochaetal genomes. Microbiology (Reading, England)\| PubMed ID: 16385121	2006
LipL46 is a novel surface-exposed lipoprotein expressed during leptospiral dissemination in the mammalian host. Microbiology (Reading, England)\| PubMed ID: 17159228	2006
Physiological osmotic induction of Leptospira interrogans adhesion: LigA and LigB bind extracellular matrix proteins and fibrinogen. Infection and immunity\| PubMed ID: 17296754	2007
Leptospira immunoglobulin-like proteins as a serodiagnostic marker for acute leptospirosis. Journal of clinical microbiology\| PubMed ID: 17360842	2007
Response of Leptospira interrogans to physiologic osmolarity: relevance in signaling the environment-to-host transition. Infection and immunity\| PubMed ID: 17371863	2007
Osmotic regulation of expression of two extracellular matrix-binding proteins and a haemolysin of Leptospira interrogans: differential effects on LigA and Sph2 extracellular release. Microbiology (Reading, England)\| PubMed ID: 17906138	2007
Leptospira: a spirochaete with a hybrid outer membrane. Molecular microbiology\| PubMed ID: 20598085	2010
The multifunctional LigB adhesin binds homeostatic proteins with potential roles in cutaneous infection by pathogenic Leptospira interrogans. PloS one\| PubMed ID: 21347378	2011
A LigA three-domain region protects hamsters from lethal infection by Leptospira interrogans. PLoS neglected tropical diseases\| PubMed ID: 22180800	2011
Antibodies to a novel leptospiral protein, LruC, in the eye fluids and sera of horses with Leptospira-associated uveitis. Clinical and vaccine immunology : CVI\| PubMed ID: 22237897	2012
Positive regulation of Leptospira interrogans kdp expression by KdpE as Demonstrated with a novel β-galactosidase reporter in Leptospira biflexa. Applied and environmental microbiology\| PubMed ID: 22685146	2012
Leptospiral outer membrane protein microarray, a novel approach to identification of host ligand-binding proteins. Journal of bacteriology\| PubMed ID: 22961849	2012
Role for cis-acting RNA sequences in the temperature-dependent expression of the multiadhesive lig proteins in Leptospira interrogans. Journal of bacteriology\| PubMed ID: 24013626	2013
Kinetics of Leptospira interrogans infection in hamsters after intradermal and subcutaneous challenge. PLoS neglected tropical diseases\| PubMed ID: 25411782	2014
Role of sph2 Gene Regulation in Hemolytic and Sphingomyelinase Activities Produced by Leptospira interrogans. PLoS neglected tropical diseases\| PubMed ID: 26274394	2015
High-Throughput Parallel Sequencing to Measure Fitness of Leptospira interrogans Transposon Insertion Mutants during Acute Infection. PLoS neglected tropical diseases\| PubMed ID: 27824878	2016
Immunoprotective properties of recombinant LigA and LigB in a hamster model of acute leptospirosis. PloS one\| PubMed ID: 28704385	2017