DEPARTMENT OF IMMUNOLOGY
I) Original paper
- Nigo, Y. I., Yamashita, M., Hirahara, K., Shinnakasu, R., Inami, M., Kimura, M., Hasegawa, A., Kohno, Y., and Nakayama, T.: Regulation of allergic airway inflammation through Toll-like receptor 4-mediated modification of mast cell function. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103:2286-2291 (2006).
- Yamashita, M., Hirahara, K., Shinnakasu, R., Hosokawa, H., Norikane, S., Kimura, M. Y., Hasegawa, A., and Nakayama, T.: Crucial role of MLL for the maintenance of memory T helper type 2 cell responses. Immunity 24:611-622 (2006).
- Yamashita, M., Kuwahara, M., Suzuki, A., Hirahara, K., Shinnakasu, R., Hosokawa, H., Hasegawa, A., Motohashi, S., Iwama, A., and Nakayama, T.: Bmi1 regulates memory CD4 T cell survival via repression of the Noxa gene. J. Exp. Med. 205:1109-1120 (2008).
- Hirahara, K., Yamashita, M., Iwamura, C., Shinoda, K., Hasegawa, A., Yoshizawa, H., Koseki, H., Gejyo, F., and Nakayama, T.: Repressor of GATA regulates TH2-driven allergic airway inflammation and airway hyperresponsiveness. J. Allergy Clin. Immunol. 122:512-520.e11 (2008).
- Hirahara, K., Ghoreschi, K., Laurence, A., Yang, X. P., Kanno, Y., and O'Shea, J. J.: Signal transduction pathways and transcriptional regulation in Th17 cell differentiation. Cytokine Growth Factor Rev. 21:425-434 (2010).
- Ghoreschi, K., Laurence, A., Yang, X. P., Hirahara, K., and O'Shea, J. J.: T helper 17 cell heterogeneity and pathogenicity in autoimmune disease. Trends Immunol. 32:395-401 (2011).
- Yang, X. P., Ghoreschi, K., Steward-Tharp, S. M., Rodriguez-Canales, J., Zhu, J., Grainger, J. R., Hirahara, K., Sun, H. W., Wei, L., Vahedi, G., Kanno, Y., O'Shea, J. J., and Laurence, A.: Opposing regulation of the locus encoding IL-17 through direct, reciprocal actions of STAT3 and STAT5. Nat. Immunol. 12:247-254 (2011).
- Hirahara, K., Vahedi, G., Ghoreschi, K., Yang, X. P., Nakayamada, S., Kanno, Y., O'Shea, J. J., and Laurence, A.: Helper T-cell differentiation and plasticity: insights from epigenetics. Immunology 134:235-245 (2011).
- Kanno, Y., Vahedi, G., Hirahara, K., Singleton, K.,and O'Shea, J. J.: Transcriptional and epigenetic control of T helper cell specification: molecular mechanisms underlying commitment and plasticity. Annu. Rev. Immunol. 30:707-731 (2012).
- Laurence, A., Ghoreschi, K., Hirahara, K., Yang, X. P., and O'Shea, J. J.: Therapeutic inhibition of the Janus kinases. Inflammation and Regeneration 32:16-22 (2012).
- Takahashi, H., Kanno, T., Nakayamada, S., Hirahara, K., Sciumè, G., Muljo, S. A., Kuchen, S., Casellas, R., Wei, L., Kanno, Y., and O'Shea, J. J.: TGF-β and retinoic acid induce the microRNA miR-10a, which targets Bcl-6 and constrains the plasticity of helper T cells. Nat. Immunol. 13:587-595 (2012).
- Hirahara, K., Ghoreschi, K., Yang, X. P., Takahashi, H., Laurence, A., Vahedi, G., Sciumè, G., Hall, A. O., Dupont, C. D., Francisco, L. M., Chen, Q., Tanaka, M., Kanno, Y., Sun, H. W., Sharpe, A. H., Hunter, C. A., and O'Shea, J. J.: Interleukin-27 priming of T cells controls Interleukin-17 production in trans via induction of the ligand PD-L1. Immunity 36:1017-1030 (2012).
- Sciumè, G., Hirahara, K., Takahashi, H., Laurence, A., Villarino, A. V., Singleton, K. L., Spencer, S. P., Wilhelm, C., Poholek, A. C., Vahedi, G., Kanno, Y., Belkaid, Y., and O'Shea, J. J.: Distinct requirements for T-bet in gut innate lymphoid cells. J. Exp. Med. 209:2331-2338 (2012).
- Vahedi, G., C. Poholek, A., Hand, T. W., Laurence, A., Kanno, Y., O'Shea, J. J., and Hirahara, K.: Helper T-cell identity and evolution of differential transcriptomes and epigenomes. Immunol. Rev. 252:24-40 (2013).
- Hirahara, K., Poholek, A., Vahedi, G., Laurence, A., Kanno, Y., Milner, J. D., and O'Shea, J. J.: Mechanisms underlying helper T-cell plasticity: Implications for immune-mediated disease. J. Allergy Clin. Immunol. 131:1276-1287 (2013).
- Roychoudhuri, R.*, Hirahara, K.*, Mousavi, K.*, Clever, D., Klebanoff, C. A., Bonelli, M., Sciumè, G., Zare, H., Vahedi, G., Dema, B., Yu, Z., Liu, H., Takahashi, H., Rao, M., Muranski, P., Crompton, J. G., Punkosdy, G., Bedognetti, D., Wang, E., Hoffmann, V., Rivera, J., Marincola, F. M., Nakamura, A., Sartorelli, V., Kanno, Y., Gattinoni, L., Muto, A., Igarashi, K., O'Shea, J. J., and Restifo, N. P.: BACH2 represses effector programs to stabilize Treg-mediated immune homeostasis. *These authors are contributed equally to this work. Nature 498:506-510 (2013).
- Hosokawa, H., Tanaka, T., Kato, M., Shinoda, K., Tohyama, H., Hanazawa, A., Tamaki, Y., Hirahara, K., Yagi, R., Sakikawa, I., Morita, A., Nagira, M., Poyurovsky, M. V., Suzuki, Y., Motohashi, S., and Nakayama, T.: Gata3/Ruvbl2 complex regulates T helper 2 cell proliferation via repression of Cdkn2c expression. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 110:18626-18631 (2013).
- Nakayamada, S., Poholek, A. C., Lu, K. T., Takahashi, H., Kato, M., Iwata, S., Hirahara, K., Cannons, J. L., Schwartzberg, P. L., Vahedi, G., Sun, H. W., Kanno, Y., and O'Shea, J. J.: Type I IFN induces binding of STAT1 to Bcl6: divergent roles of STAT family transcription factors in the T follicular helper cell genetic program. J. Immunol. 192:2156-2166 (2014).
- Steward-Tharp, S. M., Laurence, A., Kanno, Y., Kotlyar, A., Villarino, A. V., Sciume, G., Kuchen, S., Resch, W., Wohlfert, E. A., Jiang, K., Hirahara, K., Vahedi, G., Sun, H. W., Feigenbaum, L., Milner, J. D., Holland, S. M., Casellas, R., Powrie, F., and O'Shea, J. J.: A mouse model of HIES reveals pro and anti-inflammatory functions of STAT3. Blood 123:2978-2987 (2014).
- Watanabe, Y., Onodera, A., Kanai, U., Ichikawa, T., Obata-Ninomiya, K., Wada, T., Kiuchi, M., Iwamura, C., Tumes, D. J., Shinoda, K., Yagi, R., Motohashi, S., Hirahara, K., and Nakayama, T.: Trithorax complex component Menin controls differentiation and maintenance of T helper 17 cells. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 111:12829-12834 (2014).
- Endo, Y., Hirahara, K., Iinuma, T., Shinoda, K., Tumes, D. J., Asou, H. K., Matsugae, N., Obata-Ninomiya, K., Yamamoto, H., Motohashi, S., Oboki, K., Nakae, S., Saito, H., Okamoto, Y., and Nakayama, T.: The Interleukin-33-p38 kinase axis confers memory T helper 2 cell pathogenicity in the airway. Immunity 42:294-308 (2015).
- Iinuma, T., Okamoto, Y., Yamamoto, H., Inamine-Sasaki, A., Ohki, Y., Sakurai, T., Funakoshi, U., Yonekura, S., Sakurai, D., Hirahara, K., and Nakayama, T.: Interleukin-25 and mucosal T cells in noneosinophilic and eosinophilic chronic rhinosinusitis. Ann. Allergy Asthma Immunol. 114:289-298 (2015).
- Hirahara, K., Onodera, A., Villario, A. V., Bonelli, M., Sciume, G., Laurence, A., Sun, H. W., Brooks, R. S., Vahedi, G., Shih, H. Y., Gtierrez-Cruz, G., Iwata, S., Suzuki, R., Mikami, Y., Okamoto, Y., Nakayama, T., Holland, S., Hunter, C. A., Kanno, Y., and O'Shea, J. J.: Asymmetric action of STAT transcription factors drive transcriptional outputs and cytokine specificity. Immunity in press.
II) Review Article and Book Chapter
- Villarino, A., Yang, X. P., Hirahara, K., Kanno, Y., O'Shea, J. J., Laurence, A.: Function of JAKs and STATs in lymphocyte: bench to bedside. Springer-Verlag Wien Thomas Decker (Ed.) (2012).
- Endo, Y., Hirahara, K., Yagi, R., Tumes, D. J., and Nakayama, T.: Pathogenic memory type Th2 cells in allergic inflammation. Trends Immunol. 35:69-78 (2014).
- Bonelli, M., Shih, H. Y., Hirahara, K., Singelton, K., Laurence, A., Poholek, A., Hand, T., Mikami, Y., Vahedi, G., Kanno, Y., and O'Shea, J. J.: Helper T cell plasticity: impact of extrinsic and intrinsicsSignals on transcriptomes and epigenomes. Curr. Top. Microbiol. Immunol. 381:279-326 (2014).
- Shih, H. Y., Sciume, G., Poholek, A. C., Vahedi, G., Hirahara, K., Villarino, A. V., Bonelli, M., Bosselut, R., Kanno, Y., Muljo, S. A., and O'Shea, J. J.: Transcriptional and epigenetic networks of helper T and innate lymphoid cells. Immunol. Rev. 261:23-49 (2014).
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