Yu Kato

7.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Yu Kato is a scholar working on Immunology, Molecular Biology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Yu Kato has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Immunology, 5 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Yu Kato's work include T-cell and B-cell Immunology (6 papers), Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (5 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (4 papers). Yu Kato is often cited by papers focused on T-cell and B-cell Immunology (6 papers), Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (5 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (4 papers). Yu Kato collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Japan. Yu Kato's co-authors include William R. Heath, Irina Caminschi, Scott N. Mueller, Mireille H. Lahoud, Thiago M. Steiner, Shusaku Mizukami, Gayle M. Davey, Heiichiro Udono, Chiaki Kajiwara and Ikuo Ishige and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Journal of Experimental Medicine and The EMBO Journal.

In The Last Decade

Yu Kato

14 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

BMK1/ERK5 regulates serum-induced early gene expression through transcription factor MEF2C

1997 511 citations Yu Kato The EMBO Journal profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yu Kato United States	10	721	522	164	114	101	14	1.2k
Svend Kjær United Kingdom	16	501 0.7×	507 1.0×	146 0.9×	186 1.6×	84 0.8×	27	1.1k
Mietske Wijers Netherlands	14	486 0.7×	530 1.0×	131 0.8×	138 1.2×	60 0.6×	17	1.1k
Béatrice Kunz Switzerland	17	674 0.9×	366 0.7×	123 0.8×	254 2.2×	72 0.7×	26	1.2k
Nicholas M. Stamatos United States	19	658 0.9×	385 0.7×	98 0.6×	126 1.1×	146 1.4×	23	1.1k
Marie-José Bijlmakers United Kingdom	17	661 0.9×	563 1.1×	158 1.0×	206 1.8×	44 0.4×	21	1.3k
Octavio Miguel Rivero-Lezcano Spain	15	496 0.7×	290 0.6×	142 0.9×	228 2.0×	153 1.5×	35	1.0k
Klaus Schwamborn France	14	751 1.0×	190 0.4×	141 0.9×	113 1.0×	60 0.6×	20	1.0k
Martine Humbert France	12	457 0.6×	598 1.1×	234 1.4×	102 0.9×	49 0.5×	15	1.2k
Qi‐Hong Sun China	18	539 0.7×	269 0.5×	136 0.8×	189 1.7×	33 0.3×	40	1.6k
Peter Gee Japan	18	961 1.3×	269 0.5×	230 1.4×	49 0.4×	102 1.0×	27	1.4k

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14 of 14 papers shown

Kato, Yu, Michael Pokrass, Jinkil Jeong, et al.. (2024). Nonclinical characterization of ICVB-1042 as a selective oncolytic adenovirus for solid tumor treatment. Communications Biology. 7(1). 1132–1132. 3 indexed citations

Pecetta, Simone, Sven Kratochvil, Yu Kato, Kumaran Vadivelu, & Rino Rappuoli. (2022). Immunology and Technology of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Vaccines. Pharmacological Reviews. 74(1). 313–339. 7 indexed citations

Boland, Brigid S., Benjamin Goodwin, Zeli Zhang, et al.. (2022). Preserved SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Cell-Mediated Immunogenicity in Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease on Immune-Modulating Therapies. Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology. 13(4). e00484–e00484. 9 indexed citations

Kato, Yu, Nathaniel I. Bloom, Peifang Sun, et al.. (2022). Memory B-Cell Development After Asymptomatic or Mild Symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 227(1). 18–22. 6 indexed citations

Evrard, Maximilien, Erica Wynne-Jones, Changwei Peng, et al.. (2021). Sphingosine 1-phosphate receptor 5 (S1PR5) regulates the peripheral retention of tissue-resident lymphocytes. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 219(1). 64 indexed citations

Kato, Yu, Robert Abbott, Sonya Haupt, et al.. (2020). Multifaceted Effects of Antigen Valency on B Cell Response Composition and Differentiation In Vivo. Immunity. 53(3). 548–563.e8. 135 indexed citations

Nabekura, Tomohiro, Tatsuya Kawasaki, Yu Kato, et al.. (2020). Citrus auraptene induces drug efflux transporter P-glycoprotein expression in human intestinal cells. Food & Function. 11(6). 5017–5023. 11 indexed citations

Heath, William R., Yu Kato, Thiago M. Steiner, & Irina Caminschi. (2019). Antigen presentation by dendritic cells for B cell activation. Current Opinion in Immunology. 58. 44–52. 63 indexed citations

Harpur, Christopher M., Yu Kato, Sanda Stankovic, et al.. (2018). Classical Type 1 Dendritic Cells Dominate Priming of Th1 Responses to Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Skin Infection. The Journal of Immunology. 202(3). 653–663. 27 indexed citations

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Kato, Yu, Ali Zaid, Gayle M. Davey, et al.. (2015). Targeting Antigen to Clec9A Primes Follicular Th Cell Memory Responses Capable of Robust Recall. The Journal of Immunology. 195(3). 1006–1014. 57 indexed citations

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Kato, Yu, Chiaki Kajiwara, Ikuo Ishige, et al.. (2012). HSP70 and HSP90 Differentially Regulate Translocation of Extracellular Antigen to the Cytosol for Cross-Presentation. Autoimmune Diseases. 2012. 1–10. 21 indexed citations

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Imai, Takashi, Yu Kato, Chiaki Kajiwara, et al.. (2011). Heat shock protein 90 (HSP90) contributes to cytosolic translocation of extracellular antigen for cross-presentation by dendritic cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(39). 16363–16368. 123 indexed citations

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Lahoud, Mireille H., Fatma Ahmet, Susie Kitsoulis, et al.. (2011). Targeting Antigen to Mouse Dendritic Cells via Clec9A Induces Potent CD4 T Cell Responses Biased toward a Follicular Helper Phenotype. The Journal of Immunology. 187(2). 842–850. 177 indexed citations

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Kato, Yu. (1997). BMK1/ERK5 regulates serum-induced early gene expression through transcription factor MEF2C. The EMBO Journal. 16(23). 7054–7066. 511 indexed citations breakdown →

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