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Yasu S. Morita

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1964

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University of Massachusetts Amherst(Current)

The University of Osaka

The University of Melbourne

Harvard University

Yale University

Yasu S. Morita is an author at University of Massachusetts Amherst specializing in medicine, microbiology, and biochemistry.

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1964–2024

40

Publications

40

Direct recognition of the mycobacterial glycolipid, trehalose dimycolate, by C-type lectin Mincle

Eri Ishikawa, Tetsuaki Ishikawa, Yasu S. Morita et al. · The Journal of Experimental Medicine · 2009 · 760 citations · Full text

Critical Roles for Lipomannan and Lipoarabinomannan in Cell Wall Integrity of Mycobacteria and Pathogenesis of Tuberculosis

T. Fukuda, Takayuki Matsumura, Manabu Ato et al. · mBio · 2013 · 134 citations · Full text

PimE Is a Polyprenol-phosphate-mannose-dependent Mannosyltransferase That Transfers the Fifth Mannose of Phosphatidylinositol Mannoside in Mycobacteria

Yasu S. Morita, Chubert Bernardo Castro de Sena, Ross F. Waller et al. · Journal of Biological Chemistry · 2006 · 131 citations · Full text

Peptidoglycan precursor synthesis along the sidewall of pole-growing mycobacteria

Alam García‐Heredia, Amol Arunrao Pohane, Emily S. Melzer et al. · eLife · 2018 · 126 citations · Full text

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Specialized Fatty Acid Synthesis in African Trypanosomes: Myristate for GPI Anchors

Yasu S. Morita, Kimberly S. Paul, Paul T. Englund · Science · 2000 · 124 citations

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