Akiko Watanabe

Complex Antigens Drive Permissive Clonal Selection in Germinal Centers

Masayuki Kuraoka, Aaron G. Schmidt, Takuya Nojima et al. · Immunity · 2016 · 322 citations · Full text

Germ Cell, Germinal Centers, Genetics +3

Antibodies to a Conserved Influenza Head Interface Epitope Protect by an IgG Subtype-Dependent Mechanism

Akiko Watanabe, Kevin R. McCarthy, Masayuki Kuraoka et al. · Cell · 2019 · 192 citations · Full text

Vaccination, Cross-protection, Igg Subtype-dependent Mechanism +9

Memory B Cells that Cross-React with Group 1 and Group 2 Influenza A Viruses Are Abundant in Adult Human Repertoires

Kevin R. McCarthy, Akiko Watanabe, Masayuki Kuraoka et al. · Immunity · 2018 · 148 citations · Full text

Vaccination, Group 2, Group 1 +7

Site-1 protease is required for the generation of soluble (pro)renin receptor

Tsutomu Nakagawa, Chiharu Suzuki-Nakagawa, Akiko Watanabe et al. · The Journal of Biochemistry · 2016 · 91 citations · Full text

Immunology, Molecular Biology, Pathology +19

IL-7 Specifies B Cell Fate at the Common Lymphoid Progenitor to Pre-ProB Transition Stage by Maintaining Early B Cell Factor Expression

Kazu Kikuchi, Hirotake Kasai, Akiko Watanabe et al. · The Journal of Immunology · 2008 · 84 citations · Full text