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2005

Morita YS, Velasquez R, Taig E, Waller RF, Patterson JH, Tull D, Williams SJ, Billman-Jacobe H, McConville MJ. 2005. Compartmentalization of lipid biosynthesis in mycobacteria.. J Biol Chem. 280(22):21645-52.

Haites RE, Morita YS, McConville MJ, Billman-Jacobe H. 2005. Function of phosphatidylinositol in mycobacteria.. J Biol Chem. 280(12):10981-7.

Kang J Y, Hong Y, Ashida H, Shishioh N, Murakami Y, Morita YS, Maeda Y, Kinoshita T. 2005. PIG-V involved in transferring the second mannose in glycosylphosphatidylinositol.. J Biol Chem. 280(10):9489-97.

2006

Kovacevic S, Anderson D, Morita YS, Patterson J, Haites R, McMillan BNI, Coppel R, McConville MJ, Billman-Jacobe H. 2006. Identification of a novel protein with a role in lipoarabinomannan biosynthesis in mycobacteria.. J Biol Chem. 281(14):9011-7.

Morita YS, Sena CBC, Waller RF, Kurokawa K, Sernee FM, Nakatani F, Haites RE, Billman-Jacobe H, McConville MJ, Maeda Y et al.. 2006. PimE is a polyprenol-phosphate-mannose-dependent mannosyltransferase that transfers the fifth mannose of phosphatidylinositol mannoside in mycobacteria.. J Biol Chem. 281(35):25143-55.

Hong Y, Nagamune K, Morita YS, Nakatani F, Ashida H, Maeda Y, Kinoshita T. 2006. Removal or maintenance of inositol-linked acyl chain in glycosylphosphatidylinositol is critical in trypanosome life cycle.. J Biol Chem. 281(17):11595-602.

Hong Y, Nagamune K, Ohishi K, Morita YS, Ashida H, Maeda Y, Kinoshita T. 2006. TbGPI16 is an essential component of GPI transamidase in Trypanosoma brucei.. FEBS Lett. 580(2):603-6.

2008

Crellin PK, Kovacevic S, Martin KL, Brammananth R, Morita YS, Billman-Jacobe H, McConville MJ, Coppel RL. 2008. Mutations in pimE restore lipoarabinomannan synthesis and growth in a Mycobacterium smegmatis lpqW mutant.. J Bacteriol. 190(10):3690-9.

2009

Ishikawa E, Ishikawa T, Morita YS, Toyonaga K, Yamada H, Takeuchi O, Kinoshita T, Akira S, Yoshikai Y, Yamasaki S. 2009. Direct recognition of the mycobacterial glycolipid, trehalose dimycolate, by C-type lectin Mincle.. J Exp Med. 206(13):2879-88.

2010

Sena CBC, Fukuda T, Miyanagi K, Matsumoto S, Kobayashi K, Murakami Y, Maeda Y, Kinoshita T, Morita YS. 2010. Controlled expression of branch-forming mannosyltransferase is critical for mycobacterial lipoarabinomannan biosynthesis.. J Biol Chem. 285(18):13326-36.

Morita YS, Yamaryo-Botte Y, Miyanagi K, Callaghan JM, Patterson JH, Crellin PK, Coppel RL, Billman-Jacobe H, Kinoshita T, McConville MJ. 2010. Stress-induced synthesis of phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate in mycobacteria.. J Biol Chem. 285(22):16643-50.

2011

Nakatani F, Morita YS, Ashida H, Nagamune K, Maeda Y, Kinoshita T. 2011. Identification of a second catalytically active trans-sialidase in Trypanosoma brucei.. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 415(2):421-5.

Morita YS, Fukuda T, Sena CBC, Yamaryo-Botte Y, McConville MJ, Kinoshita T. 2011. Inositol lipid metabolism in mycobacteria: biosynthesis and regulatory mechanisms.. Biochim Biophys Acta. 1810(6):630-41.

2013

Fukuda T, Matsumura T, Ato M, Hamasaki M, Nishiuchi Y, Murakami Y, Maeda Y, Yoshimori T, Matsumoto S, Kobayashi K et al.. 2013. Critical roles for lipomannan and lipoarabinomannan in cell wall integrity of mycobacteria and pathogenesis of tuberculosis.. MBio. 4(1)

2020

Kavunja HW, Biegas KJ, Banahene N, Stewart JA, Piligian BF, Groenevelt JM, Sein CE, Morita YS, Niederweis M, M Siegrist S et al.. 2020. Photoactivatable Glycolipid Probes for Identifying Mycolate-Protein Interactions in Live Mycobacteria.. J Am Chem Soc. 142(17):7725-7731.

2021

García-Heredia A, Kado T, Sein CE, Puffal J, Osman SH, Judd J, Gray TA, Morita YS, M Siegrist S. 2021. Membrane-partitioned cell wall synthesis in mycobacteria.. Elife. 10