Kumata R and Sasaki A. (2022) Antigenic escape accelerated by the presence of immunocompromised hosts. Proceedings of the Royal Society B bioRxiv version

Kumata R, Iwanami S, Mar KB, Kakizoe Y, Misawa N, Nakaoka S, Koyanagi Y, Perelson AS, Schoggins JW, Iwami S, Sato K. (2022) Antithetic effect of interferon-α on cell-free and cell-to-cell HIV-1 infection. PLoS Computational Biology

Kumata R., Ito J, Takahashi K, Suzuki T, Sato K. (2020) A tissue level atlas of the healthy human virome. BMC Biology

Nakano Y, Yamamoto K, Takahashi Ueda M, Soper A, Konno Y, Kimura I, Uriu K, Kumata R, Aso H, Misawa N, Nagaoka S, Shimizu S, Mitsumune K, Kosugi Y, Juarez-Fernandez G, Ito J, Nakagawa S, Ikeda T, Koyanagi Y, Harris RS, Sato K. (2020) A role for gorilla APOBEC3G in shaping lentivirus evolution including transmission to humans. PLoS Pathogens

Kumata R, Ito J, Sato K. (2020) Inherited chromosomally integrated HHV-6 possibly modulates human gene expression. Virus Genes

Konno Y, Nagaoka S, Kimura I, Yamamoto K, Kagawa Y, Kumata R, Aso H, Takahashi Ueda M, Nakagawa S, Kobayashi T, Koyanagi Y, Sato K. (2018) New World feline APOBEC3 potently controls inter-genus lentiviral transmission. Retrovirology

Konno Y, Nagaoka S, Kimura I, Takahashi Ueda M, Kumata R, Ito J, Nakagawa S, Kobayashi T, Koyanagi Y, Sato K. (2018) A naturally occurring feline APOBEC3 variant that loses anti-lentiviral activity by lacking two amino acid residues. Journal of General Virology