Preprints
Preprints
Kumata R*, Fujimoto Y, Ohtsuki H, Sasaki A, submitted. Immune history shapes recurrent epidemics of antigenically related variants. arXiv version.
Chevallereau A*, Kumata R*, Fradet O, Lion S, Westra ER, Sasaki A, Gandon S. submitted. Spatial structure can promote or impede the spread of cooperative anti-CRISPR phages. bioRxiv version, * co-first, co-correspondence
Kumata R*, Kadowaki S, Wakano JY*. accepted. The effect of spatial bottleneck on human eco-cultural range expansion. Journal of the Royal Society Interface biorxiv version
Kumata R*, Sasaki A. In press. Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Pathogen Epidemic Timing in a Seasonal Environment. Ecology Letters biorxiv version
Kumata R,* Lion S, Westra E.R., Gandon, S. (2026) Social cues drive the evolution of plastic pathogen virulence in spatially and temporally variable environments, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 123 (23) e2526952123, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2526952123
Konno Y, Uriu K, ..., Kumata R, ..., Sato K. (2024) Two-step evolution of HIV-1 budding system leading to pandemic in the human population. Cell Reports 43(2): 112697
Kumata R and Sasaki A. (2022) Antigenic escape accelerated by the presence of immunocompromised hosts. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 289: 20221437 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 18(4): e1010053.
Kumata R, Ito J, Takahashi K, Suzuki T, Sato K. (2020) A tissue level atlas of the healthy human virome. BMC Biology 18:55
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 16(9): e1008812.
Kumata R, Ito J, Sato K. (2020) Inherited chromosomally integrated HHV-6 possibly modulates human gene expression. Virus Genes 56(3): 386-389.
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 15: 31.
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 99(5): 704-709.