Positions

Selected Publications

Academic Article

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2017 Cellular and molecular dynamics of Th17 differentiation and its developmental plasticity in the intestinal immune response.  Frontiers in Immunology.  8. 2017
2015 IL-1 signaling modulates activation of STAT transcription factors to antagonize retinoic acid signaling and control the TH17 cell-iT reg cell balance.  Nature Immunology.  16:286-295. 2015
2013 The Th17 family: Flexibility follows function.  Immunological Reviews.  252:89-103. 2013
2012 Th22 Cells Are an Important Source of IL-22 for Host Protection against Enteropathogenic Bacteria.  Immunity.  37:1061-1075. 2012
2010 Leishmania donovani isolates with antimony-resistant but not -sensitive phenotype inhibit sodium antimony gluconate-induced dendritic cell activation.  PLoS Pathogens.  6:1-21. 2010
2009 KMP-11 DNA immunization significantly protects against L. donovani infection but requires exogenous IL-12 as an adjuvant for comparable protection against L. major.  Vaccine.  27:1306-1316. 2009
2008 Virulence attenuation of a UDP-galactose/N-acetylglucosamine β1,4 galactosyltransferase expressing Leishmania donovani promastigote.  Glycoconjugate Journal.  25:459-472. 2008
2007 Hybrid cell vaccination resolves Leishmania donovani infection by eliciting a strong CD8+ cytotoxic T-lymphocyte response with concomitant suppression of interleukin-10 (IL-10) but not IL-4 or IL-13.  Infection and Immunity.  75:5956-5966. 2007
2007 HLA class I-restricted T cell epitopes of the kinetoplastid membrane protein-11 presented by Leishmania donovani-infected human macrophages.  Journal of Infectious Diseases.  195:1373-1380. 2007
2006 Mapping the antigenicity of the parasites in Leishmania donovani infection by proteome serology.  PLoS ONE.  1. 2006
2005 Identification of new antigens in visceral leishmaniasis by expression cloning and immunoblotting with sera of Kala-Azar patients from Bihar, India.  Infection and Immunity.  73:7018-7021. 2005
2005 Kinetoplastid membrane protein-11 DNA vaccination induces complete protection against both pentavalent antimonial-sensitive and -resistant strains of Leishmania donovani that correlates with inducible nitric oxide synthase activity and IL-4 generation: Evidence for mixed Th1- and Th2-like responses in visceral leishmaniasis.  Journal of Immunology.  174:7160-7171. 2005
2003 Infectivity and attenuation of Leishmania donovani promastigotes II: Association of the loss of parasite infectivity with the terminal galactosylation of precursor acceptors present in virulent parasites by the developmentally regulated galactosyltransferase.  Parasite Immunology.  25:517-520. 2003

Education And Training

  • Doctor of Philosophy in Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Jadavpur University 2005

    • Full Name

  • Rajatava Basu