Mitsuaki Yoshida

Mitsuaki Yoshida
NationalityJapanese
Alma materUniversity of Tokyo
Known forHuman T-lymphotropic virus 1
AwardsAsahi Prize
Scientific career
FieldsMolecular biology, Virology
InstitutionsUniversity of Tokyo
Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Mitsuaki Yoshida (吉田 光昭, Yoshida Mitsuaki, born 1939) was a Japanese virologist known for identifying the molecular structure of Human T-lymphotropic virus 1 responsible for Adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma.[1][2]

  1. ^ Yoshida, M; Miyoshi, I; Hinuma, Y (1982). "Isolation and characterization of retrovirus from cell lines of human adult T-cell leukemia and its implication in the disease". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 79 (6): 2031–5. Bibcode:1982PNAS...79.2031Y. doi:10.1073/pnas.79.6.2031. PMC 346116. PMID 6979048.
  2. ^ Yoshida, M (2005). "Discovery of HTLV-1, the first human retrovirus, its unique regulatory mechanisms, and insights into pathogenesis". Oncogene. 24 (39): 5931–7. doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1208981. PMID 16155600.