学歴

受賞歴

• 1978: 日本生化学会奨励賞
• 1981: 野口英世記念医学賞
• 1982: 朝日賞
• 1984: 大阪科学賞
• 1984: 木原賞（日本遺伝学会）
• 1985: ベルツ賞
• 1988: 米国免疫学会名誉会員
• 1988: 武田医学賞
• 1991: フォガティースカラー（NIH）
• 1992: ベーリング北里賞
• 1994: 上原賞
• 1996: 恩賜賞・学士院賞
• 2000: 文化功労者
• 2001: 米国科学アカデミー外国人会員
• 2003: ドイツ自然科学者アカデミー・レオポルディナ会員
• 2005: 日本学士院会員
• 2012: ドイツ　ロベルト・コッホ賞
• 2013年: 文化勲章
• 2014: 唐奨 (Tang Prize)　第一回唐奨（バイオ医薬分野）
• 2014: アメリカ合衆国Cancer Research Instituteウィリアム・コーリー賞
• 2014: 日本癌学会　第４回JCA-CHAOO賞
• 2015: Richard V. Smalley, MD Memorial Award, Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer
• 2016: トムソン・ロイター引用栄誉賞（現クラリベイト・アナリティクス引用栄誉賞）
• 2016: 京都賞
• 2016: 慶應医学賞
• 2016: Fudan-Zhongzhi Science Award
• 2017: 復旦・中植科学賞
• 2017: ウォーレン・アルパート財団賞
• 2018: 日本医師会最高優功賞
• 2018: ノーベル生理学・医学賞
• 2018: 京都府特別栄誉賞
• 2018: 富山市名誉市民
• 2018: 宇部市民栄誉賞
• 2018: 京都市名誉市民
• 2018: 富山県特別栄誉賞
• 2019: アメリカ癌研究会（AACR）フェロー 2019
• 2019:  スペイン王立医学アカデミー　名誉会員
• 2019: イギリス生理学会　名誉会員２０２２年４月 日本学術会議　栄誉会員
• 2019: 神戸市名誉市民
• 2019: 山口県民栄誉賞
• 2019: 静岡県民栄誉賞
• 2022: 日本学術会議　栄誉会員

所属学会

• 日本免疫学会　名誉会員 （学会会長 1999-2000）
• 日本生化学会　名誉会員
• 国際生化学・分子生物学会 （学会会長 2006）
• 日本インターフェロン・サイトカイン学会　名誉会員
• 日本医学会 （第29回日本医学会総会2015 関西　副会頭）
• 日本癌学会　日本人名誉会員
• 日本薬学会　名誉会員

主な論文

論文の全体リスト

免疫グロブリン遺伝子と、クラススイッチ組み換えに関する研究

Organization of immunoglobulin heavy chain genes and allelic deletion model. Honjo, T. and Kataoka, T. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 75 2140-2144 (1978)

Cloning and complete nucleotide sequence of mouse imunoglobulin g1 chain gene. Honjo, T., Obata, M., Yamawaki-Kataoka, Y., Kataoka, T., Kawakami, T., Takahashi, N. and Mano, Y. Cell 18 559-568 (1979)

Rearrangement of immunoglobulin g1-chain gene and mechanism for heavy-chain class switch. Kataoka, T., Kawakami, T., Takahashi, N. and Honjo, T. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 77 919-923 (1980)

Deletion of immunoglobulin heavy chain genes from expressed allelic chromosome. Yaoita, Y. and Honjo, T. Nature 286 850-853 (1980)

Repetitive sequences in class-switch recombination regions of immunoglobulin heavy chain genes. Kataoka, T., Miyata, T. and Honjo, T. Cell 23 357-368 (1981)

Switch region of the immunoglobulin Cg gene is composed of simple tandem repetitive sequences. Nikaido, T., Nakai, S. and Honjo, T. Nature 292 845-848 (1981)

Ordering of mouse immunoglobulin heavy chain genes by molecular cloning. Shimizu, A., Takahashi, N., Yamawaki-Kataoka, Y., Nishida, Y., Kataoka, T. and Honjo, T. Nature 289 149-153 (1981)

Organization of the constant-region gene family of the mouse immunoglobulin heavy chain. Shimizu, A., Takahashi, N., Yaoita, Y. and Honjo, T. Cell 28 499-506 (1982)

Cloning of cDNA encoding the murine IgG1 induction factor by a novel strategy using SP6 promoter. Noma, Y., Sideras, P., Naito, T., Bergstedt-Lindquist, S., Azuma, C., Severinson, E., Tanabe, T., Kinashi, T., Matsuda, F., Yaoita, Y. and Honjo, T. Nature 319 640-646 (1986)

Cloning of complementary DNA encoding T-cell replacing factor and identity with B-cell growth factor II. Kinashi, T., Harada, N., Severinson, E., Tanabe, T., Sideras, P., Konishi, M., Azuma, C., Tominaga, A., Bergstedt-Lindquist, S., Takahashi, M., Matsuda, F., Yaoita, Y., Takatsu, K. and Honjo. T. Nature 324 70-73 (1986)

Circular DNA is excised by immunoglobulin class switch recombination. Iwasato, T., Shimizu, A., Honjo, T. and Yamagishi, H. Cell 62 143-149 (1990)

Signal sequence trap: cloning strategy for secreted proteins and type I membrane proteins. Tashiro, K., Tada, H., Heilker, R., Shirozu, M., Nakano, T. and Honjo, T. Science 261 600-603 (1993)

The complete nucleotide sequence of the human immunoglobulin heavy chain variable region locus. Matsuda, F., Ishii, K., Bourvagnet, P., Kuma, K., Hayashida, H., Miyata, T. and Honjo, T. J. Exp. Med. 188 2151-2162 (1998)

Target specificity of immunoglobulin class switch recombination is not determined by nucleotide sequences of S regions. Kinoshita, K., Tashiro, J., Tomita, S., Lee, C-G. and Honjo, T. Immunity 9 849-858 (1998)

Specific expression of activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID), a novel member of the RNA editing deaminase family in germinal center B cells. Muramatsu, M., Sankaranand, V. S., Anant, S., Sugai, M., Kinoshita, K., Davidson, N. O. and Honjo, T. J. Biol. Chem. 274 18470-18476 (1999)

Class switch recombination and hypermutation require activation- induced cytidine deaminase (AID), a potential RNA editing enzyme. Muramatsu, M., Kinoshita, K., Fagarasan, S., Yamada, S., Shinkai, Y. and Honjo, T. Cell 102 553-563 (2000)

Activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) deficiency causes the autosomal recessive form of the hyper-IgM syndrome (HIGM2). Revy, P., Muto, T., Levy, Y., Geissmann, F., Plebani, A., Sanal, O., Catalan, N., Forveille, M., D.-Lagelouse, R., Gennery, A., Tezcan, I., Ersoy, F., Kayserili, H., Ugazio, A.G., Brousse, N., Muramatsu, M., Notarangelo, L.D., Kinoshita, K., Honjo, T., Fischer, A. and Durandy, A. Cell 102 565-575 (2000)

AID is required to initiate Nbs 1/??H2AX focus formation and mutations at sites of class switching. Petersen, S., Casellas, R., Reina-S-M, B., Chen, H., Difilippantonio, M., Wilson, P., Hanitsch, L., Celeste, A., Muramatsu, M., Pilch, D., Redon, C., Ried, T., Bonner, W., Honjo, T., Nussenzweig, M. and Nussenzweig, A. Nature 414 660-665 (2001)

In situ class switching and differentiation to IgA-producing cells in the gut lamina propria. Fagarasan, S., Kinoshita, K., Muramatsu, M., Ikuta, K. and Honjo, T. Nature 413 639-643 (2001)

Variable deletion and duplication at recombination junction ends: implication for staggered double-strand cleavage in class switch recombination. Chen, X., Kinoshita, K. and Honjo, T. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98 13860-13865 (2001)

The AID enzyme induces class switch recombination in fibroblasts. Okazaki, I., Kinoshita, K., Muramatsu, M., Yoshikawa, K. and Honjo, T. Nature 416 340-345 (2002)

The AID enzyme induces hypermutation in an actively transcribed gene in fibroblasts. Yoshikawa, K., Okazaki, I., Eto, T., Kinoshita, K., Muramatsu, M., Nagaoka, H. and Honjo, T. Science 296 2033-2036 (2002)

Constitutive expression of AID leads to tumorigenesis. Okazaki, I., Hiai, H., Kakazu, N., Yamada, S., Muramatsu, M., Kinoshita, K. and Honjo, T. J. Exp. Med. 197 1173-1181 (2003)

AID mutant analyses indicate requirement for class-switch-specific cofactors. Ta, V-T., Nagaoka, H., Catalan, N., Durandy, A., Fischer, A., Imai, K., Nonoyama, S., Tashiro, J., Ikegawa, M., Ito, S., Kinoshita, K., Muramatsu, M. and Honjo, T. Nature Immunol. 4 843-848 (2003)

Uracil DNA glycosylase activity is dispensable for immunoglobulin class switch. Begum, N. A., Kinoshita, K., Kakazu, N., Muramatsu, M., Nagaoka, H., Shinkura, R., Biniszkiewicz, D., Boyer, L. A., Jaenisch, R. and Honjo, T. Science 305 1160-1163 (2004)

AID-induced decrease in topoisomerase 1 induces DNA structural alteration and DNA cleavage for class switch recombination.Kobayashi M, Aida M, Nagaoka H, Begum NA, Kitawaki Y, Nakata M, Stanlie A, Doi T, Kato L, Okazaki IM, Shinkura R, Muramatsu M, Kinoshita K, Honjo T.Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 106:22375-80 (2009)

Histone3 lysine4 trimethylation regulated by the facilitates chromatin transcription complex is critical for DNA cleavage in class switch recombination. Stanlie A, Aida M, Muramatsu M, Honjo T, Begum NA.Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 107:22190-5 (2010)

Mice carrying a knock-in mutation of Aicda resulting in a defect in somatic hypermutation have impaired gut homeostasis and compromised mucosal defense. Wei M, Shinkura R, Doi Y, Maruya M, Fagarasan S, Honjo T. Nat Immunol. 12:264-70 (2011)

The AID dilemma: infection, or cancer? Honjo T, Kobayashi M, Begum N, Kotani A, Sabouri S, Nagaoka H. Adv Cancer Res. 113:1-44 (2012)

Nonimmunoglobulin target loci of activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) share unique features with immunoglobulin genes. Kato L, Begum NA, Burroughs AM, Doi T, Kawai J, Daub CO, Kawaguchi T, Matsuda F, Hayashizaki Y, Honjo T. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 109 :2479-84 (2012)

Chromatin reader Brd4 functions in Ig class switching as a repair complex adaptor of nonhomologous end-joining. Stanlie A, Yousif AS, Akiyama H, Honjo T, Begum NA. Mol Cell 55:97-110 (2014)

Identification of DNA cleavage- and recombination-specific hnRNP cofactors for activation-induced cytidine deaminase. Hu W, Begum NA, Mondal S, Stanlie A, Honjo T. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 112:5791-6 (2015)

Chromatin remodeller SMARCA4 recruits topoisomerase 1 and suppresses transcription-associated genomic instability. Husain,A., Begum, NA., Taniguchi, T., Taniguchi, H., Kobayashi, M. and Honjo, T. Nature Communications 7, Article number:10549. doi:10.1038/ncomms10549

免疫抑制受容体PD-1に関する研究

Induced expression of PD-1, a novel member of the immunoglobulin gene superfamily, upon programmed cell death. Ishida, Y., Agata, Y., Shibahara, K. and Honjo, T. EMBO J. 11 3887-3895 (1992)

Development of lupus-like autoimmune disease by disruption of the PD-1 gene encoding an ITIM motif-carrying immunoreceptor. Nishimura, H., Nose, M., Hiai, H., Minato, N. and Honjo, T. Immunity 11 141-151 (1999)

Engagement of the PD-1 immunoinhibitory receptor by a novel B7 family member leads to negative regulation of lymphocyte activation. Freeman, G. J., Long, A. J., Iwai, Y., Bourque, K., Chernova, T., Nishimura, H., Fitsz, L. J., Malenkovich, N., Okazaki, T., Byrne, M. C., Horton, H. F., Fouser, L., Carter, L., Ling, V., Bowman, M. R., Carreno, B. M., Collins, M., Wood, C. R. and Honjo, T. J. Exp. Med. 192 1027-1034 (2000)

PD-L2, a novel B7 homologue, is a second ligand for PD-1 and inhibits T cell activation. Latchman, Y., Wood, C., Chernova, T., Borde, M., Chernova, I., Iwai, Y., Malenkovich, N., Long, A., Bourque, K., Boussiotis, V., Nishimura, H., Honjo, T., Sharpe, A. and Freeman, G. Nature Immunol. 2 261-268 (2001)

Autoimmune dilated cardiomyopathy in PD-1 receptor deficient mice. Nishimura, H., Tanaka, Y., Okazaki, T., Nakatani, K., Hara, M., Matsumori, A., Sasayama, S., Hiai, H., Minato, N. and Honjo, T. Science 291 319-322 (2001)

Involvement of PD-L1 on tumor cells in the escape from host immune system and tumor immunotherapy by PD-L1 blockade. Iwai, Y., Shida, M., Tanaka, Y., Okazaki, T., Honjo, T. and Minato, N. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99 12293-12297 (2002)

Autoantibodies against cardiac troponin I are responsible for the dilated cardiomyopathy in PD-1 deficient mice. Okazaki, T., Tanaka, Y., Nishio, R., Mitsuie, T., Mizoguchi, A., Jian, W., Ishida, M., Matsumori, A., Minato,. N. and Honjo, T. Nature Medicine 9 1477-1483 (2003)

Rejuvenating exhausted T cells during chronic viral infection. Okazaki, T. and Honjo, T. Cell. 124(3):459-61 (2006)

Programmed cell death 1 ligand 1 and tumor-infiltrating CD8+ T lymphocytes are prognostic factors of human ovarian cancer. Hamanishi, J., Mandai, M., Iwasaki, M., Okazaki, T., Tanaka, Y., Yamaguchi, K., Higuchi, T., Yagi, H., Takakura, K., Minato, N., Honjo, T. and Fujii, S. PNAS. 104(9):3360-5 (2007)

TRIM28 prevents autoinflammatory T cell development in vivo. Chikuma, S., Suita, N., Okazaki, IM., Shibayama, S. and Honjo, T. Nat Immunol. 13(6):596-603 (2012)

A rheostat for immune responses: the unique properties of PD-1 and their advantages for clinical application. Okazaki, T., Chikuma, S., Iwai, Y., Fagarasan, S. and Honjo, T. Nat Immunol. 14(12):1212-8 Review (2013)

Notch受容体の核内標的分子であるRBP-Jによる細胞分化制御に関する研究

A protein binding to the Jk recombination sequence of immunoglobulin genes contains a sequence related to the integrase motif. Matsunami, N., Hamaguchi, Y., Yamamoto, Y., Kuze, K., Kangawa, K., Matsuo, H., Kawaichi M. and Honjo, T. Nature 342 934-937 (1989)

The Drosophila homolog of the immunoglobulin recombination signal-binding protein regulates peripheral nervous system development. Furukawa, T., Maruyama, S., Kawaichi, M. and Honjo, T. Cell 69 1191-1197 (1992)

Epstein-Barr virus nuclear antigen 2 exerts its transactivating function through interaction with recombination signal binding protein RBP-Jk, the homologue of Drosophila Suppressor of Hairless. Zimber-Strobl, U., Strol, L. J., Meitinger, C., Hinrichs, R.,Sakai, T., Furukawa, T., Honjo, T. and Bornkamm. G. W. EMBO. J. 13 4973-4982 (1994)

Physical interaction between a novel domain of the receptor notch and the transcription factor RBP-Jk/Su(H). Tamura, K., Taniguchi, Y., Minoguchi, S., Sakai, T., Tin Tun, Furukawa, T. and Honjo, T. Curr. Biol. 5 1416-1423 (1995)

Disruption of the mouse RBP-Jk gene results in early embryonic death. Oka, C., Nakano, T., Wakeham, A., Mori, C., Sakai, T., Okazaki, S., Kawaichi, M., Shiota, K., Mak, T. and Honjo, T. Development 121 3291-3301 (1995)

Involvement of RBP-J in biological functions of mouse Notch 1 and its derivatives. Kato, H., Taniguchi, Y., Kurooka, H., Minoguchi, S., Sakai, T., Nomura-Okazaki, S., Tamura, K. and Honjo, T. Development 124 4133-4141 (1997)

Notch-signalling controls pancreatic cell differentiation. Apelqviist, A., Li, H., Sommer, L., Beatus, P., Anderson, D. J., Honjo, T., de Hrabe, M. H., Lendahl, U. and Edlund, H. Nature 400 877-881 (1999)

Notch / RBP-J signaling is involved in cell fate determination of marginal zone B cells. Tanigaki, K., Han, H., Yamamoto, N., Tashiro, K., Ikegawa, M., Kuroda, K. and Honjo, T. Nature Immunol. 3 443-450 (2002)

Regulation of marginal zone B cell development by MINT, a suppressor of Notch/RBP-J signaling pathway. Kuroda, K., Han, H., Tani, S., Tanigaki, K., Tin Tun, Furukawa, T., Taniguchi, Y., Kurooka, H., Hamada, Y., Toyokuni, S. and Honjo, T. Immunity 18 1-20 (2003)

Regulation of ab gd T cell lineage commitment and peripheral T cell response by Notch/RBP-J signaling. Tanigaki, K., Tsuji, M., Yamamoto, N., Han, H., Tsukada, J., Inoue, H., Kubo, M and Honjo, T. Immunity 20 611-622 (2004)

Instruction of distinct CD4 T helper cell fates by different Notch ligands on antigen-presenting cells. Amsen, D., Blander, J. M., Lee, G. R., Tanigaki, K., Honjo, T. and Flavell, R. A. Cell 117 515-526 (2004)

IL-2レセプターα鎖cDNA単離に関する研究

Molecular cloning of cDNA encoding human interleukin-2 receptor. Nikaido, T., Shimizu, A., Ishida, N., Sabe, H., Teshigawara, K., Maeda, M., Uchiyama, T., Yodoi, J. and Honjo, T. Nature 311 631-635 (1984)

Expression of functional human interleukin 2 receptor in mouse T cells by cDNA transfection. Kondo, S., Shimizu, A., Maeda, M., Tagaya, Y., Yodoi, J. and Honjo, T. Nature 320 75-77 (1986)

Expression and functional characterization of artificial mutants of interleukin-2 receptor. Kondo, S., Kinoshita, M., Shimizu, A., Saito, Y., Konishi, M., Sabe, H. and Honjo, T. Nature 327 64-67 (1987)

Expression of functional interleukin-2 receptors in human light chain/Tac transgenic mice. Nishi, M., Ishida, Y. and Honjo, T. Nature 331 267-269 (1988)