Department of Infection Metagenomics

Staff:

Professor (SUP)

Toshihiro Horii, Ph.D.

Teruo Yasunaga, Ph.D.

Specially Appointed Professor (SUP)

Tetsuya Iida, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor (SUP)

Naohisa Goto, Ph. D.

Shota Nakamura, Ph. D.

Specially Appointed Researcher

Kazuyoshi Gotoh, Ph. D.

Daisuke Motooka, Ph. D.

Subjects:

1. Development of metagenomic diagnosis system for pathogen identification
2. Studies on gut microbiota
3. Application of next-generation sequencing

Papers published in 2013

1. Immunization of rabbits with synthetic peptides derived from a highly conserved β-sheet epitope region underneath the receptor binding site of influenza A virus.

   Shoji Ideno, Kaoru Sakai, Mikihiro Yunoki, Ritsuko Kubota-Koketsu, Yuji Inoue, Shota Nakamura, Teruo Yasunaga, Yoshinobu Okuno and Kazuyoshi Ikuta

   Biologics, 7, 233-241, 2013.
2. Characterization of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 CRF01_AE env genes derived from recently infected Thai individuals.

   Nithinart Chaitaveep, Piraporn Utachee, Shota Nakamura, Thippawan Chuenchitra, Pattama Ekpo, Naokazu Takeda, Kovit Pattanapanyasat and Masanori Kameoka

   Microbes Infect, 16 (2), 142-152, 2014.
3. GPAT2, a mitochondrial outer membrane protein, in piRNA biogenesis in germline stem cells.

   Yusuke Shiromoto, Satomi Kuramochi-Miyagawa, Akito Daiba, Shinichiro Chuma, Ami Katanaya, Akiko Katsumata, Ken Nishimura, Manami Ohtaka, Mahito Nakanishi, Toshinobu Nakamura, Koichi Yoshinaga, Noriko Asada, Shota Nakamura, Teruo Yasunaga, Kanako Kojima-Kita, Daisuke Itou, Tohru Kimura and Toru Nakano

   RNA, 19 (6), 803-810, 2013.
4. Fatal sepsis caused by an unusual Klebsiella species that was misidentified by an automated identification system.

   Masafumi Seki, Kazuyoshi Gotoh, Shota Nakamura, Yukihiro Akeda, Tadashi Yoshii, Shinichi Miyaguchi, Hidenori Inohara, Toshihiro Horii, Kazunori Oishi, Tetsuya Iida and Kazunori Tomono

   J Med Microbiol, 62 (Pt 5), 801-803, 2013.
5. Metagenomic analysis of healthy and white plague-affected Mussismilia braziliensis corals.

   Gizele D Garcia, Gustavo B Gregoracci, Eidy de O Santos, Pedro M Meirelles, Genivaldo G Z Silva, Rob Edwards, Tomoo Sawabe, Kazuyoshi Gotoh, Shota Nakamura, Tetsuya Iida, Rodrigo L de Moura and Fabiano L Thompson

   Microb Ecol, 65 (4), 1076-1086, 2013.
6. Sequence-specific and visual identification of the influenza virus NS gene by azobenzene-tethered bis-peptide nucleic acid.

   Kunihiro Kaihatsu, Shinjiro Sawada, Shota Nakamura, Takaaki Nakaya, Teruo Yasunaga and Nobuo Kato

   PLoS One, 8 (5), e64017, 2013.
7. The lipid mediator protectin D1 inhibits influenza virus replication and improves severe influenza.

   Masayuki Morita, Keiji Kuba, Akihiko Ichikawa, Mizuho Nakayama, Jun Katahira, Ryo Iwamoto, Tokiko Watanebe, Saori Sakabe, Tomo Daidoji, Shota Nakamura, Ayumi Kadowaki, Takayo Ohto, Hiroki Nakanishi, Ryo Taguchi, Takaaki Nakaya, Makoto Murakami, Yoshihiro Yoneda, Hiroyuki Arai, Yoshihiro Kawaoka, Josef M Penninger, Makoto Arita and Yumiko Imai

   Cell, 153 (1), 112-125, 2013.
8. Metagenomic profile of gut microbiota in children during cholera and recovery.

   Shirajum Monira, Shota Nakamura, Kazuyoshi Gotoh, Kaori Izutsu, Haruo Watanabe, Nur Haque Alam, Takaaki Nakaya, Toshihiro Horii, Sk Imran Ali, Tetsuya Iida and Munirul Alam

   Gut Pathog, 5 (1), 1, 2013.

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