Laboratory of Infection Cell Biology

Staff:

Specially Appointed Professor

Yukako Fujinaga, Ph.D.

Specially Appointed Assistant Professor

Takuhiro Matsumura, Ph.D.

Yo Sugawara, Ph.D.

Specially Appointed Researcher

Masahiro Yutani, Ph.D.

Graduate Student

Sho Amatsu

Subject:

1. Structure and function of botulinum neurotoxin complex.

Paper published in 2015

1. Botulinum toxin A complex exploits intestinal M cells to enter the host and exert neurotoxicity.

   Takuhiro Matsumura, Yo Sugawara, Masahiro Yutani, Sho Amatsu, Hideo Yagita, Tomoko Kohda, Shin-Ichi Fukuoka, Yutaka Nakamura, Shinji Fukuda, Koji Hase, Hiroshi Ohno and Yukako Fujinaga

   Nat Commun, 6, 6255, 2015.
2. Clostridium botulinum type C hemagglutinin affects the morphology and viability of cultured mammalian cells via binding to the ganglioside GM3.

   Yo Sugawara, Masao Iwamori, Takuhiro Matsumura, Masahiro Yutani, Sho Amatsu and Yukako Fujinaga

   FEBS J, 282 (17), 3334-3347, 2015.

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Laboratory for Infection Cell Biology

Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University