Department of Molecurlar Bacteriology

Staff:

Professor

Yasuhiko Horiguchi, D.V.M., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Hiroyuki Abe, Ph.D.

Naoaki Shinzawa, Ph.D.

Specially Appointed Researcher

Aya Fukui, Ph.D.

Keiji Nakamura, D.V.M., Ph.D.

Graduate Student

Sayaka Nishikawa

Keisuke Ishigaki

Yuki Nii

Shihono Teruya

Mai Higashi

Subjects:

1. Analysis of host-bacterium interactions to establish infectious diseases.
2. Analysis of structure and function of bacterial virulence factors

Paper published in 2015

1. Identification and Characterization of a New Enterotoxin Produced by Clostridium perfringens Isolated from Food Poisoning Outbreaks.

   Daisuke Irikura, Chie Monma, Yasunori Suzuki, Akiko Nakama, Akemi Kai, Aya Fukui-Miyazaki, Yasuhiko Horiguchi, Tomoya Yoshinari, Yoshiko Sugita-Konishi and Yoichi Kamata

   PLoS One, 10 (11), e0138183, 2015.
2. Characterization of unstable pEntYN10 from enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) O169:H41.

   Erika Ban, Yuka Yoshida, Mitsuko Wakushima, Takeaki Wajima, Takashi Hamabata, Naoki Ichikawa, Hiroyuki Abe, Yasuhiko Horiguchi, Yukiko Hara-Kudo, Eriko Kage-Nakadai, Taro Yamamoto, Takayuki Wada and Yoshikazu Nishikawa

   Virulence, 6 (8), 735-744, 2015.
3. Detection of genes expressed in Bordetella bronchiseptica colonizing rat trachea by in vivo expressed-tag immunoprecipitation method.

   Hiroyuki Abe, Shigeki Kamitani, Aya Fukui-Miyazaki, Naoaki Shinzawa, Keiji Nakamura and Yasuhiko Horiguchi

   Microbiol Immunol, 59 (5), 249-261, 2015.
4. Polymorphisms Influencing Expression of Dermonecrotic Toxin in Bordetella bronchiseptica.

   Keisuke Okada, Hiroyuki Abe, Fumio Ike, Yoshitoshi Ogura, Tetsuya Hayashi, Aya Fukui-Miyazaki, Keiji Nakamura, Naoaki Shinzawa and Yasuhiko Horiguchi

   PLoS One, 10 (2), e0116604, 2015.

Link

Department of Molecular Bacteriology

Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University