Department of Molecular Virology

Staff:

Professor

Yoshiharu Matsuura, D.V.M., Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Toru Okamoto, Ph.D.

Takasuke Fukuhara, M.D., Ph.D.

JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship

Tomokazu Tamura, D.V.M., Ph.D.

Specially Appointed Researcher

Chikako Ono, Ph.D.

Puig-Basagoiti Francesc, Ph.D.

Graduate Student

Akinori Ninomiya

Takahisa Kouwaki

Satomi Yamamoto

Takahiro Kawagishi

Tatsuya Suzuki

Hiroyuki Mori

Kentaro Uemura

Yukako Kawachi

Junki Hirano

Research Student

Ryoichi Shima

Tatsuya Miyoshi

Yoshihiko Morishita

Subjects:

1. Studies on hepatitis C virus.
2. Studies on Japanese encephalitis virus.
3. Studies on hepatitis B virus.
4. Development of viral vectors.

Papers published in 2015

1. Kinase-interacting substrate screening is a novel method to identify kinase substrates.

   Mutsuki Amano, Tomonari Hamaguchi, Md Hasanuzzaman Shohag, Kei Kozawa, Katsuhiro Kato, Xinjian Zhang, Yoshimitsu Yura, Yoshiharu Matsuura, Chikako Kataoka, Tomoki Nishioka and Kozo Kaibuchi

   J Cell Biol, 209 (6), 895-912, 2015.
2. Novel sex-dependent differentially methylated regions are demethylated in adult male mouse livers.

   Shuhei Ito, Keiji Hirabayashi, Kohji Moriishi, Yasuhisa Matsui, Kyoji Moriya, Kazuhiko Koike, Yoshiharu Matsuura, Kunio Shiota and Shintaro Yagi

   Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 462 (4), 332-338, 2015.
3. Involvement of FKBP6 in hepatitis C virus replication.

   Hirotake Kasai, Kunihiro Kawakami, Hiromasa Yokoe, Kentaro Yoshimura, Masanori Matsuda, Jun Yasumoto, Shinya Maekawa, Atsuya Yamashita, Tomohisa Tanaka, Masanori Ikeda, Nobuyuki Kato, Toru Okamoto, Yoshiharu Matsuura, Naoya Sakamoto, Nobuyuki Enomoto, Sen Takeda, Hideki Fujii, Masayoshi Tsubuki, Masami Kusunoki and Kohji Moriishi

   Sci Rep, 5, 16699, 2015.
4. Anti-HCV effect of Lentinula edodes mycelia solid culture extracts and low-molecular-weight lignin.

   Koji Matsuhisa, Seiji Yamane, Toru Okamoto, Akihiro Watari, Masuo Kondoh, Yoshiharu Matsuura and Kiyohito Yagi

   Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 462 (1), 52-57, 2015.
5. Hepatitis B virus efficiently infects non-adherent hepatoma cells via human sodium taurocholate cotransporting polypeptide.

   Kaori Okuyama-Dobashi, Hirotake Kasai, Tomohisa Tanaka, Atsuya Yamashita, Jun Yasumoto, Wenjia Chen, Toru Okamoto, Shinya Maekawa, Koichi Watashi, Takaji Wakita, Akihide Ryo, Tetsuro Suzuki, Yoshiharu Matsuura, Nobuyuki Enomoto and Kohji Moriishi

   Sci Rep, 5, 17047, 2015.
6. Long-term viral shedding and viral genome mutation in norovirus infection.

   Tatsuya Miyoshi, Kiyoko Uchino, Hisayoshi Yoshida, Kazushi Motomura, Naokazu Takeda, Yoshiharu Matsuura and Tomoyuki Tanaka

   J Med Virol, 87 (11), 1872-1880, 2015.
7. Role of zinc-finger anti-viral protein in host defense against Sindbis virus.

   Tatsuya Kozaki, Michihiro Takahama, Takuma Misawa, Yoshiharu Matsuura, Shizuo Akira and Tatsuya Saitoh

   Int Immunol, 27 (7), 357-364, 2015.
8. Roles of Lipoproteins and Apolipoproteins in Particle Formation of Hepatitis C Virus.

   Takasuke Fukuhara, Chikako Ono, Francesc Puig-Basagoiti and Yoshiharu Matsuura

   Trends Microbiol, 23 (10), 618-629, 2015.
9. Tightly regulated expression of Autographa californica multicapsid nucleopolyhedrovirus immediate early genes emerges from their interactions and possible collective behaviors.

   Chikako Ono, Masanao Sato, Hitomi Taka, Shin-ichiro Asano, Yoshiharu Matsuura and Hisanori Bando

   PLoS One, 10 (3), e0119580, 2015.

Link

Department of Molecular Virology

Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University