Pathogenic Microbes Repository Unit

Staff:

Professor (SUP)

Tetsuya Iida, Ph.D.

Associate Professor (SUP)

Toshio Kodama, Ph.D.

Technical Staff

Junko Matsuyama

Subjects:

1. Isolation, collection, preservation and distribution of pathogenic microorganisms to facilitate research overseas as well as domestic.
2. Development of rapid detection methods of pathogenic factors produced by enteropathogenic bacteria.
3. Epidemiological and surveillance studies on enteropathogenic infection.

Papers published in 2015

1. A repeat unit of Vibrio diarrheal T3S effector subverts cytoskeletal actin homeostasis via binding to interstrand region of actin filaments.

   Mitsuhiro Nishimura, Takashi Fujii, Hirotaka Hiyoshi, Fumiaki Makino, Hajime Inoue, Daisuke Motooka, Toshio Kodama, Tadayasu Ohkubo, Yuji Kobayashi, Shota Nakamura, Keiichi Namba and Tetsuya Iida

   Sci Rep, 5, 10870, 2015.
2. Regulation of Vibrio parahaemolyticus T3SS2 gene expression and function of T3SS2 effectors that modulate actin cytoskeleton.

   Toshio Kodama, Hirotaka Hiyoshi, Ryu Okada, Shigeaki Matsuda, Kazuyoshi Gotoh and Tetsuya Iida

   Cell Microbiol, 17 (2), 183-190, 2015.
3. Interaction between the Type III Effector VopO and GEF-H1 Activates the RhoA-ROCK Pathway.

   Hirotaka Hiyoshi, Ryu Okada, Shigeaki Matsuda, Kazuyoshi Gotoh, Yukihiro Akeda, Tetsuya Iida and Toshio Kodama

   PLoS Pathog, 11 (3), e1004694, 2015.

Link

Pathogenic Microbes Repository Unit

Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University