Pathogenic Microbes Repository Unit

Staff:

Professor (SUP)

Tetsuya Iida, Ph.D.

Associate Professor (SUP)

Toshio Kodama, Ph.D.

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 2016

1. Crystal structure of the ADP-ribosylating component of BEC, the binary enterotoxin of Clostridium perfringens.

   Kazuki Kawahara, Shinya Yonogi, Ryota Munetomo, Hiroya Oki, Takuya Yoshida, Yuko Kumeda, Shigeaki Matsuda, Toshio Kodama, Tadayasu Ohkubo, Tetsuya Iida and Shota Nakamura

   Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 480 (2), 261-267, 2016.

Link

Pathogenic Microbes Repository Unit

Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University