Tsukamoto, Kentaro

Profile

Dr. Tsukamoto graduated from the Dept. of Veterinary Science, Osaka Prefecture University, 2001 and received his Ph.D. from Osaka Prefecture University in 2006. After that, he worked as an Assistant Professor (2006), Lecturer (2010) at Fujita Health University School of Medicine. He was appointed to his current position in 2023.

Publication

  • (1)Suzuki N. et al., The autotransporter BafA contributes to the proangiogenic potential of Bartonella elizabethae. Microbiol Immunol. (2023) 67(5):248-257. doi: 10.1111/1348-0421.13057
  • (2)Kumadaki K., et al., Comparison of Biological Activities of BafA Family Autotransporters within Bartonella Species Derived from Cats and Rodents. Infect Immun. (2023) 91(3):e0018622. doi: 10.1128/iai.00186-22
  • (3)Tsukamoto K., et al., The Passenger Domain of Bartonella bacilliformis BafA Promotes Endothelial Cell Angiogenesis via the VEGF Receptor Signaling Pathway. mSphere. (2022) 7(2):e0008122. doi: 10.1128/msphere.00081-22
  • (4)Tsukamoto K, Shinzawa N, Kawai A, Suzuki M, Kidoya H, Takakura N, Yamaguchi H, Kameyama T, Inagaki H, Kurahashi H, Horiguchi Y, Doi Y. The Bartonella autotransporter BafA activates the host VEGF pathway to drive angiogenesis. Nat Commun. (2020) 11(1):3571. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-17391-2
  • (5)Tsukamoto K. et al., CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Genomic Deletion of the Beta-1, 4 N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase 1 Gene in Murine P19 Embryonal Carcinoma Cells Results in Low Sensitivity to Botulinum Neurotoxin Type C. PLoS One. (2015) 10(7):e0132363. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0132363

Lab

Abe, Ryuichiro

International Research Center for Infectious Diseases

Laboratory of Bacterial Pathogenesis

Akira, Shizuo

Division of Host Defense

Department of Host Defense

Arase, Hisashi

Division of Host Defense

Department of Immunochemistry

Ebina, Hirotaka

BIKEN Innovative Vaccine Research Alliance Laboratories

Virus Vaccine Group

Hara, Eiji

Division of Cellular and Molecular Biology

Department of Molecular Microbiology

Horiguchi, Yasuhiko

Division of Infectious Disease

Department of Molecular Bacteriology

Horii, Toshihiro

Endowed Chair

Department of Malaria Vaccine Development

Iida, Tetsuya

Research Center for Infectious Disease Control

Department of Bacterial Infections

Ikawa, Masahito

Bioinformatics Center

Department of Experimental Genome Research

Ishitani, Tohru

Division of Cellular and Molecular Biology

Department of Homeostatic Regulation

Iwanaga, Shiroh

Research Center for Infectious Disease Control

Department of Molecular Protozoology

Iwasaki, Masaharu

International Research Center for Infectious Diseases

Laboratory of Emerging Viral Diseases

Kobayashi, Takeshi

Research Center for Infectious Disease Control

Department of Virology

Kotani, Ai

Division of Cellular and Molecular Biology

Department of Regulation of Infectious Cancer

Matsuura, Yoshiharu

Research Center for Infectious Disease Control

Laboratory of Virus Control

Murakami, Yoshiko

Division of Host Defense

Laboratory of Immunoglycobiology

Nakamura, Shota

Bioinformatics Center

Department of Infection Metagenomics

Shioda, Tatsuo

Division of Infectious Disease

Department of Viral Infections

Standley, Daron

Bioinformatics Center

Department of Genome Informatics

Suzuki, Kazuhiro

Division of Host Defense

Department of Immune Response Dynamics

Takakura, Nobuyuki

Division of Cellular and Molecular Biology

Department of Signal Transduction

Watanabe, Tokiko

Division of Infectious Disease

Department of Molecular Virology

Yamamoto, Masahiro

Division of Infectious Disease

Department of Immunoparasitology

Yamasaki, Sho

Division of Host Defense

Department of Molecular Immunology

Yoshioka, Yasuo

BIKEN Innovative Vaccine Research Alliance Laboratories

Vaccine Creation Group