Molecular Microbiology
Staff
Prof. KUWAHARA
- Professor
- Lecturer
- Assistant Professor
Current Research Projects
- Identification of gut microbial products involving in the modification of intestinal epithelial cells.
- Molecular Mechanisms of gut microbiota adaptation to host environment.
- Metagenomic analysis of human microflora in health and diseases.
Representative Publications
- The human gut microbe Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron suppresses toxin release from Clostridium difficile by inhibiting autolysis.
Elahi M et al. Antibiotics (Basel) (2021).
- MetaPlatanus: a metagenome assembler that combines long-range sequence links and species-specific features.
Kajitani R. et al. Nucleic Acids Res (2021).
- IgA regulates the composition and metabolic function of gut microbiota by promoting symbiosis between bacteria.
Nakajima A et al. J Exp Med (2018).
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