Fuminori Kato, PhD
Visiting Scientist
Assistant professor, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Japan
Education
BSc, Biochemistry, Tohoku University, Japan, 1999
PhD, Tohoku University, Japan, 2004
Bio
Fuminori Kato is an assistant professor of Bacteriology at Hiroshima University, Japan. His work focuses specifically on the toxin-antitoxin systems and transcriptional regulation of the pathogenic genes in Staphylococcus aureus.
Research Focus
The toxin-antitoxin systems in Staphylococcus aureus and antibacterial drugs targeting such toxin-antitoxin systems
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Kato F, Yoshizumi S, Yamaguchi Y, Inouye M. Genome-Wide Screening for Identification of Novel Toxin-Antitoxin Systems in Staphylococcus aureus. Applied and environmental microbiology. 2019;85(20). doi:10.1128/AEM.00915-19.
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Kato F, Yabuno Y, Yamaguchi Y, Sugai M, Inouye M. Deletion of mazF increases Staphylococcus aureus biofilm formation in an ica-dependent manner. Pathogens and disease. 2017;75(5). doi:10.1093/femspd/ftx026.
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Kato F, Nakamura M, Sugai M. The development of fluorescent protein tracing vectors for multicolor imaging of clinically isolated Staphylococcus aureus. Scientific reports. 2017;7(1):2865. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-02930-7.