Kazuya Morikawa

Novel nuclear-encoded proteins interacting with a plastid sigma factor, Sig1, in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Blue light specific and differential expression of a plastid sigma factor, Sig5 in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Oxidative-stress-inducible qorA encodes an NADPH-dependent quinone oxidoreductase catalysing a one-electron reduction in Staphylococcus aureus.

A role of the -35 element in the initiation of transcription at psbA promoter in tobacco plastids.

A new staphylococcal sigma factor in the conserved gene cassette: functional significance and implication for the evolutionary processes.

Blue light-induced transcription of plastid-encoded psbD gene is mediated by a nuclear-encoded transcription initiation factor, AtSig5.

Nucleotide substitutions in Staphylococcus aureus strains, Mu50, Mu3, and N315.

In vitro resistance to the CSalphabeta-type antimicrobial peptide ASABF-alpha is conferred by overexpression of sigma factor sigB in Staphylococcus aureus.

Staphylococcal Drp35 is the functional counterpart of the eukaryotic PONs.

Whole genome sequence of Staphylococcus saprophyticus reveals the pathogenesis of uncomplicated urinary tract infection.

The mammalian ionic environment dictates microbial susceptibility to antimicrobial defense peptides.

Bacterial nucleoid dynamics: oxidative stress response in Staphylococcus aureus.

Dynamic state of DNA topology is essential for genome condensation in bacteria.

Structural and mutational analyses of Drp35 from Staphylococcus aureus: a possible mechanism for its lactonase activity.

Biochemical, molecular genetic, and structural analyses of the staphylococcal nucleoid.

Genetic characterization of the natural SigB variants found in clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus.

Transcription-coupled nucleoid architecture in bacteria.

The sigH gene sequence can subspeciate staphylococci.

Staphylococcus aureus requires cardiolipin for survival under conditions of high salinity.

Proteomic analyses of nucleoid-associated proteins in Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Bacillus subtilis, and Staphylococcus aureus.

Adaptation beyond the stress response: cell structure dynamics and population heterogeneity in Staphylococcus aureus.

Alternative cardiolipin synthase Cls1 compensates for stalled Cls2 function in Staphylococcus aureus under conditions of acute acid stress.

Expression of a cryptic secondary sigma factor gene unveils natural competence for DNA transformation in Staphylococcus aureus.

Conservation of two distinct types of 100S ribosome in bacteria.

Oral nanotherapeutics: effect of redox nanoparticle on microflora in mice with dextran sodium sulfate-induced colitis.

Atomic force microscopy analysis of the role of major DNA-binding proteins in organization of the nucleoid in Escherichia coli.

Nucleoid compaction by MrgA(Asp56Ala/Glu60Ala) does not contribute to staphylococcal cell survival against oxidative stress and phagocytic killing by macrophages.

Staphylococcus aureus dry stress survivors have a heritable fitness advantage in subsequent dry exposure.

Horizontal gene transmission of the cfr gene to MRSA and Enterococcus: role of Staphylococcus epidermidis as a reservoir and alternative pathway for the spread of linezolid resistance.

Cell wall-affecting antibiotics modulate natural transformation in SigH-expressing Staphylococcus aureus.

Listeria monocytogenes σH Contributes to Expression of Competence Genes and Intracellular Growth.

Nucleoid clumping is dispensable for the Dps-dependent hydrogen peroxide resistance in Staphylococcus aureus.