List of works - Kenro Oshima

"Candidatus Phytoplasma oryzae", a novel phytoplasma taxon associated with rice yellow dwarf disease

scientific article

'Candidatus Phytoplasma castaneae', a novel phytoplasma taxon associated with chestnut witches' broom disease

scientific article published in September 2002

'Candidatus phytoplasma ziziphi', a novel phytoplasma taxon associated with jujube witches'-broom disease.

scientific article published on July 2003

A plasmid from a non-insect-transmissible line of a phytoplasma lacks two open reading frames that exist in the plasmid from the wild-type line.

scientific article published on October 2002

A plasmid of phytoplasma encodes a unique replication protein having both plasmid- and virus-like domains: clue to viral ancestry or result of virus/plasmid recombination?

scientific article

A unique virulence factor for proliferation and dwarfism in plants identified from a phytopathogenic bacterium.

scholarly article

Cloning and characterization of the antigenic membrane protein (Amp) gene and in situ detection of Amp from malformed flowers infected with Japanese hydrangea phyllody phytoplasma.

scientific article

Cloning of immunodominant membrane protein genes of phytoplasmas and their in planta expression.

scientific article published on 12 February 2009

Cloning, expression analysis, and sequence diversity of genes encoding two different immunodominant membrane proteins in poinsettia branch-inducing phytoplasma (PoiBI).

scientific article published on 21 September 2011

Complete nucleotide sequence of the S10-spc operon of phytoplasma: gene organization and genetic code resemble those of Bacillus subtilis.

scientific article

Crystal structure of phyllogen, a phyllody-inducing effector protein of phytoplasma

scientific article published on 19 April 2019

Degradation of class E MADS-domain transcription factors in Arabidopsis by a phytoplasmal effector, phyllogen.

scientific article

Detection of the genes evolving under Ureaplasma-specific selection

scientific article

Discovery and analysis of cofactor-dependent phosphoglycerate mutase homologs as novel phosphoserine phosphatases in Hydrogenobacter thermophilus

scientific article published on 15 February 2012

Diversity and functional importance of phytoplasma membrane proteins

scientific article published on 04 May 2006

Dramatic transcriptional changes in an intracellular parasite enable host switching between plant and insect

scientific article

Evidence of intermolecular recombination between extrachromosomal DNAs in phytoplasma: a trigger for the biological diversity of phytoplasma?

scientific article published on May 2002

Evolutionary mechanisms of microbial genomes

scientific article published on 31 May 2011

Evolutionary mechanisms of microbial genomes 2012.

scientific article published on 22 August 2012

First complete nucleotide sequence and heterologous gene organization of the two rRNA operons in the phytoplasma genome.

scientific article

Functional characterization and gene expression profiling of superoxide dismutase from plant pathogenic phytoplasma.

scientific article published on 8 September 2012

Genome-Wide Analysis of the Transcription Start Sites and Promoter Motifs of Phytoplasmas.

scientific article published on 17 October 2017

Heterogeneic dynamics of the structures of multiple gene clusters in two pathogenetically different lines originating from the same phytoplasma.

scientific article published in April 2008

Identification of a Proline-Kinked Amphipathic α-Helix Downstream from the Methyltransferase Domain of a Potexvirus Replicase and Its Role in Virus Replication and Perinuclear Complex Formation

scientific article published on 04 August 2021

In Planta Recognition of a Double-Stranded RNA Synthesis Protein Complex by a Potexviral RNA Silencing Suppressor

scientific article published on 30 May 2014

In the non-insect-transmissible line of onion yellows phytoplasma (OY-NIM), the plasmid-encoded transmembrane protein ORF3 lacks the major promoter region.

scientific article published on 16 April 2009

Interaction between the membrane protein of a pathogen and insect microfilament complex determines insect-vector specificity

scientific article published on 6 March 2006

Molecular epidemiology of Plum pox virus in Japan.

scientific article published in May 2011

New detection systems of bacteria using highly selective media designed by SMART: selective medium-design algorithm restricted by two constraints

scientific article

New ex vivo reporter assay system reveals that σ factors of an unculturable pathogen control gene regulation involved in the host switching between insects and plants.

scientific article published on 31 May 2013

Onion yellow phytoplasma P38 protein plays a role in adhesion to the hosts

scientific article published on 21 October 2014

Phylogenetic position of aquificales based on the whole genome sequences of six aquificales species

scientific article published on 12 July 2012

Phylogenetic relationships among mycoplasmas based on the whole genomic information.

scientific article

Phytoplasma-conserved phyllogen proteins induce phyllody across the Plantae by degrading floral MADS domain proteins

scientific article

Phytoplasmas: bacteria that manipulate plants and insects.

scientific article

Positive selection acting on a surface membrane protein of the plant-pathogenic phytoplasmas.

scientific article published on May 2006

Presence of two glycolytic gene clusters in a severe pathogenic line of Candidatus Phytoplasma asteris

scientific article published on 01 July 2007

Process of reductive evolution during 10 years in plasmids of a non-insect-transmissible phytoplasma

scientific article published on 22 July 2009

Pseudo-polyprotein translated from the full-length ORF1 of capillovirus is important for pathogenicity, but a truncated ORF1 protein without variable and CP regions is sufficient for replication

scientific article published on 8 April 2010

Reductive evolution suggested from the complete genome sequence of a plant-pathogenic phytoplasma

scientific article

Revision of the ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma’ species description guidelines

scientific article published on 26 April 2022

Secretion of immunodominant membrane protein from onion yellows phytoplasma through the Sec protein-translocation system in Escherichia coli.

scientific article published in January 2004

The alteration of plant morphology by small peptides released from the proteolytic processing of the bacterial peptide TENGU.

scientific article

Unique Evolution of Symbiobacterium thermophilum Suggested from Gene Content and Orthologous Protein Sequence Comparisons

scientific article published on 22 December 2010

Unique morphological changes in plant pathogenic phytoplasma-infected petunia flowers are related to transcriptional regulation of floral homeotic genes in an organ-specific manner

scientific article

[Survival strategy of a bacterium with a reduced genome suggested from the complete genome sequence of a plant-pathogenic phytoplasma]

scientific article published on 01 April 2004

List of works by Kenro Oshima

"Candidatus Phytoplasma oryzae", a novel phytoplasma taxon associated with rice yellow dwarf disease

'Candidatus Phytoplasma castaneae', a novel phytoplasma taxon associated with chestnut witches' broom disease

'Candidatus phytoplasma ziziphi', a novel phytoplasma taxon associated with jujube witches'-broom disease.

A plasmid from a non-insect-transmissible line of a phytoplasma lacks two open reading frames that exist in the plasmid from the wild-type line.

A plasmid of phytoplasma encodes a unique replication protein having both plasmid- and virus-like domains: clue to viral ancestry or result of virus/plasmid recombination?

A unique virulence factor for proliferation and dwarfism in plants identified from a phytopathogenic bacterium.

Cloning and characterization of the antigenic membrane protein (Amp) gene and in situ detection of Amp from malformed flowers infected with Japanese hydrangea phyllody phytoplasma.

Cloning of immunodominant membrane protein genes of phytoplasmas and their in planta expression.

Cloning, expression analysis, and sequence diversity of genes encoding two different immunodominant membrane proteins in poinsettia branch-inducing phytoplasma (PoiBI).

Complete nucleotide sequence of the S10-spc operon of phytoplasma: gene organization and genetic code resemble those of Bacillus subtilis.

Crystal structure of phyllogen, a phyllody-inducing effector protein of phytoplasma

Degradation of class E MADS-domain transcription factors in Arabidopsis by a phytoplasmal effector, phyllogen.

Detection of the genes evolving under Ureaplasma-specific selection

Discovery and analysis of cofactor-dependent phosphoglycerate mutase homologs as novel phosphoserine phosphatases in Hydrogenobacter thermophilus

Diversity and functional importance of phytoplasma membrane proteins

Dramatic transcriptional changes in an intracellular parasite enable host switching between plant and insect

Evidence of intermolecular recombination between extrachromosomal DNAs in phytoplasma: a trigger for the biological diversity of phytoplasma?

Evolutionary mechanisms of microbial genomes

Evolutionary mechanisms of microbial genomes 2012.

First complete nucleotide sequence and heterologous gene organization of the two rRNA operons in the phytoplasma genome.

Functional characterization and gene expression profiling of superoxide dismutase from plant pathogenic phytoplasma.

Genome-Wide Analysis of the Transcription Start Sites and Promoter Motifs of Phytoplasmas.

Heterogeneic dynamics of the structures of multiple gene clusters in two pathogenetically different lines originating from the same phytoplasma.

Identification of a Proline-Kinked Amphipathic α-Helix Downstream from the Methyltransferase Domain of a Potexvirus Replicase and Its Role in Virus Replication and Perinuclear Complex Formation

In Planta Recognition of a Double-Stranded RNA Synthesis Protein Complex by a Potexviral RNA Silencing Suppressor

In the non-insect-transmissible line of onion yellows phytoplasma (OY-NIM), the plasmid-encoded transmembrane protein ORF3 lacks the major promoter region.

Interaction between the membrane protein of a pathogen and insect microfilament complex determines insect-vector specificity

Molecular epidemiology of Plum pox virus in Japan.

New detection systems of bacteria using highly selective media designed by SMART: selective medium-design algorithm restricted by two constraints

New ex vivo reporter assay system reveals that σ factors of an unculturable pathogen control gene regulation involved in the host switching between insects and plants.

Onion yellow phytoplasma P38 protein plays a role in adhesion to the hosts

Phylogenetic position of aquificales based on the whole genome sequences of six aquificales species

Phylogenetic relationships among mycoplasmas based on the whole genomic information.

Phytoplasma-conserved phyllogen proteins induce phyllody across the Plantae by degrading floral MADS domain proteins

Phytoplasmas: bacteria that manipulate plants and insects.

Positive selection acting on a surface membrane protein of the plant-pathogenic phytoplasmas.

Presence of two glycolytic gene clusters in a severe pathogenic line of Candidatus Phytoplasma asteris

Process of reductive evolution during 10 years in plasmids of a non-insect-transmissible phytoplasma

Pseudo-polyprotein translated from the full-length ORF1 of capillovirus is important for pathogenicity, but a truncated ORF1 protein without variable and CP regions is sufficient for replication

Reductive evolution suggested from the complete genome sequence of a plant-pathogenic phytoplasma

Revision of the ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma’ species description guidelines

Secretion of immunodominant membrane protein from onion yellows phytoplasma through the Sec protein-translocation system in Escherichia coli.

The alteration of plant morphology by small peptides released from the proteolytic processing of the bacterial peptide TENGU.

Unique Evolution of Symbiobacterium thermophilum Suggested from Gene Content and Orthologous Protein Sequence Comparisons

Unique morphological changes in plant pathogenic phytoplasma-infected petunia flowers are related to transcriptional regulation of floral homeotic genes in an organ-specific manner

[Survival strategy of a bacterium with a reduced genome suggested from the complete genome sequence of a plant-pathogenic phytoplasma]