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List of works by Chikara Kaito

16S rRNA methyltransferase KsgA contributes to oxidative stress resistance and virulence in Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 3 November 2015

A human pathogenic bacterial infection model using the two-spotted cricket, Gryllus bimaculatus.

scientific article published on 3 July 2016

A novel gene, fudoh, in the SCCmec region suppresses the colony spreading ability and virulence of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article (publication date: 2008)

A silkworm model of pathogenic bacterial infection.

scientific article published in October 2007

Activation of the maternally preset program of apoptosis by microinjection of 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine and 5-methyl-2'-deoxycytidine-5'-triphosphate in Xenopus laevis embryos

scientific article published in August 2001

Animal infection models using non-mammals

scientific article published on 05 August 2020

Antibiotic-producing bacteria from stag beetle mycangia

scientific article published on 25 January 2015

Body-enlarging effect of royal jelly in a non-holometabolous insect species, Gryllus bimaculatus.

scientific article published on 16 May 2016

Cell-Surface Phenol Soluble Modulins Regulate Staphylococcus aureus Colony Spreading

scientific article

Cleavage and survival of Xenopus embryos exposed to 8 T static magnetic fields in a rotating clinostat.

scientific article published in May 2006

Colony spreading in Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 28 December 2006

Current use of silkworm larvae (Bombyx mori) as an animal model in pharmaco-medical research

scientific article published on January 2015

CvfA protein and polynucleotide phosphorylase act in an opposing manner to regulate Staphylococcus aureus virulence

scientific article published on 03 February 2014

Digestion of extracellular DNA is required for giant colony formation of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 27 April 2011

Epidemiological study on the relationship between toxin production and psm-mec mutations in MRSA isolates in Thailand

scientific article published on 05 February 2020

Evaluation of Staphylococcus aureus virulence factors using a silkworm model.

scientific article published on 14 November 2011

Genetic identification of two distinct DNA polymerases, DnaE and PolC, that are essential for chromosomal DNA replication in Staphylococcus aureus.

scientific article

Identification of 2H phosphoesterase superfamily proteins with 2'-CPDase activity

scientific article published on 15 August 2019

Identification of Staphylococcus aureus colony-spreading stimulatory factors from mammalian serum

scientific article

Impact of psm-mec in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (ST764) Strains Isolated from Keratitis Patients

scientific article published on 08 March 2016

Impact of psm-mec in the mobile genetic element on the clinical characteristics and outcome of SCCmec-II methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia in Japan

scientific article published on 06 March 2014

Inhibition of colony-spreading activity of Staphylococcus aureus by secretion of δ-hemolysin.

scientific article

Inhibition of exotoxin production by mobile genetic element SCCmec-encoded psm-mec RNA is conserved in staphylococcal species

scientific article

Inhibitory effects of basic or neutral phospholipid on acidic phospholipid-mediated dissociation of adenine nucleotide bound to DnaA protein, the initiator of chromosomal DNA replication

scientific article published on 26 May 2003

Isolation and mutation site determination of the temperature-sensitive murB mutants of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 01 May 2003

Isolation of mammalian pathogenic bacteria using silkworms

scientific article published on 01 April 2011

Knockout of ribosomal protein RpmJ leads to zinc resistance in Escherichia coli

scientific article published on 24 March 2023

Lipopolysaccharide O-antigen of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 is required for killing both insects and mammals

scientific article

Mobile Genetic Element SCCmec-encoded psm-mec RNA Suppresses Translation of agrA and Attenuates MRSA Virulence

scientific article published on April 4, 2013

Multidrug-Resistance Transporter AbcA Secretes Staphylococcus aureus Cytolytic Toxins

scientific article published on 9 July 2015

No Effect of Body Size on the Frequency of Calling and Courtship Song in the Two-Spotted Cricket, Gryllus bimaculatus

scientific article

Non-pathogenic Escherichia coli acquires virulence by mutating a growth-essential LPS transporter

scientific article published on 23 April 2020

Novel DNA binding protein SarZ contributes to virulence in Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on December 2006

Novel Nucleoside Diphosphatase Contributes to Staphylococcus aureus Virulence

scientific article published on 15 July 2016

Occurrence of pre-MBT synthesis of caspase-8 mRNA and activation of caspase-8 prior to execution of SAMDC (S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase)-induced, but not p53-induced, apoptosis in Xenopus late blastulae

scientific article published in October 2005

Overexpression of S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase (SAMDC) in Xenopus embryos activates maternal program of apoptosis as a "fail-safe" mechanism of early embryogenesis.

scientific article published in June 2003

Participation of Rho-dependent transcription termination in oxidative stress sensitivity caused by an rpoB mutation.

scientific article published in May 2005

Phenotypic and genomic comparisons of highly vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains developed from multiple clinical MRSA strains by in vitro mutagenesis.

scientific article

Phosphodiesterase activity of CvfA is required for virulence in Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 18 October 2007

Primed Immune Responses Triggered by Ingested Bacteria Lead to Systemic Infection Tolerance in Silkworms

scientific article published on 24 June 2015

Primed immune responses to gram-negative peptidoglycans confer infection resistance in silkworms.

scientific article

Purification of a soil bacteria exotoxin using silkworm toxicity to measure specific activity

scientific article published on 12 November 2008

Quantitative evaluation of the therapeutic effects of antibiotics using silkworms infected with human pathogenic microorganisms

scientific article published on March 2004

Ribosomal RNA methyltransferases contribute to Staphylococcus aureus virulence

scientific article published on 7 May 2015

Silkworm apolipophorin protein inhibits Staphylococcus aureus virulence

scientific article published on 20 September 2011

Silkworm apolipophorin protein inhibits hemolysin gene expression of Staphylococcus aureus via binding to cell surface lipoteichoic acids

scientific article published on 19 July 2013

Silkworm larvae as an animal model of bacterial infection pathogenic to humans

scientific article published on April 2002

Silkworm pathogenic bacteria infection model for identification of novel virulence genes

scientific article published on May 2005

Staphylococcus aureus aggregation in the plasma fraction of silkworm hemolymph

scientific article published on 30 May 2019

Structure of a Virulence Regulatory Factor CvfB Reveals a Novel Winged Helix RNA Binding Module

scientific article

Sugar-responsive gene expression and the agr system are required for colony spreading in Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 14 April 2011

The Absence of Osmoregulated Periplasmic Glucan Confers Antimicrobial Resistance and Increases Virulence in Escherichia coli

scientific article published in 2021

The cvfC operon of Staphylococcus aureus contributes to virulence via expression of the thyA gene

scientific article published on 27 March 2010

Transcription and translation products of the cytolysin gene psm-mec on the mobile genetic element SCCmec regulate Staphylococcus aureus virulence

scientific article published in 2011

Two-component signaling in the virulence of Staphylococcus aureus: a silkworm larvae-pathogenic agent infection model of virulence

scientific article published on January 2007

Use of silkworm larvae to study pathogenic bacterial toxins

scientific article published on 4 August 2006