Toru Tobe

Bifidobacteria can protect from enteropathogenic infection through production of acetate

Shinji Fukuda, Hidehiro Toh, Koji Hase et al. · Nature · 2011 · 2.4K citations

Life Sciences, Microbiology, Bacteriology +9

Uptake through glycoprotein 2 of FimH+ bacteria by M cells initiates mucosal immune response

Koji Hase, Kazuya Kawano, Tomonori Nochi et al. · Nature · 2009 · 619 citations

Life Sciences, Immunology, Microbiology +17

An extensive repertoire of type III secretion effectors in <i>Escherichia coli</i> O157 and the role of lambdoid phages in their dissemination

Toru Tobe, Scott A. Beatson, Hisaaki Taniguchi et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2006 · 435 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Bioinformatics, Microbiology +17

Comparative genomics reveal the mechanism of the parallel evolution of O157 and non-O157 enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli

Yoshitoshi Ogura, Tadasuke Ooka, Atsushi Iguchi et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2009 · 370 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Genetics, Microbiology +17

A dual transcriptional activation system for the 230 kb plasmid genes coding for virulence‐associated antigens of <i>Shigella flexneri</i>

Ben Adler, Chihiro Sasakawa, Toru Tobe et al. · Molecular Microbiology · 1989 · 196 citations

Life Sciences, Microbiology, Molecular Biology +17