FUMINORI KATO

Last Updated :2025/04/25

Affiliations, Positions
Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences(Dentistry & Oral Health Sciences), Assistant Professor
E-mail
fkyatohiroshima-u.ac.jp

Basic Information

Major Professional Backgrounds

  • 2021/08/01, 2022/11/30, Department of Biochemistry, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS)-Rutgers University, Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Visiting Scientist
  • 2019/04/01, Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Biomedical & Health Sciences, Assistant Professor
  • 2012/12/28, 2013/12/27, Department of Biochemistry, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS), USA, Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Visiting Scientist
  • 2007/04/01, 2019/03/31, Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, assistant professor

Educational Backgrounds

  • TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, Graduate School, Division of Agriculture, Japan, 2001/04, 2004/03
  • Tohoku University, Japan, 1999/04, 2001/03
  • TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, Faculty of Agriculture, Depertment of Biochemistry, Japan, 1995/04, 1999/03

Academic Degrees

  • Doctor of Agricultural Science, TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
  • Master of Agricultural Science, TOHOKU UNIVERSITY

Educational Activity

  • [Bachelor Degree Program] School of Dentistry : Program of Dentistry : Dentistry

Research Fields

  • Biological Sciences;Genome science;Genome biology
  • Agricultural sciences;Agricultural chemistry;Applied microbiology
  • Medicine,dentistry, and pharmacy;Basic medicine;Bacteriology (including mycology)
  • Biology;Biological Science;Molecular biology

Research Keywords

  • Staphylococcus aureus, transcriptional regulator, Toxin-antitoxin system, pathogenicity, cell death

Affiliated Academic Societies

  • Society of Genome Microbiology, Japan
  • The Molecular Microbiology Society of Japan
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  • Japanese society for Bacteriology
  • The American Society for Microbiology
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  • The Japanese Biochemical Society
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Educational Activity

Course in Charge

  1. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 1Term, Development of International Collaboration in Medical Science
  2. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 1Term, Introductory Seminar for First-Year Students
  3. 2025, Undergraduate Education, 3Term, Molecular Biology in Medicine
  4. 2025, Undergraduate Education, 2Term, International Future Dentistry with the Outcomes of Researches

Research Activities

Academic Papers

  1. ★, Characterization of a membrane Toxin-Antitoxin System, tsaAT, from Staphylococcus aureus, The FEBS Journal, 291(22), 5015-5036, 20241113
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  2. ★, A Novel Inhibitor form Toxin-Antitoxin system expressed by Staphylococcus aureus, The FEBS Journal, 290(6), 1502-1518, 202303
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  3. ★, Genome-Wide Screening for Identification of Novel Toxin-Antitoxin Systems in Staphylococcus aureus, APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY, 85(20), 20191001
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  4. ★, Deletion of mazF increases Staphylococcus aureus biofilm formation in an ica-dependent manner, Pathogens and Disease, 75(5), 20170731
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  5. ★, The development of fluorescent protein tracing vectors for multicolor imaging of clinically isolated Staphylococcus aureus, Scientific Reports, 7(1), 20170606
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  6. A Novel Repressor of the ica Locus Discovered in Clinically Isolated Super-Biofilm-Elaborating Staphylococcus aureus, MBIO, 8(1), 2017
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  7. Significant increase of oral bacteria in the early pregnancy period in Japanese women, JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE AND CLINICAL DENTISTRY, 8(1), 201702
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  8. Inhibitory effects of antibiofilm compound 1 against Staphylococcus aureus biofilms, MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY, 60(3), 148-159, 201603
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  9. Persistence and Epidemic Propagation of a Pseudomonas aeruginosa Sequence Type 235 Clone Harboring an IS26 Composite Transposon Carrying the bla(IMP-1) Integron in Hiroshima, Japan, 2005 to 2012, ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY, 59(5), 2678-2687, 201505
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  10. Phospholipase C-Related Catalytically Inactive Protein Participates in the Autophagic Elimination of Staphylococcus aureus Infecting Mouse Embryonic Fibroblasts, PLOS ONE, 9(5), 20140527
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  11. A novel metallo-beta-lactamase, IMP-34, in Klebsiella isolates with decreased resistance to imipenem, DIAGNOSTIC MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE, 76(1), 119-121, 201305
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  12. Identification and Characterization of a Novel aac(6 ')-Iag Associated with the bla(IMP-1)-Integron in a Multidrug-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa, PLOS ONE, 8(8), 20130812
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  13. Emergence of Staphylococcus aureus Carrying Multiple Drug Resistance Genes on a Plasmid Encoding Exfoliative Toxin B, ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY, 57(12), 6131-6140, 201312
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  14. Emergence in Japan of an imipenem-susceptible, meropenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae carrying bla(IMP-6) , DIAGNOSTIC MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE, 72(1), 109-112, 201201
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  15. Rapid detection of bla(IMP-6) by amplification refractory mutation system, JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS, 88(1), 182-184, 201201
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  16. Bacitracin sensing and resistance in Staphylococcus aureus, FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS, 320(1), 33-39, 201107
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  17. Growth-phase dependence of susceptibility to antimicrobial peptides in Staphylococcus aureus, MICROBIOLOGY-SGM, 157, 1786-1797, 201106
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  18. Clonal distribution of enterotoxigenic Staphylococcus aureus on handles of handheld shopping baskets in supermarkets, JOURNAL OF APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY, 110(2), 562-567, 201102
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  19. ★, Regulatory Mechanism for Exfoliative Toxin Production in Staphylococcus aureus, INFECTION AND IMMUNITY, 79(4), 1660-1670, 201104
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  20. Sporadic isolations of a multi-drug resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa clone during a 14-month epidemic in a general hospital in Hiroshima, INFECTION, 39(3), 247-253, 201106
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  21. Expression of Virulence Factors by Staphylococcus aureus Grown in Serum, APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY, 77(22), 8097-8105, 201111
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  22. ★, A simple method of markerless gene deletion in Staphylococcus aureus, JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS, 87(1), 76-81, 201110
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  23. Identification of antimicrobial drug susceptibility of clinical Staphylococcus spp. Isolates from canine superficial pyoderma at a primary veterinary hospital, The Japanese Journal of Veterinary Dermatology, 17(2), 99-104, 201110
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  24. Distinct two-component systems in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus can change the susceptibility to antimicrobial agents., Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 65(7), 1536-1537, 201007
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  25. Staphylococcus aureus MazF Specifically Cleaves a Pentad Sequence, UACAU, Which Is Unusually Abundant in the mRNA for Pathogenic Adhesive Factor SraP, JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY, 191(10), 3248-3255, 200905
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  26. Expression of gamma-hemolysin regulated by sae in Staphylococcus aureus strain Smith 5R., FEMS Microbiology Letters, 259(2), 174-180, 20060601
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Invited Lecture, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation

  1. Characterization of Staphylococcus aureus toxin-antitoxin system composed of membrane proteins, Fuminori Kato, The 16th Japan-Korea International Symposium on Microbiology, 2024/08/09, Without Invitation, English, Japanese Society of Bacteriology, Sapporo
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  2. Characterization of Staphylococcus aureus toxin-antitoxin system composed of membrane proteins, Fuminori Kato, The 97th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society for Bacteriology, 2024/08/08, Without Invitation, English, Japanese Society for Bacteriology, Sapporo
  3. Secondary-Structure of Bacterial DNA Gyrase Inhibitor by Vacuum-Ultraviolet Circular-Dichroism Spectroscopy, Fuminori Kato, Koichi Matsuo, 19th International Conference on Chiroptical Spectroscopy, 2023/09/20, Without Invitation, English, The CD2023 Organizing Committee, Hiroshima, Japan
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  4. Staphylococcus aureus TA system inhibiting DNA gyrase, Fuminori KATO, Masayori inouye, The 17th Annual meeting of Society of Genome Microbiology, Japan, 2023/03/09, Without Invitation, Japanese, Society of Genome Microbiology, Japan, Kisarazu
  5. DNA gyrase inhibitor, TsbT expressed by Staphylococcus aureus, Fuminori Kato, Yoshihiro Yamaguchi, Masayori Inouye, The 96th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society for Bacteriology, 2023/03/17, Without Invitation, English, Japanese Society for Bacteriology, Himeji city, Hyogo
  6. Characterization of TsbT toxin, a novel Staphylococcus aureus toxin-antitoxin system, Fuminori Kato, The Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan, 2022/12/01, Without Invitation, English, The Molecular Biology Society of Japan, Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan
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  7. Characterization of TsaA/TsaT, a novel Staphylococcus aureus Toxin-Antitoxin system, Fuminori Kato, Masayori Inouye, American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Microbe 2022, 2022/06/12, Without Invitation, English, American Society for Microbiology, Washington, D.C. US
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  8. Characterization of Staphylococcus aureus toxin-antitoxin system inhibiting DNA, Fuminori Kato, Masayori Inouye, 2021/12/01, Without Invitation, Japanese, Yokohama, Japan
  9. Identification of toxin-antitoxin systems in Staphylococcus aureus, Fuminori KATO, Masayori Inouye, 6th Joint Scientific Meeting in Dentistry, 2021/07/31, Without Invitation, English, Faculty of Dental Medicine Airlangga University, in collaboration with Faculty of Dentistry Hasanuddin University and School of Dentistry Hiroshima University, Surabaya, Indonesia (online conference)
  10. Characterization of TsaAT toxin-antitoxin system in Staphylococcus aureus, KATO Fuminori, The 43rd Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan, 2020/12/03, Without Invitation, English, The Molecular Biology Society of Japan
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  11. Characterization of bacterial dormancy and awakening via TA system: An integrative approach ranging from biochemistry to single-cell analysis, Fuminori KATO, The 93rd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Biochemical Society, 2020/09/16, With Invitation, Japanese, the Japanese Biochemical Society
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  12. Genome-Wide Screening for Toxin-Antitoxin Systems in Staphylococcus aureus, Fuminori Kato, Yoshihiro Yamaguchi, Masayori Inouye, The 93nd Annual Meeting of Japanese Society for Bacteriology, 2020/02/19, Without Invitation, Japanese, Nagoya
  13. Characterization of toxin-antitoxin system in Staphylococcus aureus, Fuminori Kato, Masayori Inouye, The 42nd Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan, 2019/12/06, Without Invitation, Japanese, The Molecular Biology Society of Japan, Fukuoka
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  14. Characterization of novel toxin inhibiting DNA gyrase in Staphylococcus aureus, Fuminori Kato, The 92nd Annual Meeting of Japanese Society for Bacteriology, 2019/04/24, Without Invitation, Japanese, Japanese Society for Bacteriology, Sapporo
  15. Secondary structure analysis of DNA gyrase inhibitor derived from Staphylococcus aureus by Vacuum-ultraviolet circular-dichroism spectroscopy, Fuminori Kato, Koichi Matsuo, The 23rd Hiroshima International Symposium on Synchrotron Radiation, 2019/03/07, Without Invitation, English, Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center, Higashihiroshima, Japan
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External Funds

Acceptance Results of Competitive Funds

  1. KAKENHI(Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research (A))), 2020, 2022
  2. KAKENHI(Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)), 2020, 2022
  3. KAKENHI(Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)), 2016, 2019

Social Activities

Organizing Academic Conferences, etc.

  1. 19th International Conference on Chiroptical Spectroscopy, Local Organizing Committee, 2023/04, 2023/09
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