Toru Tobe

5.3k citations

38 papers · 3.7k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 21

Co-authors: Masahira Hattori Hidehiro Toh Kenshiro Oshima Julie M. Clarke Yumiko Nakanishi Todd D. Taylor Hiroshi Ohno Tohru Suzuki
Topics: Escherichia coli research studies (24 papers)Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (15 papers)Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (12 papers)
Cited by: Endocrinology Infectious Diseases Food Science
Journals: Nature Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences PLoS ONE
Partner nations: Japan Australia United Kingdom

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Toru Tobe

38 papers receiving 3.6k citations

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Bifidobacteria can protect from enteropathogenic infection through production of acetate

2011 1.8k citations Shinji Fukuda, Hidehiro Toh et al. Nature profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Enterococcus spp. have higher fitness for survival, in a pH ‐dependent manner, in pancreatic juice among duodenal bacterial flora 2022 ·JGH Open ·(unknown),(unknown),Shinji Takamatsu,Jumpei Kondo,(unknown),(unknown),Tomoya Fukuoka,Daisuke Motooka,Shota Nakamura,Masahiro Tanemura,(unknown),Yoshifumi Iwagami,Hirofumi Akita,Toru Tobe,Yoshihiro Kamada,Hidetoshi Eguchi,Eiji Miyoshi	10
2	Risk for the occupational infection by cytomegalovirus among health-care workers 2020 ·Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy ·(unknown),(unknown),Hideharu Hagiya,Matsuo Deguchi,(unknown),Hiroko Tsukamoto,Yoh Hidaka,Kazunori Tomono,Toru Tobe	2
3	Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli activates nitrate respiration to benefit from the inflammatory response for initiation of microcolony-formation 2020 ·BMC Microbiology ·(unknown),(unknown),Hilo Yen,Toru Tobe	3
4	Epidemiological and molecular characterization of invasive Streptococcus pneumoniae isolated following introduction of 7-valent conjugate vaccine in Kinki region, Japan, 2008–2013 2019 ·Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy ·(unknown),Yuji Tanaka,(unknown),Masaru Komatsu,Yasunao Wada,Toru Tobe,Toshinori Kamisako	4
5	Possible involvement of Enterococcus infection in the pathogenesis of chronic pancreatitis and cancer 2018 ·Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications ·Tomohiro Maekawa,(unknown),Shinji Takamatsu,(unknown),Tomoya Fukuoka,Makoto Yamada,(unknown),Satoshi Nagaoka,Koichi Kawamoto,Hidetoshi Eguchi,Kohei Murata,Takashi Kumada,Toshifumi Ito,Masahiro Tanemura,(unknown),Yasuhiko Tomita,Toru Tobe,Yoshihiro Kamada,Eiji Miyoshi	81
6	H-NS Facilitates Sequence Diversification of Horizontally Transferred DNAs during Their Integration in Host Chromosomes 2016 ·PLoS Genetics ·Koichi Higashi,Toru Tobe,Akinori Kanai,(unknown),Shu Ishikawa,Yutaka Suzuki,Naotake Ogasawara,Ken Kurokawa,Taku Oshima	23
7	Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Uses NleA to Inhibit NLRP3 Inflammasome Activation 2015 ·PLoS Pathogens ·Hilo Yen,Nakaba Sugimoto,Toru Tobe	78
8	Bifidobacteria can protect from enteropathogenic infection through production of acetatebreakdown → 2011 ·Nature ·Shinji Fukuda,Hidehiro Toh,Koji Hase,Kenshiro Oshima,Yumiko Nakanishi,(unknown),Toru Tobe,Julie M. Clarke,David L. Topping,Tohru Suzuki,Todd D. Taylor,Kikuji Itoh,Jun Kikuchi,Hidetoshi Morita,Masahira Hattori,Hiroshi Ohno	1820
9	Cytoskeleton‐modulating effectors of enteropathogenic and enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli: role of EspL2 in adherence and an alternative pathway for modulating cytoskeleton through Annexin A2 function 2010 ·FEBS Journal ·Toru Tobe	15
10	NleC, a Type III Secretion Protease, Compromises NF-κB Activation by Targeting p65/RelA 2010 ·PLoS Pathogens ·Hilo Yen,Tadasuke Ooka,Atsushi Iguchi,Tetsuya Hayashi,Nakaba Sugimoto,Toru Tobe	128
11	Comparative genomics reveal the mechanism of the parallel evolution of O157 and non-O157 enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli 2009 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Yoshitoshi Ogura,Tadasuke Ooka,Atsushi Iguchi,Hidehiro Toh,Md Asadulghani,Kenshiro Oshima,Toshio Kodama,Hiroyuki Abé,Keisuke Nakayama,Ken Kurokawa,Toru Tobe,Masahira Hattori,Tetsuya Hayashi	265
12	Global Regulation by Horizontally Transferred Regulators Establishes the Pathogenicity of Escherichia coli 2008 ·DNA Research ·Hiroyuki Abé,A. Miyahara,Taku Oshima,Kosuke Tashiro,Yoshitoshi Ogura,Satoshi Kuhara,Naotaka Ogasawara,Tetsuya Hayashi,Toru Tobe	60
13	An extensive repertoire of type III secretion effectors in Escherichia coli O157 and the role of lambdoid phages in their dissemination 2006 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Toru Tobe,Scott A. Beatson,Hisaaki Taniguchi,Hiroyuki Abé,Christopher M. Bailey,(unknown),(unknown),Sophie A. Matthews,Olivier Marchès,Gad Frankel,Tetsuya Hayashi,Mark J. Pallen	362
14	Complexity of the Genomic Diversity in Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157 Revealed by the Combinational Use of the O157 Sakai OligoDNA Microarray and the Whole Genome PCR scanning 2006 ·DNA Research ·Yoshitoshi Ogura,Ken Kurokawa,Tadasuke Ooka,Kousuke Tashiro,Toru Tobe,Makoto Ohnishi,Keisuke Nakayama,Takuya Morimoto,Jun Terajima,Haruo Watanabe,Satoru Kuhara,Tetsuya Hayashi	43
15	Regulation of Virulence Factors of Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 by Self-Produced Extracellular Factors 2000 ·Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry ·Kyoko Kanamaru,Kengo Kanamaru,Ichiro Tatsuno,Toru Tobe,Chihiro Sasakawa	13
16	Identification and characterization of a chromosomal virulence gene, vacJ, required for intercellular spreading of Shigella flexneri 1994 ·Molecular Microbiology ·Toshihiko Suzuki,(unknown),I. Fukuda,Toru Tobe,M Yoshikawa,Chihiro Sasakawa	77
17	The absence of a surface protease, OmpT, determines the intercellular spreading ability of Shigella: the relationship between the ompT and kcpA loci 1993 ·Molecular Microbiology ·Noboru Nakata,Toru Tobe,I. Fukuda,Toshihiko Suzuki,K Komatsu,M Yoshikawa,Chihiro Sasakawa	98
18	[Adherence of bacteria to various urethral catheters and occurrence of catheter-induced urethritis]. 1993 ·PubMed ·Shino Murakami,T Igarashi,Masatoshi Tanaka,Toru Tobe,(unknown)	4
19	A dual transcriptional activation system for the 230 kb plasmid genes coding for virulence‐associated antigens of Shigella flexneri 1989 ·Molecular Microbiology ·Ben Adler,Chihiro Sasakawa,Toru Tobe,Sou‐ichi Makino,K Komatsu,M Yoshikawa	155
20	Surgical importance of oblique projection in arteriography for carcinoma of the pancreas. 1979 ·PubMed ·Tetsuro Suzuki,(unknown),(unknown),Toru Tobe	2

About Toru Tobe

Toru Tobe is a scholar working on Endocrinology, Infectious Diseases and Genetics, having authored 38 papers that have together received 3.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Escherichia coli research studies (24 papers), Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (15 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (12 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Endocrinology (1.3k citations), Infectious Diseases (1.0k citations) and Food Science (965 citations). Toru Tobe has collaborated with scholars based in Japan, Australia and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Masahira Hattori, Hidehiro Toh, Kenshiro Oshima, Julie M. Clarke, Yumiko Nakanishi, Todd D. Taylor, Hiroshi Ohno, Tohru Suzuki, Jun Kikuchi and Shinji Fukuda. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

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