Makoto Urai
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Aizawa T, Sato J, Saito S, Yasuda T, Maruyama Y, Urai M
Front Microbiol
. 2023 Sep;
14:1241244.
PMID: 37700869
A novel aluminum-tolerant bacterial strain CA42 was isolated from the aquatic plant , which grows in a highly acidic swamp in Vietnam. Inoculation with CA42 allowed to grow in the...
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Ueno K, Otani Y, Yanagihara N, Urai M, Nagamori A, Sato-Fukushima M, et al.
Eur J Immunol
. 2021 Mar;
51(9):2281-2295.
PMID: 33728652
Cryptococcus gattii is a capsular pathogenic fungus causing life-threatening cryptococcosis. Although the capsular polysaccharides (CPs) of C. gattii are considered as virulence factors, the physiological significance of CP biosynthesis and...
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Aizawa T, Urai M
Carbohydr Res
. 2020 Oct;
498:108163.
PMID: 33035917
Acid sulfate soil is found throughout Southeast Asia, and its strong acidity (pH 2-4) is accompanied by various plant growth-inhibiting factors that can reduce crop production. Among these factors, aluminum...
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Oba Y, Urai M, Wu J, Tomizawa M, Kawagishi H, Hashimoto K
J Antibiot (Tokyo)
. 2020 Jun;
73(10):697-701.
PMID: 32576949
Lascivol was identified as the bitter compound in two Tricholoma species, T. aestuans and T. virgatum, and was previously isolated from the European mushroom T. lascivum. The structure of lascivol...
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Nakamura S, Ikeda-Dantsuji Y, Jin L, Higashi Y, Abe M, Inukai T, et al.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother
. 2019 Apr;
63(6).
PMID: 30936099
is a fungal pathogen, endemic in tropical and subtropical regions, the west coast of Canada, and the United States, that causes a potentially fatal infection in otherwise healthy individuals. Because...
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Takahashi M, Izawa K, Urai M, Yamanishi Y, Maehara A, Isobe M, et al.
Sci Signal
. 2019 Jan;
12(564).
PMID: 30647146
Zymosan is a glucan that is a component of the yeast cell wall. Here, we determined the mechanisms underlying the zymosan-induced accumulation of neutrophils in mice. Loss of the receptor...
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Ueno K, Urai M, Izawa K, Otani Y, Yanagihara N, Kataoka M, et al.
Sci Rep
. 2018 Nov;
8(1):17406.
PMID: 30479367
Leukocyte mono-immunoglobulin-like receptor (LMIR)/CD300 proteins comprise a family of immunoglobulin-like receptors that are widely expressed on the immune cell surface in humans and mice. In general, LMIR3/CD300f suppresses the inflammatory...
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Ueno K, Urai M, Sadamoto S, Shinozaki M, Takatsuka S, Abe M, et al.
Mucosal Immunol
. 2018 Oct;
12(1):265-276.
PMID: 30279512
Tissue-resident memory T cells (TRMs) are a novel nonvascular memory T cell subset. Although CD8 TRMs are well-characterized, CD4 TRMs-especially lung-resident memory Th17 cells-are still being defined. In this study,...
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Paudel A, Panthee S, Urai M, Hamamoto H, Ohwada T, Sekimizu K
Sci Rep
. 2018 Jan;
8(1):1578.
PMID: 29371643
Poor pharmacokinetic parameters are a major reason for the lack of therapeutic activity of some drug candidates. Determining the pharmacokinetic parameters of drug candidates at an early stage of development...
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Urai M, Aizawa T, Imamura K, Hamamoto H, Sekimizu K
Drug Discov Ther
. 2017 Oct;
11(5):238-245.
PMID: 29021503
We screened innate immunostimulant-producing bacteria using a silkworm muscle contraction assay, and isolated Rhizobium sp. strain M2 from soil. We purified the innate immunostimulant from strain M2, and characterized the...