Masanori Toyofuku

The paper identifies a novel class of contractile injection system effectors in actinobacteria that enhance bacterial adaptation to competition by modulating proteomes and phenotypes.

This study shows biofilms enhance flavin diffusion in Shewanella oneidensis, challenging the idea that diffusion limits electron transfer in biofilms.

This study shows that membrane vesicles from Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 enhance denitrification in a species-selective way by promoting bacterial attachment and influencing metabolic activity.

This paper introduces a microdroplet-based sequencing technique to analyze DNA content in individual bacterial extracellular vesicles, revealing gene clusters related to virulence and horizontal gene transfer in oral biofilms.