J. Kurushima

This study identifies enterococcal linear plasmids that spread AMR genes through horizontal transfer and contribute to multidrug resistance in Enterococcus faecium.

The paper shows that a galU mutation in Enterococcus faecalis reduces susceptibility to bacteriolytic agents by impairing cell wall polysaccharide production.

This study investigates pneumococcal transformation at the single-cell level, showing that multiple chromosomal integration events occur through unbiased homeologous recombination, with transformation efficiency capped at ~50%.

This paper introduces three new integration vectors and fluorescent proteins for Streptococcus pneumoniae, enhancing genetic manipulation and visualization capabilities.