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Ken Kurokawa is affiliated with the National Institute of Genetics in Japan. Their research focuses primarily on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with substantial contributions to medicine. Within these broad fields, their work emphasizes molecular biology, ecology, oncology, genetics, and immunology.

Their research interests cover several specialized topics, including gut microbiota and health, genomics and phylogenetic studies, genomics and chromatin dynamics, RNA research and splicing, microbial community ecology and physiology, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, and Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments.

Kurokawa has published extensively, with notable contributions across various venues. Frequent publication outlets include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), the Journal of Geography (Chigaku Zasshi), the Journal of Gastroenterology, Gastroenterology, and The ISME Journal.

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Kurokawa are:

  • Plasticity of Intestinal Epithelium: Stem Cell Niches and Regulatory Signals, 2020, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Condensed but liquid-like domain organization of active chromatin regions in living human cells, 2023, Science Advances
  • Short-Chain Fatty Acid-Producing Gut Microbiota Is Decreased in Parkinson's Disease but Not in Rapid-Eye-Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder, 2020, mSystems
  • Key bacterial taxa and metabolic pathways affecting gut short-chain fatty acid profiles in early life, 2021, The ISME Journal
  • Meta-Analysis of Gut Dysbiosis in Parkinson's Disease, 2020, Movement Disorders

Kurokawa collaborates frequently with several researchers, including Hiroshi Mori, Koichi Higashi, Atsushi Toyoda, Yoku Hayakawa, and Mitsuhiro Fujishiro. These coauthors have worked together on multiple projects, reflecting productive research partnerships.

Best Publications

  • Enterotypes of the human gut microbiome

    Manimozhiyan Arumugam;Jeroen Raes;Eric Pelletier;Denis Le Paslier

  • Complete Genome Sequence of Enterohemorrhagic Eschelichia coli O157:H7 and Genomic Comparison with a Laboratory Strain K-12

    Tetsuya Hayashi;Kozo Makino;Makoto Ohnishi;Ken Kurokawa

  • Metagenomic and metabolomic analyses reveal distinct stage-specific phenotypes of the gut microbiota in colorectal cancer

    Shinichi Yachida;Sayaka Mizutani;Hirotsugu Shiroma;Satoshi Shiba

  • Genome sequence of Vibrio parahaemolyticus: a pathogenic mechanism distinct from that of V cholerae

    Kozo Makino;Kenshiro Oshima;Kenshiro Oshima;Ken Kurokawa;Katsushi Yokoyama

  • Comparative Metagenomics Revealed Commonly Enriched Gene Sets in Human Gut Microbiomes

    Ken Kurokawa;Takehiko Itoh;Tomomi Kuwahara;Kenshiro Oshima

  • Klebsormidium flaccidum genome reveals primary factors for plant terrestrial adaptation

    Koichi Hori;Fumito Maruyama;Takatomo Fujisawa;Tomoaki Togashi

  • Development and implementation of an algorithm for detection of protein complexes in large interaction networks

    Altaf-Ul-Amin;Yoko Shinbo;Kenji Mihara;Ken Kurokawa

  • Comparative genomics reveal the mechanism of the parallel evolution of O157 and non-O157 enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli

    Yoshitoshi Ogura;Tadasuke Ooka;Atsushi Iguchi;Hidehiro Toh

  • Design and experimental application of a novel non-degenerate universal primer set that amplifies prokaryotic 16S rRNA genes with a low possibility to amplify eukaryotic rRNA genes.

    Hiroshi Mori;Fumito Maruyama;Hiromi Kato;Atsushi Toyoda

  • Complete Genome Sequence and Comparative Genome Analysis of Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli O127:H6 Strain E2348/69

    Atsushi Iguchi;Nicholas R. Thomson;Yoshitoshi Ogura;David L Saunders

  • Genome sequences of three koi herpesvirus isolates representing the expanding distribution of an emerging disease threatening koi and common carp worldwide

    Takashi Aoki;Ikuo Hirono;Ken Kurokawa;Hideo Fukuda

  • Genome Sequence of an M3 Strain of Streptococcus pyogenes Reveals a Large-Scale Genomic Rearrangement in Invasive Strains and New Insights into Phage Evolution

    Ichiro Nakagawa;Ken Kurokawa;Atsushi Yamashita;Masanobu Nakata

  • Escherichia coli histone-like protein H-NS preferentially binds to horizontally acquired DNA in association with RNA polymerase.

    Taku Oshima;Shu Ishikawa;Ken Kurokawa;Hirofumi Aiba

  • A key genetic factor for fucosyllactose utilization affects infant gut microbiota development.

    Takahiro Matsuki;Kana Yahagi;Hiroshi Mori;Hoshitaka Matsumoto

  • Updating the Vibrio clades defined by multilocus sequence phylogeny: Proposal of eight new clades, and the description of Vibrio tritonius sp. nov.

    Tomoo Sawabe;Yoshitoshi Ogura;Yuta Matsumura;Gao Feng

  • Meta‐Analysis of Gut Dysbiosis in Parkinson's Disease

    Hiroshi Nishiwaki;Mikako Ito;Tomohiro Ishida;Tomonari Hamaguchi

  • Genomic diversity of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157 revealed by whole genome PCR scanning

    Makoto Ohnishi;Jun Terajima;Ken Kurokawa;Keisuke Nakayama

  • The Whole-genome Sequencing of the Obligate Intracellular Bacterium Orientia tsutsugamushi Revealed Massive Gene Amplification During Reductive Genome Evolution

    Keisuke Nakayama;Atsushi Yamashita;Ken Kurokawa;Takuya Morimoto

  • KNApSAcK: A Comprehensive Species-Metabolite Relationship Database

    Y. Shinbo;Y. Nakamura;Y. Nakamura;M. Altaf-Ul-Amin;H. Asahi

  • Erratum: Enterotypes of the human gut microbiome (Nature (2011) 473 (174-180))

    Manimozhiyan Arumugam;Jeroen Raes;Eric Pelletier;Denis Le Paslier

Frequent Co-Authors

Tetsuya Hayashi
Tetsuya Hayashi Kyushu University
Yoshitoshi Ogura
Yoshitoshi Ogura Kurume University
Masahira Hattori
Masahira Hattori Waseda University
Shigenori Maruyama
Shigenori Maruyama Tokyo Institute of Technology
Kenshiro Oshima
Kenshiro Oshima University of Tokyo
Naotake Ogasawara
Naotake Ogasawara Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Shigehiko Kanaya
Shigehiko Kanaya Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Atsushi Toyoda
Atsushi Toyoda National Institute of Genetics
Hiroyuki Ohta
Hiroyuki Ohta Tokyo Institute of Technology
Asao Fujiyama
Asao Fujiyama National Institute of Genetics

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