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Kunihiko Nishino

Kunihiko Nishino

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Biology and Biochemistry

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48
Citations
9575
World Ranking
18327
National Ranking
1318

Overview

Kunihiko Nishino is affiliated with Osaka University in Japan and has a research focus primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with additional work in Medicine. Their research spans several specialized subfields including Molecular Medicine, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Pharmacology, and Epidemiology.

The scientist's published work extensively covers topics such as Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria, Antibiotics Pharmacokinetics and Efficacy, Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts, Bacterial Biofilms and Quorum Sensing, Cell Image Analysis Techniques, and Drug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms.

Recent publications by Nishino include:

  • Function and Inhibitory Mechanisms of Multidrug Efflux Pumps (2021, Frontiers in Microbiology)
  • Intestinal and fecal pH in human health (2023, Frontiers in Microbiomes)
  • Ever-Adapting RND Efflux Pumps in Gram-Negative Multidrug-Resistant Pathogens: A Race against Time (2021, Antibiotics)
  • Drug resistance and physiological roles of RND multidrug efflux pumps in Salmonella enterica, Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa (2023, Microbiology)
  • Evaluation of efflux pump inhibitors of MexAB- or MexXY-OprM in Pseudomonas aeruginosa using nucleic acid dyes (2022, Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy)

Nishino has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Seiji Yamasaki, Mitsuko Hayashi-Nishino, Martijn Zwama, Ryosuke Nakashima, and K. Aoki.

The scientist commonly publishes in journals such as Frontiers in Microbiology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Fundamental Toxicological Sciences, Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy, and Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.

Best Publications

  • Analysis of a Complete Library of Putative Drug Transporter Genes in Escherichia coli

    Kunihiko Nishino;Akihito Yamaguchi

  • Virulence and drug resistance roles of multidrug efflux systems of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium

    Kunihiko Nishino;Tammy Latifi;Eduardo A. Groisman

  • Novel macrolide-specific ABC-type efflux transporter in Escherichia coli.

    Nobuyoshi Kobayashi;Kunihiko Nishino;Akihito Yamaguchi

  • Structures of the multidrug exporter AcrB reveal a proximal multisite drug-binding pocket

    Ryosuke Nakashima;Keisuke Sakurai;Seiji Yamasaki;Kunihiko Nishino

  • Mechanisms of antibiotic resistance

    Jun Lin;Kunihiko Nishino;Marilyn C. Roberts;Marcelo Tolmasky

  • The Putative Response Regulator BaeR Stimulates Multidrug Resistance of Escherichia coli via a Novel Multidrug Exporter System, MdtABC

    Satoshi Nagakubo;Kunihiko Nishino;Takahiro Hirata;Akihito Yamaguchi

  • Structural basis for the inhibition of bacterial multidrug exporters

    Ryosuke Nakashima;Keisuke Sakurai;Seiji Yamasaki;Katsuhiko Hayashi

  • AcrAB Multidrug Efflux Pump Regulation in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium by RamA in Response to Environmental Signals

    Eiji Nikaido;Akihito Yamaguchi;Kunihiko Nishino;Kunihiko Nishino

  • Regulation of Multidrug Efflux Systems Involved in Multidrug and Metal Resistance of Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium

    Kunihiko Nishino;Kunihiko Nishino;Eiji Nikaido;Akihito Yamaguchi

  • Comprehensive Studies of Drug Resistance Mediated by Overexpression of Response Regulators of Two-Component Signal Transduction Systems in Escherichia coli

    Hidetada Hirakawa;Kunihiko Nishino;Takahiro Hirata;Akihito Yamaguchi

  • Regulation and physiological function of multidrug efflux pumps in Escherichia coli and Salmonella

    Kunihiko Nishino;Eiji Nikaido;Akihito Yamaguchi

  • EvgA of the Two-Component Signal Transduction System Modulates Production of the YhiUV Multidrug Transporter in Escherichia coli

    Kunihiko Nishino;Akihito Yamaguchi

  • Genome-Wide Analyses of Escherichia coli Gene Expression Responsive to the BaeSR Two-Component Regulatory System

    Kunihiko Nishino;Takeshi Honda;Akihito Yamaguchi

  • Roles of TolC-Dependent Multidrug Transporters of Escherichia coli in Resistance to β-Lactams

    Kunihiko Nishino;Junko Yamada;Hidetada Hirakawa;Takahiro Hirata

  • Effects of Efflux Transporter Genes on Susceptibility of Escherichia coli to Tigecycline (GAR-936)

    Takahiro Hirata;Asami Saito;Kunihiko Nishino;Norihisa Tamura

  • Beta-lactam resistance modulated by the overexpression of response regulators of two-component signal transduction systems in Escherichia coli.

    Hidetada Hirakawa;Kunihiko Nishino;Junko Yamada;Takahiro Hirata

  • AcrB, AcrD, and MdtABC multidrug efflux systems are involved in enterobactin export in Escherichia coli.

    Tsukasa Horiyama;Kunihiko Nishino

  • Growth phase-dependent expression of drug exporters in Escherichia coli and its contribution to drug tolerance

    Asuka Kobayashi;Hidetada Hirakawa;Takahiro Hirata;Kunihiko Nishino

  • TolC dependency of multidrug efflux systems in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium

    Tsukasa Horiyama;Akihito Yamaguchi;Kunihiko Nishino;Kunihiko Nishino

  • Identification of a Spermidine Excretion Protein Complex (MdtJI) in Escherichia coli

    Kyohei Higashi;Hiroyuki Ishigure;Risa Demizu;Takeshi Uemura

Frequent Co-Authors

Akihito Yamaguchi
Akihito Yamaguchi Osaka University
Hiroyuki Noji
Hiroyuki Noji University of Tokyo
Axel Cloeckaert
Axel Cloeckaert INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Takeshi Yanagida
Takeshi Yanagida University of Tokyo
Eduardo A. Groisman
Eduardo A. Groisman Yale University
Yoshiaki Kawamura
Yoshiaki Kawamura Aichi Gakuin University
Shigetada Kawabata
Shigetada Kawabata Osaka University
Yasushi Yagi
Yasushi Yagi Osaka University
Yoshinobu Baba
Yoshinobu Baba Nagoya University
Victor Nizet
Victor Nizet University of California, San Diego

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