Publications

Kazuma Okada, Yuki Hirai, Yumi Ushikai, Atsushi Kaida (2025). Full-length and near-full-length genomes of human rhinovirus A105 detected in patients with non-respiratory tract symptoms in Osaka, Japan. Microbiology Resource Announcements, 14(9), e00228–25.
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Junki Hirano, Tsuyoshi Hayashi, Yuichi Someya, Kazuma Okada, Kentaro Uemura, Ming Te Yeh, Chikako Ono, Shuhei Taguwa, Yoshiharu Matsuura (2025). Establishment of a green fluorescent protein (GFP)-based reporter for picornaviral 3C proteases. bioRxiv, 2025–07.
Junki Hirano, Tsuyoshi Hayashi, Kouichi Kitamura, Yorihiro Nishimura, Hiroyuki Shimizu, Toru Okamoto, Kazuma Okada, Kentaro Uemura, Ming Te Yeh, Chikako Ono (2024). Enterovirus 3A protein disrupts endoplasmic reticulum homeostasis through interaction with GBF1. Journal of Virology, 98(7), e00813–24.
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Ashish Sethi, Stephen M Rawlinson, Abhinav Dubey, Ching-Seng Ang, Yoon Hee Choi, Fei Yan, Kazuma Okada, Ashley M Rozario, Aaron M Brice, Naoto Ito (2023). Structural insights into the multifunctionality of rabies virus P3 protein. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(14), e2217066120.
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Daiki Kanbayashi, Takako Kurata, Atsushi Kaida, Hideyuki Kubo, Seiji P Yamamoto, Kazutaka Egawa, Yuki Hirai, Kazuma Okada, Yuko Kaida, Ryo Ikemori (2023). Shedding of rubella virus in postsymptomatic individuals; viral RNA load is a potential indicator to estimate candidate patients excreting infectious rubella virus. Journal of Clinical Virology, 160, 105377.
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Naoto Ito, Takuya Okamoto, Michihito Sasaki, Shoya Miyamoto, Tatsuki Takahashi, Fumiki Izumi, Maho Inukai, Supasiri Jarusombuti, Kazuma Okada, Kento Nakagawa (2021). Safety enhancement of a genetically modified live rabies vaccine strain by introducing an attenuating Leu residue at position 333 in the glycoprotein. Vaccine, 39(28), 3777–3784.
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Kohei Yumoto, Tomoaki Arisaka, Kazuma Okada, Kyosuke Aoki, Toyoyuki Ose, Tatsunori Masatani, Makoto Sugiyama, Naoto Ito, Hideo Fukuhara, Katsumi Maenaka (2021). Characterization of single-chain fv fragments of neutralizing antibodies to rabies virus glycoprotein. Viruses, 13(11), 2311.
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Daiki Kanbayashi, Takako Kurata, Hideyuki Kubo, Atsushi Kaida, Seiji P Yamamoto, Kazutaka Egawa, Yuki Hirai, Kazuma Okada, Ryo Ikemori, Takahiro Yumisashi (2020). Ongoing rubella epidemic in Osaka, Japan, in 2018–2019. Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal: WPSAR, 11(2), 48.
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Minako Ogino, Yuriy Fedorov, Drew J Adams, Kazuma Okada, Naoto Ito, Makoto Sugiyama, Tomoaki Ogino (2019). Vesiculopolins, a new class of anti-vesiculoviral compounds, inhibit transcription initiation of vesiculoviruses. Viruses, 11(9), 856.
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Kazuma Okada, Ryo Morita, Kazutaka Egawa, Yuki Hirai, Atsushi Kaida, Michinori Shirano, Hideyuki Kubo, Tetsushi Goto, Seiji P Yamamoto (2019). Dengue virus type 1 infection in traveler returning from Tanzania to Japan, 2019. Emerging infectious diseases, 25(9), 1782.
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