Tohru Shimizu

NICT-ATR Speech-to-Speech Translation System (2009)

Eiichiro Sumita, Tohru Shimizu, Satoshi Nakamura

This paper describes the latest version of speech-to-speech translation systems developed by the team of NICT-ATR for over twenty years. The system is now ready to be deployed for the travel domain....

Nucleotide sequence analysis of the enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli Ent plasmid (2009)

Ochi, Sadayuki, Shimizu, Tohru, Ohtani, Kaori, Ichinose, Yoshio, Arimitsu, Hideyuki, Tsukamoto, Kentaro, ...

We report here the complete nucleotide sequence of pEntH10407 (65 147 bp), an enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli enterotoxin plasmid (Ent plasmid), which is self-transmissible at low frequency. Within...

Complete Genome Sequence of Finegoldia magna, an Anaerobic Opportunistic Pathogen (2008)

Goto, Takatsugu, Yamashita, Atsushi, Hirakawa, Hideki, Matsutani, Minenosuke, Todo, Kozo, Ohshima, Kenshiro, ...

Finegoldia magna (formerly Peptostreptococcus magnus), a member of the Gram-positive anaerobic cocci (GPAC), is a commensal bacterium colonizing human skin and mucous membranes. Moreover, it is also...

Japanese Speech Databases for Robust Speech Recognition (1996)

Atsushi Nakamura, Shoichi Matsunaga, Tohru Shimizu, Masahiro Tonomura, Yoshinori Sagisaka

At ATR, a next-generation speech translation system is under development towards natural trans-language communication. To cope with the various requirements to speech recognition technology for the...

Complete genome sequence of Clostridium perfringens, an anaerobic flesh-eater

Shimizu, Tohru, Ohtani, Kaori, Hirakawa, Hideki, Ohshima, Kenshiro, Yamashita, Atsushi, Shiba, Tadayoshi, ...

Clostridium perfringens is a Gram-positive anaerobic spore-forming bacterium that causes life-threatening gas gangrene and mild enterotoxaemia in humans, although it colonizes as normal intestinal...

Proteome and Transcriptome Analysis of the Virulence Genes Regulated by the VirR/VirS System in Clostridium perfringens

Shimizu, Takeshi, Shima, Kensuke, Yoshino, Ken-ichi, Yonezawa, Kazuyoshi, Shimizu, Tohru, Hayashi, Hideo

The proteins under the control of the two-component system VirR/VirS in Clostridium perfringens were analyzed by using two-dimensional gel electrophoresis of the culture supernatant from the wild...

Complete genome sequence of Clostridium perfringens, an anaerobic flesh-eater

Shimizu, Tohru, Ohtani, Kaori, Hirakawa, Hideki, Ohshima, Kenshiro, Yamashita, Atsushi, Shiba, Tadayoshi, ...

Clostridium perfringens is a Gram-positive anaerobic spore-forming bacterium that causes life-threatening gas gangrene and mild enterotoxaemia in humans, although it colonizes as normal intestinal...

Proteome and Transcriptome Analysis of the Virulence Genes Regulated by the VirR/VirS System in Clostridium perfringens

Shimizu, Takeshi, Shima, Kensuke, Yoshino, Ken-ichi, Yonezawa, Kazuyoshi, Shimizu, Tohru, Hayashi, Hideo

The proteins under the control of the two-component system VirR/VirS in Clostridium perfringens were analyzed by using two-dimensional gel electrophoresis of the culture supernatant from the wild...

Detection of a Group II Intron without an Open Reading Frame in the Alpha-Toxin Gene of Clostridium perfringens Isolated from a Broiler Chicken▿

Ma, Menglin, Ohtani, Kaori, Shimizu, Tohru, Misawa, Naoaki

A DNA insertion of 834 bp, designated CPF-G2Im, was identified within the alpha toxin gene (cpa) of Clostridium perfringens strain CPBC16ML, isolated from a broiler chicken. Sequence analysis of...

Carbon Catabolite Repression of Type IV Pilus-Dependent Gliding Motility in the Anaerobic Pathogen Clostridium perfringens▿ †

Mendez, Marcelo, Huang, I-Hsiu, Ohtani, Kaori, Grau, Roberto, Shimizu, Tohru, Sarker, Mahfuzur R.

Clostridium perfringens is an anaerobic, gram-positive, spore-forming bacterium responsible for the production of severe histotoxic and gastrointestinal diseases in humans and animals. In silico...

Complete Genome Sequence of Finegoldia magna, an Anaerobic Opportunistic Pathogen

Goto, Takatsugu, Yamashita, Atsushi, Hirakawa, Hideki, Matsutani, Minenosuke, Todo, Kozo, Ohshima, Kenshiro, ...

Finegoldia magna (formerly Peptostreptococcus magnus), a member of the Gram-positive anaerobic cocci (GPAC), is a commensal bacterium colonizing human skin and mucous membranes. Moreover, it is also...

Characterization of Genes Regulated Directly by the VirR/VirS System in Clostridium perfringens▿

Okumura, Kayo, Ohtani, Kaori, Hayashi, Hideo, Shimizu, Tohru

Analysis of the complete sequence of the genome of Clostridium perfringens strain 13 resulted in identification of five genes, including pfoA (encoding theta toxin) and vrr (encoding...

Nucleotide sequence analysis of the enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli Ent plasmid

Ochi, Sadayuki, Shimizu, Tohru, Ohtani, Kaori, Ichinose, Yoshio, Arimitsu, Hideyuki, Tsukamoto, Kentaro, ...

We report here the complete nucleotide sequence of pEntH10407 (65 147 bp), an enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli enterotoxin plasmid (Ent plasmid), which is self-transmissible at low frequency. Within...