Publications

Articles

• Nagakubo T, Nishiyama T, Asamizu S, Onaka H, Nomura N, Toyofuku M. A phage-derived reconfigurable effector associated with an actinobacterial contractile nanomachine tailors bacterial responses to competition. J Bacteriol., 2026 May 6:e0053225. doi: 10.1128/jb.00532-25.  

• Uehara A, Jiang C, Yoshizawa S, Kogure K, Nomura N, Nagakubo T, Toyofuku M. Restoration of Nitrate Respiration in Pseudomonas aeruginosa under Growth Limitations. Microbes Environ., 2026;41(1):ME25064. doi: 10.1264/jsme2.ME25064.

• Morinaga K, Takahashi K, Nagasawa ,R Tao W, Sugimoto S, Obana N, Nomura N, Utada SA, Toyofuku M. Quorum sensing regulates a polysaccharide biosynthesis gene to control cell aggregation in Paracoccus denitrificans. ISME Communications, 2025, ycaf198.

• Takano S, Takenawa S, Naradasu D, Yan K, Wen X, Maehara T, Nomura N, Obana N, Toyofuku M, Usui M, Ariyoshi W, Okamoto A. Enrichment of horizontally transferred gene clusters in bacterial extracellular vesicles via non lytic mechanisms. ISME J., 2025 Jan 2;19(1):wraf193. doi: 10.1093/ismejo/wraf193.

• Nagasawa R, Ito T, Yamamoto C, Unoki M, Obana N, Nomura N, Toyofuku M. Membrane vesicle production via cell-to-cell communication-induced autolysis in Streptococcus mutans. Microbiol Spectr., 2025 Jul;13(7):e0033425. doi: 10.1128/spectrum.00334-25. Epub 2025 May 23.

• Son Y, Kim B, Kim P, Min J, Park Y, Yang J, Kim W, Toyofuku M, Park W. Unexpected vulnerability of Enterococcus faecium to polymyxin B under anaerobic condition. Gut Microbes, 2024 Jan-Dec;16(1):2438465. doi: 10.1080/19490976.2024.2438465. Epub 2024 Dec 11.

• Nagakubo T, Nishiyama T, Yamamoto T, Nomura N, Toyofuku M. Contractile injection systems facilitate sporogenic differentiation of Streptomyces davawensis through the action of a phage tapemeasure protein-related effector. Nature Communications, 2024 May 24;15(1):4442. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-48834-9.

• Uchiyama H, Kudo T, Yamaguchi T, Obana N, Watanabe K, Abe K, Miyazaki H, Toyofuku M, Nomura N, Akeda Y, Nakao R. Mucosal adjuvanticity and mucosal booster effect of colibactin-depleted probiotic Escherichia coli membrane vesicles. Hum Vaccin Immunother., 2024 Dec 31;20(1):2337987. doi: 10.1080/21645515.2024.2337987. Epub 2024 Apr 24.

• Kim W, Park Y, Jung J, Jeon CO, Toyofuku M, Lee J, Park W. Biological and Chemical Approaches for Controlling Harmful Microcystis Blooms. J Microbiol., 2024 Mar;62(3):249-260. doi: 10.1007/s12275-024-00115-2. Epub 2024 Apr 8.

• Tokunou Y, Tongu H, Kogure Y, Okamoto A, Toyofuku M, Nomura N. Colony-Based Electrochemistry Reveals Electron Conduction Mechanisms Mediated by Cytochromes and Flavins in Shewanella oneidensis. Environ Sci Technol., 2024 Mar 12;58(10):4670-4679. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.4c00007. Epub 2024 Feb 27.

• Heredia-Ponce Z, Secchi E, Toyofuku M, Marinova G, Savorana G, Eberl L. Genotoxic stress stimulates eDNA release via explosive cell lysis and thereby promotes streamer formation of Burkholderia cenocepacia H111 cultured in a microfluidic device. NPJ Biofilms Microbiomes., 2023 Dec 9;9(1):96. doi: 10.1038/s41522-023-00464-7.

• Takahashi K, Oshiki M, Ruan C, Morinaga K, Toyofuku M, Nomura N, Johnson DR. Denitrification in low oxic environments increases the accumulation of nitrogen oxide intermediates and modulates the evolutionary potential of microbial populations. Environ Microbiol Rep., 2024 Feb;16(1):e13221. doi: 10.1111/1758-2229.13221. Epub 2023 Nov 30.

• Chen YC, Kalawong R, Toyofuku M, Eberl L. The role of peptidoglycan hydrolases in the formation and toxicity of Pseudomonas aeruginosa membrane vesicles. microLife, 2022 Jun 30;3:uqac009. doi: 10.1093/femsml/uqac009. 

• Kawashima K, Nagakubo T, Nomura N, Toyofuku M. Iron Delivery through Membrane Vesicles in Corynebacterium glutamicum. Microbiol Spectr., 2023 Jun 15;11(3):e0122223. doi: 10.1128/spectrum.01222-23. Epub 2023 May 8.

• Nagakubo T, Asamizu S, Yamamoto T, Kato M, Nishiyama T, Toyofuku M, Nomura N, Onaka H. Intracellular Phage Tail-Like Nanostructures Affect Susceptibility of Streptomyces lividans to Osmotic Stress. mSphere, 2023 Jun 22;8(3):e0011423. doi: 10.1128/msphere.00114-23. Epub 2023 Apr 11.

• Toyofuku M, Schild S, Kaparakis-Liaskos M, Eberl L. Composition and functions of bacterial membrane vesicles. Nat Rev Microbiol., 2023 Jul;21(7):415-430. doi: 10.1038/s41579-023-00875-5. Epub 2023 Mar 17.

• Toyofuku M, Kikuchi Y, Taoka A. A Single Shot of Vesicles. Microbes Environ., 2022;37(6):ME22083. doi: 10.1264/jsme2.ME22083.

• Kikuchi Y, Toyofuku M, Ichinaka Y, Kiyokawa T, Obana N, Nomura N, Taoka A. Physical Properties and Shifting of the Extracellular Membrane Vesicles Attached to Living Bacterial Cell Surfaces. Microbiol Spectr., 2022 Dec 21;10(6):e0216522. doi: 10.1128/spectrum.02165-22. Epub 2022 Nov 16.

• Tokunou Y, Toyofuku M, Nomura N. Physiological Benefits of Oxygen-Terminating Extracellular Electron Transfer. mBio., 2022 Dec 20;13(6):e0195722. doi: 10.1128/mbio.01957-22. Epub 2022 Nov 14.

• Ahmad A, Nii T, Mori T, Katayama Y, Toyofuku M, Kishimura A. Nanostructure Control of an Antibiotic-Based Polyion Complex Using a Series of Polycations with Different Side-Chain Modification Rates. Macromol Rapid Commun., 2022 Oct;43(19):e2200316. doi: 10.1002/marc.202200316. Epub 2022 Jun 16.

• Koh S, Sato M, Yamashina K, Usukura Y, Toyofuku M, Nomura N, Taguchi S. Controllable secretion of multilayer vesicles driven by microbial polymer accumulation. Sci Rep., 2022 Mar 1;12(1):3393. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-07218-z.

• Yasuda M, Yamamoto T, Nagakubo T, Morinaga K, Obana N, Nomura N, Toyofuku M. Phage Genes Induce Quorum Sensing Signal Release through Membrane Vesicle Formation. Microbes Environ., 2022;37(1):ME21067. doi: 10.1264/jsme2.ME21067.

• Lichtenberg M, Line L, Schrameyer V, Jakobsen TH, Rybtke ML, Toyofuku M, Nomura N, Kolpen M, Tolker-Nielsen T, Kühl M, Bjarnsholt T, Jensen PØ. Nitric-oxide-driven oxygen release in anoxic Pseudomonas aeruginosa. iScience, 2021 Nov 6;24(12):103404. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2021.103404.

• Nagakubo T, Yamamoto T, Asamizu S, Toyofuku M, Nomura N, Onaka H. Phage tail-like nanostructures affect microbial interactions between Streptomyces and fungi. Sci Rep., 2021 Oct 11;11(1):20116. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-99490-8.

• Zhang IH, Mullen S, Ciccarese D, Dumit D, Martocello DE 3rd, Toyofuku M, Nomura N, Smriga S, Babbin AR. Ratio of Electron Donor to Acceptor Influences Metabolic Specialization and Denitrification Dynamics in Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a Mixed Carbon Medium. Front Microbiol., 2021 Sep 10;12:711073. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.711073. 

• Naradasu D, Miran W, Sharma S, Takenawa S, Soma T, Nomura N, Toyofuku M, Okamoto A. Biogenesis of Outer Membrane Vesicles Concentrates the Unsaturated Fatty Acid of Phosphatidylinositol in Capnocytophaga ochracea. Front Microbiol., 2021 May 21;12:682685. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.682685. 

• Abe K, Toyofuku M, Nomura N, Obana N. Autolysis-mediated membrane vesicle formation in Bacillus subtilis. Environ Microbiol., 2021 May;23(5):2632-2647. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.15502. Epub 2021 Apr 17.

• Wong GCL, Antani JD, Lele PP, Chen J, Nan B, Kühn MJ, Persat A, Bru JL, Høyland-Kroghsbo NM, Siryaporn A, Conrad JC, Carrara F, Yawata Y, Stocker R, V Brun Y, Whitfield GB, Lee CK, de Anda J, Schmidt WC, Golestanian R, O'Toole GA, Floyd KA, Yildiz FH, Yang S, Jin F, Toyofuku M, Eberl L, Nomura N, Zacharoff LA, El-Naggar MY, Yalcin SE, Malvankar NS, Rojas-Andrade MD, Hochbaum AI, Yan J, Stone HA, Wingreen NS, Bassler BL, Wu Y, Xu H, Drescher K, Dunkel J. Roadmap on emerging concepts in the physical biology of bacterial biofilms: from surface sensing to community formation. Phys Biol., 2021 Jun 23;18(5):10.1088/1478-3975/abdc0e. doi: 10.1088/1478-3975/abdc0e.

• Nagakubo, T., Tahara YO, Miyata M, *Nomura N, *Toyofuku M, Mycolic acid-containing bacteria trigger distinct types of membrane vesicles through different routes. iScience, 2021, doi:10.1016/j.isci.2020.102015.

• Vidaillac C, Yong VFL, Aschtgen MS, Qu J, Yang S, Xu G, Seng ZJ, Brown AC, Ali MK, Jaggi TK, Sankaran J, Foo YH, Righetti F, Nedumaran AM, Mac Aogáin M, Roizman D, Richard JA, Rogers TR, Toyofuku M, Luo D, Loh E, Wohland T, Czarny B, Horvat JC, Hansbro PM, Yang L, Li L, Normark S, Henriques Normark B, Chotirmall SH. Sex Steroids Induce Membrane Stress Responses and Virulence Properties in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. mBio, 2020 Sep 29;11(5):e01774-20. doi: 10.1128/mBio.01774-20.

• Vitale A, Paszti S, Takahashi K, Toyofuku M, Pessi G, Eberl L. Mapping of the Denitrification Pathway in Burkholderia thailandensis by Genome-Wide Mutant Profiling. Journal of Bacteriology, 2020 Sep 8:JB.00304-20. doi: 10.1128/JB.00304-20.

• Nguyen BVG, Nagakubo T, Toyofuku M, Nomura N, Utada AS. Synergy between Sophorolipid Biosurfactant and SDS Increases the Efficiency of P. aeruginosa Biofilm Disruption. Langmuir, 2020 Jun 16;36(23):6411-6420. doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c00643. Epub 2020 Jun 1.

• Horiue H, Sasaki M, Yoshikawa Y, Toyofuku M, Shigeto S. Raman spectroscopic signatures of carotenoids and polyenes enable label-free visualization of microbial distributions within pink biofilms. Sci Rep., 2020 May 7;10(1):7704. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-64737-3.

• Morinaga K, Nagakubo T, Nomura N, Toyofuku *M. Involvement of membrane vesicles in long-chain-AHL delivery in Paracoccus species. Environmental Microbiology Reports, 2020 Apr 14. doi: 10.1111/1758-2229.12843. [Epub ahead of print].

• Kikuchi Y, Obana N, Toyofuku M, Kodera N, Soma T, Ando T, Fukumori Y, *Nomura N, *Taoka A. Diversity of physical properties of bacterial extracellular membrane vesicles revealed through atomic force microscopy phase imaging. Nanoscale, 2020 Apr 14;12(14):7950-7959. doi: 10.1039/c9nr10850e. Epub 2020 Mar 31.

•  *Kunoh T, Morinaga K, Sugimoto S, Miyazaki S, Toyofuku M, Iwasaki K, Nomura N, *Utada AS. Polyfunctional nanofibril appendages mediate attachment, filamentation, and filament adaptability in Leptothrix cholodnii. ACS Nano, 2019 doi: 10.1021/acsnano.9b04663.

• †Andreoni F, †Toyofuku M, Menzi C, Kalawong R, Mairpady Shambat S, Francois P, *Zinkernagel AS, *Eberl L. Antibiotics stimulate vesicles formation in Staphylococcus aureus in a phage-dependent and independent fashion and via different routes. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 63(2): e01439-18 doi:10.1128/AAC.01439-18.

• Kobayashi S, Hira D, Yoshida K, Toyofuku M, Shida Y, Ogasawara W, Yamaguchi T, Araki N, *Oshiki M. Nitric oxide production from nitrite reduction and hydroxylamine oxidation by copper-containing dissimilatory nitrite reductase (NirK) from the aerobic ammonia-oxidizing archaeon, Nitrososphaera viennensis. Microbes and Environments, 33(4):428-434. doi: 10.1264/jsme2.ME18058.

• Prasad M, Obana N, Sakai K, Nagakubo T, Miyazaki S, Toyofuku M, Fattaccioli J, Nomura N, Utada AS. Point Mutations Lead to Increased Levels of c-di-GMP and Phenotypic Changes to the Colony Biofilm Morphology in Alcanivorax borkumensis SK2. Microbes and Environments, 2019 Mar 30;34(1):104-107. doi: 10.1264/jsme2.ME18151. Epub 2019 Feb 16.

• Nakanishi Y, Yamamoto T, Obana N, Toyofuku M, *Nomura N, Kaneko A. Spatial distribution and chemical tolerance of Streptococcus mutans within dual-species cariogenic biofilms. Microbes and Environments, doi:10.1264/jsme2.ME18113, in press.

• Morinaga K, Yamamoto T, Nomura N, *Toyofuku M. Paracoccus denitrificans can utilize various long-chain N-acylhomoserine lactones and sequester them in membrane vesicles. Environmental Microbiology Reports,10: 651-654, 2018.

•  *Toyofuku M, Cárcamo-Oyarce G, Yamamoto T, Eisenstein F, Hsiao C, Kurosawa M, Gademann K, *Pilhofer M, Nomura N, and *Eberl L. Prophage-triggered membrane vesicle formation through peptidoglycan damage in Bacillus subtilis. Nature Communications, 8:481, 2017.

• Kiyokawa T, Usuba R., Obana N, Yokokawa M, Toyofuku M, Suzuki H, *Nomura N. A versatile and rapidly deployable device to enable spatiotemporal observations of the sessile microbes and environmental surfaces. Microbes and Environments, 32:81-91, 2017.

• Toyofuku M, Morinaga K, Hashimoto Y, Uhl J, Shimamura H, Inaba H, Schmitt-Kopplin P, Eberl L, *Nomura N. Membrane vesicle-mediated bacterial communication. The ISME Journal, 11:1504-1509, 2017.

• Yoshida K, *Toyofuku M, Obana N, Nomura N. Biofilm formation by Paracoccus denitrificans requires a type I secretion system dependent adhesin BapA. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 364:fnx029, 2017.

• Yang J, †Toyofuku M, Sakai R, *Nomura N. Influence of the alginate production on cell-to-cell communication in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1. Environmental Microbiology Reports, 9:239-249, 2017.

• Turnbull L, †*Toyofuku M, Hynen AL, Kurosawa M, Pessi G, Petty NK, Osvath SR, Cárcamo-Oyarce G, Gloag ES, Shimoni R, Omasits U, Ito S, Yap X, Monahan LG, Cavaliere R, Ahrens CH, Charles IG, Nomura N, *Eberl L and *Whitchurch CB. Explosive cell lysis is a novel mechanism for the biogenesis of membrane vesicles and biofilms. Nature Communications, 7:11220, 2016.

• Inaba T, Oura H, Morinaga K, Toyofuku M, *Nomura N. The Pseudomonas quinolone signal inhibits biofilm development of Streptococcus mutans. Microbes and Environments, 30:189-91, 2015.

• Oura H, Tashiro Y, Toyofuku M, Ueda K, Kiyokawa T, Ito S, Takahashi Y, Lee S, Nojiri H, Nakajima-Kambe T, Uchiyama H, Futamata H, *Nomura N. Inhibition of Pseudomonas aeruginosa swarming motility by 1-naphthol and other bicyclic compounds bearing hydroxyl groups. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 81:2808-18, 2015.

• Line L, Alhede M, Kolpen M, Kühl M, Ciofu O, Bjarnsholt T, Moser C, Toyofuku M, Nomura N, Høiby N, *Jensen PØ. Physiological levels of nitrate support anoxic growth by denitrification of Pseudomonas aeruginosa at growth rates reported in cystic fibrosis lungs and sputum. Frontiers in Microbiology, 5: 554, 2014.

• Gi M, Chung J, Lee K, Park Y, Lee K, Toyofuku M, *Yoon SS, *Choi JY. A drug-repositioning screening identifies pentetic acid as a potential therapeutic agent for suppressing the elastase-mediated virulence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 58:7205-7214, 2014.

• Hamada M, †Toyofuku M, Miyano T, *Nomura N. cbb3-type cytochrome c oxidases, aerobic respiratory enzymes, impact the anaerobic life of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1. Journal of Bacteriology, 196:3881-9, 2014.

• Wang A, Toyofuku M, Nomura N, *Goto H. Quorum Sensing Materials as New Ligand for Palladium Catalyzed Migita-Kosugi-Stille Polycondensation. International Letters of Chemistry, Physics and Astronomy, 13:62-70, 2014.

• †Ono K, †Oka R, †Toyofuku M, Sakaguchi A, Hamada M, Yoshida S, *Nomura N. cAMP signaling affects irreversible attachment during biofilm formation by Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1. Microbes and Environments, 29:104-6, 2014.

• Toyofuku M, Zhou S, Sawada I, Takaya N, Uchiyama H, *Nomura N. Membrane vesicle formation is associated with pyocin production under denitrifying conditions in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1. Environmental Microbiology, 16:2927-38, 2014.

• †Fang H, †Toyofuku M, Kiyokawa T, Ichihashi A, Tateda K, *Nomura N. The impact of anaerobiosis on strain-dependent phenotypic variations in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry, 77:1747-52, 2013.

• Zheng YT, Toyofuku M, Nomura N, *Shigeto S. Correlation of carotenoid accumulation with aggregation and biofilm development in Rhodococcus sp. SD-74. Analytical Chemistry, 85:7295-301, 2013.

• Inaba T, Ichihara T, Yawata Y, Toyofuku M, Uchiyama H, *Nomura N. Three-dimensional visualization of mixed species biofilm formation together with its substratum. Microbiology and Immunology, 57:589-93, 2013.

• Zhang W, Huhe, Pan Y, Toyofuku M, Nomura N, Nakajima T, *Uchiyama H. Dechlorination of chloral hydrate is influenced by the biofilm adhesin protein LapA in Pseudomonas putida LF54. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 79:4166-9, 2013.

•  *Toyofuku M, Roschitzki B, Riedel K, *Eberl L. Identification of proteins associated with the Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm extracellular matrix. Journal of Proteome Research, 11:4906-15, 2012.

• Taniyama K, Itoh H, Takuwa A, Sasaki Y, Yajima S, Toyofuku M, Nomura N, and *Takaya N. Group X aldehyde dehydrogenases of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 degrade hydrazones. Journal of Bacteriology, 194:1447-1456, 2012.

• Tashiro Y, Ichikawa S, Shimizu M, Toyofuku M, Takaya N, Nakajima-Kambe T, Uchiyama H, and *Nomura N. Variation of physiochemical properties and cell association activity of membrane vesicles with growth phase in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 76:3732-3739, 2010.

• Toyofuku M, Nakajima-Kambe T, Uchiyama H, *Nomura N. The effect of a cell-to-cell communication molecule, Pseudomonas quinolone signal (PQS), produced by P. aeruginosa on other bacterial species. Microbes and Environments, 25:1-7, 2010.

• Tashiro Y, Toyofuku M, Nakajima-Kambe T, Uchiyama H, *Nomura N. Bicyclic compounds repress membrane vesicle production and Pseudomonas quinolone signal synthesis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 304:123-130, 2010.

• Tashiro Y, Sakai R, Toyofuku M, Sawada I, Nakajima-Kambe T, Uchiyama H and *Nomura N. Outer membrane machinery and alginate synthesis regulators control membrane vesicle production in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Journal of Bacteriology, 191:7509-7519, 2009.

• Toyofuku M, *Nomura N, Kuno E, Tashiro Y, Nakajima T, Uchiyama H. Influence of the Pseudomonas quinolone signal on denitrification in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Journal of Bacteriology, 190:7947-7956, 2008.

• Toyofuku M, *Nomura N, Fujii T, Takaya N, Maseda H, Sawada I, Nakajima T Uchiyama H. Quorum sensing regulates denitrification in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1. Journal of Bacteriology, 189:4969-4972, 2007.

Reviews

•  *Toyofuku M, Nomura N, Eberl L. Membrane vesicles and quantized bacterial signaling.  In Roadmap on emerging concepts in the physical biology of bacterial biofilms: from surface sensing to community formation. Physical biology, 18 05150, 2021. 

• Morinaga K, Yoshida K, Takahashi K, Nomura N, *Toyofuku M. Peculiarities of biofilm formation by Paracoccus denitrificans and associated factors. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 104(6):2427-2433. doi: 10.1007/s00253-020-10400-w.

• Nagakubo T, Nomura N, *Toyofuku M. Cracking open bacterial membrane vesicles. Frontiers in Microbiology 10:3026. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.03026, 2020.

• Toyofuku M, Bacterial communication through membrane vesicles, Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry, 83: 1599-1605 2019. 10.1080/09168451.2019.1608809

• *Toyofuku M, Nomura N, *Eberl L. Types and origins of bacterial membrane vesicles. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 17:13-24, 2019.

•  *Toyofuku M, Nomura N. What will membrane vesicles (MVs) bring to bacterial communication? Microbes and Environments, 32:185-187, 2017.

• Toyofuku M, Tashiro Y, Hasegawa Y, Kurosawa M, *Nomura N. Bacterial membrane vesicles, an overlooked environmental colloid: Biology, environmental perspectives and applications. Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 226:65-77, 2015.

•  Toyofuku M, Inaba T, Kiyokawa T, Obana N, Yawata Y, *Nomura N. Environmental factors that shape biofilm formation. Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry, 80:7-12, 2015.

•  †Tashiro Y, †Yawata Y, †Toyofuku M, Uchiyama H, *Nomura N. Interspecies interaction between Pseudomonas aeruginosa and other microorganisms. Microbes and Environments, 28:13-24, 2013.

• Toyofuku M, Uchiyama H., *Nomura N. Social behaviours under anaerobic conditions in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. International Journal of Microbiology, 405191, 2012.

•  *Okabe S, Oshiki M, Kamagata Y, Yamaguchi N, Toyofuku M, Yawata Y, Tashiro Y, Nomura N, Ohta H, Ohkuma M, Hiraishi A, Minamisawa K. A great leap forward in microbial ecology. Microbes and Environments, 25:230-240, 2010.

Book Chapters

• Toyofuku M, Tashiro Y, Nomura N, Eberl L. Functions of MVs in inter-bacterial communication. In: Bacterial Membrane Vesicles-Biogenesis, Functions and Applications, Springer, 2020. p101-118 ISBN 978-3-030-36311-4

• Toyofuku M, *Yoon SS. Nitric oxide, an old molecule with noble functions in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biology. In: Advances in Microbial Physiology, Elsevier, 72:pp 117-145, 2018.

• Toyofuku M, Tashiro Y, Tomohiro I, Nomura N. “Bacterial interactions” In: Encyclopedia of Biocolloid and Biointerface Sciences, Wiley, pp 68-81, 2016.

• Toyofuku M, O’Toole GA, Nomura N. “Anaerobic life of Pseudomonas aeruginosa” In: Pseudomonas Vol. 7, Springer, pp 99-117, 2015.

• Toyofuku M, Nomura N. “Biofilm as a multicellular bacterial system” In: Biodegradative Bacteria, Springer Japan, pp 335-352, 2014.