Dr Yoshikazu Kawai

Senior Research Associate

Email: yoshikazu.kawai@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 3238
Fax: +44 (0) 191 208 7424
Address: The Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology
Baddiley-Clark Building
Biosciences Institute
Medical School
Newcastle University
Richardson Road
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE2 4AX
United Kingdom

Publications

Mickiewicz KM, Kawai Y, Drage L, Gomes MC, Davison F, Pickard R, Hall J, Mostowy S, Aldridge PD, Errington J. Author Correction: Possible role of L-form switching in recurrent urinary tract infection (Nature Communications, (2019), 10, 1, (4379), 10.1038/s41467-019-12359-3). Nature Communications 2019, 10, 5254.
Kawai Y, Mercier R, Mickiewicz K, Serafini A, Sorio de Carvalho LP, Errington J. Crucial role for central carbon metabolism in the bacterial L-form switch and killing by β-lactam antibiotics. Nature Microbiology 2019, 4, 1716-1726.
Mickiewicz KM, Kawai Y, Drage L, Gomes MC, Davison F, Pickard R, Hall J, Mostowy S, Aldridge PD, Errington J. Possible role of L-form switching in recurrent urinary tract infection. Nature Communications 2019, 10(1), 4379.
Higashi K, Kawai Y, Baba T, Kurokawa K, Oshima T. Essential cellular modules for the proliferation of the primitive cell. Geoscience Frontiers 2018, 9(4), 1155-1161.
Kawai Y, Mickiewicz K, Errington J. Lysozyme Counteracts β-Lactam Antibiotics by Promoting the Emergence of L-Form Bacteria. Cell 2018, 172(5), 1038-1049.e10.
Emami K, Guyet A, Kawai Y, Devi J, Wu LJ, Allenby N, Daniel RA, Errington J. RodA as the missing glycosyltransferase in Bacillus subtilis and antibiotic discovery for the peptidoglycan polymerase pathway. Nature Microbiology 2017, 2, 16253.
Errington J, Mickiewicz K, Kawai Y, Wu LJ. L-form bacteria, chronic diseases and the origins of life. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 2016, 371(1707).
Mercier R, Kawai Y, Errington J. Wall proficient E-coli capable of sustained growth in the absence of the Z-ring division machine. Nature Microbiology 2016, 1(8), 16091.
Kawai Y, Mercier R, Wu LJ, Dominguez-Cuevas P, Oshima T, Errington J. Cell Growth of Wall-Free L-Form Bacteria Is Limited by Oxidative Damage. Current Biology 2015, 25(12), 1613-1618.
Kawai Y, Mercier R, Errington J. Bacterial Cell Morphogenesis Does Not Require a Preexisting Template Structure. Current Biology 2014, 24(8), 863-867.
Mercier R, Kawai Y, Errington J. General principles for the formation and proliferation of a wall-free (L-form) state in bacteria. eLife 2014, 3, e04629.
Mercier R, Kawai Y, Errington J. Excess Membrane Synthesis Drives a Primitive Mode of Cell Proliferation. Cell 2013, 152(5), 997-1007.
Dominguez-Cuevas P, Mercier R, Leaver M, Kawai Y, Errington J. The rod to L-form transition of Bacillus subtilis is limited by a requirement for the protoplast to escape from the cell wall sacculus. Molecular Microbiology 2012, 83(1), 52-66.
Kawai Y, Marles-Wright J, Cleverley RM, Emmins R, Ishikawa S, Kuwano M, Heinz N, Bui NK, Hoyland CN, Ogasawara N, Lewis RJ, Vollmer W, Daniel RA, Errington J. A widespread family of bacterial cell wall assembly proteins. EMBO Journal 2011, 30(24), 4931-4941.
Gündoğdu ME, Kawai Y, Pavlendova N, Ogasawara N, Errington J, Scheffers DJ, Hamoen LW. Large ring polymers align FtsZ polymers for normal septum formation. EMBO Journal 2011, 30(3), 617-626.