| Project/Area Number |
10650764
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
反応・分離工学
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| Research Institution | Waseda University |
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Principal Investigator |
HIRATA Akira Waseda University, School of Science and Engineering, Professor, 理工学部, 教授 (00063610)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MURAKAMI Yoshihiko Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (PD), 特別研究員(PD) (00339748)
TSUNEDA Satoshi Waseda University, School of Science and Engineering, Associate Professor, 理工学部, 助教授 (30281645)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1998 – 2000
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2000)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,000,000)
Fiscal Year 2000: ¥1,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000)
Fiscal Year 1999: ¥1,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000)
Fiscal Year 1998: ¥1,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000)
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| Keywords | extractive reaction / protein hydrolysis / natural proteins / biologically active peptides / polymer-enzyme complex / nonaqueous enzymatic reactions / proteases / modified enzymes / ACE阻害ペプチド / 水性二相分配系 / トウモロコシ蛋白質 |
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| Research Abstract |
We have aimed, in this study, (1)to control the selective production of desired peptides (e.g. angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE)-inhibitory peptides) using the hydrolysis of corn proteins (zeins) catalyzed by proteases and (2) to develop the enzyme preparation catalytically active in organic media. The following results were obtained :
1. We found that zein selectively partitioned to the upper phase, limited hydrolysates to both phases and peptides with low molecular weights selectively to the bottom phase when corn protein α-zein was hydrolyzed in organic polymer two-phase systems. The method proposed in this study can solve the problems of a protein hydrolysis in conventional homogeneous reaction media such as difficulties in the selective synthesis of products and the separation of products and an enzyme.
2 We proposed the novel hybrid enzyme preparation catalytically active in organic media, i.e. the noncovalently-formed complex between an enzyme and polymers. It was found that the complex was catalytically active in organic media even when the molar ratio of the polymer/enzyme in the preparation stage was only a unity. The complex showed a high activity when hydrophobic buffers and amphiphilic polymers were used in its preparation stage. PEG4000-α-chymotrypsin complex prepared from a boric acid-succinic acid buffer solution showed ca. 8000-fold higher activity than native α-chymotrypsin in anhydrous isooctane. The method to modify enzymes proposed in this study was novel and had big ripple effects to biology. The complex was catalytically active also in organic two-phase systems and could be applied to the enzymatic hydrolysis of proteins.
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