Research Project
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
The binding behavior of a 12-mer peptide and its tandem dimer to lignin was analyzed. The tandem dimerization increased affinity to lignin by around 10 times. The tandem dimer significantly changed its conformation upon addition of the lignin to have a 10-times higher affinity than the 12-mer peptide. Laccase bearing the tandem dimer peptide was expressed, and reacted to woody biomass pretreated by microwave hot water treatment. It was found that the incorporation of lignin-binding peptide increased the reactivity to lignin and gave higher amount of low molecular mass fragments.
All 2017 2016 2015
All Presentation (10 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 5 results, Invited: 3 results)
