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Experimental studdy for primordial cell by constrution of self-reproducing artificial cell(Fostering Joint International Research)

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16KK0161
Research Category

Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field System genome science
Research InstitutionTokyo Institute of Technology

Principal Investigator

Kuruma Yutetsu  東京工業大学, 地球生命研究所, その他 (40508420)

Project Period (FY) 2017 – 2019
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2019)
Budget Amount *help
¥15,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥11,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,510,000)
Keywords人工細胞 / 生命の起源 / 脂質膜 / 膜タンパク質 / Cell-Free / 合成生物学 / 脂質合成 / 自己複製 / 生物物理 / ゲノム
Outline of Final Research Achievements

Self-growing and -division are most fundamental feature of cell for undertaking proliferation. I am trying to reproduce this phenomenon by synthesizing lipid molecules inside the lipid membrane vesicle. Regarding this project, I visited to Newcastle Univ. (UK) to study the L-form bacteria which have irregular proliferation system overproducing lipids. I also did in vivo visualization of the fatty acid synthesis enzymes.
In Harvard Medical Univ., I studied about protocell, which is thought to have been existed before emerging the modern cells, and its evolutionally meaning. I also performed and observed the vesicle morphological change by supplying fatty acid from outside of vesicles. These oversea experiences solidified the scientific background of my research and brought international human network.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

自己複製は最も生命らしい特徴であり生命と非生命を隔てる最後の壁である。分子と情報を組み合わせて生命現象を再現する試みは人工細胞研究と呼ばれ、今世紀以降大きく注目されている。自己複製を人工系で再現することは究極的には生命を創造することになり、我々の持つ生命への価値観を大きく変えることになる可能性がある。また、初期地球環境中で生命が如何に誕生したのかを知るための大きなヒントになると考えられる。そのため、学術的社会的なインパクトが大きい。本研究成果により、自己複製の再現化に大きく資する研究結果が得られた。

Report

(2 results)
  • 2019 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • Research Products

    (20 results)

All 2020 2019 2017

All Int'l Joint Research (2 results) Journal Article (3 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results,  Peer Reviewed: 3 results,  Open Access: 2 results) Presentation (15 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 8 results,  Invited: 15 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] ハーバード大学(米国)2017

    • Year and Date
      2017-08-01
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] ニューカッスル大学(英国)2017

    • Year and Date
      2017-04-10
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] A Bifunctional Polyphosphate Kinase Driving the Regeneration of Nucleoside Triphosphate and Reconstituted Cell-Free Protein Synthesis2019

    • Author(s)
      Wang Po-Hsiang、Fujishima Kosuke、Berhanu Samuel、Kuruma Yutetsu、Jia Tony Z.、Khusnutdinova Anna N.、Yakunin Alexander F.、McGlynn Shawn E.
    • Journal Title

      ACS Synthetic Biology

      Volume: 9 Issue: 1 Pages: 36-42

    • DOI

      10.1021/acssynbio.9b00456

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] The bacterial protein YidC accelerates MPIase-dependent integration of membrane proteins2019

    • Author(s)
      Sasaki Masaru、Nishikawa Hanako、Suzuki Sonomi、Moser Michael、Huber Maria、Sawasato Katsuhiro、Matsubayashi Hideaki T.、Kumazaki Kaoru、Tsukazaki Tomoya、Kuruma Yutetsu、Nureki Osamu、Ueda Takuya、Nishiyama Ken-ichi
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Biological Chemistry

      Volume: 294 Issue: 49 Pages: 18898-18908

    • DOI

      10.1074/jbc.ra119.011248

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Recent Advances in Origins of Life Research by Biophysicists in Japan2019

    • Author(s)
      Jia Tony Z.、Kuruma Yutetsu
    • Journal Title

      Challenges

      Volume: 10 Issue: 1 Pages: 28-28

    • DOI

      10.3390/challe10010028

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 「分子から生き物を創って挑む生命誕生の謎」2020

    • Author(s)
      車 兪澈
    • Organizer
      自然科学カフェ
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Artificial cell2019

    • Author(s)
      Yutetsu Kuruma
    • Organizer
      State of the art methods for detection and interrogation of spread of AMR in environmental microbial communities
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Study of the Origin of Life and Artificial Cell2019

    • Author(s)
      Yutetsu Kuruma
    • Organizer
      Connecting Fundamental Physics, Chemistry and the Origins of Biomolecular Homochirality
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] 細胞を創って考える生命の起源2019

    • Author(s)
      車 兪澈
    • Organizer
      生命の起源および進化・アストロバイオロジー夏の学校2019
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] “Artificial Photosynthetic Cell”,2019

    • Author(s)
      Yutetsu Kuruma
    • Organizer
      Formal methods for the synthesis of biomolecular circuits
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] 「光からエネルギーを合成しタンパク質を合成する人工細胞の構築」2019

    • Author(s)
      Samuel Berhanu, Takuya Ueda, Yutetsu Kuruma
    • Organizer
      第29回日本生化学会大会
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] 「光からエネルギーを合成しタンパク質を合成する人工細胞の構築」2019

    • Author(s)
      Samuel Berhanu, Takuya Ueda, Yutetsu Kuruma
    • Organizer
      第57回日本生物物理学会年会
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] “Artificial photosynthetic cell producing energy for protein synthesis”2019

    • Author(s)
      Yutetsu Kuruma
    • Organizer
      Cold Spring Harbor Asia - Synthetic Biology
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] “Artificial photosynthetic cell producing energy for protein synthesis”2019

    • Author(s)
      Yutetsu Kuruma
    • Organizer
      Asian Synthetic Biology Association (ASBA) Meeting
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] 「光依存的にエネルギーを生産する人工細胞の構築」2019

    • Author(s)
      車兪澈,サミュエル・ベルハヌ,上田卓也
    • Organizer
      日本表面真空学会学術講演会
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] 「(原理的には)100%定量解析を可能にする人工細胞研究」2019

    • Author(s)
      車兪澈,サミュエル・ベルハヌ,上田卓也
    • Organizer
      定量生物学の会北海道キャラバン2019
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] “Session Topic: Synthetic Biology Challenges Toward Creating Man-Made Cells”2019

    • Author(s)
      Yutetsu Kuruma
    • Organizer
      3rd UK-Japan Frontiers of Science Symposium
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] “Reconstruction of cellular functions in compartment”2019

    • Author(s)
      Yutetsu Kuruma
    • Organizer
      ELSI-Mini Symposium on primitive compartmentalization
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] 「人工細胞研究から考える初期生命の様相」2019

    • Author(s)
      車 兪澈, 江藤 澄恵, 藤見 麻衣, Samuel Berhanu, 上田 卓也, 大島 拓,
    • Organizer
      第42回日本分子生物学会年会
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] 「(もう後には引けない)人工細胞研究」2019

    • Author(s)
      車 兪澈
    • Organizer
      第8回Yet Another Artificial Cell (YAC) 研究会
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Invited

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Published: 2017-03-15   Modified: 2021-02-19  

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