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Challenge to dechlorinate polychlorinated biphenyls under aerobic conditions with an engineered reductive dehalogenase

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18K19881
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Review Section Medium-sized Section 64:Environmental conservation measure and related fields
Research InstitutionKyoto University

Principal Investigator

Takatsuka Yumiko  京都大学, エネルギー理工学研究所, 特定准教授 (70570810)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 原 富次郎  京都大学, エネルギー理工学研究所, 特定教授 (70616193)
Project Period (FY) 2018-06-29 – 2021-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2020)
Budget Amount *help
¥6,370,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,470,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Keywordsポリ塩化ビフェニル / 還元的脱塩素化酵素 / 遺伝子組換え細菌 / ビタミンB12 / Dehalococcoides / ポリ塩化ビフェニル類 / 新機能性酵素 / 好気条件下 / 金属結合型ビタミンB12
Outline of Final Research Achievements

The reductive dechlorination of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in an anaerobic environment is desired to be applied to bioremediation techniques. In an attempt to create an innovative biocatalyst that "dechlorinates PCBs under aerobic conditions," we have constructed a recombinant bacterial strain that expresses PCBs dehalogenase of a strictly anaerobic bacterium, Dehalococcoides. In addition, in an anaerobic model in which PCBs were added to groundwater collected from the PCBs-contaminated site, which was prepared to investigate the optimum conditions for the reductive dechlorination, a remarkable decrease in PCBs concentration and the presence of two anaerobic PCBs-dechlorinating bacteria were shown.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

「高塩素型PCBsを好気的条件下で脱塩素化する新機能酵素の創出」は極めて挑戦的であり、国際的なPCBs浄化に喫緊な需要ある技術である。活性を示した遺伝子組換えPCBs脱塩素酵素の報告はまだ無く、本研究課題で作製した組換え酵素の反応を最適化し、さらに大気下で還元的脱塩素化を実現する新機能酵素を創生できれば、酸化的ビフェニル分解酵素群との併活用により、これまでにない効果的な手法で生物浄化技術にパラダイムシフトを起こすと期待できる。

Report

(5 results)
  • 2020 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • Products Report
  • Research Products

    (12 results)

All 2022 2021 2019 2018 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (5 results) Journal Article (5 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 4 results,  Open Access: 3 results) Presentation (2 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] コロンビア大学ラモントードハーティー地球観測所(米国)

    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] シンガポール国立大学(シンガポール)

    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] コロンビア大学ラモントードハーティー地球観測所(米国)

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] シンガポール国立大学(シンガポール)

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] コロンビア大学ラモント-ドハーティー地球観測所(米国)

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] Draft genome sequence of the polychlorinated biphenyl degrader Comamonas testosteroni strain YAZ2, isolated from a natural landscape in the Tohoku region of Japan2022

    • Author(s)
      Tomijiro Hara, Yumiko Takatsuka, Yuh Shiwa, Kenji Yokota
    • Journal Title

      Microbiology Resource Announcements

      Volume: 11 Issue: 1

    • DOI

      10.1128/mra.00806-21

    • Related Report
      Products Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Aerobic polychlorinated biphenyl-degrading bacteria isolated from the Tohoku region of Japan are not regionally endemic2022

    • Author(s)
      Tomijiro Hara, Yumiko Takatsuka
    • Journal Title

      Canadian Journal of Microbiology

    • Related Report
      Products Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Aerobic polychlorinated biphenyl-degrading bacteria isolated form the Tohoku region of Japan are not regionally endemic2021

    • Author(s)
      Tomijiro Hara and Yumiko Takatsuka
    • Journal Title

      Canadian Journal of Microbiology(査読中)

      Volume: -

    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Augmentation of an engineered bacterial strain potentially improves the cleanup of PCB water pollution2021

    • Author(s)
      Tomijiro Hara, Yumiko Takatsuka, Eiji Nakata, Takashi Morii
    • Journal Title

      Microbiology Spectrum

      Volume: 9 Issue: 3

    • DOI

      10.1128/spectrum.01926-21

    • Related Report
      Products Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Manual recursive mapping method for the draft genome sequence of Comamonas testosteroni strain YAZ22021

    • Author(s)
      Tomijiro Hara, Yumiko Takatsuka, Yuh Shiwa, Kenji Yokota, Tadasu Shin-i
    • Journal Title

      figshare

    • Related Report
      Products Report
    • Open Access
  • [Presentation] Recombinant bacterial catalysts are cooperatively capable of polychlorinated biphenyls degradation2019

    • Author(s)
      Yumiko Takatsuka, Tomijiro Hara
    • Organizer
      ASM Microbe 2019
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] ポリ塩化ビフェニル類汚染地区に棲息する嫌気性微生物に関する調査2018

    • Author(s)
      高塚 由美子、原 富次郎、平野 竜行
    • Organizer
      第70回(平成30年)日本生物工学会大会
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report

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Published: 2018-07-25   Modified: 2023-03-30  

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