Dynamic visualization of extracellular information processing space using synthetic and degrading enzymes of plant cell wall components

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project Area: Plant cell wall as information-processing system
• Project/Area Number: 24114008
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Review Section: Biological Sciences
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: IGARASHI Kiyohiko 東京大学, 大学院農学生命科学研究科(農学部), 准教授 (80345181)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): UCHIHASHI Takayuki 金沢大学, 理工研究域, 教授 (30326300)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-06-28 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 植物細胞壁 / バイオマス / セルロース

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The plant cell wall has a complicated structure in which various polymeric materials interact with each other, and the details are not clarified. Each component constituting the cell wall is synthesized by the enzyme of the cell and then complexed by self-assembly to construct a complicated cell wall structure outside the cell. On the other hand, organisms such as mushrooms that grow with the cell wall as a nutrient source acquire nutrition by decomposing the complicated structure of the cell wall by the degrading enzyme. Therefore, in this study, the relationship between the enzymes of these organisms and the organization of components constituting the cell wall was clarified by microscope technology and biochemical technology, and knowledge was obtained for understanding and utilizing complex plant cell wall.

Free Research Field

バイオマス生物工学