2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Isolation of useful and new microorganism from the deep-sea using new porous quality plate

Research Project

Project/Area Number	20580092
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Applied microbiology
Research Institution	Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Principal Investigator	NOGI Yuichi Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, 海洋・極限環境生物圏領域, 技術研究主幹 (70399559)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	DEGUCHI Shigeru 独立行政法人海洋研究開発機構, 海洋・極限環境生物圏領域, チームリーダー (40344296)
Research Collaborator	BABA Atsushi 横浜市立大学国際総合科学研究科, 環境生命, 大学院生 YOSHIZUMI Masaki 横浜市立大学国際総合科学研究科, 環境生命, 大学院生
Project Period (FY)	2008 – 2010
Keywords	微生物分類 / 多孔質プレート / キチン / Microbulbifer
Research Abstract	The new chitinase produce bacteria was isolated by using various porous quality plates. The isolated new strains were named Microbulbifer okinawensis and Microbulbifer chitinilyticus and these registered. These resolved colloidal chitin to N-acetylglucosamine and disaccharide. Moreover, two new strains of polyvinyl alcohol resolution bacteria were isolated. It was found these are genus Thalassospira and Steroidobacter quite different from the genus Sphingopyxis that had been reported so far.