2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Development of Biocatalysts for Remediation of Environments Polluted with Persistent Organohalogen Compounds
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24658275
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Boundary agriculture
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| Research Institution | Kyoto University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) |
KAWAMOTO Jun 京都大学, 化学研究所, 助教 (90511238)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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| Keywords | 酵素 / 応用微生物 / 有機ハロゲン化合物 / デハロゲナーゼ |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Structures and catalytic mechanisms of microbial enzymes that catalyze the degradation of persistent organohalogen compounds were studied. As to fluoroacetate dehalogenase, it was suggested that interaction of the fluorine atom of the substrate with His149, Trp 150, and Tyr212 is important for the defluorination reaction. As to DL-2-haloacid dehalogenase, two substrate-binding sites were found, and it was suggested that the dehalogenation reaction proceeds in one of these sites. As to 2-haloacrylate hydratase, we established a protein purification method and searched for crystallization condition for X-ray crystallographic analysis of the enzyme structure.
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| Free Research Field |
分子微生物科学
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