| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥2,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥540,000)
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| Research Abstract |
Most of the self-sustained cell are micro-meter size ; there are no larger cells or smaller cells. In order to investigate the importance of micro-size of cells, I constructed an artificial self-replication system of genetic information, and examine the size-dependency of it. I found that the replication proceeded continuously only in micro-size reaction volume because of the repression of the propagation of parasitic replicator. This result suggested that the cell size is strongly connected with defense mechanism against parasite.
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