2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Establishment of A Marine Vibrio Platform in The Bioconversion ofSeaweed Carbohydrates to BioEthanol
| Project/Area Number |
21380129
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Fisheries chemistry
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| Research Institution | Hokkaido University |
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Principal Investigator |
SAWABE Tomoo 北海道大学, 大学院・水産科学研究院, 教授 (30241376)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
OJIMA Takao 北海道大学, 大学院・水産科学研究院, 教授 (30160865)
NAKAGAWA Satoshi 北海道大学, 大学院・水産科学研究院, 准教授 (70435832)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2012
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| Keywords | 代謝・酵素 / バイオ燃料 |
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| Research Abstract |
In maintaining a sustainable ecosystem in this period of global warming, development of key technologies in the field of renewable energy sources has become an important challenge; a method of biofuel production from marine biomass could be one of the mostcrucial technologies in the future. In this study, we investigated genome wide metabolic pathway prediction, functional analysis of the genes responsible for the alginate degradation and ethanol production, and the transcriptomic analysis in two unique marine vibrios, both of which are capable of producing bioethanol from seaweed carbohydrates. We successfully reconstructed the metabolic pathway with functional and transcriptomic information as a marine vibrio platform.
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