"Biosynthesis of Bacterial Polyesters from Renewable Carbon"

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• Professor Takeharu Tsuge, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
• Saturday 12 September 2009, 14:00-15:00
• Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

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Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are biological polyesters that are produced by a wide variety of bacteria as an intracellular storage material of carbon and energy. PHAs have attracted industrial attention because of their potential use as practical biodegradable and biocompatible thermoplastics. PHA production has been achieved using fermentation technology of naturally PHA producing bacteria (1st generation), and subsequent reinforcement of PHA productivity with help of recombinant gene technology (2nd generation). More recently, “enzyme evolution” is becoming the 3rd generation approach for not only productivity enhancement but also control of copolymer composition. In the seminar, I present recent advances in PHA production by 2nd and 3rd generation approaches with our results as successful examples.

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