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Clouds, which gives us rain and shade is the very important thing on the Earth. Some scientists say that coral and some other sea bacteria produce DMS, dimethyl sulfide which turns to be a seed of cloud. We focused on this interesting phenomenon. What we do is to create the E.coli which can produce DMS. In order to do so, we introduce the biosynthetic pathway of DMS into E.coli and detect the products by HPLC and DMS detsctor tube. Don’t you think it is fantastic if the small creature, E.coli, creates the big things, clouds? And this projects may have the possibility to answer the environmental problem.

Project Overview

The second project is magnetosome formation. Magnetosome is a specific organelle in magnetotactic bacteria. Although many researchers have focused on it for its unique feature; magnetosome detect magnetic force, they have discovered only magnetotactic bacteria to have this ability so far. So we tried to form the Magnetosome in E. coli by introducing 4 operons which has been lined up recently as the sufficient genes to make magnetosome in Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense.

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-             <p>This year, we have two projects. The first project is DMS (dimethylsulfide) synthesis. DMS is known to be a precursor of the cloud condensation nucleus. Some researchers say that DMS greatly affects the climate. Although the existing researches have already lined up the candidate genes of the DMS biosynthesis pathway, most of them are still unconfirmed. Therefore, we tried to confirm them by introducing 5 candidate genes in <i>Fragilariopsis cylindrus</i>; a diatom, into <i>Escherichia coli</i>.</p>
+             <p>Clouds, which gives us rain and shade is the very important thing on the Earth. Some scientists say that coral and some other sea bacteria produce DMS, dimethyl sulfide which turns to be a seed of cloud. We focused on this interesting phenomenon. What we do is to create the E.coli which can produce DMS. In order to do so, we introduce the biosynthetic pathway of DMS into E.coli and detect the products by HPLC and DMS detsctor tube. Don’t you think it is fantastic if the small creature, E.coli, creates the big things, clouds? And this projects may have the possibility to answer the environmental problem.</p>
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