No.158 Seminar ： Protein Design and Engineering Toward the Functional Biomaterials –
- Yuta Suzuki (Hakubi Center/Graduate School of Medicine)
- 2018/12/18 4:30pm
- The Hakubi Center for Advanced Research (Research Administration Building 1F)
- English(This seminar is open for students and researchers at Kyoto Univ.)
Summary
Speeding up evolution to create desired enzyme! This year’s Novel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to “the directed evolution of enzymes” (one half to Prof. Frances H. Arnold). This method involves a tremendous amount of time and effort to repeat random mutation and selection to artificially accelerate the appearance of proteins that can occur in nature. If chemist can serve as a “designer” to modify and control protein functions and structures more freely, the era might come soon, when smart bionanorobots, which are programmed to perform multiple tasks for biomedical and biotechnology applications, play active roles in the field of medicine and biotechnology. In this presentation, I will discuss my previous work [1. Novel design to create 2D protein assembly, 2. Analysis of unique structural changes of 2D protein assembly, and 3. Implementation of new design to control structure changes, etc] and recent progress of protein assembly relative to my work (as well as my career and future direction). Since the contents of the research topics are simple, I would be pleased if everyone who has interest in protein chemistry attends the talk.