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Japan Japan

Kobe University

Medical / Health Care / Pharmaceuticals

My research responsibilities are focused on the extensive development of bioconversion technology for effective microbial production of high valued biorefined chemicals. The technologies are: pretreatment process of lignocellulosic biomass for enzymatic saccharification, digestive enzyme system development for biomass (cellulase and cellulosome), and microbial system development based on genome engineering. At present, I have focused my research activities on establishing more significant enzymatic saccharification of lignocellulosic biomass, particularly G-unit rich lignin contained biomass, using protein biochemistry approaches on the cellulase degradating system. The approaches are ma...