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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a protein-immobilized electrode enabling stable use over a long period wherein highly stable cytochrome c552 is immobilized on a chemically stable gold electrode while the electron transport capability of the cytochrome is maintained, and a manufacturing method therefor. SOLUTION: A self-organizing monomolecular film 12 is formed on the gold electrode 11 using a hydrophobic thiol and a hydrophilic thiol. A protein-immobilized electrode wherein cytochrome c552 13 is immobilized on the gold electrode 11 with the self-organizing monomolecular film 12 interposed therebetween is produced by immersing, in a cytochrome c552 solution, the gold electrode 11 on which the self-organizing monomolecular film 12 is formed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a new enzyme electrode that attains high output. SOLUTION: There is provided an enzyme electrode that is an electrode, in which an oxidation-reduction reaction progresses using an enzyme as a catalyst. The enzyme electrode is configured to fix an enzyme modified so as to improve the affinity and/or a reaction rate with a reactive substrate or an electron transfer mediator, by adding or inserting at least one or more codons, coding a prescribed amino-acid residue, to a base sequence that codes the enzyme. The enzyme electrode is also configured for advancing an oxidation-reduction reaction on an electrode at an efficient rate, thereby realizing high output of electrical energy which can be obtained. For this reason, the enzyme electrode can be used suitably in all types of fuel cells, biosensors, and electronic apparatuses. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a variant diaphorase whose heat resistance level is at a prescribed level or more. SOLUTION: The variant diaphorase has a smaller potential energy than that of a wild type diaphorase at the formation of a complex with a coenzyme flavin mononucleotide. A method for screening the variant diaphorase having a smaller potential energy than that of a wild type diaphorase at the formation of a complex with a coenzyme flavin mononucleotide by molecular dynamics simulation is disclosed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a variant diaphorase whose activity level is equal to or higher than a prescribed level. SOLUTION: There provided is a variant diaphorase forming a three-dimensional structure in which a distance between tryptophane at the 60th site from the N-terminal and the first site imino nitrogen of a coenzyme flavin mononucleotide in a three-dimensional structure on the formation of a complex with the coenzyme flavin mononucleotide is larger than the distance in a three-dimensional structure by a wild type diaphorase. A method for screening the variant diaphorase forming a three-dimensional structure in which a distance between tryptophane at the 60th site from the N-terminal and the first site imino nitrogen of the coenzyme flavin mononucleotide in a three-dimensional structure on the formation of complex with the coenzyme flavin mononucleotide by a molecular dynamics simulation is larger than the distance in a three-dimensional structure by a wild type diaphorase. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a variant type bilirubin oxidase having at least a predetermined level of enzymic activity of bilirubin oxidase and its thermal resistance. SOLUTION: The variant type heat resistant bilirubin oxidase has an amino acid sequence of a wild type bilirubin oxidase originated from imperfect fungi, Myrothecium verrucaria, in which at least an amino acid residue is deleted, substituted, added or inserted so as to enhance the heat resistance. The variant type heat resistant bilirubin oxidase has denaturation temperature T m , for example, not lower than 72°C. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Abstract translation:要解决的问题:提供具有至少预定水平的胆红素氧化酶的酶活性及其耐热性的变体型胆红素氧化酶。 解决方案:变异型耐热性胆红素氧化酶具有源自不完全真菌的野生型胆红素氧化酶的氨基酸序列,其中至少一个氨基酸残基被缺失,取代,添加或插入,从而 提高耐热性。 变异型耐热性胆红素氧化酶具有变性温度T m SB>,例如不低于72℃。 版权所有(C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fuel cell capable of generating high output and its manufacturing method. SOLUTION: In the fuel cell having structure facing a negative electrode 1 and a positive electrode 2 through a proton conductor 3, and immobilizing enzyme, coenzyme, and mediator in the negative electrode 1, a high output agent comprising phospholipid such as dimyristoyl phosphatidylcholine (DMPC) or its derivative, or a polymer of them in addition to the enzyme, the coenzyme, and the mediator, or a mediator diffusion accelerator is immobilized to the negative electrode 1. As the mediator, a compound having quinone skeleton, 2-amino-1,4-naphtoquinone (ANQ) for example is used. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique for increasing an output of a microbial fuel cell.SOLUTION: There is provided a microbial fuel cell using a polyol, such as glycerol, as fuel, and microbes, in which an enzyme catalyzing an oxidation-reduction reaction is introduced by genetic modification, on the negative electrode side. In the microbial fuel cell, a high output can be obtained by maintaining the microbes, in which an enzyme, such as diaphorase, catalyzing an oxidation-reduction reaction is introduced by genetic modification, on the negative electrode side, thereby accelerating a rate of the reaction.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a photoconductor which can prevent the carriers excited by light from disappearing by recombination while enhancing photoelectric conversion efficiency, and to provide a photoelectric conversion element using the photoconductor.SOLUTION: The photoconductor is formed of a composite of a conductive polymer and/or a polymer semiconductor 11, and one or a plurality of proteins 12 containing at least one dye 12a having a long life excited state. The dye 12a becomes a luminescence center. The conductive polymer and/or a polymer semiconductor 11 is formed in network. The conductive polymer and/or a polymer semiconductor 11 and the protein 12 are bonded by non-covalent bond or covalent bond. A photoelectric conversion element is configured by connecting first and second electrodes electrically to different parts of the conductive polymer and/or a polymer semiconductor 11 in network of the photoconductor.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a novel protein which has extremely high stability to the irradiation with light and has a long-lasting photoelectric conversion function, and also to provide a protein photoelectric conversion element which is stably used over a long period of time using the same. SOLUTION: Iron, which is a metal located at the center of a heme of horse heart cytochrome c, is substituted by tin to produce tin-substituted horse heart cytochrome c. Iron, which is a metal located at the center of a heme of bovine heart cytochrome c, is substituted by tin to produce tin-substituted bovine heart cytochrome c. A protein 22 comprising the tin-substituted horse heart cytochrome c or the tin-substituted bovine heart cytochrome c is immobilized on an electrode 21 to produce a protein-immobilized electrode. A protein photoelectric conversion element is formed by using the protein-immobilized electrode. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a new method for coating BOD (bilirubin oxidase). SOLUTION: Provided is the BOD coating method for carrying out a polymerizable functional group introducing step of introducing the polymerizable functional group into the surface of the BOD molecule, and a copolymerizing step of initiating copolymerization of the polymerizable functional group with a polymerizable monomer at ≤17°C. The stability to heat and organic solvents can be improved while suppressing deterioration of the enzyme activity of the coated BOD by using the method for coating. Furthermore, the BOD coated by using the method can suitably be used for an enzyme electrode of a fuel cell. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT