Research Director

Yasuyoshi Sakai

Professor, Division of Applied Life Sciences, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University
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Outline

Oxidation of methane is a “dream reaction” for catalyst researchers because of its highly inactive C-H bond. However, some microbes, called “methanotrophs”, could excute this dream reaction in a tremendous scale (1 billion t /yr) on the earth. This research explores creation of a novel-type of methane-oxidizing catalyst via synthetic biology appropach, and its application for production of useful chemicals.