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Protein Materials Project
Biomaterials, with their reproducible and biodegradable nature, are promising alternative materials for a sustainable society. Spider silk, which has a strength exceeding that of steel, an elasticity comparable to nylon and an unsurpassed toughness, is attracting attention as one of the promising candidates for biomaterials, and industrial applications are beginning to emerge. This project aims to elucidate the constitutive mechanisms of protein materials such as spider silk through omics analysis, molecular biology and materials science, and to enable the design and modification of protein materials for various applications.
Publication
- Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 118(31):e2107065118.(2021)
- Open Biol.11(12):210242.(2021)
- Zoological Lett. 7(1):11.(2021)
- Science Advance.6(45):eabb6030.(2020)
- Polymer Journal. 52:1043-1056.(2020)
- Scientific Reports. 9(1):8380.(2020)
- J Proteomics. 239:104195. (2021)
- Genome Biol Evol. 13(12):evab281.(2021)
- Mol Ecol Resour. 16(3):662-72.(2016)
Kazuharu Arakawa
Assistant Director, Professor
Keiji Numata
Project Professor
Keizo Takasuka
Project Research Associate
Naoto Yoshinaga
Project Research Associate
Yasuha Watanabe
Visiting Project Researcher
- List of research projects
- Molecular Anhydrobiology Project
- Protein Materials Project
- 3D Cell Atlas Project
- Environmental systems biology Project
- Stolen-phenotype biology Project
- Functional RNA Analysis Project
- Bacterial regulatory RNA project
- Synthetic Biology Project
- Bio-Functional Design Project
- Metabolomics Project
- Extracellular vesicle molecular function research Project
- Bioenergetic regulation Project
- DNA damage response Project
- Molecular Oncology Project
- Cancer Metabolism Project
- Tsuruoka Metabolomics Cohort Study (TMCS) Project