Biomass Morphogenesis and Information II?
| Numbering Code | G-AGR02 6BA65 LJ80 | Year/Term | 2022 ・ Second semester | |
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| Number of Credits | 1 | Course Type | Lecture | |
| Target Year | Target Student | |||
| Language | Japanese | Day/Period | Mon.2 | |
| Instructor name | IMAI TOMOYA (Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere Professor) | |||
| Outline and Purpose of the Course | Biomass, including woody cell walls, is a polymer composite material with a complex structure, and it is formed as a result of biological activity or enzymatic reaction. This is an astonishing function givne that such complex macromolecules composites are produced under ambitic temperature and pressure in aqueous environment. The viewpoint from protein science (biochemistry) and polymer science are required for understanding this interesting biological function. This course aims for understainding how protein function is involved in the formation of wood cell walls and other biomasses in a view from biochemistry and polymer science. | |||
| Course Goals | Understanding of components (cellulose etc.) synthesized by membrane proteins in constituents of plant cell wall from both of the viewpoints of the enzyme protein that catalyzes the synthesis reaction (biochemistry), and the viewpoint of the polymer as the synthetic product (polymer science). | |||
| Schedule and Contents |
(2 times) Protein structure and function as the syntheses mechanism of biological macromolecules (2 times) Membrane biochemistry for wood cell wall synthesis (3 times) The principle of diffraction/scattering and electron microscopy and its application to macromolecular structure analysis |
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| Evaluation Methods and Policy | Evaluated based on minitests (50%) and the report at the end of lecture (50%) | |||
| Course Requirements | Biology and Chemistry at the undergraduate level, | |||
| Study outside of Class (preparation and review) | Opportunities on practice with electron microscopy outside of school hours can be provided on requests (Imai, contact necessary in advance). | |||
| Textbooks | Textbooks/References | Handouts will be given. | ||
| References, etc. |
Kazuhiko Fukusima and other 5 authors "Formation of Woody Material: Introduction to the Science of Biomass (in Japanese)" (Kaiseisha Press) ISBN:978-4-86099-252-1; Joachim Frank "Three-dimensional electron microscopy of macromolecular assembly" (Oxford University Press) ISBN:978-0-19-515096-4, P. Albesheim and other 4 authors; "Plant Cell Walls" (Garland Science) ISBN:978-0-8153-1996-2 |
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