Course title
応用微生物学   [Applied Microbiology]
Course category		Requirement		Credit	2
Department		Year	3～	Semester	Spring
Course type	Spring	Course code	01BN3129
Instructor(s)
蓮見 惠司, 鈴木 絵里子   [HASUMI Keiji, SUZUKI Eriko]
Facility affiliation	Faculty of Agriculture	Office		Email address

Course description

Overview of applied microbiology and biotechnology focusing on the fundamental understanding of the molecular and evolutional bases

Expected Learning

Please refer to the following "Course schedule."

Course schedule

1. Introduction 2. What is fermentation? 3. Microbial production of amino acids--(1) Glutamic acid 4. Microbial production of amino acids--(2) Lysine 5. Microbial production of nucleosides and nucleotides--(1) Inosine and guanosine 6. Microbial production of nucleosides and nucleotides--(2) Inosinic acid and guanylic acid 7. Antibiotics--(1) Overview and beta-lactams 8. Antibiotics--(2) Aminoglycosides, macrolides, and other antibiotics 9. Antifungal and antitumor microbial metabolites 10. Bioactive microbial metabolites--(1) Discovery and development of statins 11. Bioactive microbial metabolites--(2) Mechanism of the action of statins 12. Bioactive microbial metabolites--(3) Other compounds 13. Bioactive microbial metabolites--(4) Introduction to recent drug development 14. Microbial enzymes and their use as bioreactors and biosensors 15. Summary

Prerequisites

None

Required Text(s) and Materials

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References

To be introduced at the first lecture

Assessment/Grading

To be disclosed at the first lecture

Message from instructor(s)

Course keywords

Office hours

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Lecture Language

Japanese

Language Subject

Last update

3/5/2018 11:44:41 AM