Title:
METHOD OF ENVIRONMENTAL PURIFICATION OR PROCESSING OF HARMFUL MATERIALS
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2001/059095
Kind Code:
A1
Abstract:
A method wherein an ability to process harmful materials is efficiently imparted to a microorganism appropriately inhabiting polluted environment or a processing apparatus and thus the harmful materials are processed by the microorganism to ensure the purification of the polluted environment, which involves the following steps: 1) proliferating a microorganism A which carries a gene relating to an ability to purify polluted environment or an ability to process harmful materials in the transposon-like sequence domain transferring into the genome of other organisms or plasmids; and 2) transferring the microorganism A thus proliferated into a processing apparatus containing another microorganism B or polluted environment with the inhabitation of the microorganism B and horizontally transferring the transposon-like sequence domain of the microorganism A into the chromosome of the microorganism B to thereby transfer the above-described gene into the microorganism B; thereby purifying the polluted environment or processing the harmful materials by the microorganism B which has acquired the ability to purify the environment or process the harmful materials.
Inventors:
ENDO GINRO (JP)
HUANG CHIEN CHEN (JP)
NARITA MASARU (JP)
HUANG CHIEN CHEN (JP)
NARITA MASARU (JP)
Application Number:
PCT/JP2000/009349
Publication Date:
August 16, 2001
Filing Date:
December 27, 2000
Export Citation:
Assignee:
JAPAN SCIENCE & TECH CORP (JP)
ENDO GINRO (JP)
HUANG CHIEN CHEN (JP)
NARITA MASARU (JP)
ENDO GINRO (JP)
HUANG CHIEN CHEN (JP)
NARITA MASARU (JP)
International Classes:
C12N15/09; B01D53/64; B01D53/70; B09C1/10; C02F3/34; C12N1/21; C12N11/00; C12N15/52; C12N15/87; (IPC1-7): C12N15/09; B01D53/64; C02F3/34; C12N1/21; C12N11/00; C12N15/90
Domestic Patent References:
| WO1992019738A1 | 1992-11-12 |
Foreign References:
| JPH11341976A | 1999-12-14 | |||
| JPH10327850A | 1998-12-15 |
Other References:
"Structure analysis of a class II transposon encoding the mercury resistance of the Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus megaterium MB1, a strain isolated from Minamata Bay, Japan", Gene, Vol. 234, pages 361-369 (1999).
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Nishizawa, Toshio (Udagawa-cho Shibuya-ku Tokyo, JP)
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