Nobuyasu Shiga * Shunsuke Adachi Shoji Ishizaka Hiroshi Uji-i Hisaki Oka
Shinzi Ogasawara Tetsuo Okutsu Yasuyuki Ozeki Shin-ichi Zaitsu Smith Nicholas, I
Kenji Tamasaku Koji Hatanaka Yuriko Higuchi Shinji Masuda Tomoyuki Yatsuhashi

* 5Years

Growth control of molecular crystal by making free use of photochemical reaction

Tetsuo Okutsu

Gunma University, Graduate School of Engineering,
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Professor

URL : http://www.chem.gunma-u.ac.jp/~mr4/index_e.html

Research Theme

Science and technology to obtain high quality protein crystal are studied as an application of photochemically induced crystallization. In situ observation of nucleation is detected. We apply this technique to crystallize hydrophobic membrane proteins those are known to difficult to obtain crystal by given present method. These study results will be useful to make drug discovery more efficient.