Conference

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Name Mitsui Ryoji
Belonging department
Occupation name
researchmap researcher code 1000364532
researchmap agency Okayama University of Science

Title

Formaldehyde generation from lignin monomers by vanillic acid demethylase in Burkholderia cepacia TM1. -Cloning of the gene encoding vanillic acid demethylase and detoxification system of formaldehyde-

Author

Ryoji MITSUI, Hiroya YURIMOTO, Yasuyoshi SAKAI, Nobuo KATO,  Mitsuo TANAKA

Journal

Gordon Research conference

Publication Date

2004/07

Invited

Language

English

Conference Class

Conference Type

Poster sessions

Promoter

Venue

米国・マサチューセッツ

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Summary

Lignin is one of the most enormous organic resources in the nature. It is composed of many aromatic compounds with methoxyl group such as vanillin and vanillic acid. During bacterial degradation of methoxylated lignin monomers, formaldehyde is released th