Team:TMU-Tokyo/Project device2

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Device2;

Producing formaldehyde dehydrogenase, changing formaldehyde to formate



 
 

Escherichia coli has original formaldehyde dehydrogenase, but it depends on glutathione (existence). Instead of it, we found glutathione-independent formaldehyde dehydrogenase in Pseudomonas putida. This device is composed of its gene and constitutive promoter.