Our laboratory’s global collaboration network ◼ Imperial College London, UK ◼ Cambridge Consultants, UK ◼ University of Bristol, UK ◼ INSA Toulouse, France ◼ KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden ◼ VTT, Finland ◼ National University of Singapore ◼ University of Texas at Austin ◼ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ◼ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ◼ Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China ◼ University of Minho, Portugal ◼ Stellenbosch University, Republic of South Africa
Enzyme Design Enzyme Expression Enzyme Evaluation Feature Extraction Implementation to Host Bio-production D B T L Ala286 Substrate Automation Automation 酵素工学のプラットフォーム開発
Case study of ADH screening Alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) Aldehyde Alcohol H O R R OH MUSASHI Method for clustering enzymes by function (MUltiple-Sequence Alignment-based protein Selection via clustering using HIgh-dimensional analysis) ➢ appears frequently in metabolic pathway design ➢ has promiscuity useful for designing artificial metabolic pathways. 6727-sequence alignment projected to PCA by MUSASHI Method The differences in promiscuity among individual ADHs are not understood. 2 representative sequences from each group
ADH screening Heatmap of enzyme activity Enzyme assay of ~20 enzymes with lab automation Substrate structures (~40 types of substrates) ✓ Enzymes in Group 1 and Group 3 shared high activity and broad substrate specificity. Shannon-Weiner index Hidese et al. ACS Catal. 2025, 15, 11931 Gr1 Gr3 Enzyme Substrate
https://www.shimadzu.co.jp/news/press/7b4ut3plj5emypl8.html Development of a cloud-based laboratory fusing AI and robotics automatically conduct experiments and considers the next protocol Mass Spec Fushimi et al. Sci. Rep., 2025, 15:6648 自律型実験システム(Autonomous Lab)
地域中核・特色ある研究大学強化促進事業 ① 強みを持つ特定の学術領域(バイオものづくり) の卓越性のさらなる発展 ② 地球規模課題の解決と、社会変革に繋がるイノ ベーションを創出 ③ 地域産業の生産性向上や、雇用創出の牽引 研究力を生かして地域課題解決をリードする機能を 有する地域中核・特色ある研究大学が、国際展開 や大学間での効果的な連携を図ることで、大学群と して発展していくための事業 バイオものづくり共創研究拠点
Acknowledgements 共同研究等、ぜひご連絡ください [email protected] Prof. Akihiko Kondo Prof. Michihiro Araki Prof. Tomokazu Shirai Assoc. Prof. Christopher J. Vavricka Jr. Assoc. Prof. Ryota Hidese Assist. Prof. Takahiro Bamba Assist. Prof. Kenya Tanaka Assist .Prof. Ryo Nasuno Dr. Hisashi Kudo Ms. Yoshimi Hori Ms. Mami Matsuda Mr. Takanobu Yoshida