Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0559665

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0559665

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Elucidation of bacterial glycosylytransferase specificity. The benefits are involvement in the growth area of polysaccharide research, with potential for major industrial spin off. Polysaccharides are critical in all organisms as signalling, structural and storage compounds. Bacteria make a wide variety with extensive use of unusual sugars, some with uses from oil emulsifiers to food thickeners. The project is on the enzymes that assemble bacterial polysaccharides. We are world leaders in genetics of the gene clusters especially synthesis of the unusual sugars. We now aim to fill a major gap by determining which enzymes make which bonds, leading to options for new gene combinations and novel structures. We have a lead in research in this area and Australia gains if we maintain that lead.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 03-03-2005

End Date: 01-12-2008

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $230,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Agricultural Biotechnology | Molecular Evolution | Genetic Engineering And Enzyme Technology | Bacteriology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Infectious diseases | Biological sciences |

Other Keywords

Agricultural Biotechnology | Bacteriology | Biological sciences | Genetic Engineering And Enzyme Technology | Infectious diseases | Molecular Evolution

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