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Kounosuke Hayashi1, Jae Man Lee2, Yusuke Tomozoe3
1Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan; Hitachi Aloka Medical, Ltd., 6-22-1 Mure, Mitaka-shi, Tokyo 181-8622, Japan.
Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering
|April 25, 2015
Abstract:
Recombinant peroxidase from Arthromyces ramosus, fused with domains of antibody-binding proteins, was successfully obtained by a silkworm larvae expression system. The catalytic activity of the fusion peroxidase was increased 6-fold with the injection of 5-aminolevulinic acid into silkworm larvae as a heme precursor.

