Details of Award
NERC Reference : NER/T/S/2003/00727
Determining the exploitation potential of novel algal virus enzymes.
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Dr WH Wilson, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UNLISTED
- Grant held at:
- Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UNLISTED
- Science Area:
- Marine
- Overall Classification:
- Marine
- ENRIs:
- Natural Resource Management
- Biodiversity
- Science Topics:
- Environmental Physiology
- Environmental Genomics
- Environmental biotechnology
- Abstract:
- Viruses are the most abundant biological agents in aquatic environments and possibly represent the largest unexploited biotechnological resource on the planet. Algal viruses have a long evolutionary history; consequently, algal virus specified biochemical pathways and processes might represent extremely efficient ancestral systems. There is huge exploitation potential in screening of such systems. We have sequenced the genome of an algal virus (EhV86) that infects the globally important coccolithophorid Emiliania huxleyi and we have discovered several exploitable enzyme and protein homologues. We will express, purify and screen a range of these enzymes/proteins to assess their potential for further exploitation.
- NERC Reference:
- NER/T/S/2003/00727
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Directed Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Marine & Freshwater Microbial
This grant award has a total value of £30,749
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - T&S | Total - Staff | Total - Other Costs | Total - Indirect Costs |
|---|---|---|---|
| £2,357 | £13,257 | £9,036 | £6,098 |
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