SeaScreen: expanding a bioprocess repertoire by smart marine microbe screening.

世界上的海洋含有许多不同类型的细胞和病毒，它们已经发展出在与陆地截然不同的条件下生存所必需的手段。因此，这些细胞和病毒含有许多在陆生植物、动物和细菌中找不到的蛋白质和化学物质。普利茅斯海洋实验室的科学家们已经成为从海洋中寻找和培养细菌和病毒的专家。与英国的Ingenza和Aquapharm生物科学公司合作，我们计划利用这些技能寻找能够产生特定酶的细菌和病毒，这些酶可以用来制造自然界中通常找不到的新化学品和药物。这种酶还可以用新的方法来制造现有的化学物质，这种方法将更有效，对环境的污染更少。

The world's oceans contain many different types of cells and viruses which have developed the means necessary to survive under conditions which are very different from those found on land. As a result these cells and viruses contain many proteins and chemicals which are not found in land-based plants, animals, and bacteria. Scientists at Plymouth Marine Laboratory have become experts at finding and growing both bacteria and viruses from the sea. Working with U.K.-based companies Ingenza and Aquapharm Biosciences we plan to use these skills to look for bacteria and viruses which produce particular enzymes which could be used to make new chemicals and medicines which are not normally found in nature. The enzymes could also be used to make existing chemicals in new ways which would be more efficient and less polluting to the environment.