💡Prove that the cause of iron corrosion has an enzyme that extracts electrons

By Riken, 5 Science

💡Prove that the cause of iron corrosion has an enzyme that extracts electrons

A research team centered on NIMS and RIKEN revealed that bacteria that cause iron corrosion in oil pipelines and the like possess enzymes that directly extract electrons from iron.

At present, corrosion countermeasures are being carried out with exhaustive sterilization using antibiotics, but future development such as development of a drug targeting the enzyme discovered this time, development to an anticorrosive method with less environmental impact You can expect.

The result of this research was published in Science Advances magazine on local time at 2 pm on February 16, 2018 (4 am on Japan time 17th day).

NIMS

http://www.nims.go.jp/news/press/2018/02/201802170.html

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