What does the Targeted Proteins Research Program do?

In the fiscal year 2007, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan started the “Targeted Proteins Research Program” with the planned duration of five years (2007-2011) as part of the Strategic and Focused Research, “Science and Technology for Reproduction of the Program of Life”, as specified by the Promotional Strategy for Prioritized Areas in the 3rd Science and Technology Basic Plan. This program is conducted under the competitive research fund system and aims to (i) maximally utilize the products and research bases developed in the “National Project on Protein Structural and Functional Analyses” (Protein 3000, 2002-2006) and “Development of Advanced Technology for Protein Analysis” (2006) , (ii) to select protein targets of crucial importance for academic research and industrial applications that present extreme difficulty at the current technological level, and (iii) to carry out the structural and functional analyses of the proteins, concurrently “Protein production technology” , “Protein structural analysis technology”, “Protein regulation technology”, and “Information platform”.

For this purpose, we pursue research and technological development for structural and functional analyses of proteins. We also conduct research to determine the structure and function of targeted proteins whose elucidation is expected to investigations of fundamental biological phenomena, contribute to medical and pharmaceutical sciences and industrial applications including food and environment.

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Database of Results 

PDBj 

DDBj 

MEXT 

Open Space for Life Science of MEXT 

Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) 

Protein Science Society of Japan 

National Institute of Genetics 

Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd. 

Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University