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Name : Associate Prof. Dr. Fahrul Zaman Huyop
Designation : Associate Professor
Address
: Industrial Biotechnology Department, Faculty of Biosciences & Bioengineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Skudai, Johor, Malaysia

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Tel : 07-5534556/012-6849374
Fax : 07-5566162
Email : fzhutm[at]gmail.com / fahrul[at]fbb.utm.my
Website : http://www.fbb.utm.my
Research Alliance Bio-Technology
Research Group Biomolecular and Microbial Process (BIOMIP)

 

 

Curriculum Vitae

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Research Area
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Pollutant Degradation
Our group interested in the ability of microbes to detoxify pollutants. There are two ways we can accomplish this:
1- to grow bacteria aerobically at the expense of the substance and convert them to harmless compound CO2 and H2O.
2- to convert the compound to harmless chemicals (rather than CO2 and H2O) by the action of the single enzyme; and it is possible to prepare and use this detoxifying enzymes.
The enzymes must require no cofactors for their action and these enzymes catalyse via hydrolytic reactions where water is the only co-substrate. Our project usually involves seeking out the most suitable enzymes by screening for appropriate bacteria in soil or water samples. At the end of the project, to produce effective systems to provide large quantities of the desired enzyme, the related/suitable gene is cloned and its over-expression engineered. We are also interested to see if our enzymes may have other potential uses in the chemicals industry for example the reaction has a stereochemical dimension.
Currently, our group involve in Plant Biotechnology research work. We have selected a few plant species for our tissue culture work to make a transgenic plant that carry a marker gene based on the detoxification of the herbicide Dalapon.

Selected Publications

1. Fahrul Z. Huyop*, Tan Yea Yusn, Marcella Ismail, Roswanira Ab Wahab and Ronald A. Cooper (2004). Overexpression and characterisation of non-stereospecific haloacid Dehalogenase E (DehE) of Rhizobium sp. Asia Pacific Journal of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology 12(1&2): 15-20


2. Ng Hong Jing and Fahrul Huyop* (2007) Dehalogenation of chlorinated aliphatic acid by Rhodoccus sp. Asia Pacific Journal of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology. 15(3):147-151

3. Ng Hong Jing and Fahrul Huyop* (2008) Enzymatic dehalogenation of 2,2-dichloropropionic acid by locally isolated Methylobacterium sp. HJ1. Journal of Biological Sciences. 8(1):233-235 ISSN 1727-3048

SUBJECT TAUGHT

- QUIZ 2 MQT 1173

- QUIZ 3 MQT 1173

- LECTURE 1B INTRODUCTION TO CELLS

- LECTURE 2A PROKARYOTIC CELL STRUCTURE

- LECTURE 2 THE CELL ENVELOPE PART 1

- LECTURE 2 THR CELL ENVELOPE PART 2

- LECTURE 3 EUKARYOTIC

- LECTURE 4 PROTOPLAST

- LECTURE 5 GROWTH REQUIREMENTS FOR BACTERIAL CELLS

- LECTURE 6 MICROBIAL GROWTH KINETICS

- LECTURE 6B FACTORS AFFECTING GROWTH

- LECTURE 7 INTRODUCTION TO GENERICS MATERIALS

- QUIZ 4A MQT1173

- LECTURE 7i GENE EXPRESSION AND REGULATION

- LECTURE 7ii GENE EXPRESSION AND REGULATION

- LECTURE 8 MICROBIAL GROWTH IN FLOUROACETE

- LECTURE 9 PROTEIN STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION DEHALOGENASE

- LECTURE 10 16S rRNA analysis of R.equi

- GENETIC ENGINEERING OF PLANTS (Prof Madya Dr Ismanizan Ismail - UKM)

- FINAL EXAMINATION MQT 1173
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