METHOD OF ENVIRONMENTAL PURIFICATION OR PROCESSING OF HARMFUL MATERIALS

摘要

A method wherein an ability to process harmful materials is efficiently imparted to a microorganism appropriately inhabiting polluted environment or a processing apparatus and thus the harmful materials are processed by the microorganism to ensure the purification of the polluted environment, which involves the following steps: 1) proliferating a microorganism A which carries a gene relating to an ability to purify polluted environment or an ability to process harmful materials in the transposon-like sequence domain transferring into the genome of other organisms or plasmids; and 2) transferring the microorganism A thus proliferated into a processing apparatus containing another microorganism B or polluted environment with the inhabitation of the microorganism B and horizontally transferring the transposon-like sequence domain of the microorganism A into the chromosome of the microorganism B to thereby transfer the above-described gene into the microorganism B; thereby purifying the polluted environment or processing the harmful materials by the microorganism B which has acquired the ability to purify the environment or process the harmful materials.