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Revision as of 08:15, 17 October 2014
The LactoAid
A smart bandage for burnwounds
The iGEM Groningen team 2014 is creating a bandage containing Lactococcus lactis that produces nisin to destroy gram-positive bacteria. The bandage consists of a top layer that permits air to flow through and keeps the bandage clean, a middle layer of hydrogel that holds the. L. lactis and a bottom layer of higher density hydrogel that allows proteins to pass through but contains the L. lactis to the middle layer. Additionally we wll introduce the excretion of AHL lactonase and Dispersin B, compounds that disrupt quorum sensing and biofilm formation respectively of Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. To take it even further, the bandage will detect quorum sensing molecules produced by S. aureus and P. aeruginosa. Thus the bandage will excrete nisin and Dispersin B when S. aureus is present and AHL lactonase when P. aeruginosa is present.
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The lactoAid is a bandage consisting of three layers; a top layer that is permeable to gases, a central layer containing L. lactis and a bottom layer that allows for the transport of proteins like quorum sensing molecules and infection preventing molecules (IPMs).
Infections in burn wounds are currently only treatable with antibiotics. An increase in antibiotic resistance makes it harder every day to fight these bacteria. In our system L. lactis produces a so-called lantibiotic, nisin. Nisin is effective against a group of gram-positive bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus and resistance against nisin is hardly ever found and if found, the resistance does not last.
