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| - | <p style = "text-align: left; text-indent:0px"> AMB-1 is most useful for synthetic biology because of its rare capacity to align with magnetic fields.<sup>9</sup> We attempted to explore the magnetic properties of AMB-1 as further understanding would prove AMB-1’s value as a chassis in bioremediation and other fields. </p> | + | <p style = "text-align: left; text-indent:0px"> AMB-1 is most useful for synthetic biology because of its rare capacity to align with magnetic fields.<sup>[9]</sup> We attempted to explore the magnetic properties of AMB-1 as further understanding would prove AMB-1’s value as a chassis in bioremediation and other fields. </p> |
<h3 style= "text-align: left">Relationship Between OD<sub>600</sub> and T<sub>2</sub> for AMB-1</h3> | <h3 style= "text-align: left">Relationship Between OD<sub>600</sub> and T<sub>2</sub> for AMB-1</h3> | ||
Latest revision as of 03:01, 18 October 2014
AMB-1 is most useful for synthetic biology because of its rare capacity to align with magnetic fields.[9] We attempted to explore the magnetic properties of AMB-1 as further understanding would prove AMB-1’s value as a chassis in bioremediation and other fields.
Relationship Between OD600 and T2 for AMB-1
We hoped to quantify the magnetic strength of AMB-1 using spin-spin relaxation time (T2 time) and relate it to the cell concentration (OD600). To do so, we used a magnetic NMR machine (the minispec mq60, Bruker) to measure the T2 decay time of cell samples (Fig. 1). A longer T2 time indicated fewer magnetic particles, and therefore weaker magnetic properties.
Figure 1:
Results:
Since the relationship between the inverse of T2 and OD was linear, this data supports that each cell has roughly the same number of magnetosomes, and that a greater number of these magnetosomes can be correlated with stronger magnetic properties. The cell concentration and magnetic strength showed a linear relationship (1/T2) =(0.002x + 0.0016) with an R2 = 0.704.
The following video of AMB-1 was taken under 1000X magnification.
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