Team:Korea U Seoul
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- | + | The main objective of our project is to construct a novel “protein whip” platform, with which we can make Corynebacterium glutamicum to express other corynebacterium’s pili structure comprised of chains of a protein of our choice. As our first try, we decided to make pili made out of green fluorescence proteins (GFP); in order to do so, we substituted SpaA protein, one of the surface proteins in the Pilin A gene cluster, into green fluorescence protein, and transformed a vector containing the modified Pilin A gene cluster into a C. glutamicum strain. | |
+ | Our “protein whip” platform is expected to have many practical applications. For example, pili made out of an enzyme, enzyme whip will enable the reaction to take place with high efficiency, for a great number of the enzyme included in the pili will be able to “attack” the reactants simultaneously. Biofilms made of strains of bacteria that express pili comprised of chains of specific amino acids such as histidine or cysteine that readily bind to heavy metals may be utilized to purify water contaminated with heavy metals. | ||
+ | Having a number of potential applications is not the sole merit of our project; by using C. glutamicum instead of widely exploited Escherichia coli, our project also contributes to expanding model organisms used in synthetic biology beyond E. coli. | ||
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The main objective of our project is to construct a novel “protein whip” platform, with which we can make Corynebacterium glutamicum to express other corynebacterium’s pili structure comprised of chains of a protein of our choice. As our first try, we decided to make pili made out of green fluorescence proteins (GFP); in order to do so, we substituted SpaA protein, one of the surface proteins in the Pilin A gene cluster, into green fluorescence protein, and transformed a vector containing the modified Pilin A gene cluster into a C. glutamicum strain. Our “protein whip” platform is expected to have many practical applications. For example, pili made out of an enzyme, enzyme whip will enable the reaction to take place with high efficiency, for a great number of the enzyme included in the pili will be able to “attack” the reactants simultaneously. Biofilms made of strains of bacteria that express pili comprised of chains of specific amino acids such as histidine or cysteine that readily bind to heavy metals may be utilized to purify water contaminated with heavy metals. Having a number of potential applications is not the sole merit of our project; by using C. glutamicum instead of widely exploited Escherichia coli, our project also contributes to expanding model organisms used in synthetic biology beyond E. coli.
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