Team:Evry/Biology/Chassis/Motivation
From 2014.igem.org
A specific chassis for a specific environnement: Seas & Oceans
As seen in the overview our biosensors should work optimaly in native marine conditions, a conditions for which
Moreover it has to attach to sponges and stick with them without disturbing the microbiome for as long as possible.
Therefore came up the necessity to use a bacterium naturally present on the sponges, may it be an epibiont or a symbiont.
To be up to the task the bacterium should have the following properties:
- be massively present on the surface / avoiding being in an unfavorable position for food competition.
- be found mainly in sponges / avoid spreading to species in contact with sponges.
- be the phenotypically closest possible to a known bacterium.
Pseudovibrio is a genus of the bacterial family Rhodobacteraceae which is not very well known in the scientific community.