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Team:ITB Indonesia/Attributions
From 2014.igem.org
This project is done iGEM ITB_Indonesia 2014 team members and our collaborator . Our team have worked well dan most dedicated for this project.
Project name: SynBIGreen (Synthetic Biology Indonesia Go Green)
Our team consist of variant background of knowledge, they are from science and engineering. We have many talents that no have one for the others. For finishing this project we mapped our talent to variant job following as:
Why we must degrade plastic?
As we know, plastic takes 500 or even 1000 years to degrade by process called photodegradation rather than biodegradation. Knowing this fact, it is necessary to degrade the plastic to reduce the quantity of plastic in the environment. Therefore, a brilliant, effective, and efficient degradation method is important, otherwise, the plastic itself will threatening the environment and affected the life of animal and human that lives in there.
How ColiPlasTer work?
ColiPlasTer is Escherichia coli plastic terminator. These bacteria have a capability to degrade plastic by producing an esterase enzyme that fastens plastic degradation process. This enzyme will degrade plastic to its monomer and using it as a carbon source to sustain the bacteria's life. Therefore, no pollutants produce as a result of this degradation process.
