Team:ULB-Brussels/Safety
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- | <p>However, in the current state of our project, | + | <p>However, in the current state of our project, plasmids are maintained in the bacterial population through the usual system of antibiotic resistance, since the toxin and the antitoxin are to be placed on different plasmids bearing different resistance genes. The properties of the TA systems are used to boost protein production but also for plasmid stability. In the final version of our project, the toxin gene will be inserted in the genomic DNA of the bacteria to reduce loss chances. Bacteria will be compelled to keep the plasmid bearing the genes of the antitoxin and the protein of interest, without the need of infamous antibiotic resistance genes</p> |
- | <p>If, for one reason or another, the overproduction of a protein did not | + | <p>If, for one reason or another, the overproduction of a protein did not result in a competitive disadvantage, antitoxin production can be put under the control of an inducible promoter, acting as a built-in biocontainment device. Indeed, if we chose an artificial inducer for the expression of the antitoxin (that is, an inducer that is not found in nature), an escaped bacterium could not inhibit the activity of the toxin and woud quickly die outside of the bioreactor.</p> |
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<p>Rules of good handling should be respected for our system. Theses rules vary to one country to another. | <p>Rules of good handling should be respected for our system. Theses rules vary to one country to another. | ||
According to the Belgian Biosafety Server [1], Migthy coli is in risk class 1 because our construction cannot cause any disease in animals or plants or cause disorders in the environnement. But our construction has any feedback of safety in laboratory or in industry because it’s experimental. The risk class depends of the organism where the construction is inside but if it’s a organism of class 1 the laboratory must have different characteristic like: </p> | According to the Belgian Biosafety Server [1], Migthy coli is in risk class 1 because our construction cannot cause any disease in animals or plants or cause disorders in the environnement. But our construction has any feedback of safety in laboratory or in industry because it’s experimental. The risk class depends of the organism where the construction is inside but if it’s a organism of class 1 the laboratory must have different characteristic like: </p> | ||
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- | < | + | <li>A sink to wash and decontaminate the hands</li> |
- | < | + | <li>A cloakroom where the lab coat are not in contact with everyday clothing</li> |
- | < | + | <li>Easy to clean benches, resistant to acidic, alkaline and disinfectant solutions</li> |
- | < | + | <li>An autoclave to sterilize waste</li> |
- | < | + | <li>Lab restricted to authorized personnel</li> |
- | < | + | <li>Class risk and lab head are indicated on the entrance door of the lab</li> |
- | < | + | <li>A lab coat is necessary to work</li> |
- | < | + | <li>Modified organisms are confined into a sealed system when they are not used</li> |
- | < | + | <li>Avoid any aerosols</li> |
- | < | + | <li>Mechanic pipetting, not with the mouth</li> |
- | < | + | <li>Forbidden eating, drink, smoke, manipulate contact lens, use cosmetics, stock food for human consummation in the lab</li> |
- | < | + | <li>A notebook where each modified organism which is used and stocked is recorded</li> |
- | < | + | <li>The lab security is verified</li> |
- | < | + | <li>Hands are washed before leaving the lab</li> |
- | < | + | <li>Work table is disinfected after each manipulation and also if biological material is reversed</p> |
- | < | + | <li>A manual of decontamination is at the disposition of the workers</li> |
- | < | + | <li>Courses about security are applied for the workers and regular updated are organized</li> |
- | < | + | <li>Pets are forbidden in the lab</li> |
- | < | + | <li>Waste and contaminated materials are inactivated by an appropriate and validated method (by incineration or autoclave)</li> |
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<p>In conclusion, our system seems to be extremely safe and predictable, whose biggest danger consists of being used to produce a dangerous protein. This latter problem should be addressed on a case-by-case basis, by other institution than ours. Of course, our topical lab system is really safe, since it should only overproduce fluorescent proteins (GFP or RFP).</p> | <p>In conclusion, our system seems to be extremely safe and predictable, whose biggest danger consists of being used to produce a dangerous protein. This latter problem should be addressed on a case-by-case basis, by other institution than ours. Of course, our topical lab system is really safe, since it should only overproduce fluorescent proteins (GFP or RFP).</p> |
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