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The excessive use of disposable plastic and the lack of universal recycling programs has led to the pollution of the world's oceans. In the ocean, large pieces of Polystyrene litter are ground by sea currents into very small pieces, so called plastic plancton, that are consumed by fish, filter feeders, and other organisms living in the oceans. Such plastic uptake can lead to poisoning, sterility and death. The [http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php/Part:BBa_I728500 CPX-peptide] can bind to Polystyrene and was generated by the iGEM team from MIT (2007). CPX-'''Sporo'''beads in huge filter boxes could be put into place to mechanically filter microscopic plastic particles, like polystyrene plancton, out of the water. To prevent the beads from being released into the sea and the plastic to be kept, the '''Sporo'''beads could be attached to membranes in the boxes. Then the '''Sporo'''beads would need to not only display CPX but also a membrane binding protein on their surface. [for security information see [https://2012.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Project_Safety release for application]
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The excessive use of disposable plastic and the lack of universal recycling programs has led to the [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22610295 pollution of the world's oceans]. In the ocean, large pieces of Polystyrene litter are ground by sea currents into very small pieces, so called plastic plancton, that are consumed by fish, filter feeders, and other organisms living in the oceans. Such plastic uptake can lead to poisoning, sterility and death. The [http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php/Part:BBa_I728500 CPX-peptide] can bind to Polystyrene and was generated by the iGEM team from MIT (2007). CPX-'''Sporo'''beads in huge filter boxes could be put into place to mechanically filter microscopic plastic particles, like polystyrene plancton, out of the water. To prevent the beads from being released into the sea and the plastic to be kept, the '''Sporo'''beads could be attached to membranes in the boxes. Then the '''Sporo'''beads would need to not only display CPX but also a membrane binding protein on their surface. [for security information see [https://2012.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Project_Safety release for application]
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Revision as of 01:23, 27 September 2012

iGEM Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Beadzillus

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The LMU-Munich team is exuberantly happy about the great success at the World Championship Jamboree in Boston. Our project Beadzillus finished 4th and won the prize for the "Best Wiki" (with Slovenia) and "Best New Application Project".

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