Team:LMU-Munich/Bacillus Introduction

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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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Fig. 2: The vegetative cycle is very similiar to the one of E. coli. But if there is a stress condition like starvation, the cells enter sporulation, where they first undergo a polar cell division, followed by the formation of the endospore. If the enviromental conditions are suitable again, the spore will then germinate and reenter the vegetative cycle.


2) B. subtilis can replicate exogenous DNA via an origin of replication on a plasmid as E. coli does, but there is a much more elegant way of bringing in exogenous DNA stretches. When flanked by homologous regions to the bacterial genome, it will integrate at high efficiency via homologous recombination at this locus and furthermore be replicated with the genome. This has the advantage that if comparing different variables, not only the enviroment is always the same, but also the copy number is from cell to cell and from strain to strain the same, which is not always the case for replicative plasmids. This integrative way of bringing in exogenous DNA was exploited by us when producing the BioBrick compatible Bacillus vectors. The comparision between these two ways of bringing in exogenous DNA is depicted in Fig. 3.
For these reasons, in some cases B. subtilis can be the chassis of choice. Unfortunately, very few iGEM teams have worked with this model organism, and there is at this time no established BioBrick system to use B. subtilis as a chassis.



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Fig. 3: Exogenous DNA is shown in red while the bacterial genome is black a) The propagation of exogenous DNA if brought in as replicative plasmid. The number of plasmids per cell can vary. b) The propagation of exogenous DNA if it is able to integrate into the genome via homologous recombination




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