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What's Chef Ant E. coli ?

Our project Chef Ant E. coli is to append abilities to detoxify formaldehyde to Escherichia coli.

Following is a simple explanation of our project. If you want more academic explanation, visit Abstract or each device page.

■Background
Formaldehyde is a common harmful chemical, and it has a bad effect in relatively low concentration. (For example, in agricultural chemicals, in disinfectant at hospitals and in paint of building materials)
Also, since fromaldehyde is mass-produced in factories, it is highly possible to exceed over the permissible amount in the environment. These days, in Japan, the detection of formaldehyde in Tone river became an issue.

■Devices
We planed to create E.coli which removes such a hazardous material, named Chef Ant E.coli. It is appended 3 devices and gets removal ability of formaldehyde.
More genetic information about Chef Ant E. coli is available in project abstract.

Image of Chef Ant E. coli.

■Tonegawa's formaldehyde levels spike
[DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE]

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-Formaldehyde is a common harmful chemical, and it has a bad effect in relatively low concentration. (For example, in agricultural chemicals, in disinfectant at hospitals and in paint of building materials) Also, since fromaldehyde is mass-produced in factories, it is highly possible to exceed over the permissible amount in the environment. These days, in Japan, the detection of formaldehyde in Tone river became an issue.(1)</p><Br>
+Our project <b>Chef Ant E. coli</b> is to append abilities to detoxify formaldehyde to <i>Escherichia coli</i>.<Br>
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+Following is a simple explanation of our project. If you want more academic explanation, visit <A Href="https://2012.igem.org/Team:TMU-Tokyo/Project_abstract">Abstract</A> or each device page.<Br>
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+<b>■Background</b><Br>
+Formaldehyde is a common harmful chemical, and it has a bad effect in relatively low concentration. (For example, in agricultural chemicals, in disinfectant at hospitals and in paint of building materials)<Br>
+Also, since fromaldehyde is mass-produced in factories, it is highly possible to exceed over the permissible amount in the environment. These days, in Japan, the detection of formaldehyde in Tone river became an issue.<Br>
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+<b>■Devices</b><Br>
+We planed to create E.coli which removes such a hazardous material, named <Strong>Chef Ant E.coli</Strong>. It is appended 3 devices and gets removal ability of formaldehyde.<Br>
+More genetic information about <b>Chef Ant E. coli</b> is available in <A Href="https://2012.igem.org/Team:TMU-Tokyo/Project_abstract"><b>project abstract</b></A>.<Br>
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-In <i>frmRAB</i> operon, which origin is chromosome of Escherichia coli, <i>frmAB</i> is normally repressed by frmR. But, when formaldehyde exists, frmR loses its inhibitory(2). This device is composed of frmR gene, its promoter and GFP gene.</p><Br>
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-<i>Escherichia coli</i> has original formaldehyde dehydrogenase, but it depends on glutathione (existence). Instead of it, we found glutathione-independent formaldehyde dehydrogenase in <i>Pseudomonas putida</i>. This device is composed of its gene and constitutive promoter.<Br></p>
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+Image of <b>Chef Ant E. coli</b>.
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+<b>■Tonegawa's formaldehyde levels spike</b><Br>
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-This formate dehydrogenase gene is derived from <i>Methylobacterium extorquens</i>. As formaldehyde dehydrogenase, <i>Escherichia coli</i> has similar function gene of this gene. But it has too long length to insert high copy plasmid.
-<i>Escherichia coli</i> has a gene that has the similar function as a formate dehydrogenase but it is too long to be inserted into the high copy plasmid. Therefore, we used the <i>Methylobacterium extorquens</i>’s one.
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-. <Strong>Christopher D. Herring and Frederick R. Blattner.</Strong> 2004. Global Transcriptional Effects of a Suppressor tRNA and the Inactivation of the Regulator frmR[<A Href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC522192/">PubMed</A>]</p>
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