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<p>Have you ever noticed that ugly black crust found on many precious monuments and statues? Here in Italy, we surely have it, and we’d like to find a way to return our monuments to their natural, beautiful state. <!-- <br/>The crust in question are composed of a gypsum layer (i.e CaSO4-2H2O), that is the product of the reaction between calcite (i.e. CaCO3), the sulphur components of acid rain and atmospheric pollutants.--></p>
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<p>Our idea is to create a bioremediation kit to help every sculptor, restorer, marble cutter or anyone interested in removing that ugly and harmful black crust layer from their precious calcareous stones. Our target is the gypsum layer (i.e. CaSO<sub>4</sub>&sdot;2H<sub>2</sub>O) that is the main component of the black crust. A lot of chemical and mechanical approaches are already on the market, and some have also exploited in the past Sulfur Reducing Bacteria (SRB) to eliminate the trapping gypsum matrix (1, 2). </p>
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<p>Our method exploits an engineered <i>E. coli</i> to reduce aerobically the sulphuric gypsum layer in a controlled and modulated manner. In 2000 the Keasling group engineered bacteria to reduce sulphate aerobically and precipitate metals from water taking advantage of the production of hydrogen sulfide as one of the bioproducts of sulphur reduction (3). We took inspiration from this work and developed two new BioBrick devices directed to overproduce cysteine and then convert it to sulphide with the ultimate goal of dissolving the sulphate layer deposited on the blackened stones.</p>
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<p>Statues and monuments all over the world are not enjoyed to the extent that they should be because they are covered in a disfiguring black crust, which consists mainly of CaSO<sub>4</sub>. <br />
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<p>The expression of CysE is controlled by an arabinose inducible cassette (our Part <a href="http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K731201">BBa_K731201</a>). Our composite Device (<a href="http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K731030">BBa_K731030</a>) is composed by araC–pBad, a strong RBS and the gene encoding M256I CysE (our Part <a href="http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K731010">BBa_K731010</a>).<br/>
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<p>CysE is our keyplayer in the destruction of the black crust. It catalyses the production of O-acetyl-L-serine, a precursor for cysteine.  When cysteine is produced, <i>E. coli</i> needs more sulfate, resulting in the assimilation of the black crust gypsum layer. <br />
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<p>To assess if our devices producing CysE function in vivo we have measured the concentration of cysteine produced and secreted in the medium with ninhydrin, a small organic compound that reacts with different alpha-aminoacids at different pH (6). In the presence of cysteine at low pH the solution turns pink within a few minutes. The reaction between cysteine and ninhydrin at low pH also gives a characteristic UV-VIS spectrum with an absorbance maximum peak at 560 nm.</p>
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<i>Figure 1: NEB10β cells with an without Part <a href="http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K731030">BBa_K7310130</a> (i.e. CysE) operated in the low copy vector pSB3C5 were grown in MOPS, supplemented with K2SO4 and glucose as carbon source, and induced with 5 mM Arabinose. After overnight induction a 0.5 mL aliquot was taken from each sample.  To each aliquot it was added 0.5 mL of glacial acetic acid and 0.5 mL of Ninhidrin reagent prepared as described in our protocol page. Panel A: NEB10β cells before induction (left) and after overnight induction (right). Panel B: Cells transformed with <a href="http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K731030">BBA_K731030</a> before induction (left) and after overnight induction (right).</i>
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<p>Cells transformed with CysE, grown in MOPS and induced with 5 mM arabinose were assayed with ninhydrin along with empty NEB10β cells, and left to grow overnight. Samples taken before induction served as controls.  The data show that when induced with arabinose cells expressing CysE produce a significant amount of cysteine that can be quantified by comparison with a calibration curve built with known concentration of cysteine. We estimated that after one night of induction in MOPS supplemented with glucose and K<sub>2</sub>SO<sub>4</sub> it was produced 0.025 mM cysteine. The experiment was repeated in triplicates. A light pink colour was observed  in a few cases with empty cells grown overnight, indicating that endogenous cysteine is produced in small amounts.</p>
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<i>Figure 12: Toxicity of CysDes. At 4 and 8 hours of induction a 500 µl sample was taken from the uninduced and the induced culture and used to make serial dilution . A 200 µl aliquot of each serial dilution was plated on LB agar and placed overnight at 37°C. The following day the number of colonies from each plate was counted. Cell number was calculated with the following formula: Cells/mL = (# colonies counted)*(dilution factor)/(mL of culture plated). Conditions used are MOPS with 60 mM glycerol (A) and MOPS with 30 mM glucose (B), both in the presence of 0.1 mM cysteine. Experiments were done with Part <a href="http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K731400">BBa_K731400</a>.</i>
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<p>We concluded that MOPS supplemented with glucose produced enough CysDes, in concentration sufficient to reduce the amount of cysteine produced by our other Part <a href="http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K731030">BBa_K731030</a> (i.e. CysE).</p>
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<i>Figure 13: Our engineered <i>E.coli</i> aerobically reduces sulfate and transform the produced cysteine into hydrogen sulphide. Panel A, B,  and C: NEB10b cells grown in MOPS supplemented with 30 mM glucose and 4 mM potassium sulfate were induced with 5 mM arabinose and/or 0.1 mM IPTG. The production of cysteine was measured with a colorimetric assay that uses ninhydrin, a small organic molecule that reacts with cysteine at low pH. Empty NEB10b cells do not produce cysteine (A), <a href="http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K731030">BBa_K731030</a> when induced produce cysteine (B), cells co-transformed with <a href="http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K731030">BBa_K731030</a> and <a href="http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K731400">BBa_K731400</a> when co-induced do not show residual cysteine in the media, indicating that cysteine is being transformed into hydrogen sulphide (C).</i>
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<p>The data show that CysE induction seems to be decreased significantly upon CysDes expression. For example, at 0.02 mM of IPTG the expression seems to be 3 fold less when compared with the levels of protein produced in the absence of IPTG.</p>
 
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<i>Figure 17: Black crust removal from Carrara marble. Panel A: before treatment. Panel B: after 3 cycles of treatment with NEB10β expressing Parts <a href="http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K731030">BBa_K731030</a> and <a href="http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K731400">BBa_K731400</a>. The black crust was reproduced in the laboratory with our Crustonator using a Carrara marble samples of the dimensions of 10 cm x 10 cm. The bacteria were applied on the surface with our Jelly-MOPS for 3 cycles of 12 hours each. After the 3 cycles the gel was removed and the stone was gently tapped with blotting paper and then rinsed with hot water. If you want to know more about the Crustonator and Jelly-MOPS you can find them at the end of this section.
 
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<p>We first tried our bacteria to clean a variety of marble samples. Although the results were very promising it was unclear to us if what we thought was black crust was actually black crust. Therefore, we decided to reproduce the black crust in the laboratory with an acid rain simulator (read more in the Crustonator section).</p>
 
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<p>Although the removal of the crust was not complete, it was possible to observe a significant change by eye both in the color and the appearance of the surface of the treated stone.  It should be kept in mind that the marble pieces exposed in the Crustonator showed a significant thick layer of gypsum crystals, probably because of the aggressive exposure to the acidic atmosphere.  With the black crust formed when marble is exposed to the environment,  the situation could be completely different.  For instance, the gypsum layer is usually less thick, making thus the removal quicker and more efficient.</p>
 
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<i>Figure 18: Removal of the black crust from a synthetically generated gypsum layer: Scanning Electron Microscopy analysis of the black crust before and after bacterial treatment. Untreated synthetic crust (A), SEM analysis of material scraped from untreated synthetic crust at 500x (B) and 1000x magnification (C). Synthetic crust treated with NEB10β cells expressing CysE and CysDes (Parts <a href="http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K731201">BBa_K731030</a> and <a href="http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_K731400">BBa_K731400</a>) (D); SEM analysis of material scraped from treated synthetic crust at 500x (E) and 1000x magnification (F).
 
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<li>F.Cappitelli, L.Toniolo, A.Sansonetti, D.Gulotta, G.Ranalli, E.Zanardini, C.Sorlini (2007)  Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 7317, 5671-5675.</li>
 
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Saving the World, one statue at a time

Our Project was selected among the Best 16 of the World Championship!

Our project had been awarded with a Gold Medal in Amsterdam and was among the "Sweet 16 High Scorers" in Boston! We're really proud and excited about it!

Project Codename: Crust Away

Statues and monuments all over the world are not enjoyed to the extent that they should be because they are covered in a disfiguring black crust, which consists mainly of CaSO4.
A practical solution would be if a cheap mechanism was available to continually remove the pollutant molecules that adhere to the surface of statues. To build such a system, we are engineering an aerobic sulfur reducing pathway in E. coli to dissolve the disfiguring black crust.

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Project Codename: Terminator 5

Surprisingly little standardization of T7 phage derived parts has occurred, despite the prevalence of T7 parts in recombinant technologies. Also, the compatibility between T7 and E. coli derived parts has not been explored. To better understand the compatibility of the two systems and to begin to better characterize T7 biological parts, we are measuring the termination efficiencies of T7 and E. coli transcriptional terminators with E. coli and T7 RNA polymerases.

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