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Summary

During our research we cultivated the following BioBricks and produced several laccase. To simplify the presentation of our results we named the produced laccase like the following system.

Produced and generated BioBricks with the source strain of the DNA-sequence, promoter, protein name and the names given by the iGEM Team Bielefeld
BioBrick code	strain	promoter	name of protein	name given by the iGEM Team
<partinfo>K863000</partinfo>	Bacillus pumilus DSM 27	T7 promoter	CotA	BPUL
<partinfo>K863005</partinfo>	E. coli BL21(DE3)	T7 promoter	CueO	ECOL
<partinfo>K863010</partinfo>	Thermus thermophilus HB27	T7 promoter	tthL	TTHL
<partinfo>K863012</partinfo>	Thermus thermophilus HB27	constitutive promoter (<partinfo>BBa_J23100</partinfo>)	tthL	TTHL
<partinfo>K863015</partinfo>	Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris B100	T7	CopA	XCCL
<partinfo>K863020</partinfo>	Bacillus halodurans C-125	T7	Lbh1	BHAL
<partinfo>K863022</partinfo>	Bacillus halodurans C-125	constitutive promoter (<partinfo>BBa_J23100</partinfo>)	Lbh1	BHAL

Datapage

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Laccases

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For Coli Read more. For Pumi Read more. For Thermo Read more. For Halo Read more. For Trametis Read more.

Immobilization

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For immobilization results see here

Subtrate Analytics

We tried to degrade our substrates with the TVEL0 (positiv control) and our self-produced laccases. The HPLC results showed that the hormones are degradeble with our laccases. Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) desintegrate themselves in the Britton buffer. The LC/MS measurements of anthracene for example, show a baseline, which can be decreased by additing laccases. Due to time reasons we could not measure the Analgesics and Lindane which was also one of our Substrates to test but we have not had the opportunity. The spectrofluorophotometer data showed also that Ethinyl estradiol and Estradiol are degraded after Laccase treatment. For more informations click here

Cellulose binding domain

A cheap alternative purification method combined with a powerful immobilization tool could be the solution to prevail over other more expensive water cleaning methods like oxidization with ozone or using tons of activated carbon which just capture micro-contaminates, but does not dismantle them. A promising solution to this could be cellulose binding domains (CBDs). Cellulose is ubiquitous and sustainable. Following this idea fusion-protein-constructs with cellulose binding domains have been made and to characterize a GFP has been introduced as a C-terminal domain of the cellulose binding protein. After delays in cloning the constructs for both fusion proteins with a T7-promoter could be finished, but did not express the protein in ‘’E. coli’’ KRX and BL21. An alternative construct with a constitutive promoter could also be finished, but gave the same results. Future research will focus on the linker between CBDs and the reporter GFP. Read more

Shuttle vector

A shuttle vector for recombination into the yeast P. pastoris could be developed. With this system it is possible to recombine a protein of interest with a N-terminal mating factor alpha 1 for secretion the protein in the media. This protein of interest could be cloned in frame with one restiction-ligate-cloning-step. The selection depends not on an antibiotic resistance like zeocine, but on a complementation of histidine auxotrophy. Read more.

Collaboration with UCL

The BioBrick [http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K729006 BBa_K729006] from the University College London was characterized by us. Therefore E. coli KRX containing [http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K729006 BBa_K729006] and E. coli KRX as a negative control were cultivated in shaking flasks and a growth kinetic was determined. The harvested cells were lysed via sonication and substances with a low molecular weight were seperated out of the supernatant. After purification the sample was analyzed by SDS-PAGE and MALDI-TOF. For a comparison E. coli KRX containing [http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K863005 BBa_K7863005] was cultivated and analysed by SDS-PAGE as well as tested with a laccase activity assay. [http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K729006 BBa_K729006] and [http://partsregistry.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part:BBa_K863005 BBa_K7863005] showed a similar behaviour in oxidizing ABTS. Read more.