CHE.496/2009/Schedule/Oral presentations of system designs/Group2

Group 2 Project

Patrick Gildea, Thaddeus Webb, Maria Fini

Project: Construction of material to build structures

• Method: Cellulose secretion
• Description
  • Produce cellulose fiber
• How it works
  • express the genes for cellulose production.
  • Would need to increase production rate and balance production with growth rate, since both are dependent on glucose. Maybe reduce other metabolic stresses.
• Source & References
  • [http://www.pnas.org/content/87/20/8130.full.pdf+html Genetic organization of the cellulose synthase operon in

Acetobacter xylinum]

• • [http://dnaresearch.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/9/5/149 Cloning of Cellulose Synthesis Related Genes from Acetobacter

xylinum ATCC23769 and ATCC53582: Comparison of Cellulose Synthetic Ability Between Strains]

• • Cellulose in Cyanobacteria. Origin of Vascular Plant Cellulose Synthase?
  • etc

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• Method: Calcium Carbonate secretion
• Description
  • to be added
• How it works
  • to be added
• Source & References

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• Method: fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) gene???
• Description
  • to be added
• How it works
  • to be added
• Source & References
• http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article708530.ece

Project: Dual-Cell functionality for cell specialization

• Description
  • to be added
• How it works
  • to be added
• Source & References

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