IGEM:Stanford/2010/Notebook/Oil Spills
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Discussed the possible strains of bacteria/metabolic pathways that could be made us of in an oil spill
- 3 Strains of naturally occurring bacteria: psuedomonas putida, alcanevorix, cycloelasticus,
- Each can break down certain compoments, e.g. PAHs, Toluene, Xylene, Straight Chain alkanes
- Certain problems are detailed below.
Split the problems into 4 solutions:
- Distributions/Large Scale Production
- Nitrogen Fixation/Phosphorus Supply
- Why better than what has naturally evolved
- Choke points in the metabolism
Some offshoots of the oil spill idea came into existence:
- Using the straight chain splitting bacteria in place of cracking in a refinery (Alcanevorix)
