Team:Nanjing-China

From 2013.igem.org

Atrazine, a naughty demon who plays around in the soil, is considerably hard to be eliminated. Its spell causes metabolic disorders in many species.
Our elf combined a smart atrazine radar, an amazing transporter, a recruiting system and a degrading enzyme to hunt down this die-hard. With our system, E.coli can recognize atrazine, recruit team members, and eliminate atrazine.
Our team found the brand new transporter, TRM, from the genome of a bacteria which can utilize atrazine as its only carbon source. With this transporter, the sensitivity of our system and the degrading efficiency are both improved. We also mutated the degrading enzyme, TrzN... more