Team:TU-Munich/Team/Collaborations

The Dundee iGEM team 2013 is also working on bioremediation: The toxin microcystein is released into the water from lysed cyanobacteria and appears in great amounts during algal blooms. This cyclic peptide toxin covalently binds the protein phosphatase type 1 (PP1) and is thereby toxic for mammals. The idea of the Dundee iGEM team is to express the PP1 protein as an absorber for microcystin. We received their PP1 BioBrick, converted it from RFC 10 to RFC 25 and constructed some expression plasmids to transform Physcomitrella patens in order to apply Dundee's molecular mop in an aquatic, photoautotrophic chassis and thus expand their project´s applicability.

The iGEM team Paris_Saclay is working on the detection and degradation of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychlorinated_biphenyl polychlorinated biphenyl] (PCB) in the context of bioremediation.
We arranged a skype-meeting in which we presented our projects to each other and agreed afterward that we exchange some coding BioBricks which we are constructing during this summer in order the test the BioBrick of the other team in an other Chassis.