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Overall project
An L-form is a bacterium that has no cell wall. Bacterial morphology is determined by the cell wall, and so their morphology differs from the strain of bacteria from which they are derived, giving rise to a variety of cell sizes. The cell wall is important for cell division. Binary fission is a highly conserved mechanism required for proliferation of almost all cells. Due to the absence of the cell wall, L-forms are easily transformed, so we propose to use inducible L-forms of bacillus subtilis as a novel chassis.
We are separated in to four sub teams: shape-shifting; Shuffling, Recombination & Endosymbiosis; Introducing and Detecting L-forms in Plants; Investigating two-component systems in L-forms.
