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Currently, Pseudomonas sp. strain ADP seems to be the optimal bacteria strain for atrazine degradation, which appears to be the sole nitrogen source for the bacteria. A study has found that a large plasmid carries all the genes and complex pathways related to atrazine degradation in Pseudomonas sp. strain ADP. We analyzed all the genes in it and finally found a multiple transmembrane protein which we called TRM (Fig. 3-3-1). We hypothesized that the function of transmembrane protein was related to atrazine transportation and thus confirmed it with several experiments.
Fig. 3-3-1 TMHMM posterior probabilities for WEBSEQUENCE. TRM has 11 trans-membrane domains. In prokaryotes, a protein like this has been considered as a potential transmembrane protein.
Experiments and Results
To prove that TRM is related to transportation of atrazine, we used HPLC to analyze the concentration of atrazine after incubating engineered bacteria in 500μM atrazine for 24h (Fig. 3-3-3). It is obvious that bacteria with TRM can reduce the concentration of atrazine, suggesting that TRM plays an important role in transportation of atrazine.
Fig. 3-3-3 Atrazine concentration of K-12 with or without TRM. "0h" stands for control group with no atrazine and the bacteria have been incubated for 0 hour. "Wild Type" stands for Escherichia coli K-12 which is positive control and "Vector" stands for K-12 which contains a plasmid-pGFP which is negative control. "TRM+" is the experimental group where a plasmid-pGFP which carries TRM was transformed into Escherichia coli K-12. And the result shows that K12 is significantly different from TRM+ in the statistical sense and it also indicates that TRM plays an important role in transportation of atrazine.
Through all the preliminary experiments, we reached to the conclusion that TRM is closely related to transportation of atrazine. And therefore the transporter can enhance the absorption of atrazine, which will improve the sensitivity of detection of atrazine. According to this idea, it will enhance degradation of atrazine in the bacteria, which provides a new way for the further study of detection and degradation of atrazine. There is no doubt that it will be an amazing element for our project and synthetic biology.
Reference
[1] Betsy Martinez, et al. Complete Nucleotide Sequence and Organization of the Atrazine Catabolic Plasmid pADP-1 from Pseudomonas sp. Strain ADP. Journal of
