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UCL's [http://2012.igem.org/Team:University_College_London iGem team] got in touch with us in May about a collaboration with their synthetic biology project to make a [http://partsregistry.org/Help:An_Introduction_to_BioBricks biobrick] that could help to clean up plastic floating in the ocean. From August the biohackers have been working with them to develop a 'public biobrick' (ie. one developed outside of the traditional university or research lab). This biobrick contains antifreeze from the marine bacteria Oceanibulbus Indolifex in a plasmid backbone called PSB1C3 [http://partsregistry.org/Part:pSB1C3] which contains choloramphenical resistance gene. | UCL's [http://2012.igem.org/Team:University_College_London iGem team] got in touch with us in May about a collaboration with their synthetic biology project to make a [http://partsregistry.org/Help:An_Introduction_to_BioBricks biobrick] that could help to clean up plastic floating in the ocean. From August the biohackers have been working with them to develop a 'public biobrick' (ie. one developed outside of the traditional university or research lab). This biobrick contains antifreeze from the marine bacteria Oceanibulbus Indolifex in a plasmid backbone called PSB1C3 [http://partsregistry.org/Part:pSB1C3] which contains choloramphenical resistance gene. | ||
The antifreeze gene when put into bacteria would allow them to gain frost resistance. Antifreeze proteins bind to small ice crystals to inhibit growth and recrystallization of ice that would otherwise be fatal. | |||
=== Designing primers to amplify the antifreeze and mercuric reductase genes from O. Indolifex === | === Designing primers to amplify the antifreeze and mercuric reductase genes from O. Indolifex === | ||
