Team:Manchester/Description
Project Description
Eutrophication is having a globally devastating effect on biodiversity. Our team is working on a GMO that can be used to remove phosphate from polluted waterways. We will build on the natural phosphorous storage pathway in E. coli by packaging an enhanced polyphosphate kinase into a pdu bacterial microcompartment (BMC). The BMC will protect the polyphosphate product from degradation by intracellular enzymes. We hope to provide a platform that can be exported into a more environmentally robust organism for use in phosphorous recycling. We will package an enhanced polyphosphate kinase (PPK) in a bacterial microcompartment, protecting the reaction product from degradation.
Try out this free game based on our project! ♥
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You are playing as PPK (Polyphosphate Kinase). Collect all the phosphates and get away from the PPX (Exopolyphosphatase). Blue microcompartments give you extra points and shiny golden micrcompartments give you power to defeat PPX!
