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As part of the Imperial 2009 iGEM E.ncapsulator project, E.coli was engineered to synthesise cellulase to a tunable threshold. Following that, E.coli is to be self-encapsulated so as to protect cellulase through the stomach, until its release in the small intestine. Cellulase will then be able to digest the cellulose found in our food.
  
  

Revision as of 09:10, 1 September 2009

Cellulase

This is a BioBrick for cellulase production in E.coli. This biobrick codes for CelE cellulase, which is one of the three major proteins of the cellulosome of Clostridium cellulolyticum.1

Cellulase mainly catalyses the reactions that changes crystalline cellulose to cellobiose2 and then finally to glucose. It also catalyses, to a small extent, the break down of carboxymethyl cellulose. This cellulase is protease resistant.


As part of the Imperial 2009 iGEM E.ncapsulator project, E.coli was engineered to synthesise cellulase to a tunable threshold. Following that, E.coli is to be self-encapsulated so as to protect cellulase through the stomach, until its release in the small intestine. Cellulase will then be able to digest the cellulose found in our food.



Sequence and Features


Assembly Compatibility:
  • 10
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[10]
    Illegal XbaI site found at 199
    Illegal PstI site found at 700
  • 12
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[12]
    Illegal PstI site found at 700
  • 21
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[21]
    Illegal BglII site found at 287
    Illegal BamHI site found at 814
    Illegal XhoI site found at 524
  • 23
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[23]
    Illegal XbaI site found at 199
    Illegal PstI site found at 700
  • 25
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[25]
    Illegal XbaI site found at 199
    Illegal PstI site found at 700
  • 1000
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[1000]


References

[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/125972525?report=genbank&log$=seqview&from=961597&to=964041 Sequence from NCBI] <biblio>

  1. 1 pmid=9055408
  2. 2 pmid=10714996

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