[DIYbio] Re: Bacterial Chimerae or making photosynthetic Bacillus Subtilis


I actually in-depth read many papers about CyanoBacillus. First of all, the bacteria probably won't just fuse. The cells are most likely going to all croak because the membranes and walls are incompatible. Next, the CyanoBacillus took more then 5 years to complete. On top of that, CyanoBacillus' cyanobacteria side doesn't really express. If they both expressed, it is going to screw up the cell. Also for strains of bacillus, i recommend the bacillus genetic stock center, it is great

I would recommend looking into Bacteriorhodopsin. It is a single protein system inside of Halobacterium that uses sunlight to pump ions across a membrane. i was going to direct the evolution of it but I have other projects I need to work on... Anyway it shouldn't be THAT difficult to put it into Bacillus

-Koeng

On Sunday, November 17, 2013 1:57:02 AM UTC-8, Mega [Andreas Stuermer] wrote:

Hi!

While waiting for my construct / primers  (pGlowroplast + yeast fluorescent protein)  I  was thinking about doing something  in the meantime…

http://www.pnas.org/content/102/44/15971.full.pdf

 

This paper describes how CyanoBacillus was made…

 

Now I was thinking if I can fuse Cyanobacteria and Bacillus Subtilis. But through natural breeding (in a legal sense). I heard Cyanos are resistant to ampicillin naturally. I read Bacillus subtilis sometimes have a natural resistance against rifampicin (but where to get such a strain?).

 

Now incubate both bacteria in PEG (do I need to make protoplasts?) to make them fuse. Plate on Amp+Rif LB so the cells are forced to keep two chromosomes. Maybe the chromosomes will fuse at some point? After some time?


Or would it even be easier to introduce a bacterial photosynthesis pathway in B.Subtilis? Have never done much research on bacterial photosystems. But in plants it's quite complex.

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