[DIYbio] Synthetic biology in Rhodobacter: what a great fun

Hi,

Recently I started being interested in purple bacteria. More specifically I found Rhodobacter spheroides a very interesting organism.
It has all the gigs as a metabolic engineer you'd like to have from your chassis: heterotrophism, chemoautotrophism and photoheterotrophism.
I work with cyanobacteria for living but these purple beauties got my full attention.

It lives in waste water, loves all sugars (xylose from biomass isn't gonna be a problem, if it is we can fix it easily) and can live off the most incredible substrates, from methanol, H2 to poop.

Most importantly it's very pretty with all those red colors.

As I am looking into potential synthetic biological application, and metabolism rewiring and modelling, I was wondering if anybody has work before with such beautiful organism.


Find it interesting or have any heads up where to look? Please, drop me a line.

Best,
Fede

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