Sentences with word «eutropha»

With random mutagenesis and relatively simple engineering, PHB and related polyhydroxyalkanoate polymers have been produced in R. eutropha on industrial scales [3].

Then, Ralstonia eutropha bacteria consume the hydrogen gas and pull in carbon dioxide from the air.

With a little charge, this new catalyst can assemble itself out of a solution of regular water, cobalt and phosphate — and phosphate in water actually is good for living things like the Ralstonia eutropha bacteria that make up the back half of the bionic leaf.

Mother Dirt is working to reintroduce our skin to the Nitrosomonas eutropha strain and bring back its unique skin benefits.

A team from Brookhaven Academy in Mississippi will determine whether the bacteria Ralstonia eutropha maintains its ability to produce polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) in microgravity.

When food sources are limited, R. eutropha produces the biopolymer, polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB).

Under nutrient limitation, R. eutropha directs most of its carbon flux to the synthesis of polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB), a biopolymeric compound stored in granules.

The Plac / lacI system has been reported previously not to be functional in R. eutropha [18].

A lacY gene codon - optimized for R. eutropha expressed from a constitutive promoter was incorporated into pIUV5Trfp, yielding pYIUV5Trfp.

The nitrosomonas eutropha was extracted from soil samples; once more, a group applied live bacteria while another applied a placebo.

H. eutropha had a «halogen - like taste.»

Grown in contact with these catalysts, the bacterium Ralstonia eutropha then consumes the produced H2 to synthesize... Read more →

Nitrosomonas eutropha, the strain tested in both studies, and nitrobacter winogradski, also proven to churn out nitric oxide.

This is the first demonstration that the Pxyls / PM promoter system is functional in R. eutropha.

And there is no reason to think that the R. eutropha could not be made to generate other products — perhaps complex hydrocarbon molecules like those found in fossil fuels or even the whole range of chemicals currently synthesized from polluting resources, such as fertilizers.

The hybrid team reports in the Science paper that they have already induced R. eutropha to make a molecule that can ultimately be transformed into plastics.

But last year, Nocera reported that his team had engineered bacteria called Ralstonia eutropha to feed on the H2 and carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air and combine them to make hydrocarbon fuels.

Here, we have developed and deployed the toolbox for the metabolic engineering of R. eutropha.

PlacUV5 (pUV5Trfp and pIUV5Trfp), Ptet (pTetTrfp), and Ppro (pProErfp and pProSrfp) systems did not show inducible expression in R. eutropha (Additional file 1: Figure S1, and data not shown).

On the other hand, microbial hosts with metabolic capabilities and growth conditions well suited for specific industrial applications (like R. eutropha, which can function as a chemolithoautotroph), but with limited genetic tools, are extremely challenging and time - consuming to metabolically engineer, and developing new genetic tools for specific microbes of interest can be entire research efforts in and of themselves [25].

Ralstonia eutropha (R. eutropha), the model bacterium of this class, can grow to very high cell densities (> 200 g / L)[3].

Under autotrophic growth conditions with H2 / CO2, R. eutropha has been reported to synthesize 61 g / L of PHB (representing ~ 70 % of total cell weight) in 40 h [4].

In addition to PBAD, several other inducible promoter systems were evaluated in R. eutropha.

Genomic sequence comparison between R. eutropha H16 and E. coli revealed that R. eutropha lacks the galactose permease gene lacY.

Ralstonia eutropha is a bacterium that can grow using hydrogen and carbon dioxide in an aerobic environment.