Team:NYMU-Taipei/Project/Phosphate
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* Enhance and regulate the phosphate absorption of ''E.coli'' to balance phosphate concentration to a normal level in patients with kidney failure. | * Enhance and regulate the phosphate absorption of ''E.coli'' to balance phosphate concentration to a normal level in patients with kidney failure. | ||
* This device operates when: | * This device operates when: | ||
- | ** external pH is high | + | ** external pH is high and |
- | ** external phosphate level is high | + | ** external phosphate level is high |
+ | * This device stops when | ||
+ | ** external pH is low or | ||
+ | ** external phosphate level is low | ||
== Circuit Design == | == Circuit Design == |
Revision as of 08:10, 3 August 2008
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Motivation
- When the phosphate level in blood exceeds 6.5 mg/dl, a patient kidney failure has a high risk of death.
- A high serum concentration of phosphate (pi) is clearly related to pruritus (搔癢症) and hyperparathyroidism (甲狀旁腺功能亢進症), both manifestations of the uremic syndrome.
- Phosphorus excess also inhibits 1 alpha-hydroxylase and hence the production of calcitriol, the active vitamin D metabolite.
- Phosphorus retention also alters polyamine metabolism by causing decreases in intestinal function and proliferation of intestinal villi.
Goal
- Enhance and regulate the phosphate absorption of E.coli to balance phosphate concentration to a normal level in patients with kidney failure.
- This device operates when:
- external pH is high and
- external phosphate level is high
- This device stops when
- external pH is low or
- external phosphate level is low
Circuit Design
NYMU iGEM08 phosphate removal device v 1.0 | |
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References
Phosphate Metabolism and Regulation in E.coli
- Characterization of PitA and PitB from Escherichia coli, JB 2001
- Accumulation of Inorganic Polyphosphate in phoU Mutants of Escherichia coli and Synechocystis sp. Strain PCC6803, AEM 2002
- The phosphate regulon and bacterial virulence: a regulatory network connecting phosphate homeostasis and pathogenesis, FEMS Microbiology Reviews 2008
Phosphate removal by Microbe
- Genetic improvement of Escherichia coli for enhanced biological removal of phosphate from wastewater, AEM 1993
- Genetic improvement of bacteria for enhanced biological removal of phosphate from wastewater, Prog Mol Subcell Biol. 1999
- Microbial phosphate removal and polyphosphate production from wastewaters, Adv Appl Microbiol. 2003
- Enhanced phosphate uptake and polyphosphate accumulation in Burkholderia cepacia grown under low pH conditions, Microb Ecol. 2002
- Intelligent yeast strains with the ability to self-monitor the concentrations of intra- and extracellular phosphate or ammonium ion by emission of fluorescence from the cell surface, AMB 2004
- A method for screening polyphosphate-accumulating mutants which remove phosphate efficiently from synthetic wastewater, Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering 2005