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- 2. What are microbes? Microbes are small single-celled organisms Either free-living or in colonies They can belong
- 3. Eubacteria (Bacteria) Archaebacteria (Archaea) Eukaryota (Eukaryotes) Three Domains
- 4. Eubacteria Gram-negative and gram-positive prokaryotes Either autotrophs or heterotrophs Can be aerobic or anaerobic Mesophiles Examples:
- 5. Archea Ancient domain, but only recently identified Through DNA analysis they were determined to differ significantly
- 6. Eukaryotes Predominately yeasts/molds, protists, algae Sac shaped cells that form sexual spores Examples: Sacchromyces Penicillium Aspergillus
- 7. Commercial Uses of Microbes Products Bioconversion/Biocatalysis Agriculture Bioremediation Oil/Mineral Recovery
- 8. Fermentation is a process for the production of useful products through mass culture of single-cells The
- 9. http://www.wavebiotech.com/products/wave_bioreactor/system500/index.html http://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/projects/lonza/lonza1.html 15 000L Fermenter 1000L Disposable Bag
- 10. Types of Products Produced in Microbes Amino Acids Vitamins Food Additives Enzymes Recombinant Protein Drugs Antibiotics
- 11. Enzyme: chymosin - the enzyme used to curdle milk products Hormone: bST - bovine somatotropin; used
- 12. 1928: Alexander Fleming discovered the first antibiotic. He observed that Penicillium fungus made an antibiotic, penicillin,
- 13. How Are Microbes Modified? Artifical Selection Recombiant DNA Metabolic Engineering
- 14. Transgenic microbes are created when cDNAs for the protein product are cloned into expression vectors Human
- 15. Enzyme/Drug
- 16. Metabolic Engineering, manipulation of pathways within an organism to optimize the production of a compound Done
- 17. The microbe is forced to produce alanine at higher than normal amounts
- 18. Carotenoid production in E.coli cells
- 19. Fermentation Products Enzymes
- 20. Enzymes, the most common product produced by microbes Overall value of industrial enzymes is about $2.0
- 21. Enzyme Name GE Organism Use (examples) α-acetolactate bacteria Removes bitter substances decarboxylase from beer α -amylase
- 22. Detergent Enzymes
- 23. Detergents are the largest application of industrial enzymes Traditionally these are lipolases, proteases & amylases A
- 24. Subtilisin, a protease used in laundry detergents The recombinant protein was engineered to remain active in
- 25. Directed evolution is the most recent tool utilized in the creation of new and better enzymes
- 26. Subtilisin normally functions in aqueous solution Mutations were introduced randomly throughout the structure of the enzyme
- 27. Enzymes for Feed
- 28. Enzymes are used in animal feed to breakdown cellulose (cellulase) New use of enzymes (phytases) which
- 29. Where do the genes for these enzymes come from? Nature is still an important source (Gene
- 30. Recombinant Drugs Besides antibiotics which are derived from microorganisms Protein medicines are produced by inserting human
- 31. 1982, FDA approves the first recombinant protein drug, human insulin produced by E. coli developed by
- 32. Product Microbe Purpose Insulin E. coli Diabetes treatment Interleukin-2 E. coli Cancer/immune system stimulant EGF E.
- 33. Other Products From Microbes Fuels, Plastics, Medications
- 34. Ethanol Production Produced via anaerobic fermentation by yeast Corn starch is hydrolyzed to glucose monomers
- 35. Problem with Corn Ethanol Ethanol contains 76000BTU/gal Takes ~98000BTU/gal to produce from corn sugar Gasoline contains
- 36. Plastics Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) is a polymer made by some microbes as a way of storing carbon
- 37. http://www2.unil.ch/ibpv/WWWPoirier/images/Fig2.jpg
- 38. Bioconversion Utilization of microbes to modify a compound Useful when multi-step chemical synthesis is expensive or
- 39. starting product End products
- 40. Microbes and Agriculture
- 41. Frost damages many crops such as citrus trees & strawberries When fruit freeze the ice crystals
- 42. Some ice crystal nucleation is due to bacterial activity Pseudomonas syringae promotes the development of ice
- 43. A strain of P. syringae called “ice minus” was developed Plants were to be sprayed with
- 44. Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) is an aerobic spore-forming bacterium During sporulation produces insecticidal crystal protein (ICP), a
- 45. http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/~dje1/
- 47. Bioremediation
- 48. Bioremediation is reclaiming or cleaning of contaminated sites using microbes or other organisms This entails the
- 49. Bacteria are isolated based on their efficiency at digesting & converting the waste The bacteria are
- 50. What can be cleaned up using bioremediation? Oil spills Waste water Plastics Chemicals (PCBs) Toxic Metals
- 51. Oil/Wastewater Cleanup
- 52. Bioremediation Bacteria degrade organic matter in sewage. Bacteria degrade or detoxify pollutants such as oil and
- 53. Microbes that digest hydrocarbons found throughout the environment These naturally occurring microbes are utilized during a
- 54. Exxon Valdez off the Coast of Alaska http://blogs.abcnews.com/photos/uncategorized/exxon_valdez.jpg
- 55. Before After Smaller scale cleanup is feasible For 3 months nutrients and microbes were sprayed on
- 56. Before After Treatment of domestic sewage or industrial waste Utilizes aeration to oxygenate allowing aerobic microbes
- 57. Plastic Degradation
- 58. 140 million tons of plastics are produced each year Traditional plastics are very stable and do
- 59. Chemicals Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)
- 60. PCBs have low water solubility, good insulating properties, high boiling points and resistance to chemicals The
- 61. 1977, Monsanto (main producer) stops all PCB production Millions of lbs of PCBs are still in
- 62. Microbes that dehalogenate PCBs have been isolated This process is referred to as halorespiration Involves the
- 63. Heavy Metal Clean up
- 64. Uranium processing has left contaminated groundwater sites across the United States and the world Traditional “pump-and-treat”
- 65. Biomining
- 66. Microbe assisted mining has gone on for millennia Early copper miners used microbes to leach copper
- 67. Cu2S not soluble CuSO4 is soluble
- 68. Commercial Bioleaching Tanks
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