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− | Brasil-USP team's 2015 project is to develop an innovative
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− | and sustainable solution for a significant environmental
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− | problem: <br /><span class="TextoVerde">accumulation of
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− | Current recycling techniques demand high energy
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− | consumption, and
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− | are <span class="TextoVermelho"><b>completely overwhelmed
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− | by the annual amount of rubber waste</b></span>. In
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− | We aim to accelerate this process by genetically
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− | engineering microorganisms to express and secrete two
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− | crucial enzymes for the degradation of natural
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− | rubber: <span class="TextoAzul"><b>RoxA</b></span>
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− | Tires and several other products, however, are composed
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− | increase its elasticity and strength. In this regard,
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− | for vulcanized rubber degradation, the project may
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− | include a pre-treatment, which uses Acidithiobacillus
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− | ferrooxidans, bacteria that naturally devulcanizes
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− | <h1>Both of these processes will be scaled up in bioreactors!</h1>
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