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<h3 >Brasil-USP team's 2015 project is to develop an innovative and sustainable solution for a significant environmental problem: accumulation of waste tires.</h3> | <h3 >Brasil-USP team's 2015 project is to develop an innovative and sustainable solution for a significant environmental problem: accumulation of waste tires.</h3> | ||
| − | <h3>Current recycling techniques demand high energy consumption, and are completely overwhelmed by the annual amount of rubber waste. In addition, natural rubber degradation may take up to 1000 years | + | <h3>Current recycling techniques demand high energy consumption, and are completely overwhelmed by the annual amount of rubber waste. In addition, natural rubber degradation may take up to 1000 years.</h3> |
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| − | <h3> | + | <h3>We aim to accelerate this process by genetically engineering microorganisms to express and secrete two crucial enzymes for the degradation of natural rubber: RoxA (Rubber oxygenase) and Lcp (Latex clearing protein).</h3> |
<iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bemR9eOP_As?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> | <iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bemR9eOP_As?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> | ||
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Revision as of 23:02, 10 July 2015
Degradation of
Natural Rubber
Team Brasil-USP
Brasil-USP team's 2015 project is to develop an innovative and sustainable solution for a significant environmental problem: accumulation of waste tires.
Current recycling techniques demand high energy consumption, and are completely overwhelmed by the annual amount of rubber waste. In addition, natural rubber degradation may take up to 1000 years.
We aim to accelerate this process by genetically engineering microorganisms to express and secrete two crucial enzymes for the degradation of natural rubber: RoxA (Rubber oxygenase) and Lcp (Latex clearing protein).
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