Team:Tec-Monterrey/projectdescription

Production of sugarcane used to be one of the most important activities in the Mexican industry. Nonetheless, the increasing demand for high fructose syrup has become a rising threath to most sugar companies. Our project´s aim is to help the sugarcane industry by giving them a competitive edge with the aid of synthetic biology. At the end of the summer, we will build a new genetic construct which will be able to immobilize and express fused enzymes with membrane protein fragments.

This biobrick will be able to transform sucrose into fructose without any chemical process that may damage or destroy the bacteria. Enzyme immobilization offers many industrial benefits; reducing individual processes, the ability to reuse the same enzyme batch, control of the catalytical reaction,and the potencial use of a reaction product. All these benefits not only mean saving resources, cutting production costs and also economical savings.