Presentation Year

2017

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Azariah CoblentzChemistryUndergraduate Student,Kayla TempletonChemistryUndergraduate Student,Joana VillanuevaChemistryUndergraduate Student,Lisi JohnsonChemistryUndergraduate Student

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Heavy metal contamination of soils and waterways due to industrial processes, continues to be a problem in the United States. Recent reports indicate that microbial surface layers (S-layers) are able to bind and sequester heavy metals, thereby removing them from the environment. Our approach is to enhance this process for heavy metal bioremediation. Using a highly sensitive fluorescent dye, lead remediation was measured in the nanomolar range. Results show that upon exposure to 39.0 nM Pb solution engineered C. vibrioides strains Hcm 027,028, remediated the solution to, 9.6 ± 0.3 nM, 9.0 ± 0.2 nM respectively and 13.3 ± 0.1 nM for the wild type.

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Yes

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308

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